Paper Info
Title
Using Autoencoders to Automatically Extract Mobility Features for Predicting Depressive States.
Abstract
Recent studies have shown the potential of exploiting GPS data for passively inferring people's mental health conditions. However, feature extraction for characterizing human mobility remains a heuristic process that relies on the domain knowledge of the condition under consideration. Moreover, we do not have guarantees that these "hand-crafted" metrics are able to effectively capture mobility behavior of users. Indeed, informative emerging patterns in the data might not be characterized by them. This is also a complex and often time-consuming task, since it usually consists of a lengthy trial-and-error process. In this paper, we investigate the potential of using autoencoders for automatically extracting features from the raw input data. Through a series of experiments we show the effectiveness of autoencoder-based features for predicting depressive states of individuals compared to "hand-crafted" ones. Our results show that automatically extracted features lead to an improvement of the performance of the prediction models, while, at the same time, reducing the complexity of the feature design task. Moreover, through an extensive experimental performance analysis, we demonstrate the optimal configuration of the key parameters at the basis of the proposed approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3264937
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Application Usage,Context-aware Computing,Mobile Sensing,Notifications
Journal
2
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
2474-9567
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Abhinav Mehrotra116911.69
Mirco Musolesi23365204.65