George Boateng, Xiangyu Zhao, Malgorzata Speichert, Elgar Fleisch, Janina Lüscher, Theresa Pauly, Urte Scholz, Guy Bodenmann, and Tobias Kowatsch. “Are You Okay, Honey?”: Recognizing Emotions Among Couples Managing Diabetes in Daily Life Using Multimodal Real-World Smartwatch Data. Sensors. 2026; 26(10):3141. https://doi.org/10.3390/s26103141
George Boateng, Evans Atompoya, Philemon Badu, Samuel Ansah, Patrick Agyeman-Budu and Victor Wumbor-Apin Kumbol. Adesua: Development and Feasibility Study of an AI WhatsApp Bot for Science Learning in West Africa. In the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2026) (Accepted). https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15376
George Boateng, Samuel Boateng, and Victor Kumbol. Kwame 2.0: Human-in-the-Loop Generative AI Teaching Assistant for Large Scale Online Coding Education in Africa. In the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2026) (Accepted). https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29159
George Boateng, Naafi Ibrahim, Samuel John, Philemon Badu, Patrick Agyeman-Budu, Jonathan Mensah, Kevin Yeboah, William Edor, Andrew Mensa-Onumah, Nana Yeboah and Victor Wumbor-Apin Kumbol. NSMQ Riddles: A Benchmark of Scientific and Mathematical Riddles for Quizzing Large Language Models. In the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2026) (Accepted). https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07051
George Boateng, Philemon Badu, Patrick Agyeman-Budu, Samuel Ansah, Evans Atompoya, Evan Igwilo, Frederick Abu-Bonsrah and Victor Wumbor-Apin Kumbol. Eskwai for Students: Generative AI Assistant for Legal Education in Ghana. In the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2026) (Accepted). https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15380
Awuah, Jane, Jared Ordoña Lim, George Boateng, Victor Kumbol, and Judith Odili Uchidiuno. "Preparing the next generation of African Business professionals using CS programming MOOCs." In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, pp. 184-196. 2025. https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3715335.3735465
Theresa Pauly, Janina Lüscher, Lea Olivia Wilhelm, Melanie Alexandra Amrein, George Boateng, Tobias Kowatsch, Elgar Fleisch, Guy Bodenmann, and Urte Scholz. "Using Wearables to Study Biopsychosocial Dynamics in Couples Who Cope With a Chronic Health Condition: Ambulatory Assessment Study." JMIR mHealth and uHealth 12 (2024): e49576. https://mhealth.jmir.org/2024/1/e49576
George Boateng (2024). Leveraging AI to Advance Science and Computing Education Across Africa: Challenges, Progress and Opportunities. In: Ilic, P., Casebourne, I., Wegerif, R. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education: The Intersection of Technology and Pedagogy. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 261. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71232-6_10
George Boateng, and Victor Kumbol. "AfricAIED 2024: 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Education in Africa." In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, pp. 427-431. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64312-5_53 (arXiv Link)
George Boateng, Jonathan Abrefah Mensah, Kevin Takyi Yeboah, William Edor, Andrew Kojo Mensah-Onumah, Naafi Dasana Ibrahim, and Nana Sam Yeboah. "Brilla AI: AI Contestant for the National Science and Maths Quiz." The 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 24). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64315-6_17 (arXiv Link).
George Boateng, Samuel John, Samuel Boateng, Philemon Badu, Patrick Agyeman-Budu, and Victor Kumbol. “Real-World Deployment and Evaluation of Kwame AI, An AI Teaching Assistant for Science Education in West Africa”. The 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 24). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64299-9_9. (arXiv Link)
George Boateng, Jonathan Abrefah Mensah, Kevin Takyi Yeboah, William Edor, Andrew Kojo Mensah-Onumah, Naafi Dasana Ibrahim, Nana Sam Yeboah. “Towards an AI to Win Ghana's National Science and Maths Quiz”. Deep Learning Indaba 2023. Links 1, 2
George Boateng, Victor Kumbol and Elsie Effah Kaufmann. “Can an AI Win Ghana’s National Science and Maths Quiz? An AI Grand Challenge for Education”. In Workshop on Practical Machine Learning for Developing Countries (PML4DC) at ICLR 2023. Links 1, 2
Michael Addo, Nana Maryam Munagah, Victor Kumbol, Judith Uchidiuno, and George Boateng. ““Why SuaCode?”: Understanding African Students’ Motivations for Taking a Smartphone-Based Online Coding Course”. Poster, ACM COMPASS 2023.
