Publications

2022

• Huang S-H, Tsao S-F, Chen H, Bin Noon G, Li L, Yang Y, et al. Topic modelling and sentiment analysis of tweets related to Freedom Convoy 2022 in Canada. Int J Public Health [Internet]. 2022;67. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1605241.
• Gauthier, R., and Costello, M.J., and Wallace, J.R. "I Will Not Drink With You Today": A Topic-Guided Thematic Analysis of Addiction Recovery on Reddit. The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 22). 
• Gauthier, R., and Wallace, J.R. The Computational Thematic Analysis Toolkit. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2022. 
• Michalopoulos, G., McKillop, I., Wong, A., & Chen, H. (2022). LexSubCon: Integrating Knowledge from Lexical Resources into Contextual Embeddings for Lexical Substitution. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Tsao, S. F., MacLean, A., Chen, H., Li, L., Yang, Y., & Butt, Z. A. (2022). Public Attitudes During the Second Lockdown: Sentiment and Topic Analyses Using Tweets From Ontario, Canada. International journal of public health, 23.

2021

• Chen, H., Mohapatra, S., Michalopoulos, G., He, X., & McKillop, I. (2021). Federated Deep Learning Architecture for Personalized Healthcare. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 281, 193-197.
• Feng S, Dubin JA. Identifying early-measured variables associated with APACHE IVa providing incorrect in-hospital mortality predictions for critical care patients. Scientific Reports, 11:22203, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01290-7 
• Homaeian, L. Wallace, J.R., Scott, S.D. Joint Action Storyboards: A Framework for Visualizing Communication Grounding Costs. CSCW 2021 Proceedings of the ACM 2021. (in-press)

• Michalopoulos, G., Wang, Y., Kaka, H., Chen, H., & Wong, A.  2021. UmlsBERT: Clinical Domain Knowledge Augmentation of Contextual Embeddings Using the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 1744–1753, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.

• Sharafoddini A, Dubin JA, Lee J. Identifying subpopulations of septic patients: A temporal data-driven approach. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 130:104182, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2020.104182 
• Tsao, S. F., Chen, H., Tisseverasinghe, T., Yang, Y., Li, L., & Butt, Z. A. (2021). What social media told us in the time of COVID-19: a scoping review. The Lancet Digital Health, 3(3), e175-e194.
• Zhou, P., Wong, A. K., Yang, Y., Leatherdale, S. T., Battista, K., Butt, Z. A., ... & Chen, H. (2021). Cohort Characteristics and Factors Associated With Cannabis Use Among Adolescents in Canada Using Pattern Discovery and Disentanglement Method. arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.01739.

2020

• Ji K, Dubin JA. A semiparametric stochastic mixed effects model for bivariate cyclic longitudinal data. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 48(3): 471-498, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/cjs.11543 
• Michalopoulos, G., Qazi, H., Wong, A., Butt, Z., & Chen, H. (2020). Automatic extraction of risk factors for dialysis patients from clinical notes using natural language processing techniques. In Digital Personalized Health and Medicine (pp. 53-57). IOS Press.
• Michalopoulos, G., Chen, H., & Wong, A. (2020). Where’s the Question? A Multi-channel Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Question Identification in Textual Data. In Proceedings of the 3rd Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 215–226, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Zhou, P., Wong, A. K., Michalopoulos, G., Quinn, R. R., Oliver, M. J., Yang, Y., ... & Chen, H. H. (2020, December). Revealing Common and Rare Patterns for Peritoneal Dialysis Eligibility Decisions with Association Discovery and Disentanglement. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp. 927-933). IEEE.

2019

• Michalopoulos, G., Chen, H. H., Yang, Y., Subendran, S., Quinn, R. R., Oliver, M. J., ... & Wong, A. (2019). Why Do I Trust Your Model? Building and Explaining Predictive Models for Peritoneal Dialysis Eligibility. Journal of Computational Vision and Imaging Systems, 5(1), 1-1.
• Denise Ng, Josephine McMurray, James R. Wallace, Plinio Morita. What’s Being Used, and Who’s Using it? Barriers to the Adoption of Smartphone Patient Experience Surveys. JMIR Formative Research.  
• Ben Selwyn-Smith, Craig Anslow, Michael Homer, James R. Wallace. (2019) Co-located Collaborative Block-Based Programming. 2019 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) 
• Sharafoddini A, Dubin JA, Maslove DM, Lee J. A new insight into missing data in intensive care unit patient profiles: observational study. JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research) – Medical Informatics, 7(1): e11605, 2019. DOI: 10.2196/11605. PMCID: PMC6329436

2018

• Tina Chan, Josephine McMurray, Alaaddin Sidamed, James Wallace. SmartSurveys: Does context influence whether we’ll share healthcare experience data with our smartphone? ACM Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces 2018 Extended Abstracts (ISS EA 2018).
• Leila Homaeian,  Goyal, James R. Wallace, Stacey D. Scott. Group Individual: The Impact of Touch and Tilt Cross-Device Interactions on Mixed-Focus Collaboration. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018).

2017

• James R. Wallace, Ariel Weingarten, Edward Lank. Subtle and Personal Workspace Requirements for Visual Search Tasks on Public Displays. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017).

