Dr Chelsea Dobbins
Senior Lecturer
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
+61 7 336 52005
Researcher biography
Dr Chelsea Dobbins is a Senior Lecturer within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at The University of Queensland. Before relocating to Australia, Dr Dobbins was a full-time continuing Senior Lecturer within the Department of Computer Science at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) in the UK (2013-2018). She has a background in Software Engineering and expertise in Digital Signal Processing, Applied Machine Learning and Human-Computer Interaction. Her research focuses on the detection of emotion using smartphones/wearable sensors and personal informatics. This includes areas such as lifelogging, affective computing, pervasive computing, digital health, human computer interaction, machine learning, mobile computing, mobile/wearable sensors, human digital memories, signal processing, and physiological computing. Her research has been supported by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for work related to developing a mobile lifelogging platform to detect negative emotions during real-life driving. In 2016 she received an ACM Computing Review Notable Article award for work related to mining multivariate temporal smart mobile data.
| Featured projects | Duration |
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| Emotions and e-wearables |
Book Chapters
Stamp, Kellyann, Fairclough, Stephen H., Dobbins, Chelsea and Poole, Helen (2022). The influence of a neuroadaptive game as a distraction from pain: a fNIRS study. Current research in neuroadaptive technology. (pp. 95-116) edited by Stephen H. Fairclough and Thorsten O. Zander. London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-821413-8.00011-7
Dobbins, Chelsea and Fairclough, Stephen (2016). Lifelogging technologies to detect negative emotions associated with cardiovascular disease. Applied computing in medicine and health. (pp. 27-44) edited by Dhiya Al-Jumeily, Abir Hussain, Conor Mallucci and Carol Oliver. Waltham, MA United States: Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-803468-2.00002-3
Dobbins, Chelsea, Merabti, Madjid, Fergus, Paul and Llewellyn-Jones, David (2014). Capturing human digital memories for assisting memory recall. Advances in physiological computing. (pp. 211-234) London: Springer-Verlag London. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4471-6392-3_10
Journal Articles
Mattison, Graeme, Canfell, Oliver J., Forrester, Doug, Dobbins, Chelsea, Smith, Daniel, Reid, David and Sullivan, Clair (2023). A step in the right direction: the potential role of smartwatches to support chronic disease prevention in health care. Medical Journal of Australia, 218 (9), 1-5. doi: 10.5694/mja2.51920
Liu, Guobin, Dobbins, Chelsea, D’Souza, Matthew and Phuong, Ngoc (2023). A machine learning approach for detecting fatigue during repetitive physical tasks. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 27 (6), 1-18. doi: 10.1007/s00779-023-01718-z
Fairclough, Stephen H., Stamp, Kellyann and Dobbins, Chelsea (2023). Functional Connectivity Across Dorsal And Ventral Attention Networks In Response To Task Difficulty And Experimental Pain. Neuroscience Letters, 793 136967, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2022.136967
Ogden, Ruth S., Dobbins, Chelsea, Slade, Kate, McIntyre, Jason and Fairclough, Stephen (2022). The psychophysiological mechanisms of real-world time experience. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) 12890, 12890. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-16198-z
Dey, Arindam, Barde, Amit, Yuan, Bowen, Sareen, Ekansh, Dobbins, Chelsea, Goh, Aaron, Gupta, Gaurav, Gupta, Anubha and Billinghurst, Mark (2022). Effects of interacting with facial expressions and controllers in different virtual environments on presence, usability, affect, and neurophysiological signals. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 160 102762, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2021.102762
Mattison, Graeme, Canfell, Oliver, Forrester, Douglas, Dobbins, Chelsea, Smith, Daniel, Töyräs, Juha and Sullivan, Clair (2022). The influence of wearables on healthcare outcomes in chronic disease: a systematic review (Preprint). Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24 (7) e36690, e36690. doi: 10.2196/36690