George Boateng, Samuel John, Andrew Glago, Samuel Boateng, Victor Kumbol. “Kwame for Science: An AI Teaching Assistant Based on Sentence-BERT for Science Education in West Africa”. In 4th Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks (iTextbooks) co-located with the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED ‘22), July 27th Durham, U.K. Link
George Boateng, Curtis L. Petersen, David Kotz, Karen L. Fortuna, Rebecca Masutani, and John A. Batsis. “Smartwatch Step-Counting App for Older Adults: Development and Evaluation Study”. JMIR Aging;5(3):e33845. 2022. https://doi.org/10.2196/33845
George Boateng, Peter Hilpert, Guy Bodenmann, Mona Neysari, Tobias Kowatsch. ““You made me feel this way”: Investigating Partners’ Influence in Predicting Emotions in Couples’ Conflict Interactions using Speech Data”. In Companion Publication of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21 Companion), October 18–22, 2021, Montréal, QC, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3461615.3485424
Jacopo Biggiogera, George Boateng, Peter Hilpert, Matthew Vowels, Guy Bodenmann, Mona Neysari, Fridtjof Nussbeck, Tobias Kowatsch. “BERT meets LIWC: Exploring State-of-the-Art Language Models for Predicting Communication Behavior in Couples’ Conflict Interactions”. In Companion Publication of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21 Companion), October 18–22, 2021, Montréal, QC, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3461615.3485423
George Boateng, Prince Steven Annor, and Victor Kumbol. "SuaCode Africa: Teaching Coding Online to Africans using Smartphones. The 10th Computer Science Education Research Conference (CSERC '21), November 22--23, 2021, Virtual Event, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1145/3507923.350792
Annor, Prince Steven, Samuel Boateng, Edwin Pelpuo Kayang, and George Boateng. "AutoGrad: Automated Grading Software for Mobile Game Assignments in SuaCode Courses. The 10th Computer Science Education Research Conference (CSERC '21), November 22--23, 2021, Virtual Event, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1145/3507923.3507954
George Boateng. "Kwame: A Bilingual AI Teaching Assistant for Online SuaCode Course". In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2021, pp. 93-97. Springer, Cham, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78270-2_16
Samuel John and George Boateng. ""I didn’t copy his code”: Code Plagiarism Detection with Visual Proof". In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, pp. 208-212. Springer, Cham, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78270-2_37
Roza G. Kamiloğlu, George Boateng, Alisa Balabanova, Chuting Cao, and Disa A. Sauter. "Superior communication of positive emotions through nonverbal vocalisations compared to speech prosody”. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, (2021): 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-021-00375-1
George Boateng. "Kwame: A Bilingual AI Teaching Assistant for Online SuaCode Courses." Black in AI workshop, at the 34th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 6-12, 2020, Virtual Event, Canada
George Boateng. "Towards a wearable system for assessing couples' dyadic interactions in daily life." In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, pp. 208-211. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3410530.341433
George Boateng. 2020. Towards Real-Time Multimodal Emotion Recognition among Couples. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’20), October 25–29, 2020, Virtual event, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1145/3382507.3421154
George Boateng and Tobias Kowatsch. 2020. Speech Emotion Recognition among Elderly Individuals using Transfer Learning. In Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’20 Companion), October 25–29, 2020, Virtual event, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1145/3395035.3425255
George Boateng, Laura Sels, Peter Kuppens, Peter Hilpert, Urte Scholz, and Tobias Kowatsch. 2020. Speech Emotion Recognition among Couples using the Peak-End Rule and Transfer Learning. In Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’20 Companion), October 25–29, 2020, Virtual event, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1145/3395035.3425253
George Boateng, Laura Sels, Peter Kuppens, Janina Lüscher, Urte Scholz, and Tobias Kowatsch. 2020. Emotion Elicitation and Capture among Real Couples in the Lab. In 1st Momentary Emotion Elicitation & Capture workshop (MEEC 2020), co-located with the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000403788
George Boateng, Janina Lüscher, Urte Scholz, and Tobias Kowatsch. 2020. Emotion Capture among Real Couples in Everyday Life. Momentary Emotion Elicitation. In 1st Momentary Emotion Elicitation & Capture workshop (MEEC 2020), co-located with the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000403789
