“Opportunities and Challenges in Using Digital Sensors for Mental Health and Wellbeing Research”
Smartphones and wearables offer unprecedented opportunities to capture real-world human behavior through passive sensing. During this Lunch & Learn, Subigya Nepal (Assistant Professor, Computer Science) discussed what sensor technologies can reliably measure and the significant challenges researchers face when deploying them.
Drawing from longitudinal studies with college students, clinical populations, and workplace cohorts, this session examined critical issues including data quality, participant burden, privacy concerns, and translating behavioral patterns into actionable mental health insights.
