Mental Health with Mon Majhi

This project aims to support the wellbeing specifically focusing on mental health a topic that is ignored in low-resource regions. Md. Sabbir Ahmed is leading this project along with Tanvir Fuad. The details of the project can be found here.

Fund

BDT 499,500. PI: Prof. Nova Ahmed, NSU. Co-PI: Prof. Salekul Islam, UIU. This research grant was awarded by the North South University and United International University, Bangladesh in 2022 for the project "A Real-Time Approach to Identify Psychological Problems Unobtrusively Through Explainable Machine Learning Model" which is a part of Mon Majhi. I contributed to the grant application by writing the research proposal.

Publications

1. Md. Sabbir Ahmed and Nova Ahmed. A Minimal and Faster System to Identify Depression Through Smartphone: An Explainable Machine Learning-Based Approach. JMIR Formative Research [In Press]. [Preprint]

2. Md. Sabbir Ahmed and Nova Ahmed. 2022. Less Is More: Leveraging Digital Behavioral Markers for Real-Time Identification of Loneliness in Resource-Limited Settings. In Proceedings of 16th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth’22) [In Press]. [Preprint]

3. Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Tanvir Hasan, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, and Nova Ahmed. 2022.  A Rule Mining and Bayesian Network Analysis to Explore the Link Between Depression and Digital Behavioral Markers of Games App Usage. In Proceedings of 16th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth’22) [In Press]. [Preprint].

4. Md. Sabbir Ahmed and Nova Ahmed. 2021. Exploring Unique App Signature of the Depressed and Non-depressed Through Their Fingerprints on Apps. In Proceedings of 15th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth’21). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99194-4_15 

5. Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, and Nova Ahmed. 2021. Identifying High and Low Academic Result Holders Through Smartphone Usage Data. In Proceedings of Asian CHI Symposium’21. DOI: 10.1145/3429360.3468192

6. Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Tanvir Hasan, and Nova Ahmed. 2020. Smartphone Usage Behavior Between Depressed and Non-Depressed Students. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2020 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp/ISWC ’20 Adjunct). DOI: 10.1145/3410530.3414441

7. Md. Sabbir Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Md. Mahir Ashhab, and Nova Ahmed. 2020. An Empirical Study to Analyze the Impact of Instagram on Students’ Academic Results. In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP’ 20). DOI: 10.1109/TENSYMP50017.2020.9230945