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Blaauw FJ, Schenk HM, Jeronimus BF, et al. Let's get Physiqual - An intuitive and generic method to combine sensor technology with ecological momentary assessments. J Biomed Inform. 2016;63:141-149doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2016.08.001.
Blaauw, F. J., Schenk, H. M., Jeronimus, B. F., van der Krieke, L., de Jonge, P., Aiello, M., & Emerencia, A. C. (2016). Let's get Physiqual - An intuitive and generic method to combine sensor technology with ecological momentary assessments. Journal of biomedical informatics, 63141-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2016.08.001
Blaauw, F J, et al. "Let's get Physiqual - An intuitive and generic method to combine sensor technology with ecological momentary assessments." Journal of biomedical informatics vol. 63 (2016): 141-149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2016.08.001
Blaauw FJ, Schenk HM, Jeronimus BF, van der Krieke L, de Jonge P, Aiello M, Emerencia AC. Let's get Physiqual - An intuitive and generic method to combine sensor technology with ecological momentary assessments. J Biomed Inform. 2016 Oct;63:141-149. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2016.08.001. Epub 2016 Aug 04. PMID: 27498066.
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J Biomed Inform. 2016 Oct;63:141-149. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2016.08.001. Epub 2016 Aug 04.

Let's get Physiqual - An intuitive and generic method to combine sensor technology with ecological momentary assessments.

Journal of biomedical informatics

F J Blaauw, H M Schenk, B F Jeronimus, L van der Krieke, P de Jonge, M Aiello, A C Emerencia

Affiliations

  1. University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, University Center for Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (ICPE), The Netherlands; University of Groningen, Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (JBI), Distributed Systems Group, The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, University Center for Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (ICPE), The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
  3. University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, University Center for Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (ICPE), The Netherlands; University of Groningen, Department of Developmental Psychology, The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
  4. University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, University Center for Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (ICPE), The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
  5. University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, University Center for Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (ICPE), The Netherlands; University of Groningen, Department of Developmental Psychology, The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
  6. University of Groningen, Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (JBI), Distributed Systems Group, The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
  7. University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, University Center for Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (ICPE), The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 27498066 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2016.08.001

Abstract

The emergence of wearables and smartwatches is making sensors a ubiquitous technology to measure daily rhythms in physiological measures, such as movement and heart rate. An integration of sensor data from wearables and self-report questionnaire data about cognition, behaviors, and emotions can provide new insights into the interaction of mental and physiological processes in daily life. Hitherto no method existed that enables an easy-to-use integration of sensor and self-report data. To fill this gap, we present 'Physiqual', a platform for researchers that gathers and integrates data from commercially available sensors and service providers into one unified format for use in Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA) or Experience Sampling Methods (ESM), and Quantified Self (QS). Physiqual currently supports sensor data provided by two well-known service providers and therewith a wide range of smartwatches and wearables. To demonstrate the features of Physiqual, we conducted a case study in which we assessed two subjects by means of data from an EMA study combined with sensor data as aggregated and exported by Physiqual. To the best of our knowledge, the Physiqual platform is the first platform that allows researchers to conveniently aggregate and integrate physiological sensor data with EMA studies.

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Keywords: API; Android; EMA; ESM; Fitbit; Google Fit; Interoperability; Platform; Smartwatch; Wearables

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