Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
Confound-Aware Evaluation of Smart-Home Digital Biomarkers: Auditing Observation Intensity Dominance in Cognitive Status and Agitation
Computational studyBiomarkers
Abstract
Confounding by observation intensity (“coverage”) is a validity risk in smart-home digital biomarkers: coverage can correlate with labels and dominate engineered activity features.
The paper
University of Calgary
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 3 Sep 2026, CC BY
