Multi-modal data collection for measuring health, behavior, and living environment of large-scale participant cohorts
Wu, C, Fritz, H., Bastami, S., Maestre, J. P., Thomaz, E., Julien, C., Castelli, D. M., de Barbaro, K., Bearman, S.K., Harari, G. M., Craddock, R. C., Kinney, K. A., Gosling, S. D., Schnyer, D. M., & Nagy, Z. (2021). Multi-modal data collection for measuring health, behavior, and living environment of large-scale participantcohorts,GigaScience, Volume 10, Issue 6, giab044, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giab044
Abstract
As mobile technologies become ever more sensor-rich, portable, and ubiquitous, data captured by smart devices are lending rich insights into users’ daily lives with unprecedented comprehensiveness and ecological validity. A number of human-subject studies have been conducted to examine the use of mobile sensing to uncover individual behavioral patterns and health outcomes, yet minimal attention has been placed on measuring living environments together with other human-centered sensing data. Moreover, the participant sample size in most existing studies falls well below a few hundred, leaving questions open about the reliability of findings on the relations between mobile sensing signals and human outcomes.