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 …

Daily life unfolds in a sequence of situational contexts, which are pivotal for explaining
people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. While situational data were previously difficult to …

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

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 …

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

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 …

Smartphones promise great potential for personality science to study people's everyday life
behaviours. Even though personality psychologists have become increasingly interested in …

The understanding, quantification and evaluation of individual differences in behavior,
feelings and thoughts have always been central topics in psychological science. An …

The aim of this chapter is to introduce and describe how digital technologies, in particular
smartphones, can be used in research in two areas, namely (i) to conduct personality …

People around the world own digital media devices that mediate and are in close proximity
to their daily behaviours and situational contexts. These devices can be harnessed as …