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ArticleJournal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)2020

Optimal sampling strategies for characterizing behavior and affect from ambulatory audio recordings.

Megan Micheletti, Kaya de Barbaro, Michelle D Fellows, J Gregory Hixon, Richard B Slatcher, James W Pennebaker

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Article in Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Theoretical and Methodological Insights From Five Transcribed and Annotated Daylong Audio Recordings of Young Children's Language Environments.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026
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  6. Efficient Estimation of Children's Language Exposure in Two Bilingual Communities.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2021
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6 authors.

Megan MichelettiDepartment of Psychology.ORCID 0000-0002-7197-7172
Kaya de BarbaroDepartment of Psychology.ORCID 0000-0001-6316-0085
Michelle D FellowsDepartment of Social Sciences.ORCID 0000-0001-6234-1079
J Gregory HixonDepartment of Psychology.
Richard B SlatcherDepartment of Psychology.
James W PennebakerDepartment of Psychology.ORCID 0000-0001-9091-214X

Funding

Leveraging Social Media Data and Machine Learning to Optimize Treatment Paradigms for Youth with SchizophreniaR01MH117172 · NIMH · GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI DE CHOUDHURY, MUNMUN · 2019 to 2022
$2.6M
INTERPERSONAL DISCLOSURE PROCESSES AND HEALTHR01MH052391 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN · PI PENNEBAKER, JAMES W · 1996 to 2004
$1.4M
High-density markers of mother-infant bio-behavioral activity "in the wild": Developing a mobile-sensing paradigm to examine transmission of mental health risksK01MH111957 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI DE BARBARO, KAYA · 2017 to 2021
$473k
Army Research InstituteNational Science FoundationNIH HHSNIMH NIH HHS K01 MH111957NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH052391NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH117172Templeton Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in mobile and wearable technologies mean it is now feasible to record hours to days of participant behavior in its naturalistic context, a great boon for psychologists interested in family processes and development. While automated activity recognition algorithms exist for a limited set of behaviors, time-consuming human annotations are still required to robustly characterize the vast majority of behavioral and affective markers of interest. This report is the first to date which systematically tests the efficacy of different sampling strategies for characterizing behavior from audio recordings to provide practical guidelines for researchers. Using continuous audio recordings of the daily lives of 11 preschool-aged children, we compared sampling techniques to determine the most accurate and efficient approach. Results suggest that sampling both low and high frequency verbal and overt behaviors is best if samples are short in duration, systematically rather than randomly selected, and sampled to cover at least 12.5% of recordings. Implications for assessment of real-world behavior are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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Child BehaviorVerbal BehaviorChild, PreschoolEcological Momentary AssessmentFemaleHumansMale

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PMID32271036
PMCPMC7544678

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