arXiv Computation and Language

BALMS: Benchmarking Agentic LLMs for Longitudinal Mental Health Sensing

BALMS is a benchmark for evaluating large language model (LLM) agents that analyze longitudinal wearable data to predict mental‑health wellbeing scores and generate evidence‑grounded rationales. It covers three real‑world datasets, two task families (score prediction and rationale generation), and tests five LLM backbones across open‑ and closed‑source paradigms. The study finds that zero‑shot agents rarely beat a simple mean baseline, and while chain‑of‑thought prompting helps reasoning, it does not ensure temporal grounding or numerical accuracy.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

Towards a General Intelligence and Interface for Wearable Health Data

arXiv:2605. 22759v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While ubiquitous wearable sensors capture a wealth of behavioral and physiological information, effectively transforming these signals into personalized health insights is challenging.

By Girish Narayanswamy, Maxwell A. Xu, A. Ali Heydari, Samy Abdel-Ghaffar, Marius Guerard, Kara Vaillancourt, Zhihan Zhang, Jake Garrison, Levi Albuquerque, Dimitris Spathis, Hong Yu, Hamid Palangi, Xuhai "Orson" Xu, David G. T. Barrett, Joseph Breda, Jed McGiffin, Yubin Kim, Yuwei Zhang, Naghmeh Rezaei, Samuel Solomon, Karan Ahuja, Tim Althoff, Jake Sunshine, Ming-Zher Poh, Benjamin Yetton, Ari Winbush, Nicholas B. Allen, James M. Rehg, Isaac Galatzer-Levy, Yun Liu, John Hernandez, Anupam Pathak, Conor Heneghan, Yuzhe Yang, Ahmed A. Metwally, Pushmeet Kohli, Mark Malhotra, Shwetak Patel, Xin Liu, Daniel McDuff
arXiv AI
Jun 19

VitalAgent: A Tool-Augmented Agent for Reactive and Proactive Physiological Monitoring over Wearable Health Data

arXiv:2605. 29483v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Wearable devices enable continuous monitoring of physiological signals such as ECG and PPG, but existing mHealth systems are largely limited to task-specific prediction pipelines or reactive question answering over static summaries.

By Di Zhu, Yu Yvonne Wu, Hong Jia, Aaqib Saeed, Vassilis Kostakos, Ting Dang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 7

WearableQA: A Benchmark for Health Reasoning over Real-World Wearable Data

WearableQA is a new benchmark that tests AI systems on health reasoning using real-world wearable data from 200 users, each with up to 500 days of daily measurements. It contains 4,084 ten‑option multiple‑choice questions derived from wearable time series, blood biomarkers, and demographics, and is organized into 16 question types that distinguish data‑driven computation from physiological interpretation and single‑signal from cross‑signal reasoning. Evaluation of 14 large language models shows wide performance gaps, indicating that the benchmark remains challenging and useful for diagnosing model capabilities.

By Ji Soo Lee, Xilun Chen, Pierce Chuang, Ashish Shenoy, Jason Wei, Dohwan Ko, Hyunwoo J. Kim, Benoit Corda
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

HealthLoopQA: A Context-Aware Question Answering Benchmark for Interpreting Wearable Monitoring Data in Diabetes Care

arXiv:2609.06976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As medical wearables become integrated into daily chronic disease care, effectively interpreting longitudinal monitoring data is essential for patients...

By Yuchen Niu, Yanan Ma, Srinivasan Nandakumar, Maolin Chen, Viktor Schlegel, Kexin Wei, Ling Cheng, Anna Bird, Anil Anthony Bharath, Siew-Kei Lam
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Evidence-Grounded Mapping of Multimodal Human Sensing Psychological Transdiagnostic Dimensions

The study introduces a clinician‑in‑the‑loop benchmark to assess whether large language models can generate evidence‑grounded Brief Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (B‑HiTOP) item profiles from multimodal data, including passive sensing, ecological momentary assessment, and questionnaires. Using the GLOBEM dataset, the authors create 14,592 participant‑day instances aligned to 29 B‑HiTOP items across five spectra, and evaluate evidence compatibility rather than diagnostic accuracy. Two‑stage prediction improves compatibility for EMA and questionnaire evidence but reduces it for passive sensing and combined evidence, yielding more conservative score distributions across models, spectra, and evidence settings.

By Xiyun Hu, Xiangyuan Xue, Yuting Lyu, Hanya Shao, Jingping Nie
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 9

A Formative Study of Brief Affective Text as a Complement to Wearable Sensing for Longitudinal Student Health Monitoring

The study examined whether ultra‑brief naturalistic concern text could complement wearable sensor data for monitoring student health. Over a year, 458 university students provided three‑word responses to a bi‑monthly prompt while wearing Oura rings, and the researchers compared different NLP methods to link these brief texts to nine sleep and physical activity outcomes. Findings indicated that weeks with academic‑concern framing correlated with lower physical activity, while emotional exhaustion language correlated with poorer sleep quality and lower heart rate variability, suggesting that affective content may add value to passive physiological monitoring.

By Tamunotonye Harry, Johanna Hidalgo, Matthew Price, Yuanyuan Feng, Kathryn Stanton, Connie Tompkins, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Mikaela Irene Fudolig, Laura Bloomfield, Christopher Danforth
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Representation Matters in Longitudinal Affective Computing

arXiv:2608. 07518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Longitudinal, in-the-wild, wearable sensing yields day-level physiology, sleep, activity, and environmental streams, whereas affect and cognition are labeled only episodically (per waves).

By Igor Matias, Maximilian Haas, Eric J. Daza, Matthias Kliegel, Katarzyna Wac
arXiv AI
Aug 10

PULSE: Agentic Investigation with Passive Sensing for Proactive Affective Intervention in Cancer Survivorship

arXiv:2605. 17679v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cancer survivors face elevated rates of depression, anxiety, and emotional distress, yet self-report may be unavailable at some moments when support is relevant, a challenge we term the diary paradox.

By Zhiyuan Wang, Subigya Nepal, Ariful Islam, Indrajeet Ghosh, Xinyu Chen, Katharine E. Daniel, Laura E. Barnes, Philip Chow