2016

• Craig Anslow, Pedro Campos, Andrés Lucero, Laurent Grisoni, Mirjam Augstein, James Wallace. Collaboration meets Interactive Surfaces (CMIS): Walls, Tables, Mobiles, and Wearables. ACM Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS 2016). 
• Keiko Katsuragawa, Krzysztof Pietroszek, James R. Wallace, Edward Lank. Freehand Pointing with a Smartwatch in a Ubiquitous Display Environment. International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2016).
• Keiko Katsuragawa, James R. Wallace, Edward Lank. Gestural Input Using a Smartwatch. International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2016).
• Joon Lee, Evan Ribey, James R. Wallace. A web-based data visualization tool for the MIMIC-II database. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 

2015

• Thomas Huijbregts, James R. Wallace. TalkingTiles: Supporting Personalization and Customization in an AAC App for Individuals with Aphasia. ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS 2015).
• Stacey D. Scott, T.C. Nicholas Graham, James R. Wallace, Mark Hancock, Miguel Nacenta. "Local Remote" Collaboration: Applying Remote Group AwarenessTechniques to Co-located Settings. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2015.

2014

• Krzysztof Pietroszek, Anastasia Kuzminykh, James R. Wallace, Edward Lank. A Discount 3D Interaction Technique for Public Displays.  2014 
• James R Wallace, Daniel Vogel, Edward Lank. Effect of Bezel Presence and Width on Visual Search. Pervasive Displays 2014
• James R Wallace, Daniel Vogel, Edward Lank. The Effect of Interior Bezel Presence and Width on Magnitude Judgement. Graphics Interface 2014

• Yang Yang, Helen H. Chen, Zahid A. Butt, Scott T. Leatherdale, Plinio P. Morita, Alexander Wong. Exploring the Dynamic Transitions in Use Patterns of Youth Substance Use: A Latent Variable Modelling Approach Using the COMPASS Data. Oral presentation given at the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA 2021)

2020 

• Bomfim, M., Kirkpatrick, S., Nacke, L., Wallace, J. Food Literacy while Shopping: Making Informed Food Decisions with a Situated Gameful App (2020). ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA. *Honourable Mention*

2019

• Robert P Gauthier, Mary Jean Costello, James R. Wallace. (2019) Understanding Addiction Recovery Communities on Reddit: A Thematic Analysis Driven by Topic Modelling. Human Factors Inter-University Workshop. 
• Chen, H., Yang, Y., Wallace, J., Jiang, N., & Mainville, M. (2019). Design and Development of Mobile, Tablet-based ECG Hardware and Software for Clinical Use. In 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare-Demos and Posters. European Alliance for Innovation (EAI).
• Leila Homaeian, James R. Wallace, Stacey D. Scott. Visualizing Communication Grounding Costs in Collaborative Environments. (2019) Human Factors Inter-University Workshop.
• George Michalopoulos, Sujan Subendran, Yang Yang, Robert R. Quinn, Matthew J. Oliver, Zahid Butt, Alexander Wong, and Helen H. Chen. Interpretability of Machine Learning Models for Health Data - A Case Study. INTERPRETABILITY: METHODOLOGIES AND ALGORITHMS (IMA2019). DEC 2, 2019. ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA

2018

• Tina Chan, Marcela Costa C. Bomfim, Nadia Somani, Dulguunbayar Mungunzagas, Suvdanchimeg Purevsuren, Munkhtulga Baljinnyam, Tergel Nyamlkhavga, Tamir Batmend, Tsendsuren Batsaikhan, Andrea Irvin, Oyun L, Bolorchimeg Dagva, Alex Heikens, James R. Wallace, Plinio P. Morita. LIFEHACK - A Serious Game and Simulation by Mongolian Youth to Educate and Motivate Students to make Healthy Choices in Mongolia. Global Health Students and Young Professionals Summit, 2018.
• Denise Ng, James R. Wallace, Plinio Morita, Josephine McMurray. Is Smartphone Application-based Patient Feedback a Good Idea? “It depends.”The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, April 30, 2018

2017

• Denise Ng, James R. Wallace, Josephine McMurray, Plinio Morita. Exploring the Barriers to Smartphone-based Patient Experience Feedback. Waterloo-Wellington Clinical Research and Quality Improvement Symposium (WWCQRI 2017).
• Pietroszek, Luidmila Tahai, James R. Wallace, Edward Lank. Watchcasting: Freehand 3D Interaction with Off-the-Shelf Smartwatch. IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI 2017).

2016

• Leila Homaeian, James R. Wallace, Stacey D. Scott. Designing Multi-Surface Environments to Support Collaborative Sensemaking. Presented at the Cross-Surface Workshop, ACM Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS 2016).

2015

• Krzysztof Pietroszek, Liudmila Tahai, James R. Wallace, Edward Lank. 3D Interaction with Networked Public Displays Using Mobile and Wearable Devices. PD-Apps: 2nd Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Creating Pervasive Public Display Networks.
• Thomas Huijbregts, James R. Wallace. TalkingTiles: Supporting Personalization and Customization in an AAC App for Individuals with Aphasia. ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS 2015).
• Huijbregts, James R. Wallace. The Effectiveness of the TalkingTiles Augmentative and Alternative Communication App​ in Improving Communication for Individuals with Aphasia: A Study at the Aphasia Institute in Toronto. Fourth Annual Knowledge Integration Symposium.