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Using Everyday Routines for Understanding Health Behaviors

We live in a world where the promise of ubiquitous computing and the Internet of Things is coming true. We have smart devices that pervade our lives, and that are constantly collecting data about us and mostly discarded as irrelevant. I will demonstrate how researchers can extract relevance from this passively collected data and use it to "image" people's behaviors. I will describe approaches for extracting behavioral routines from smart devices, and then how these routines can help us better understand individual and group human behaviors, as well as anomalies. Using examples from healthcare, I will describe how we can leverage both routines and anomalies to improve our understanding of health-related behaviors and support behavior change. View the video of iSchool Dean Anind Dey's presentation at https://vimeo.com/478881870.

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Projects in Health & Well-Being

  • Using Everyday Routines for Understanding Health Behaviors
  • Who Are You Asking?: Qualitative Methods for Involving AAC Users as Primary Research Participants
  • Where Are My Parents?: Information Needs of Hospitalized Children
  • Parenting with Alexa: Exploring the Introduction of Smart Speakers on Family Dynamics
  • “Eavesdropping”: An Information Source for Inpatients
  • Detecting Depression and Predicting its Onset Using Longitudinal Symptoms Captured by Passive Sensing: A Machine Learning Approach With Robust Feature Selection
  • Mobile Assessment of Acute Effects of Marijuana on Cognitive Functioning in Young Adults: Observational Study

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People analytics expert: Data reveals workforce's secrets

Thursday, May 7, 2026
The challenge for many companies these days isn’t simply finding talented employees; it’s retaining them. High compensation? Remote working opportunities? These perks don’t always keep workers around. But the field of...
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Data science career outlook: Problem-solvers in demand

Tuesday, April 28, 2026
As a senior principal data scientist at Navy Federal Credit Union, Rahul Zende uses the predictive power of data to build solutions that enable better organizational decision-making and deliver improved service to members. “As much...
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