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Design and Implementation of a Remotely Configurable and Manageable Well-being Study

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Surveys are essential tools for obtaining an understanding of factors impacting a person’s physical and mental well-being. Recently, surveys using face-to-face interactions have been replaced with smartphone surveys, with the added benefit of using a phone’s sensor and usage data (e.g., locations, apps used, communication patterns, etc.) to collect valuable contextual information. These data collections, especially if longitudinal, often require a certain degree of flexibility and adaptability, e.g., survey questions may change over time or depend on location, demographics, and previous responses. Data collections may also be re-configured to account for changes in the study goals or to test different intervention techniques. Finally, participant compliance should be monitored and may also lead to modifications in the data collection approach. This paper introduces a data collection tool and study design that not only collects surveys and phone sensor data, but also addresses the need for remote customization, reconfiguration, and management.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556, USA

    Sudip Vhaduri & Christian Poellabauer

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  1. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Alberto Leon-Garcia

  2. Skoda Auto University, Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

    Radim Lenort

  3. Skoda Auto University, Mlada Boleslav, Czech Republic

    David Holman

  4. Škoda Auto University, Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

    David Staš

  5. Mendel University Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

    Veronika Krutilova

  6. Škoda Auto University, Mladá, Czech Republic

    Pavel Wicher

  7. Slovak University of Technology, Trnava, Slovakia

    Dagmar Cagáňová

  8. Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Czech Republic

    Daniela Špirková

  9. Slovak University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

    Julius Golej

  10. University of Quebec´s ETS, Montréal, Canada

    Kim Nguyen

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Vhaduri, S., Poellabauer, C. (2016). Design and Implementation of a Remotely Configurable and Manageable Well-being Study. In: Leon-Garcia, A., et al. Smart City 360°. SmartCity 360 SmartCity 360 2016 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 166. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33681-7_15

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