Lawrence Obiuwevwi

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6 Papers

5.6HCFeb 11
Towards Affordable, Non-Invasive Real-Time Hypoglycemia Detection Using Wearable Sensor Signals

Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Vikas Ashok et al.

Accurately detecting hypoglycemia without invasive glucose sensors remains a critical challenge in diabetes management, particularly in regions where continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is prohibitively expensive or clinically inaccessible. This extended study introduces a comprehensive, multimodal physiological framework for non-invasive hypoglycemia detection using wearable sensor signals. Unlike prior work limited to single-signal analysis, this chapter evaluates three physiological modalities, galvanic skin response (GSR), heart rate (HR), and their combined fusion, using the OhioT1DM 2018 dataset. We develop an end-to-end pipeline that integrates advanced preprocessing, temporal windowing, handcrafted and sequence-based feature extraction, early and late fusion strategies, and a broad spectrum of machine learning and deep temporal models, including CNNs, LSTMs, GRUs, and TCNs. Our results demonstrate that physiological signals exhibit distinct autonomic patterns preceding hypoglycemia and that combining GSR with HR consistently enhances detection sensitivity and stability compared to single-signal models. Multimodal deep learning architectures achieve the most reliable performance, particularly in recall, the most clinically urgent metric. Ablation studies further highlight the complementary contributions of each modality, strengthening the case for affordable, sensor-based glycemic monitoring. The findings show that real-time hypoglycemia detection is achievable using only inexpensive, non-invasive wearable sensors, offering a pathway toward accessible glucose monitoring in underserved communities and low-resource healthcare environments.

3.2HCMar 2
Cognitive Prosthetic: An AI-Enabled Multimodal System for Episodic Recall in Knowledge Work

Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Vikas Ashok et al.

Modern knowledge workplaces increasingly strain human episodic memory as individuals navigate fragmented attention, overlapping meetings, and multimodal information streams. Existing workplace tools provide partial support through note-taking or analytics but rarely integrate cognitive, physiological, and attentional context into retrievable memory representations. This paper presents the Cognitive Prosthetic Multimodal System (CPMS) --an AI-enabled proof-of-concept designed to support episodic recall in knowledge work through structured episodic capture and natural language retrieval. CPMS synchronizes speech transcripts, physiological signals, and gaze behavior into temporally aligned, JSON-based episodic records processed locally for privacy. Beyond data logging, the system includes a web-based retrieval interface that allows users to query past workplace experiences using natural language, referencing semantic content, time, attentional focus, or physiological state. We present CPMS as a functional proof-of-concept demonstrating the technical feasibility of transforming heterogeneous sensor data into queryable episodic memories. The system is designed to be modular, supporting operation with partial sensor configurations, and incorporates privacy safeguards for workplace deployment. This work contributes an end-to-end, privacy-aware architecture for AI-enabled memory augmentation in workplace settings.

3.0HCJul 1
Touching and Feeling the Data: A Reusable Software Pipeline for Tactile Statistical Graphs in Accessible Education

Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Jessica M. Johnson et al.

Statistical visualization is usually treated as a visual medium, but data can also be touched. Three dimensional printed tactile graphs let blind and low vision students feel distributions, trace trends, and explore relationships through direct haptic interaction. Yet classroom scale use remains limited because producing each graph in CAD software requires specialized skill and hours of manual work. We address this bottleneck as a software problem through a three layer reusable pipeline in about 1500 lines of JavaScript. The first layer derives tactile design parameters automatically from plate dimensions using tactile perception research. The second provides shared chart scaffolding and five modular builders for scatter, bar, histogram, line, and box plots. The optional third layer uses a multi-modal large language model to extract structured chart specifications from uploaded images, with mandatory teacher review before print generation. The pipeline produces print ready binary Standard Tessellation Language files in under 250 milliseconds. We present the design, performance, and limitations.

0.0ARJul 1
Field-Deployable RF Capture System for Indoor, Outdoor, and Foliage Environments

Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Vikas Ashok et al.