George Boateng, Vivian Genaro Motti, Varun Mishra, John A. Batsis, Josiah Hester, and David Kotz. Experience: Design, Development and Evaluation of a Wearable Device for mHealth Applications. In Proceedings of The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), October 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3300061.3345432
George Boateng, Prabhakaran Santhanam, Janina Lüscher, Urte Scholz, and Tobias Kowatsch. 2019. Poster: DyMand – An Open- Source Mobile and Wearable System for Assessing Couples’ Dyadic Management of Chronic Diseases. In Proceedings of The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Los Cabos, Mexico, October 21–25, 2019 (MobiCom ’19), 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3300061.3343399
George Boateng, Prabhakaran Santhanam, Janina Lüscher, Urte Scholz, and Tobias Kowatsch. 2019. VADLite: An Open-Source Lightweight System for Real-Time Voice Activity Detection on Smartwatches. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2019 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp/ISWC ’19 Adjunct), September 9–13, 2019, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341162.3346274
George Boateng, Prabhakaran Santhanam, Janina Lüscher, Urte Scholz, Tobias Kowatsch. DyMand: An Open-Source Mobile and Wearable System for Assessing Couples’ Dyadic Management of Chronic Diseases. The 14th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2019), June 4-6, 2019, Worcester, MA, USA. Link
George Boateng, Victor Wumbor-Apin Kumbol, and Prince Steven Annor. 2019. Keep Calm and Code on Your Phone: A Pilot of SuaCode, an Online Smartphone-Based Coding Course. In Proceedings of the 8th Computer Science Education Research Conference Larnaca, Cyprus (CSERC ’19), November 18–20, 2019, Larnaca, Cyprus. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3375258.3375260
Janina Lüscher, Tobias Kowatsch, George Boateng, Prabhakaran Santhanam, Guy Bodenmann, Urte Scholz. Social Support and Common Dyadic Coping in Couples' Dyadic Management of Type II Diabetes: Protocol for an Ambulatory Assessment Application. JMIR research protocols. 2019;8(10):e13685. https://doi.org/10.2196/13685
John A. Batsis, George G. Boateng, Lillian M. Seo, Curtis L. Petersen, Karen L. Fortuna, Emily V. Wechsler, Ronald J. Peterson, Summer B. Cook, Dawna Pidgeon, Rachel S. Dokko, Ryan J. Halter, and David F. Kotz. Development and Usability Assessment of a Connected Resistance Exercise Band Application for Strength-Monitoring. International Journal of Mechanical Mechatronics Engineering 2019; 13(5). Link
John A. Batsis, Alexandra B. Zagaria, Ryan J. Halter, George G. Boateng, Patrick Proctor, Stephen J. Bartels, and David Kotz. Use of the Amulet in Behavioral Change for Geriatric Obesity Management. Journal of Digital Health, May 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/2055207619858564
George Boateng, Prabhakaran Santhanam, Janina Lüscher, Urte Scholz, Tobias Kowatsch. Multimodal Affect Detection among Couples for Diabetes Management, Poster presented at the Black in AI Workshop at the 32nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 7, 2018, Montreal, Canada. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000312652
George Boateng, John A. Batsis, Patrick Proctor, Ryan Halter, and David Kotz. GeriActive: Wearable App for Monitoring and Encouraging Physical Activity among Older Adults. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), pages 46-49, March 2018. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/BSN.2018.8329655
George Boateng and Victor Kumbol. Project iSWEST: Promoting a culture of innovation in Africa through STEM, In IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), Princeton, NJ, USA, 2018, pp. 104-111. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISECon.2018.8340459
Curtis L. Petersen, Emily V. Wechsler, Ryan J. Halter, George G. Boateng, Patrick O. Proctor, David F. Kotz, Summer B. Cook, and John A. Batsis. Detection and Monitoring of Repetitions Using an mHealth-Enabled Resistance Band. In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), pages 21-23, September 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3278576.3278586
John A. Batsis, Alexandra Zagaria, David F. Kotz, Stephen J. Bartels, George G. Boateng, Patrick O. Proctor, Ryan J. Halter, and Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song. Usability evaluation for the Amulet wearable device in rural older adults with obesity. Gerontechnology, 17(3):150-158, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2018.17.3.003.00
George Boateng, John A. Batsis, Ryan Halter, and David Kotz. ActivityAware: An App for Real-Time Daily Activity Level Monitoring on the Amulet Wrist-Worn Device. In Proceedings of the IEEE PerCom Workshop on Pervasive Health Technologies (PerHealth), pages 431-435, March 2017. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2017.7917601
George Boateng and David Kotz. StressAware: An App for Real-Time Stress Monitoring on the Amulet Wearable Platform. In MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC), January 2017. IEEE, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/URTC.2016.8284068