Prediction meets time series with gaps: User clusters with specific usage behavior patterns

Creators: Schleicher, Miro and Unnikrishnan, Vishnu and Pryss, Rüdiger and Schobel, Johannes and Schlee, Winfried and Spiliopoulou, Myra
Title: Prediction meets time series with gaps: User clusters with specific usage behavior patterns
Item Type: Article or issue of a publication series
Projects: DigiHealth
Journal or Series Title: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine : AIM
Page Range: p. 102575
Date: 2023
Divisions: Gesundheitsmanagement
Abstract (ENG): With mHealth apps, data can be recorded in real life, which makes them useful, for example, as an accompanying tool in treatments. However, such datasets, especially those based on apps with usage on a voluntary basis, are often affected by fluctuating engagement and by high user dropout rates. This makes it difficult to exploit the data using machine learning techniques and raises the question of whether users have stopped using the app. In this extended paper, we present a method to identify phases with varying dropout rates in a dataset and predict for each. We also present an approach to predict what period of inactivity can be expected for a user in the current state. We use change point detection to identify the phases, show how to deal with uneven misaligned time series and predict the user’s phase using time series classification. In addition, we examine how the evolution of adherence develops in individual clusters of individuals. We evaluated our method on the data of an mHealth app for tinnitus, and show that our approach is appropriate for the study of adherence in datasets with uneven, unaligned time series of different lengths and with missing values.
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Language: English
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Schleicher, Miro and Unnikrishnan, Vishnu and Pryss, Rüdiger and Schobel, Johannes and Schlee, Winfried and Spiliopoulou, Myra (2023) Prediction meets time series with gaps: User clusters with specific usage behavior patterns. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine : AIM, 142. p. 102575. ISSN 0933-3657

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