The growing field of digital psychiatry: current evidence and the future of apps, social media, chatbots, and virtual reality

J Torous, S Bucci, IH Bell, LV Kessing… - World …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the COVID‐19 pandemic has largely increased the utilization of telehealth, mobile mental
health technologies–such as smartphone apps, virtual reality, chatbots, and social media …

Opportunities for smartphone sensing in e-health research: a narrative review

P Kulkarni, R Kirkham, R McNaney - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent years have seen significant advances in the sensing capabilities of smartphones,
enabling them to collect rich contextual information such as location, device usage, and …

COVID student study: A year in the life of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of mobile phone sensing

S Nepal, W Wang, V Vojdanovski, JF Huckins… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the daily life of college students, impacting their
social life, education, stress levels and overall mental well-being. We study and assess …

First-gen lens: Assessing mental health of first-generation students across their first year at college using mobile sensing

W Wang, S Nepal, JF Huckins, L Hernandez… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The transition from high school to college is a taxing time for young adults. New students
arriving on campus navigate a myriad of challenges centered around adapting to new living …

Putting human behavior predictability in context

W Zhang, Q Shen, S Teso, B Lepri, A Passerini… - EPJ Data …, 2021 - epjds.epj.org
Various studies have investigated the predictability of different aspects of human behavior
such as mobility patterns, social interactions, and shop** and online behaviors. However …

Capturing the College Experience: A Four-Year Mobile Sensing Study of Mental Health, Resilience and Behavior of College Students during the Pandemic

S Nepal, W Liu, A Pillai, W Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Understanding the dynamics of mental health among undergraduate students across the
college years is of critical importance, particularly during a global pandemic. In our study, we …

Misbegotten methodologies and forgotten lessons from Tom Swift's electric factor analysis machine: A demonstration with competing structural models of …

AL Greene, AL Watts, MK Forbes, R Kotov… - Psychological …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and its bifactor models are popular in empirical
investigations of the factor structure of psychological constructs. CFA offers straightforward …