Measuring stress through mobile and wearable technology
Nithya Murthy
Undergraduate Researcher
Neuroscience Major (College of Arts and Sciences)
Evan Jordan
Faculty Mentor
Evan Jordan (School of Public Health)
Project Description
My lab has several active NIH funded projects in which we are collecting stress data via smartwatches and a custom mobile phone app. We collect data such as self reported stress descriptions, GPS coordinates, coping strategies, images of stressful environments, sleep time and stages, heart rate, physical activity (steps) and more. I envision that the emerging scholars who choose to join my lab will be involved in one or more of the following activities based on their own interests: 1. Interacting with research participants to collect data using mobile and wearable technology 2. writing code to clean and analyze the vast amounts of data collected (we have several million datapoints of GPS coordinates and heart rates) - occasionally using IU Supercomputing services (e.g., Big Red II) 3. Conducting analysis of data from mobile and wearable technology 4. Writing scientific publications based on these data.
Technology or Computational Component
Students will be exposed to many components of data collected through mobile and wearable technology including: smartwatches, smartphones and custom built ecological momentary assessment apps, interfaces with Garmin, Polar, and other smart device maker databases, custom SQL protected health information databases hosted on IU Luddy servers, statistical analysis packages including SPSS and R, GIS based spatiotemporal analysis (of GPS coordinate data).