The Healthy Environments and Active Living for Translational Health (HEALTH) Platform: A smartphone-based system for geographic ecological momentary assessment research.

ABSTRACT: Smartphones have become a widely used tool for delivering digital health interventions and conducting observational research. Many digital health studies adopt an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methodology, which can be enhanced by collecting participant location data using built-in smartphone technologies. However, there is currently a lack of customizable software capable of supporting geographically explicit research in EMA. To address this gap, we developed the Healthy Environments and Active Living for Translational Health (HEALTH) Platform. The HEALTH Platform is a customizable smartphone application that enables researchers to deliver geographic ecological momentary assessment (GEMA) prompts on a smartphone in real-time based on spatially complex geofence boundaries, to colle

SUBMITTER: Wray AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12697974 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature