WatchGuardian: Enabling User-Defined Personalized Just-in-Time Intervention on Smartwatch

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Main Authors: Lei, Ying, Cao, Yancheng, Wang, Will, Dong, Yuanzhe, Yin, Changchang, Cao, Weidan, Zhang, Ping, Yang, Jingzhen, Yao, Bingsheng, Peng, Yifan, Weng, Chunhua, Auerbach, Randy, Mamykina, Lena, Wang, Dakuo, Wang, Yuntao, Xu, Xuhai
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author Lei, Ying
Cao, Yancheng
Wang, Will
Dong, Yuanzhe
Yin, Changchang
Cao, Weidan
Zhang, Ping
Yang, Jingzhen
Yao, Bingsheng
Peng, Yifan
Weng, Chunhua
Auerbach, Randy
Mamykina, Lena
Wang, Dakuo
Wang, Yuntao
Xu, Xuhai
author_facet Lei, Ying
Cao, Yancheng
Wang, Will
Dong, Yuanzhe
Yin, Changchang
Cao, Weidan
Zhang, Ping
Yang, Jingzhen
Yao, Bingsheng
Peng, Yifan
Weng, Chunhua
Auerbach, Randy
Mamykina, Lena
Wang, Dakuo
Wang, Yuntao
Xu, Xuhai
contents While just-in-time interventions (JITIs) have effectively targeted common health behaviors, individuals often have unique needs to intervene in personal undesirable actions that can negatively affect physical, mental, and social well-being. We present WatchGuardian, a smartwatch-based JITI system that empowers users to define custom interventions for these personal actions with a small number of samples. For the model to detect new actions based on limited new data samples, we developed a few-shot learning pipeline that finetuned a pre-trained inertial measurement unit (IMU) model on public hand-gesture datasets. We then designed a data augmentation and synthesis process to train additional classification layers for customization. Our offline evaluation with 26 participants showed that with three, five, and ten examples, our approach achieved an average accuracy of 76.8%, 84.7%, and 87.7%, and an F1 score of 74.8%, 84.2%, and 87.2% We then conducted a four-hour intervention study to compare WatchGuardian against a rule-based intervention. Our results demonstrated that our system led to a significant reduction by 64.0 +- 22.6% in undesirable actions, substantially outperforming the baseline by 29.0%. Our findings underscore the effectiveness of a customizable, AI-driven JITI system for individuals in need of behavioral intervention in personal undesirable actions. We envision that our work can inspire broader applications of user-defined personalized intervention with advanced AI solutions.
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spellingShingle WatchGuardian: Enabling User-Defined Personalized Just-in-Time Intervention on Smartwatch
Lei, Ying
Cao, Yancheng
Wang, Will
Dong, Yuanzhe
Yin, Changchang
Cao, Weidan
Zhang, Ping
Yang, Jingzhen
Yao, Bingsheng
Peng, Yifan
Weng, Chunhua
Auerbach, Randy
Mamykina, Lena
Wang, Dakuo
Wang, Yuntao
Xu, Xuhai
Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
68U35
H.5.2; I.2.1
While just-in-time interventions (JITIs) have effectively targeted common health behaviors, individuals often have unique needs to intervene in personal undesirable actions that can negatively affect physical, mental, and social well-being. We present WatchGuardian, a smartwatch-based JITI system that empowers users to define custom interventions for these personal actions with a small number of samples. For the model to detect new actions based on limited new data samples, we developed a few-shot learning pipeline that finetuned a pre-trained inertial measurement unit (IMU) model on public hand-gesture datasets. We then designed a data augmentation and synthesis process to train additional classification layers for customization. Our offline evaluation with 26 participants showed that with three, five, and ten examples, our approach achieved an average accuracy of 76.8%, 84.7%, and 87.7%, and an F1 score of 74.8%, 84.2%, and 87.2% We then conducted a four-hour intervention study to compare WatchGuardian against a rule-based intervention. Our results demonstrated that our system led to a significant reduction by 64.0 +- 22.6% in undesirable actions, substantially outperforming the baseline by 29.0%. Our findings underscore the effectiveness of a customizable, AI-driven JITI system for individuals in need of behavioral intervention in personal undesirable actions. We envision that our work can inspire broader applications of user-defined personalized intervention with advanced AI solutions.
title WatchGuardian: Enabling User-Defined Personalized Just-in-Time Intervention on Smartwatch
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
68U35
H.5.2; I.2.1
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05783