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The Screenome: Unlocking the New Science of Everyday Life

"Health science has mapped our genome, microbiome, and environment; but everyday behavior has remained largely invisible. This post explores the "Screenome," a new frontier that captures the digital traces of daily life and opens a powerful lens on how behavior shapes health."

An open-source platform for multimodal digital trace data collection from smartphones

We developed an open-source platform that enables in situ capture of multimodal digital traces from smartphones (for example, moment-by-moment capture of screenshots, application usage logs, interaction histories and phone sensor readings)...

What Your Phone Knows Could Help Scientists Understand Your Health

"Stanford scientists have released an open-source platform that lets health researchers study the “screenome” – the digital traces of our daily lives – while protecting participants’ privacy."

The Democracy of Sound

[Performance 2026-02-27] This event - an 89-minute “happening” - explores the democratic possibilities that emerge when we create and improvise together.

Time-Related Considerations for Modeling Event-Based Data Collected via Ecological Momentary Assessment

This article provides an overview of survival analysis, describes several time-based considerations for modeling event-based EMA data using survival analysis, and provides several illustrative examples of the different time-based considerations...

How self-efficacy and response efficacy change with risk and adaptation behaviors during tropical cyclones

From our analysis of three (2020–2022) tropical cyclones in the U.S. that threatened 4,306 participants, we demonstrate that (1) time moderates the positive association between momentary levels of personal risk and response efficacy and (2) adaptation behaviors positively associate with momentary levels of response efficacy, but not self-efficacy...

Predicting Daily Affect Valence: The Role of Perceived Control and Personality Traits

In daily life, social interactions vary in how emotionally and cognitively engaging people feel, and these situational qualities may amplify or reduce the influence of personality and control in the moment. In this study, I draw on intensive longitudinal data from the iSAHIB...

Demystifying Data Donation Methods to Advance Digital Health Research

[Workshop on October 25, 2025] "Curious about teens’ digital lives? There’s a better way than guessing. Ask them directly and let them share their data with you..."

Tracking, modeling, and modifying human activity, performance, and health: Ideas emerging from the merging of super-intensive longitudinal paradigms and AI

[Talk on October 3, 2025] "Nilàm Ram, professor of communication and psychology at Stanford University, will speak on ,Tracking, modeling, and modifying human activity, performance, and health'"...

The Psychology of Pain: Exploring the Effects of General Health as a Moderator Between Daily Perceived Control and Pain

Pain is a complex experience that varies widely between people and within individuals over time. People with poorer health, especially individuals with multiple comorbidities, generally experience more pain than those with better health...