SmokeMon. Alharbi, R., Shahi, S., Cruz, S., Li, L., Sen, S., Pedram, M., Romano, C., Hester, J., Katsaggelos, A., K., & Alshurafa, N. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 6(4):1-25, 2023.
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Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide. Cigarette smoke includes thousands of chemicals that are harmful and cause tobacco-related diseases. To date, the causality between human exposure to specific compounds and the harmful effects is unknown. A first step in closing the gap in knowledge has been measuring smoking topography, or how the smoker smokes the cigarette (puffs, puff volume, and duration). However, current gold-standard approaches to smoking topography involve expensive, bulky, and obtrusive sensor devices, creating unnatural smoking behavior and preventing their potential for real-time interventions in the wild. Although motion-based wearable sensors and their corresponding machine-learned models have shown promise in unobtrusively tracking smoking gestures, they are notorious for confounding smoking with other similar hand-to-mouth gestures such as eating and drinking. In this paper, we present SmokeMon, a chest-worn thermal-sensing wearable system that can capture spatial, temporal, and thermal information around the wearer and cigarette all day to unobtrusively and passively detect smoking events. We also developed a deep learning - based framework to extract puffs and smoking topography. We evaluate SmokeMon in both controlled and free-living experiments with a total of 19 participants, more than 110 hours of data, and 115 smoking sessions achieving an F1-score of 0.9 for puff detection in the laboratory and 0.8 in the wild. By providing SmokeMon as an open platform, we provide measurement of smoking topography in free-living settings to enable testing of smoking topography in the real world, with potential to facilitate timely smoking cessation interventions.
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 author = {Alharbi, Rawan and Shahi, Soroush and Cruz, Stefany and Li, Lingfeng and Sen, Sougata and Pedram, Mahdi and Romano, Christopher and Hester, Josiah and Katsaggelos, Aggelos K and Alshurafa, Nabil},
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