Mobile and wearable devices are equipped with an array of embedded digital sensors that
produce continuous steams of digital trace data. These now effectively ubiquitous digital …

Mobile sensing refers to the collection of methods by which researchers derive measures of
human behaviours and contexts from the onboard sensors and logs found in smartphones …

Mobile sensing is a methodological approach that leverages digital devices and platforms to
collect data about human behavior. This chapter provides a starting point for researchers …

The assessment of psychological situations in everyday life presents a number of
methodological challenges, largely stemming from the need to assess situations as they …

Smartphones are pervasive companions to many people as they go about their daily lives. In
addition, they are equipped with a wide array of sensors making it possible to measure …

Advances in mobile technology and the ubiquity of the smartphone have allowed a deeper
understanding of aspects of personality than is possible with traditional self-report methods …

The advent of pervasive technology devices has opened up new opportunities to track and
measure people's in situ patterns of activity and affect, and obtain precise measures of a …

People's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can vary a great deal over situations and time.
Such dynamic patterns are difficult to assess using traditional survey-and lab-based …

Wearable sensors hold multiple advantages: Having sensors that are closer, on the skin, to
the human user allows for more information and, when those sensors are worn throughout …

Highlights•Smartphone Sensing Methods (SSMs) permit continuous and real-time
behavioral observation in the context of people's daily lives.•SSMs provide objective …