mCrave: Continuous estimation of craving during smoking cessation

Soujanya Chatterjee, Karen Hovsepianr, Hillol Sarker, Nazir Saleheen, Mustafa Al'absiy, Gowtham Atluriy, Emre Ertin, Cho Lam, Andrine Lemieuxy, Motohiro Nakajimay, Bonnie Spring, David W. Wetter, Santosh Kumar

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Abstract

Craving usually precedes a lapse for impulsive behaviors such as overeating, drinking, smoking, and drug use. Passive estimation of craving from sensor data in the natural environment can be used to assist users in coping with craving. In this paper, we take the first steps towards developing a computational model to estimate cigarette craving (during smoking abstinence) at the minute-level using mobile sensor data. We use 2,012 hours of sensor data and 1,812 craving self-reports from 61 participants in a smoking cessation study. To estimate craving, we first obtain a continuous measure of stress from sensor data. We find that during hours of day when craving is high, stress associated with self-reported high craving is greater than stress associated with low craving. We use this and other insights to develop feature functions, and encode them as pattern detectors in a Conditional Random Field (CRF) based model to infer craving probabilities.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationUbiComp 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages863-874
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781450344616
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 12 2016
Event2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2016 - Heidelberg, Germany
Duration: Sep 12 2016Sep 16 2016

Publication series

NameUbiComp 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Other

Other2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2016
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityHeidelberg
Period9/12/169/16/16

Funding

We thank Shahin Alan Samiei and Barbara Burch Kuhn from University of Memphis. We also thank study coordinators at Universities of Minnesota and Memphis. The authors acknowledge support by the National Science Foundation under award numbers CNS-1212901 and IIS-1231754 and by the National Institutes of Health under grants R01CA190329, R01MD010362, R01DA035502 (by NIDA) through funds provided by the trans-NIH OppNet initiative, and U54EB020404 (by NIBIB) through funds provided by the trans-NIH Big Data-to-Knowledge (BD2K) initiative.

Keywords

  • Craving
  • Mobile health
  • Smoking cessation
  • Stress

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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