David, Klaus, Dobbins, Chelsea and Okoshi, Tadashi (2022). EmotionAware 2022: Sixth International Workshop on Emotion Awareness for Pervasive Computing Beyond Traditional Approaches - Welcome and Committees: Welcome Message. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, PerCom Workshops 2022, i-ii. doi: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops53856.2022.9767520
Fairclough, Stephen H., Dobbins, Chelsea and Stamp, Kellyann (2021). Classification of game demand and the presence of experimental pain using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Frontiers in Neuroergonomics, 2 ARTN 695309. doi: 10.3389/fnrgo.2021.695309
Fairclough, Stephen H. and Dobbins, Chelsea (2020). Personal informatics and negative emotions during commuter driving: effects of data visualization on cardiovascular reactivity & mood. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 144 102499, 102499. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102499
Mohi-Ud-Din, Ghulam, Marnerides, Angelos K., Shi, Qi, Dobbins, Chelsea and MacDermott, Aine (2020). Deep COLA: A deep COmpetitive Learning Algorithm for future home energy management systems. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 5 (6), 1-11. doi: 10.1109/tetci.2020.3027300
Javaheri, Alireza, Moghadamnejad, Navid, Keshavarz, Hamidreza, Javaheri, Ehsan, Dobbins, Chelsea, Momeni-Ortner, Elaheh and Rawassizadeh, Reza (2020). Public vs media opinion on robots and their evolution over recent years. CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction, 2 (3), 189-205. doi: 10.1007/s42486-020-00035-1
Homayounfar, Morteza, Malekijoo, Amirhossein, Visuri, Aku, Dobbins, Chelsea, Peltonen, Ella, Pinsky, Eugene, Teymourian, Kia and Rawassizadeh, Reza (2020). Understanding smartwatch battery utilization in the wild. Sensors, 20 (13) 3784, 1-29. doi: 10.3390/s20133784
Fairclough, Stephen H., Stamp, Kellyann, Dobbins, Chelsea and Poole, Helen M. (2020). Computer games as distraction from PAIN: effects of hardware and difficulty on pain tolerance and subjective IMMERSION. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 139 102427, 102427. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102427
Rawassizadeh, Reza, Dobbins, Chelsea, Akbari, Mohammad and Pazzani, Michael (2019). Indexing multivariate mobile data through spatio-temporal event detection and clustering. Sensors, 19 (3) 448, 448. doi: 10.3390/s19030448
Dobbins, Chelsea and Rawassizadeh, Reza (2018). Towards Clustering of Mobile and Smartwatch Accelerometer Data for Physical Activity Recognition. Informatics, 5 (2) 29, 29. doi: 10.3390/informatics5020029
Dobbins, Chelsea and Fairclough, Stephen (2018). Signal Processing of Multimodal Mobile Lifelogging Data towards Detecting Stress in Real-World Driving. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 18 (3) 8364592, 632-644. doi: 10.1109/tmc.2018.2840153
Dobbins, Chelsea and Denton, Philip (2017). MyWallMate: An Investigation into the use of Mobile Technology in Enhancing Student Engagement. Techtrends, 61 (6), 541-549. doi: 10.1007/s11528-017-0188-y
Dobbins, Chelsea, Rawassizadeh, Reza and Momeni, Elaheh (2017). Detecting physical activity within lifelogs towards preventing obesity and aiding ambient assisted living. Neurocomputing, 230, 110-132. doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2016.02.088
Rawassizadeh, Reza, Momeni, Elaheh, Dobbins, Chelsea, Gharibshah, Joobin and Pazzani, Michael (2016). Scalable Daily Human Behavioral Pattern Mining from Multivariate Temporal Data. IEEE Transactions On Knowledge and Data Engineering, 28 (11) 7523395, 3098-3112. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2016.2592527
Fergus, Paul, Idowu, Ibrahim, Hussain, Abir and Dobbins, Chelsea (2016). Advanced artificial neural network classification for detecting preterm births using EHG records. Neurocomputing, 188, 42-49. doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2015.01.107
Al-Jumeily, Dhiya, Hussain, Abir, Alghamdi, Mohammed, Dobbins, Chelsea and Lunn, Jan (2015). Educational crowdsourcing to support the learning of computer programming. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 10 (13) 13. doi: 10.1186/s41039-015-0011-3
