Publications
Robert Wu, Maryann Calligan, Tanya Son, Harshmeet Rakhra, Eyal de Lara, Alex Mariakakis, Andrea Gershon. “Impressions and Perceptions of a Smartphone and Smartwatch Self-Management Tool for Patients With COPD: A Qualitative Study.” COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. December 2024. Read Here
Salaar Liaqat, Daniyal Liaqat, Tatiana Son, Tiago Falk, Robert Wu, Andrea S Gershon, Eyal De Lara, Alex Mariakakis. “Promoting Engagement in Remote Patient Monitoring Using Asynchronous Messaging.” Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. May 2024. Read Here
Robert Wu, Eyal de Lara, Daniyal Liaqat, Salaar Liaqat, Jun Lin Chen, Tanya Son, and Andrea Gershon. “Feasibility of a wearable self-management application for patients with COPD at home: a pilot study.” BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. March 2024. Read Here
Ronald Chow, Olivia W So, James HB Im, Kenneth R Chapman, Ani Orchanian-Cheff, Andrea S Gershon, Robert Wu. “Predictors of Readmission, for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) – A Systematic Review.” International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. November 2023. Read Here
Sejal Bhalla, Salaar Liaqat, Robert Wu, Andrea Gershon, Eyal de Lara, Alex Mariakakis. “PulmoListener: Continuous Acoustic Monitoring of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the Wild.” Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. September 2023. Read Here
Reza Fakhraei, John Matelski, Andrea Gershon, Tetyana Kendzerska, Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Lanujan Kaneswaran, and Robert Wu. “Development of Multivariable Prediction Models for the Identification of Patients Admitted to Hospital with an Exacerbation of COPD and the Prediction of Risk of Readmission: A Retrospective Cohort Study using Electronic Medical Record Data.” COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. August 2023. Read Here
Tina Sedaghat, Salaar Liaqat, Daniyal Liaqat, Robert Wu, Andrea Gershon, Tatiana Son, Tiago H. Falk, Moshe Gabel, Alex Mariakakis, Eyal de Lara. “Unobtrusive Monitoring of COPD Patients using Speech Collected from Smartwatches in the Wild.” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops). March 2022. Read Here
Salaar Liaqat, Daniyal Liaqat, Tatiana Son, Andrea Gershon, Robert Wu, Moshe Gabel, Eyal de Lara. “Hindsight is 20/20: Retrospective Lessons for Conducting Longitudinal Wearable Sensing Studies.” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops). March 2022. Read Here
Vikas Patel, Sabreena Moosa, Sanjana Sundaram, Laura Langer, Thomas E. MacMillan, Rodrigo Cavalcanti, Peter Cram, Keith Gunaratne, Mark Bayley, and Robert Wu. “Perceptions of patients and nurses regarding the use of wearables in inpatient settings: a mixed methods study.” Informatics for Health and Social Care. February 2022. Read Here
Abhishek Tiwari, Salaar Liaqat, Daniyal Liaqat, Moshe Gabel, Eyal de Lara, and Tiago H. Falk. “Remote COPD Severity and Exacerbation Detection Using Heart Rate and Activity Data Measured from a Wearable Device.” 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). November 2021. Read Here
Vikas Patel, Ani Orchanian-Cheff, and Robert Wu. “Evaluating the Validity and Utility of Wearable Technology for Continuously Monitoring Patients in a Hospital Setting: Systematic Review.” JMIR mHealth and uHealth. August 2021. Read Here
Daniyal Liaqat, Salaar Liaqat, Jun Lin Chen, Tina Sedaghat, Moshe Gabel, Frank Rudzicz, Eyal de Lara. “CoughWatch: Real-world Cough Detection Using Smartwatches.” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). June 2021. Read Here
Daniyal Liaqat, Mohamed Abdalla, Pegah Abed-Esfahani, Moshe Gabel, Tatiana Son, Robert Wu, Andrea Gershon, Frank Rudzicz, and Eyal de Lara. “WearBreathing: Real World Respiratory Rate Monitoring Using Smartwatches.” Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. June 2019. Read Here
Robert Wu, Shiphra Ginsburg, Tatina Son, and Andrea S. Gershon. “Using wearables and self-management apps in patients with COPD: a qualitative study.” ERJ Open. September 2019. Read Here
Daniyal Liaqat, Robert Wu, Andrea Gershon, Hisham Alshaer, Frank Rudzicz, and Eyal de Lara. “Challenges with real-world smartwatch based audio monitoring.” Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Wearable Systems and Applications. June 2018. Read Here
Robert Wu, Daniyal Liaqat, Eyal de Lara, Tatiana Son, Frank Rudzicz, Hisham Alshaer, Pegah Abed-Esfahani, and Andrea S. Gershon. “Feasibility of using a smartwatch to intensively monitor patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: prospective cohort study.” JMIR mHealth and uHealth. June 2018. Read Here
Kevin O’Leary, David Liebovitz, Robert Wu, Ksheeraja Ravi, Claire Knoten, Mengxin Sun, Ashley Walker, and Madhu Reddy. “Hospital-Based Clinicians’ Use of Technology for Patient Care-Related Communication: A National Survey.” Journal of Hospital Medicine. July 2017. Read Here
Alon Vaisman and Robert Wu. “Analysis of Smartphone Interruptions on Academic General Internal Medicine Wards. Frequent Interruptions may cause a ‘Crisis Mode’ Work Climate.”
Applied Clinical Informatics. December 2017. Read Here
Robert Wu, Vivian Lo, Dante Morra, Eva Appel, Teri Arany, Beth Curiale, Joanne Ryan, and Sherman Quan. “A smartphone-enabled communication system to improve hospital communication: Usage and perceptions of medical trainees and nurses on general internal medicine wards.” Journal of Hospital Medicine. October 2014. Read Here
Kim Tran, Dante Morra, Vivian Lo, Sherman Quan, Howard Abrams, Robert Wu. “Medical students and personal smartphones in the clinical environment: the impact on confidentiality of personal health information and professionalism.” Journal of Medical Internet Research. May 2014. Read Here
Rachel Bierbrier, Vivian Lo, and Robert Wu. “Evaluation of the accuracy of smartphone medical calculation apps.” Journal of Medical Internet Research. February 2014. Read Here
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