TILES-2018, a longitudinal physiologic and behavioral data set of hospital workers
This provides a resource for researchers studying healthcare worker dynamics, but it is incremental as it focuses on data collection rather than novel methods.
The authors tackled the problem of understanding hospital workers' job performance, interactions, and well-being by collecting a longitudinal multimodal dataset of physiological and behavioral data from 212 participants using wearable and environmental sensors.
We present a novel longitudinal multimodal corpus of physiological and behavioral data collected from direct clinical providers in a hospital workplace. We designed the study to investigate the use of off-the-shelf wearable and environmental sensors to understand individual-specific constructs such as job performance, interpersonal interaction, and well-being of hospital workers over time in their natural day-to-day job settings. We collected behavioral and physiological data from $n = 212$ participants through Internet-of-Things Bluetooth data hubs, wearable sensors (including a wristband, a biometrics-tracking garment, a smartphone, and an audio-feature recorder), together with a battery of surveys to assess personality traits, behavioral states, job performance, and well-being over time. Besides the default use of the data set, we envision several novel research opportunities and potential applications, including multi-modal and multi-task behavioral modeling, authentication through biometrics, and privacy-aware and privacy-preserving machine learning.