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Dorsa presented her paper titled “Learning to Generate Context-Sensitive Backchannel Smiles for Embodied AI Agents with Applications in Mental Health Dialogues” at the ML4CMH workshop located at AAAI 2024.

Varun was invited to give a keynote at the NetHealth workshop located at COMSNETS 2024.

We have two new PhD students joining the lab this Fall: Akshat and Dorsa

Our collaborative work with Dartmouth’s Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH), Kaiser Permanente, and IBM Research, on using smartphones and wearables to detect relapse in Opioid Use Disorder treatment was highlighted in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) July 2023 Advisory, Digital Therapeutics for Management and Treatment in Behavioral Health.

ACM GetMobile highlighted our work on detecting receptivity for digital health interventions in their June 2023 issue.

The primary outcomes paper from the D-TECT project is published in JMIR.

Varun and colleagues won an IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award at UbiComp 2022 for their paper, Detecting Receptivity for mHealth Interventions in the Natural Environment.

We have three new PhD students joining the lab this Fall: Ha, Tinashe, and Jiachen.

The Ubiquitous Computing for Health and Well-being (UbiWell) lab is set up at Northeastern University.