Publications, awards, and scholarships

Liang Z, Hwang D, Chen S, Hoang HN, Khotchasing K, Melcer EF. (2025) User Preferences for Interaction Timing in Smartwatch Sleep Hygiene Games. In the Proceedings of the 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025). (Acceptance rate = 10%)

Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2025) Reconsidering AHI as an Indicator of Sleep Apnea Severity: Insights from Mining Large, Longitudinal Sleep Datasets. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2025), Porto, Portugal.

Khotchasing K, Hoang HN, Saleh A, Liang Z. (2024) WristPet: Promoting Daily Physical Activity Through Nudge Theory in a Smartwatch App. In Proceedings of the 13th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2024), Kitakyushu, Japan.

Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2024) Apnea hypopnea index estimation from low-granularity overnight oxymetry data. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2024), Rome, Italy.

Hoang HN, Khotchasing K, Melcer E, Liang Z. (2024) Serious gamification app for improving sleep-wake cycle and sleep education. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2024), Rome, Italy.

Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2024) Exploring Sleep Apnea Risk Factors with Contrast Set Mining: Findings from the Sleep Heart Health Study. In Proceedings of The 11th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-11), online.

Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2023) Contrast set mining for actionable insights into associations between sleep and glucose in a normoglycemic population. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2023), Lisbon, Portugal.

Jayen H, Lukovnikova A, Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2023) Mining Contrast Rules in a Sleep Apnea Dataset. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE 12th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2023), Nara, Japan.

Liang Z, Hoang HN, Bertrand L, Cleyet-Marrel N. (2022) Context-aware sleep analysis with intraday steps and heart rate time series data from consumer activity trackers. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2022), Cyberspace. (Full paper acceptance rate = 23%)

Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2025) Systematic Investigation of the Impact of Data Granularity on Feature Utility in SpO2-Based Sleep Apnea Detection. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (ICMHI 2025), Kyoto, Japan. (reviewed)

Liang Z, Melcer EF, Hwang D, Chen S, Hoang HN, Khotchasing K. (2025) Game On for Better Sleep: Designing Serious Games to Promote Sleep Hygiene in University Students. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2025), Porto, Portugal. (reviewed)

Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2025) Identifying Sleep Apnea Risks Through Contrast Set Mining. In Proceedings of the 87th National Convention of IPSJ, Osaka, Japan.

Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2024) Wearable-Friendly Apnea Severity Classification. In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom 2024), Nara, Japan. (reviewed)

Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2024) Apnea-Hypopnea Index Estimation from Single Channel Blood Oxygen Saturation Data. In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep Research (JSSR 2024), Yokohama, Japan. (reviewed)

Khotchasing K, Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2024) A Human-Computer Interaction Study of Smartwatch Application for Promoting Healthy Lifestyle. In Proceedings of the 6th World Symposium on Software Engineering (WSSE 2024), Kyoto, Japan. (reviewed)

Hoang HN, Khotchasing K, Melcer E, Liang Z. (2024) Serious gamification app for improving sleep-wake cycle and sleep education. In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2024), Rome, Italy. (reviewed) Best Doctoral Candidate Project Award

Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2023) Shallow and Deep Learning Models for Detecting Apnea Events in Stroke Patients. The 4th Sleep Congress of Asian Society of Sleep (ASSM 2023), Bangkok, Thailand.

Hoang HN, Jayen H, Lukovnikova A, Liang Z. (2023) Beyond Statistical Analysis: Identifying Meaningful Patterns in Sleep Apnea Dataset using Contrast Set Mining. In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep Research (JSSR), Yokohama, Japan.

Khotchasing K, Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2023) Design and Development of Gamification mHealth Application for Sleep Hygiene Intervention. In Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Sleep Research (JSSR), Yokohama, Japan.

Hoang HN, Liang Z. (2023) Identifying Patterns in Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data using Contrast Set Mining. IEICE General Conference 2023, Oomiya.