Publications de Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Inferring Mood-While-Eating with Smartphone Sensing and Community-Based Model Personalization

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

The interplay between mood and eating episodes has been extensively researched within the fields of nutrition, psychology, and behavioral science, revealing a connection between the two. Previous studies have relied on questionnaires and mobile phone self- ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2025

Generalization and Personalization of Machine Learning for Multimodal Mobile Sensing in Everyday Life

Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

A range of behavioral and contextual factors, including eating and drinking behavior, mood, social context, and other daily activities, can significantly impact an individual's quality of life and overall well-being. Therefore, inferring everyday life aspe ...

EPFL2024

Keep Sensors in Check: Disentangling Country-Level Generalization Issues in Mobile Sensor-Based Models with Diversity Scores

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Machine learning models trained with passive sensor data from mobile devices can be used to perform various inferences pertaining to activity recognition, context awareness, and health and well-being. Prior work has improved inference performance through t ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Complex Daily Activities, Country-Level Diversity, and Smartphone Sensing: A Study in Denmark, Italy, Mongolia, Paraguay, and UK

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola, Karim Assi

Smartphones enable understanding human behavior with activity recognition to support peoples daily lives. Prior studies focused on using inertial sensors to detect simple activities (sitting, walking, running, etc.) and were mostly conducted in homogeneous ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Qantified Canine: Inferring Dog Personality From Wearables

Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Being able to assess dog personality can be used to, for example, match shelter dogs with future owners, and personalize dog activities. Such an assessment typically relies on experts or psychological scales administered to dog owners, both of which are co ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Your Day in Your Pocket: Complex Activity Recognition from Smartphone Accelerometers

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) enables context-aware user experiences where mobile apps can alter content and interactions depending on user activities. Hence, smartphones have become valuable for HAR as they allow large, and diversified data collection. ...

Springer Nature2023

Generalization and Personalization of Mobile Sensing-Based Mood Inference Models: An Analysis of College Students in Eight Countries

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Mood inference with mobile sensing data has been studied in ubicomp literature over the last decade. This inference enables context-aware and personalized user experiences in general mobile apps and valuable feedback and interventions in mobile health apps ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Sensing Eating Events in Context: A Smartphone-Only Approach

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

While the task of automatically detecting eating events has been examined in prior work using various wearable devices, the use of smartphones as standalone devices to infer eating events remains an open issue. This paper proposes a framework that infers e ...

2022

Ten seconds of my nights: Exploring methods to measure brightness, loudness and attendance and their associations with alcohol use from video clips

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Skanda Muralidhar, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Introduction Most evidence on associations between alcohol use behaviors and the characteristics of its social and physical context is based on self-reports from study participants and, thus, only account for their subjective impressions of the situation. ...

2021

The Theory, Practice, and Ethical Challenges of Designing a Diversity-Aware Platform for Social Relations

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Diversity-aware platform design is a paradigm that responds to the ethical challenges of existing social media platforms. Available platforms have been criticized for minimizing users' autonomy, marginalizing minorities, and exploiting users' data for prof ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021