Mobile Technologies Core
Empowering mental health research for improved treatment and prevention.
Empowering mental health research for improved treatment and prevention.
Mobile technology has the potential to facilitate high-impact advances in our understanding of the connection between mental and physical health.
Combining objective data from mobile and wearable technologies with traditional research tools and health and behavioral data allows long-term research to be done at scale, reach diverse populations and reduce the burden of research participation.
The Mobile Technologies Core provides investigators across the University of Michigan the support and guidance needed to utilize mobile technologies and digital mental health measures in their studies. Experienced faculty and staff offer hands-on consultative services to researchers throughout the University – regardless of specialty or research focus.
Our mobile study infrastructure supports investigators who are interested in harnessing the power of emerging mobile technology in their research. Developed in collaboration with partners across the University, our aim is to explore the interaction of mental health and a variety of disease-states to accelerate the discovery of whole-person treatment and prevention.
Our dedicated faculty and staff provide consultations, knowledge and resources focused on helping investigators overcome the barriers of incorporating mobile technologies and mental health measures in human subjects research. Our services include:
Providing resources and support in developing competitive, cutting-edge proposals.
Resources and expertise to help investigators select technologies that meet their research objectives.
Learnings on the collection, extraction, storage, processing, and display of the large amount of high resolution data acquired by mobile technologies.
Get connected to collaborative networks and dedicated faculty and staff support.
Mobile health technologies offer advantages like the ability to assess various measures together, both objectively (e.g. wearable sensors) and with self-report (e.g. app acquired ecological momentary assessment).
Data collection methods of mobile technologies are unique compared to traditional research tools, and can acquire long-term data in free-living conditions, often with minimal effort on the part of the study participant. Meta-data is continually collected alongside the research parameters of interest which enrich the data with contextual information.
The Mobile Technologies Core will provide support and share expertise for the following technologies and technology applications.
Faculty interested in developing apps for commercialization should visit: UM Innovation Partners