Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health. 4th International Symposium, MindCare 2014, Tokyo, Japan, May 8-9, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

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Assessing Bipolar Episodes Using Speech Cues Derived from Phone Calls

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-11564-1_11,
        author={Amir Muaremi and Franz Gravenhorst and Agnes Gr\'{y}nerbl and Bert Arnrich and Gerhard Tr\o{}ster},
        title={Assessing Bipolar Episodes Using Speech Cues Derived from Phone Calls},
        proceedings={Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health. 4th International Symposium, MindCare 2014, Tokyo, Japan, May 8-9, 2014, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={MINDCARE},
        year={2014},
        month={12},
        keywords={Bipolar disorder Smartphone Voice analysis Phone calls},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-319-11564-1_11}
    }
    
  • Amir Muaremi
    Franz Gravenhorst
    Agnes Grünerbl
    Bert Arnrich
    Gerhard Tröster
    Year: 2014
    Assessing Bipolar Episodes Using Speech Cues Derived from Phone Calls
    MINDCARE
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11564-1_11
Amir Muaremi1,*, Franz Gravenhorst1,*, Agnes Grünerbl2,*, Bert Arnrich3,*, Gerhard Tröster1,*
  • 1: ETH Zurich
  • 2: TU Kaiserslautern, Embedded Intelligence
  • 3: Boğaziçi University
*Contact email: muaremi@ife.ee.ethz.ch, gravenhorst@ife.ee.ethz.ch, agnes.gruenerbl@dfki.de, bert.arnrich@boun.edu.tr, troester@ife.ee.ethz.ch

Abstract

In this work we show how phone call conversations can be used to objectively predict manic and depressive episodes of people suffering from bipolar disorder. In particular, we use phone call statistics, speaking parameters derived from phone conversations and emotional acoustic features to build and test user-specific classification models. Using the random forest classification method, we were able to predict the bipolar states with an average F1 score of 82 %. The most important variables for prediction were speaking length and phone call length, the HNR value, the number of short turns and the variance of pitch F.