People can now receive custom-made information through smartphones, tablets or wearable devices. However, people often tend to miss vital information, even reminders, in the flood of notifications. The problem of finding convenient moments for need-to-know information should be investigated. Because each person's message awareness pattern on a smart medium might be different, the necessity of personalized notification time should be emphasized. We believe that tracking changes in a user's physical activity and other contextual factors will reveal the most convenient moments. We propose a mobile framework, smartNoti, to carefully examine the user environment. The main contributions of our framework are: 1) developing an architecture to provide crucial information in a timely manner at a recognizable moment; 2) integrating, processing, training, and storing personalized latent features from heterogeneous data streams; 3) detecting user context transitions that might provide recognizable and available moments; and 4) predicting these moment and providing a notification message. The experimental validation on Intelligent Callback Reminder, which we implemented on an android application to notify a user missed or rejected call, demonstrates that our approach is effective. We believe that our findings can lead to intelligent strategies to issue unobtrusive notifications on today's smart phones at no extra cost, by using sensors and contextual factors.
It is well understood that an individual's health trajectory is influenced by choices made in each moment, such as from lifestyle or medical decisions. With the advent of modern sensing technologies, individuals have more data and information about themselves than any other time in history. How can we use this data to make the best decisions to keep the health state optimal? We propose a generalized Personal Health Navigation (PHN) framework. PHN takes individuals towards their personal health goals through a system which perpetually digests data streams, estimates current health status, computes the best route through intermediate states utilizing personal models, and guides the best inputs that carry a user towards their goal.In addition to describing the general framework, we test the PHN system in two experiments within the field of cardiology. First, we prospectively test a knowledge-infused cardiovascular PHN system with a pilot clinical trial of 41 users. Second, we build a data-driven personalized model on cardiovascular exercise response variability on a smartwatch data-set of 33,269 real-world users. We conclude with critical challenges in health computing for PHN systems that require deep future investigation.
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