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 language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | UbiComp 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
Pages | 863-874 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450344616 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 12 2016 |
Event | 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2016 - Heidelberg, Germany Duration: Sep 12 2016 → Sep 16 2016 |
Publication series
Name | UbiComp 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing |
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Other
Other | 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2016 |
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Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Heidelberg |
Period | 9/12/16 → 9/16/16 |
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