Mobile Technologies Core
Empowering mental health research for improved treatment and prevention.
Empowering mental health research for improved treatment and prevention.
Mobile technologies have the potential to transform mental health research and precision treatments.
Combining mobile apps and devices such as wearables enables the collection of mental health assessments alongside other objective physiological signals and social parameters, allowing long-term research to be done at scale with greater participation. These technologies also hold the promise to help develop more dynamic, real-time, individualized mental health treatments.
The Mobile Technologies Core facilitates effective, rigorous, equitable, and reproducible mental health research using mobile technologies. Our aim is to empower researchers across the University of Michigan to transform the future of mental health treatment and prevention by overcoming the barriers of incorporating mobile technologies in their studies. The Mobile Technologies Core is partnering across the University to build the infrastructure necessary to make this a reality.
Our Services
Our dedicated faculty and staff provide expert guidance and best practices for Eisenberg Family Depression Center members interested in using mobile technologies in their research:
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