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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

QuantifyMe: An Open-Source Automated Single-Case Experimental Design Platform.

Sara Taylor, Akane Sano, Craig Ferguson, Akshay Mohan, Rosalind W Picard

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sara TaylorAffective Computing Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. sataylor@media.mit.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4133-9230
Akane SanoAffective Computing Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. akanes@media.mit.edu.
Craig FergusonAffective Computing Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. fergusoc@media.mit.edu.
Akshay MohanAffective Computing Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. akshay.mohan@alum.mit.edu.
Rosalind W PicardAffective Computing Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. picard@media.mit.edu.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Smartphones and wearable sensors have enabled unprecedented data collection, with many products now providing feedback to users about recommended step counts or sleep durations. However, these recommendations do not provide personalized insights that have been shown to be best suited for a specific individual. A scientific way to find individualized recommendations and causal links is to conduct experiments using single-case experimental design; however, properly designed single-case experiments are not easy to conduct on oneself. We designed, developed, and evaluated a novel platform, QuantifyMe, for novice self-experimenters to conduct proper-methodology single-case self-experiments in an automated and scientific manner using their smartphones. We provide software for the platform that we used (available for free on GitHub), which provides the methodological elements to run many kinds of customized studies. In this work, we evaluate its use with four different kinds of personalized investigations, examining how variables such as sleep duration and regularity, activity, and leisure time affect personal happiness, stress, productivity, and sleep efficiency. We conducted a six-week pilot study (

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mobile healthself-experimentself-trackingsingle-case experimental designwearable sensors

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PMID29621133
PMCPMC5948910

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