A Smartphone-Based Personalized Activity Recommender System for Patients with Depression
Journal Title: EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cognitive Communications - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 9
Abstract
Depression is a common mental illness worldwide. Apart of pharmacological treatment and psychotherapy, self-management of negative emotions is of paramount importance, because relapse of depression often results from an inadequate response to negative emotions. The purpose of this study is to design and implement a personal recommender system, for emotion regulation. It assists users to be aware of negative emotions and guides them to deal with it with behavioral activation. It analyzes the smartphone usage patterns to predict the emergence of negative emotions, while integrating data obtained from context awareness and psychiatrists' recommendations to suggest relevant emotion-regulating activities. In this pilot study, we recruited 15 normal subjects to use our recommender application for 14 days. Our system has successfully recommended activities matched to subjects' intent, and their negative emotions attenuated substantially after engaging in the activities. The presented system has a potential to provide personalized and pervasive mental health services for patients with depression.
Authors and Affiliations
Galen Chin-Lun Hung, Pei-Ching Yang, Chen-Yi Wang, Jung-Hsien Chiang
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- DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.14-10-2015.2261655
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