Modeling social interaction dynamics measured with smartphone sensors: An ambulatory assessment study on social interactions and loneliness.

ABSTRACT: More and more data are being collected using combined active (e.g., surveys) and passive (e.g., smartphone sensors) ambulatory assessment methods. Fine-grained temporal data, such as smartphone sensor data, allow gaining new insights into the dynamics of social interactions in day-to-day life and how these are associated with psychosocial phenomena - such as loneliness. So far, however, smartphone sensor data have often been aggregated over time, thus, not doing justice to the fine-grained temporality of these data. In this article, we demonstrate how time-stamped sensor data of social interactions can be modeled with multistate survival models. We examine how loneliness is associated with (a) the time between social interaction (i.e., interaction rate) and (b) the duration of social inter

SUBMITTER: Elmer T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9941651 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature