Background: Technological advancements, together with the decrease in both price and
size of a large variety of sensors, has expanded the role and capabilities of regular mobile …

Background: Loneliness and social isolation are associated with multiple health problems,
including depression, functional impairment, and death. Mobile sensing using smartphones …

Personalized healthcare systems deliver e-health services to fulfill the medical and assistive
needs of the aging population. Internet of Things (IoT) is a significant advancement in the …

Digital experiences capture an increasingly large part of life, making them a preferred, if not
required, method to describe and theorize about human behavior. Digital media also shape …

Personality traits describe individual differences in patterns of thinking, feeling, and
behaving (" between-person" variability). But individuals also show changes in their own …

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 …

Experience sampling methodology (ESM) requires participants to repeatedly rate various
psychological states in everyday life. This can be burdensome, leading to frequently skipped …

Loneliness and lack of social well-being are associated with adverse health outcomes and
have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Smartphone communication data have …

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 …

The need for physical activity for health promotion is recognized, yet young adults still
perform insufficient physical activity. Smartphone health programs can be applied easily …