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Emotion Sense App: Privacy Concerns

Recently, we launched the Emotion Sense app for Android on the Google Play Market. This app combines experience sampling with the passive data that modern smartphones can collect, and gives people...

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2013 in Review

2013 was a long, long year for me; here’s my attempt to summarise it as succinctly as possible. I released Emotion Sense. To date, it has been downloaded approximately 30,000 times. In the days after...

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Using Smartphones to Research Daily Life

Slides from a talk I’ve given at a few different places recently, covering the design and deployment of Emotion Sense and the initial design of Easy M.  

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Easy M: Experience Sampling with Smartphones

Since launching Emotion Sense, I have received a number of e-mails from people who would like to conduct studies or build apps that collect similar kinds of data: Momentary Survey Responses: answers to...

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Health Monitoring with Smartphones

A recent talk that I gave in Cambridge’s Dept of Psychiatry and Institute of Public Health, and UCL’s e-Health unite.

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Random Links from #health2eu

I’m at Health 2.0 Europe: London November 10-11. Brief, brief notes: Bayer gives out grants for apps (ok; it doesn’t; submissions currently closed). The my health apps resources page lists white/green...

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2014 in Review

My last year in review ended with “I think that 2014 is going to be a year of prioritising and getting things finished.” I think I (mostly!) managed to do just that, with most of my work this year...

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Extracting Large Datasets from the Google App Engine Datastore

The Google App Engine (GAE) is a very interesting service for quickly deploying web apps or building systems that use Google’s infrastructure. I’ve recently been working on a project that uses the GAE...

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Notes from @RoyalSocMed #telemed Event

Brief notes and links from Mainstreaming medical apps; reducing NHS costs; improving patient outcomes event at the Royal Society of Medicine. 90% of apps are not used after 6 months. 80% of apps do not...

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#wwdh What Works in Digital Health?

Random notes from the “What Works in Digital Health” workshop: Personal Tracking as Health Informatics (paper) There’s no such thing as gaining a pound (paper) Trajectories of depression (paper will...

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Why I Reject Your Data Papers

This post now has a new home, on Medium.

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