Rawassizadeh, Reza, Momeni, Elaheh, Dobbins, Chelsea, Mirza-Babaei, Pejman and Rahnamoun, Ramin (2015). Lesson Learned from Collecting Quantified Self Information via Mobile and Wearable Devices. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, 4 (4), 315-335. doi: 10.3390/jsan4040315
Hughes, Glyn and Dobbins, Chelsea (2015). The utilization of data analysis techniques in predicting student performance in massive open online courses (MOOCs). Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 10 (1) 10. doi: 10.1186/s41039-015-0007-z
Hurst, William and Dobbins, Chelsea (2015). Guest Editorial Special Issue on: Big Data Analytics in Intelligent Systems. Journal of Computer Sciences and Applications, 3 3A, 1-9. doi: 10.12691/jcsa-3-3A-1
Fergus, Paul, Cheung, Pauline, Hussain, Abir, Al-Jumeily, Dhiya, Dobbins, Chelsea and Iram, Shamaila (2013). Prediction of Preterm Deliveries from EHG Signals Using Machine Learning. PL o S One, 8 (10) e77154, e77154. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077154
Dobbins, Chelsea, Merabti, Madjid, Fergus, Paul, Llewellyn-Jones, David and Bouhafs, Faycal (2013). Exploiting linked data to create rich human digital memories. Computer Communications, 36 (15-16), 1639-1656. doi: 10.1016/j.comcom.2013.06.008
Dobbins, Chelsea, Fergus, Paul, Stratton, Gareth, Rosenberg, Michael and Merabti, Madjid (2013). Monitoring and Reducing Sedentary Behavior in the Elderly with the Aid of Human Digital Memories. Telemedicine and E-Health, 19 (3), 173-185. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2012.0129
Fergus, Paul, Attwood, Andrew, Dobbins, Chelsea, Stratton, Gareth, Hussain, Abir, Al-Jumeily, Dhiya and Randles, Martin (2012). Monitoring and measuring physical activity and sedentary behaviour. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 13 (5-6), 283-303. doi: 10.1504/IJHTM.2012.052548
Conference Papers
Braunstein, Mark, Barry, Ben, Steel, Jim, Ukovich, Deanne, Grimes, John, Conlan, David, Jones, Sophie, Dobbins, Chelsea and Hansen, David (2024). CBL on FHIR: A FHIR-Based Platform for Health Professional Education. 19th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics - MEDINFO 2023, Sydney, NSW Australia, 8 - 12 July 2023. Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press. doi: 10.3233/shti231148
Bhat, Srikrishna S., Dobbins, Chelsea, Dey, Arindam and Sharma, Ojaswa (2023). Multi-modal classification of cognitive load in a VR-based training system. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Sydney, Australia, 16-20 October 2023. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ismar59233.2023.00065
Mukherji, Abhishek, Sen, Sougata and Dobbins, Chelsea (2023). WRISTSENSE 2023: Ninth Workshop on sensing systems and applications using wrist worn smart devices - Welcome and Committees The 9th WristSense Workshop 2023 (co-located with IEEE PerCom 2023). WRISTSENSE 2023, Atlanta, GA United States, 13-17 March 2023. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops56833.2023.10150392
Dey, Arindam, Cao, Yufei and Dobbins, Chelsea (2022). Effects of heart rate feedback on an asymmetric platform using augmented reality and laptop. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR), Virtual, 12-16 March 2022. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/VRW55335.2022.00051
Liu, Guobin, Dobbins, Chelsea, D'Souza, Matthew and Phuong, Ngoc (2021). Analysis of biometric sensor data for predicting fatigue: a framework towards reducing work-related musculoskeletal disorders in aviation manufacturing workers. 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), Mexico (virtual) , 1-5 November 2021. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . doi: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9631033
Barry, Benjamin, Lewis, Peter, Braunstein, Mark, Cottrell, Neil, Mandrusiak, Allison, Jauncey-Cooke, Jacqueline, Darlington, Sharon, Oancea, Iulia, Sullivan, Claire, Dobbins, Chelsea, Steel, Jim and Hansen, David (2020). Enabling interprofessional education via a new teaching tool based on an electronic medical record. ANZAHPE 2020 Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 12-15 July 2020. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators.
