Digital Health Technologies Lab 

Publications

2025

Demographic bias of expert-level vision-language foundation models in medical imaging

Yuzhe Yang, Yujia Liu, Xin Liu, Avanti Gulhane, Domenico Mastrodicasa, Wei Wu, Edward J. Wang, Dushyant Sahani, and Shwetak PatelScience Advances: March 26, 2025

2024

Oscillometric blood pressure measurements on smartphones using vibrometric force estimation

Colin Barry, Yinan Xuan, Ava Fascetti, Alison Moore, and Edward Jay WangNature Scientific Reports: October 31, 2024Ubicomp 2024 Demo

Development of a One Dollar Blood Pressure Monitor

Yinan (Tom) Xuan, Ava Fascetti, Colin Barry, and Edward Jay WangUbicomp 2024 Poster

Postable Spirometry: User-Assembled Vortex Whistle Spirometer

Ava Fascetti, Aatash Pestonjamasp, Colin Barry, and Edward Jay WangIEEE EMBC 2024

Augmenting Telepostpartum Care With Vision-Based Detection of Breastfeeding-Related Conditions: Algorithm Development and Validation

Jessica De Souza,  Varun Kumar Viswanath,  Jessica Maria Echterhoff, Kristina Chamberlain, Edward Jay WangJMIR AI: June 26, 2024Media Coverage: UC San Diego Today

Five million nights: temporal dynamics in human sleep phenotypes

Varun K. Viswanath, Wendy Hartogenesis, Stephan Dilchert, Leena Pandya, Frederick M. Hecht, Ashley E. Mason, Edward J. Wang, and Benjamin L SmarrNature npj Digital Medicine : June 20, 2024

LCBuddy: Towards a Smartphone-based Self-Assessment Tool for Postpartum Patients With Breast Pain

Jessica De Souza, Kristina Chamberlain, Edward Jay WangCHI 2024 Late Breaking Work: May 11, 2024

2023

Yinan (Tom) Xuan, Colin Barry, Nick Antipa, Edward Jay WangFrontiers in Digital Health: Nov 24, 2023

Yinan (Tom) Xuan, Colin Barry, Jessica de Souza, Jessica Wen, Nick Antipa, Alison Moore, and Edward Jay WangNature Scientific Reports: May 29, 2023Media Coverage: CBS News, SD Union Tribune, ARS Tecnica

Investigating Interactive Methods in Remote Chestfeeding Support for Lactation Consulting Professionals in Brazil

Jessica de Souza, Cinthia Calsinski, Kristina Chamberlain, Franceli Cibrian, and Edward Jay WangFrontiers in Digital Health: Apr 3, 2023

2020 - 2022

Smartphone Camera Oximetry in an Induced Hypoxemia Study

Jason S. Hoffman, Varun Viswanath, Xinyi Ding, Matthew J. Thompson, Eric C. Larson, Shwetak N. Patel, Edward Jay WangNature npj Digital Medicine : Sept 19, 2022

Colin Barry, Jessica de Souza, Yinan (Tom) Xuan, Jason Holden, Eric Granholm, Edward Jay WangCHI 2022: Apr 29, 2022Best Paper Honorable MentionMedia Coverage: The Verge

Jessica de Souza, Kristina Chamberlain, Sidhant Gupta, Yang Gao, Nabil Alshurafa, Edward Jay WangCHI 2022 Late Breaking Work: Apr 29, 2022

Detection of COVID-19 using multimodal data from a wearable device: Results from the first TemPredict Study

Ashley Mason, [...], Varun Viswanath, Edward Wang, et al.Nature Scientific Reports: March 2, 2022

PAR: Personal Activity Radius Camera View for Contextual Sensing

Jessica Echterhoff and Edward Jay WangArxiv

2015 - 2019

Alex Mariakakis, Edward J. Wang, Shwetak N. Patel. and Mayank GoelIEEE Pervasive Computing  2019Best Paper Runner Up

Edward J. Wang, Manuja Sharma, Yiran Zhao, and Shwetak N. Patel.ISWC 2018

Edward J. Wang, Junyi Zhu, Mohit Jain, Tien-Jui Lee, Elliot Saba, Lama Nachman, and Shwetak Patel. CHI 2018Best Paper Honorable Mention

Edward J. Wang, Jake Garrison, Eric Whitmire, Mayank Goel, and Shwetak PatelUIST 2017

Christian Holz and Edward J. Wang.Interactive Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 1,3, Article 5 (September 2017)Distinguished Paper Award

Edward J. Wang, William Li, Doug Hawkins, Terry Gernsheimer, Colette Norby-Slycord, and Shwetak PatelUbicomp 2016Best Paper AwardMedia Coverage: Geekwire, MIT Tech Review, Endgadget

Edward J. Wang, Tien-Jui Lee, Alex Mariakakis, Mayank Goel, Sidhant Gupta, and Shwetak N. PatelUbicomp 2015Media Coverage: Geekwire