<div dir="ltr"><div><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.6;padding-top:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">The IEEE EMBC 2022 </strong></span><strong style="font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;text-decoration-line:inherit;box-sizing:border-box">Workshop and Challenge on Detection of Stress and Mental Health Using Wearable Sensors </strong></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.6;padding-top:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">July 11, 2022 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK<br></strong></span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.6;padding-top:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></strong></span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.6;padding-top:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://compwell.rice.edu/workshops/embc2022">https://compwell.rice.edu/workshops/embc2022</a><br></strong></span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.6;padding-top:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></strong></span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.6;padding-top:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Mental health and wellbeing</strong></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> are one of the most challenging issues in modern society. </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.6;padding-top:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For example, moderate stress can help a person in many beneficial ways to confront a challenge. </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.6;padding-top:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">On the other hand, excessive stress, a common phenomenon in our society, can cause overall negative health </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.6;padding-top:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">and wellbeing impact, such as increasing susceptibility to infection and illness, affecting a diverse range of physical, </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.6;padding-top:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">psychological and behavioral conditions (i.e., anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, or decreasing job productivity). </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.6;padding-top:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Furthermore, mental disorders such as depression and schizophrenia, if not monitored and treated timely, can lead to further </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.6;padding-top:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">degradation of the person’s mental health and wellbeing. The ability to measure stress levels or mental health could enable </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.6;padding-top:0px;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">better self-management of one’s behavioral choices in ways that might be intervened timely.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:15px 0px 0px;outline:none;line-height:1.6"><span style="text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">While various methods have been proposed for automatic stress or mental health detection using wearable or mobile phone data,<br>it is far from solved. Besides, it is an understudied research question of reproducibility, due to the lack of a proper publicly accessible dataset and baselines.<br>This workshop introduces to the research community the publicly accessible datasets with both anonymized hand-crafted features and deep features<br>for in the wild stress and mental health sensing challenges, including:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:15px 0px 0px;outline:none;line-height:1.6"><span style="text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;box-sizing:border-box;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></span></span></p><b>The goal of this workshop: </b>is to inspire ideas and collaborations, raise awareness of reproducibility problems in modeling wearable data in the wild, <br>and drive the research frontier. Publicly sharing the datasets, including both features and baselines, will accelerate research activity such as multimodal <br>wearable data processing and modeling, handling missing data, and personalization. <br><br>We will accept <b>(1) research papers about stress and mental health detection/prediction using wearable sensors </b></div><div><b>or technical solutions using our open stress datasets and (2) challenge papers in which authors described a specific challenge </b></div><div><b>to be pitched and discussed at the workshop</b>.<br><br>Selected challenge participants and paper authors are invited to present their work at the workshop without workshop registration fee.<p id="gmail-h.kfmw00bnvwdv" dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px 0px 2pt;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.32;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial"><span class="gmail-jgG6ef" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(55,58,60);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box"><br></strong></span></p><p id="gmail-h.kfmw00bnvwdv" dir="ltr" class="gmail-CDt4Ke gmail-zfr3Q" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;margin:0px 0px 2pt;outline:none;text-decoration-line:inherit;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Bitter;line-height:1.32;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;border-width:initial;border-style:none;border-color:initial"><span class="gmail-jgG6ef" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(55,58,60);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Important Dates</strong></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(55,58,60);font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">:</span></p>Training data release: The beginning of May, 2022<br>Testing phase begins: Friday May 13, 2022<br>Competition signup ends: Wednesday, June 1, 2022<br>Competition ends: Thursday June 30, 2022<br>Paper/technical report submission deadline: Thursday June 30, 2022<br>Workshop date: Monday July 11, 2022<div><br><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(55,58,60);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Contact</strong></span><span class="gmail-jgG6ef" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(55,58,60);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">: </strong></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration-line:underline;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"><a class="gmail-XqQF9c gmail-rXJpyf" href="mailto:compwell.workshop@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">compwell.workshop@gmail.com</a></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:none;white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration-line:underline;color:rgb(0,0,255);font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div></div></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">Akane Sano       <a href="mailto:Akane.Sano@rice.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Akane.Sano@rice.edu</a></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">Assistant Professor, Computational Wellbeing Group, </div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">Rice University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">6100 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77005, Duncan Hall 2025, MS 380</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">Phone: +1-713-348-3821</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://compwell.rice.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://compwell.rice.edu/</a></span></div></div></div></div></div>