Dey, Arindam, Phoon, Jane, Saha, Shuvodeep, Dobbins, Chelsea and Billinghurst, Mark (2020). A neurophysiological approach for measuring presence in immersive virtual environments. 19th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, 9 - 13 November 2020. Washington, DC, United States: I E E E Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ismar50242.2020.00072
Stamp, Kellyann, Dobbins, Chelsea and Fairclough, Stephen (2020). Utilization of neurophysiological data to classify player immersion to distract from pain. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-24 July 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-60128-7_55
Dey, Arindam, Phoon, Jane, Saha, Shuvodeep, Dobbins, Chelsea and Billinghurst, Mark (2020). Neurophysiological effects of presence in calm virtual environments. 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, Atlanta, GA, United States, 22-26 March 2020. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/vrw50115.2020.00223
Dobbins, Chelsea and Fairclough, Stephen (2019). Detecting and visualizing context and stress via a fuzzy rule-based system during commuter driving. International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2019), Kyoto, Japan, 11-15 March 2019. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2019.8730600
Dobbins, Chelsea, Fairclough, Stephen, Lisboa, Paulo and Navarro, Felix Fernando Gonzalez (2018). A Lifelogging Platform Towards Detecting Negative Emotions in Everyday Life using Wearable Devices. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, Athens, Greece, 19-23 March 2018. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/percomw.2018.8480180
Stamp, Kellyann, Dobbins, Chelsea, Fairclough, Stephen and Poole, Helen (2018). The Influence of Game Demand on Distraction from Experimental Pain: A fNIRS Study. 2nd International Neuroergonomics Conference, Philadelphia, PA, United States, 27-29 June 2018. Frontiers Media.
Dobbins, Chelsea and Fairclough, Stephen (2018). Detecting Negative Emotions During Real-Life Driving via Dynamically Labelled Physiological Data. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops , Athens, Greece, 19-23 March 2018. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/percomw.2018.8480369
Harris, Benjamin, Dobbins, Chelsea, Fairclough, Stephen and Lisboa, Paulo (2017). Measuring academic stress ‘in the wild’ with wearable sensors: removal of noise from wearable sensor data using FIR filters. The First Neuroadaptive Technology Conference 2017 (NAT’17), Berlin, Germany, 19 – 21 July 2017.
Rawassizadeh, Reza, Dobbins, Chelsea, Nourizadeh, Manouchehr, Ghamchili, Zahra and Pazzani, Michael (2017). A natural language query interface for searching personal information on smartwatches. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, Big Island, HI, USA, 13-17 March 2017. Piscataway, NJ, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/percomw.2017.7917645
Stamp, Kellyann, Dobbins, Chelsea, Fairclough, Stephen and Poole, Helen (2017). Development of a neuroadaptive gaming technology to distract from painful procedures. The First Neuroadaptive Technology Conference 2017 (NAT’17), Berlin, Germany, 19-21 July 2017.
Dobbins, Chelsea and Fairclough, Stephen (2017). Wearable Sensors, Driving and the Visualization of Cardiovascular Stress During Everyday Life. 1st Neuroadaptive Technology Conference 2017 (NAT’17), Berlin, Germany, 19-21 July 2017.
