Timing rather than user traits mediates mood sampling on smartphones.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Recent years have seen an increasing number of studies using smartphones to sample participants' mood states. Moods are usually collected by asking participants for their current mood or for a recollection of their mood states over a specific period of time. The current study investigates the reasons to favour collecting mood through current or daily mood surveys and outlines design recommendations for mood sampling using smartphones based on these findings. These recommendations are also relevant to more general smartphone sampling procedures.

Results

N=64 participants completed a series of surveys at the beginning and end of the study providing information such as gender, personality, or smartphone addiction score. Through a smartphone application, they reported

SUBMITTER: Noe B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5602857 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature