Please find below information on an upcoming webinar, sponsored by both the Mental Health Statistics Section and Biometrics Section:
Title: Smartphone-Based Digital Phenotyping
Presenter: JP Onnela, Harvard University
Date and Time: Thursday, January 24, 2019, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: Mental Health Statistics Section and Biometrics Section
Registration Deadline: Tuesday, January 22, at 12:00 p.m. Eastern time
Description:
Recent advances in biomedicine and technology are beginning to change the priority in biomedical research towards phenotyping. Many investigators have promoted the role of large-scale phenotyping as the natural complement to genome sequencing as a route to advances in biomedical sciences, but behavior continues to present special challenges to phenomics because of its temporal nature and context dependence. We believe that the ubiquity and capability of smartphones to collect social, behavioral, and cognitive data can contribute to the phenotyping challenge via objective measurement, especially in psychiatric and neurological conditions. We have previously defined digital phenotyping as the moment-by-moment quantification of the individual-level human phenotype in situ using data from personal digital devices, in particular smartphones. I will discuss this concept and will introduce Beiwe, our open source research platform for high-throughput, smartphone-based digital phenotyping. I will also share some results from our ongoing studies with various patient cohorts and will consider some of the statistical and computational challenges that arise in this line of research.
Registration Fees:
Member of the Mental Health Statistics or Biometrics Section: $60
ASA Member: $90
Nonmember: $110
Each registration is allowed one connection to the webinar. Multiple persons are encouraged to view each registered connection (for example, by projecting the webinar in a conference room).