Dobbins, Chelsea and Fairclough, Stephen (2017). A mobile lifelogging platform to measure anxiety and anger during real-life driving. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, Big Island, HI, USA, 13-17 March 2017. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/percomw.2017.7917583
Dobbins, Chelsea and Rawassizadeh, Reza (2015). Clustering of Physical Activities for Quantified Self and mHealth Applications. IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information, Liverpool United Kingdom, 26-28 October 2015. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM.2015.213
Dobbins, Chelsea and Fergus, Paul (2015). Knowledge extraction using probabilistic reasoning: An artificial neural network approach. 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Killarney, Ireland, 12-17 July 2015. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ijcnn.2015.7280526
Idowu, Ibrahim Olatunji, Fergus, Paul, Hussain, Abir, Dobbins, Chelsea, Khalaf, Mohammed, Eslava, Raul V. Casana and Keight, Robert (2015). Artificial Intelligence for Detecting Preterm Uterine Activity in Gynecology and Obstetric Care. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Liverpool United Kingdom, 26-28 Oct. 2015. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/cit/iucc/dasc/picom.2015.31
Shone, Nathan, Dobbins, Chelsea, Hurst, William and Shi, Qi (2015). Digital Memories Based Mobile User Authentication for IoT. IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information, Liverpool United Kingdom, 26-28 October 2015. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM.2015.270
Dobbins, Chelsea, Merabti, Madjid, Fergus, Paul and Llewellyn-Jones, David (2014). Creating human digital memories with the aid of pervasive mobile devices. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2013.10.009
Fergus, Paul, Idowu, Ibrahim Olatunji, Hussain, Abir Jaffar, Dobbins, Chelsea and Al-Askar, Haya (2014). Evaluation of Advanced Artificial Neural Network Classification and Feature Extraction Techniques for Detecting Preterm Births Using EHG Records. International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Taiyuan, China, 3-6 August 2014. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-09330-7_37
Dobbins, Chelsea, Merabti, Madjid, Fergus, Paul and Llewellyn-Jones, David (2014). A user-centred approach to reducing sedentary behaviour. 2014 IEEE 11th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference , Las Vegas, Nevada United States, 10-13 January 2014. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ccnc.2014.6866645
Dobbins, Chelsea, Merabti, Madjid, Fergus, Paul and Llewellyn-Jones, David (2014). The Big Data Obstacle of Lifelogging. 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (IEEE WAINA), Victoria Canada, May 13-16, 2014. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/WAINA.2014.142
Idowu, Ibrahim Olatunji, Fergus, Paul, Hussain, Abir, Dobbins, Chelsea and Al-Askar, Haya (2014). Advance artificial neural network classification techniques using EHG for detecting preterm births. 8th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2-4 July 2014. New York, NY United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/CISIS.2014.14
Dobbins, Chelsea, Merabti, Madjid, Fergus, Paul and Llewellyn-Jones, David (2013). Creating human digital memories for a richer recall of life experiences. 2013 10th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Evry, France, 10-12 April 2013. Piscatawa, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/icnsc.2013.6548745
Hadi, Asaad Sabah, Fergus, Paul, Dobbins, Chelsea and Al-Bakry, Abbas Muhsin (2013). A Machine Learning Algorithm for Searching Vectorised RDF Data. IEEE 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA), Barcelona Spain, 25-28 March 2013. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/WAINA.2013.204
Dobbins, Chelsea, Fergus, Paul, Merabti, Madjid and Llewellyn-Jones, David (2012). Remotely monitoring and preventing the development of pressure ulcers with the aid of human digital memories. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Ottawa, Canada, 10-15 June 2012. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/icc.2012.6364905
Dobbins, Chelsea, Fergus, Paul, Merabti, Madjid and Llewellyn-Jones, David (2012). Monitoring and measuring sedentary behaviour with the aid of human digital memories. 9th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'12), Las Vegas, NV USA, 14-17 January, 2012. Piscataway, NJ USA: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ccnc.2012.6181016
Dobbins, Chelsea, Merabti, Madjid, Fergus, Paul and Llewellyn-Jones, David (2012). Capturing and sharing human digital memories with the aid of ubiquitous Peer-to-Peer mobile services. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, Lugano, Switzerland, 19-23 March 2012. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/percomw.2012.6197595
Dobbins, Chelsea, Merabti, Madjid, Fergus, Paul and Llewellyn-Jones, David (2012). Augmenting human digital memories with physiological data. 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Networked Embedded Systems for Every Application, Liverpool United Kingdom, 13-14 December 2012. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/nesea.2012.6474032