Dr. Brick presented at the Society for Ambulatory Assessment’s 2019 meeting in Syracuse, New York. The SAA is dedicated to examining the applications and uses of tools like Wear-IT to clinical and research settings. As always, a phenomenal set of scientists were there. Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development was there in force, with a number of great presentations.
Dr. Brick presented in-process work using new statistical and data mining methods focused on real-time feature selection. The idea is that smartphone surveys are annoying, and the longer they are the more annoying they are. Annoyance leads to people ignoring the surveys, which means less data and more participant costs (e.g. money, energy, burnout). The goal of this new work is to make in-the-moment decisions about which questions to ask and how to ask them, in order to minimize the burden on the participants and maximize the amount of data gathered.