Ngoc Thi Nguyen

02.10.2024: Serving as PC member for IUI 2025.

10.09.2024: "Population Digital Health: Continuous Health Monitoring and Profiling at Scale" has been accepted for publication in Online Journal of Public Health Informatics (OJPHI 2024). This work presents PDH approach and demonstrates its use of digital health information sourced from health internet of things (IoT) and wearable devices for population health modeling.

13.08.2024: "Low-Cost Sensing for Environmental  Sustainability" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Pervasive Computing. This work demonstrates how low-cost pervasive sensing can transform understanding and monitoring of environmental pollutants, supporting sustainable solutions across air quality, littering, and marine plastics.

12.03.2024: "AI making waves in marine data collection" features our collaboration work with researchers at the University of Tartu, University of Madeira, and MARE-Madeira, ARDITI. 

29.02.2024: Presenting our work on detecting the presence of micro-plastics at HotMobile 2024, San Diego, US.

31.01.2024: "Man and the Machine: Effects of AI-assisted Human Labeling on Interactive Annotation of Real-Time Video Streams" has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS 2024). This work explores how AI can support real-time annotation tasks, showing the greatest benefits for non-experts and improved data quality for training AI models.

20.01.2024: SEAGULL: Low-Cost Pervasive Sensing for Monitoring and Analysing Underwater Plastics has been accepted for publication at the 9th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2024). This work presents a pervasive sensing system for monitoring and identifying underwater plastics in situ using LED-based optical sensing and convolutional sparse coding.

11.01.2024: Our invention "Apparatus and method for tracking a device having a magnet" has been published as an international patent application WO2024010530A1.

15.12.2023: "Life is Plastic? Detecting the Presence of Micro-Plastics in Food and Drink Containers" has been accepted for publication at the 25th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications  (HotMobile 2024). This work presents a novel wearable system using optical sensing and ML to detect and classify micro-plastics in drink.

26.10.2023: "The Price is Right? The Economic Value of Sharing Sensors" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems  (TCSS 2023). This work reveals how users weigh privacy, energy, and incentives when deciding to share smartphone resources, offering novel insights for designing collaborative sensing and AI systems.

16.04.2023: "Lost in the Deep?: Performance Evaluation of Dead Reckoning Techniques in Underwater Environments" has been accepted for publication in ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT 2023). This work evaluates dead reckoning techniques in underwater environments, revealing how algorithm performance differs from land-based use and providing insights for accurate underwater navigation.

11.11.2022: Serving as Publication Chair for the 21st ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (ACM MobiSys 2023) to be held in Helsinki, Finland on June 18-23, 2023.

03.05.2022: "Long Range Localization in Real-Time Tracking of Magnet Position Using  Attentive Sensing Channels" has been accepted for publication in the 2022 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2022). This work presents a non-invasive magnetic tracking system for real-time catheter tip monitoring, enhancing patient safety and procedural accuracy in medical procedures like NG tube insertions.

03.08.2021: "Intelligent Shifting Cues: Increasing the Awareness of Multi-Device Interaction Opportunities" has been accepted for publication in the 29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2021). This work introduces innovative design of interaction cues for enhancing engagement and fluidity in multi-device interactions.

04.07.2021: Our research work on intelligent advertisement placement is featured in HIIT news.

24.04.2020: "(M)ad to See Me?: Intelligent Advertisement Placement: Balancing User Annoyance and Advertising Effectiveness" has been accepted for publication in ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT 2020). This work presents an intelligent mobile advertisement placement strategy that reduces user disruption while maintaining ad effectiveness.