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Exploring Earables to Monitor Temporal Lack of Focus during Online Meetings to Identify Onset of Neurological Disorders
Abstract
This paper presents a framework called enGauge that leverages ear-based inertial sensing to continuously monitor listener focus levels in online meetings and provide feedback to the speaker about audience engagement. This allows for the identification of the onset of several neurodevelopmental disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and can help to improve the effectiveness of online meetings by allowing speakers to adjust their speaking pace and style based on audience engagement. We explore a contrastive learning-based approach coupled with a judicial selection of anchor events from the meeting contents to model the system. enGauge can detect patterns or shifts in behavior and focus levels of passive listeners to accurately identify changes in focus. Results from a user study with 38 participants showed an overall F1-score of 0.89 for detecting passive listeners' focus levels. Our study suggests that ear-based inertial sensing has the potential to be a valuable tool for the early detection and monitoring of several neurodevelopmental disorders among individuals.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{chugh2023exploring,
title={Exploring Earables to Monitor Temporal Lack of Focus during Online Meetings to Identify Onset of Neurological Disorders},
author={Chugh, G. and Chakraborty, S. and Bhandari, R. and Chakraborty, S.},
booktitle={IEEE/ACM CHASE 2023, pp. 126–137},
year={2023},
url={https://doi.org/10.1145/3580252.3586981}
}