Open AccessMonitoring mental health of college students using smartphones
Author(s) -
Laura E. Barnes
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
actas del congreso internacional de ingeniería de sistemas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2810-806X
DOI - 10.26439/ciis2018.5489
Subject(s) - anxiety , intervention (counseling) , mental health , applied psychology , psychology , exploratory research , smartphone application , phone , mobile phone , accelerometer , social anxiety , computer science , clinical psychology , multimedia , psychiatry , telecommunications , linguistics , philosophy , sociology , anthropology , operating system
A better understanding of an individual’s smartphone use can help researchers to improve methods for early detection, evaluation, and intervention of anxiety disorders.For this reason, we present an exploratory study of behavioral markers extracted from smartphone data. We examine fine-grained behaviors before and after smartphone communication events across social anxiety levels. To discover behavioral markers, we model the smartphone as a linear dynamical system with the accelerometer data as output. In a two-week study of 52 college students, we find substantially different behavioral markers prior to and after outgoing phone calls when comparing individuals with high and low social anxiety.