PhysioAgent: An Uncertainty-Driven Adaptive Agent for Physiological Comfort Recommendation

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Authors: Yangyang Wang, Abdolrahman Peimankar, Petteri Nurmi, Agustin Zuniga, Sasu Tarkoma, Naser Hossein Motlagh
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Abstract

We present PhysioAgent, a spatiotemporal continual-learning agent that learns environment-to-physiology mappings from labeled datasets and transfers this knowledge to smart office environments without physiological occupant data. Integrating an uncertainty-aware TCN+GCN architecture with graph-based spatial reasoning and intra-day adaptation, PhysioAgent transforms raw sensor streams into confidence-bounded physiological comfort estimates and seating recommendations. In a real-world 25-node deployment across four days, we compare naive fine-tuning and experience replay under environmental drift. Both strategies reduce prediction uncertainty within each day through intra-day adaptation, but only the experience replay strategy, by learning from previous-day knowledge, maintains a monotonically decreasing trend across days. By the final task, experience replay reduces HR uncertainty by 16.7% and EDA uncertainty by 26.7% relative to naive fine-tuning, demonstrating robust continual adaptation to drastic environmental and behavioral shifts while generating health-optimized recommendations.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring Emotion and Mood Recognition Machine Learning in Healthcare

Publication details

Journal / source
Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services Workshops
Publisher
ACM
Pages
220–225
Publication date
2 June 2026
Language
EN