Reliable and reproducible radio-frequency (RF) measurements in real-world environments are essential for characterizing spectrum behavior across unlicensed ISM and WiFi bands, licensed mid-band allocations, and emerging next-generation wireless deployments. Existing measurement platforms are often laboratory-grade, cost-prohibitive, or dependent on fixed infrastructure, limiting their practicality for rapid, distributed, or long-duration field campaigns. This paper presents a compact, battery-powered RF capture system integrating a HackRF One software-defined radio, Raspberry Pi 5, GNSS receiver, regulated battery supply, and high-speed solid-state storage. The platform records continuous IQ data at up to 20 Msps in SigMF format with per-segment location and timing metadata for reproducible spectrum analysis. Field experiments at 2.45 GHz in dense foliage, urban outdoor, and indoor office environments reveal distinct propagation signatures. Foliage measurements remain near the noise floor at -76 to -82 dBFS with limited spectral structure, consistent with strong canopy attenuation. Urban measurements show multipath activity across a 30 dB dynamic range, overlapping WiFi channels, and frequent ISM-band interference. Indoor measurements show dominant WiFi channels, an estimated 20 to 25 dB building entry loss relative to outdoor conditions, and an 8 to 10 dB higher interference floor caused by structural reflections. The system sustained 75 to 85 MB/s write throughput with no dropped samples or buffer underruns, while GNSS synchronization remained below one second with meter-level positioning. These results show that a portable, cost-effective SDR platform can produce high-fidelity, geotagged IQ datasets for spectrum characterization, interference analysis, radio environment mapping, and environment-aware wireless research.

8.3CLJul 1
Quantifying the Affective Gap: A Zero-Shot Evaluation of LLMs on Fine-Grained Emotion Taxonomies

Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Jessica M. Johnson et al.

Emotion recognition in natural language is a foundational challenge in affective computing, with critical implications for human-computer interaction, mental health support, and conversational AI. This paper presents a rigorous, unified zero-shot evaluation of three leading commercial large language models: Claude (claude-sonnet-4-6), ChatGPT (GPT-5.4), and Gemini (gemini-2.5-flash). The models were queried through their respective production APIs as of April 2026 on a fine-grained 13-class emotion classification task. Using a stratified 1,000-sentence sample from the boltuix/emotions dataset, which comprises 131,306 sentences across 13 categories, a single uniform prompt with no exemplars was applied identically across all models. Gemini achieves the highest accuracy (39.9%) and macro-F1 score (0.363), followed by GPT-5.4 (38.8%, macro-F1 = 0.291) and Claude (38.0%, macro-F1 = 0.159). All models excel on sarcasm and desire while consistently failing on love, confusion, and shame. McNemar tests reveal no statistically significant pairwise differences (p > 0.10), suggesting convergence at a shared zero-shot ceiling. Claude's markedly lower macro-F1 score exposes a class-imbalance prediction bias. These findings highlight the current limitations of frontier AI systems in zero-shot fine-grained emotion classification.

7.2HCSep 22, 2025
Toward Affordable and Non-Invasive Detection of Hypoglycemia: A Machine Learning Approach

Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Vikas Ashok et al.

Diabetes mellitus is a growing global health issue, with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) requiring constant monitoring to avoid hypoglycemia. Although Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) are effective, their cost and invasiveness limit access, particularly in low-resource settings. This paper proposes a non-invasive method to classify glycemic states using Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), a biosignal commonly captured by wearable sensors. We use the merged OhioT1DM 2018 and 2020 datasets to build a machine learning pipeline that detects hypoglycemia (glucose < 70 mg/dl) and normoglycemia (glucose > 70 mg/dl) with GSR alone. Seven models are trained and evaluated: Random Forest, XGBoost, MLP, CNN, LSTM, Logistic Regression, and K-Nearest Neighbors. Validation sets and 95% confidence intervals are reported to increase reliability and assess robustness. Results show that the LSTM model achieves a perfect hypoglycemia recall (1.00) with an F1-score confidence interval of [0.611-0.745], while XGBoost offers strong performance with a recall of 0.54 even under class imbalance. This approach highlights the potential for affordable, wearable-compatible glucose monitoring tools suitable for settings with limited CGM availability using GSR data. Index Terms: Hypoglycemia Detection, Galvanic Skin Response, Non Invasive Monitoring, Wearables, Machine Learning, Confidence Intervals.