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    Area of Science:

    • Health Sciences
    • Computer Science
    • Biotechnology

    Background:

    • Daily behaviors significantly influence short-term and long-term health outcomes.
    • Adopting healthy habits is crucial for preventing or delaying chronic diseases.
    • Understanding current behavioral patterns is the first step toward positive change.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a strategy for interpreting longitudinal wearable data to analyze health issue causes.
    • To use the sleep domain as a case study to identify factors contributing to poor sleep quality.
    • To create an explainable deep learning (DL) model for analyzing wearable data.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized a dataset comprising 1874 days of wearable data.
    • Developed an explainable deep learning (DL) model to identify day-before-night behaviors affecting sleep.
    • Validated findings through comparative analysis with a hormone-based sleep control framework.

    Main Results:

    • The explainable DL model successfully identified key behaviors preceding poor sleep quality.
    • The model's explanations aligned with existing literature and hormone-based sleep control frameworks.
    • Identified specific day-before-night behaviors as potential causes of diminished sleep quality.

    Conclusions:

    • Interpreting multifeatured longitudinal wearable data with explainable DL can reveal causes of health issues like poor sleep.
    • Findings support the link between specific daily behaviors and sleep quality, corroborating existing research.
    • Further research with more comprehensive datasets is recommended to explore feature combinations and their health impacts.