Smartphone-Based Sensors for Mental Health and Diverse Healthcare Needs
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2024 | Viewed by 46
Special Issue Editor
Interests: smartphone-based sensors; mental health; safe device use habits; smartphone addiction; adoption of security measures in users; risk habits and attitudes; sensation seeking; machine learning; multivariate statistical analyses
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the integration of sensors into smartphones and data collection through their apps has opened a promising avenue to address mental health challenges and diverse healthcare needs. Smartphones, equipped with a variety of sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, offer a unique opportunity for continuous and unobtrusive monitoring of individual behaviors, physiological parameters, and environmental factors. These sensors can capture valuable data related to physical activity, sleep patterns, social interactions, and mood fluctuations, providing insights into the individual's physical and mental well-being. Furthermore, by allowing the actual measurement of the time of use of different applications, they enable the correlation of these variables and the use of certain applications with problems such as anxiety, depression, or addiction to certain technological applications.
This Special Issue aims to explore the advances, challenges, and applications of smartphone-based sensors to monitor and improve mental health outcomes and address various healthcare requirements. Contributions to this Special Issue may include original research, reviews, case studies, and methodologies focused on topics such as:
- The development and validation of smartphone-based sensor technologies for mental health assessments;
- Applications of smartphone data/sensors in the early detection and intervention of mental health disorders;
- Using smartphone data for personalized health interventions;
- Ethical and privacy considerations when collecting and analyzing data from smartphone sensors for healthcare purposes;
- Integration of smartphone sensor data with other digital health technologies for comprehensive healthcare solutions.
We invite researchers to present their innovative work and contribute to improving our understanding and utilization of smartphone-based sensors to promote mental health and meet diverse healthcare needs. By exploring the transformative potential of smartphone technology to shape the future of healthcare delivery and patient well-being, quantitative studies, qualitative studies, and case studies are welcome in this Special Issue.
Dr. Alberto Urueña López
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smartphone-based sensors
- mental health
- healthcare needs
- ethical considerations
- digital health
- personalized interventions
