Gaetano Boriello Student Award

Ten-Year Impact Award

• Overall Winner:
  • Trajectories of Depression: Unobtrusive Monitoring of Depressive States by Means of Smartphone Mobility Traces
    • Luca Canzian (University of Birmingham) and Mirco Musolesi (University College London and University of Birmingham)
    • This paper represents a landmark in mobile sensing for mental health for the UbiComp community. It was the first to convincingly show that GPS-based mobility traces can be used to infer depressive states, validated against clinical gold-standard measures. The work has broad interdisciplinary resonance, with citations spanning ubiquitous computing, clinical psychology, and digital health. Its influence is evident in the explosion of research on passive mental health monitoring, much of which builds directly on its framing and methodology. The paper’s enduring relevance across multiple research communities is a clear indicator of impact.
• Runner-up:
  • A Lived Informatics Model of Personal Informatics
    • Daniel A. Epstein, An Ping, James Fogarty, and Sean A. Munson (University of Washington)
    • This paper redefined personal informatics by shifting focus from behavior change alone to the lived, everyday realities of self-tracking. Through surveys and interviews, it established a model that accounts for motivation, lapsing, resumption, and reflection—concepts that are now central to personal informatics and self-tracking research. The paper is highly cited within UbiComp and CHI, anchoring an entire line of subsequent work on user-centered informatics design. Its conceptual contribution continues to guide design principles in both academic and applied contexts, making it highly impactful.