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Stanford Mini-Conference on Longitudinal Methods

Presentations developed in conjunction with COMM 365/PSYCH 289 Longitudinal Data Analysis in Social Science Research (Instructor Prof Nilam Ram).

Winter 2024 Class: Ensemble Sonification Of Temporal Data

An ensemble course with research components for making data-driven music. Improvised and composed pieces make use of large, time-based data sets chronicling humans' digital-life and real-life experiences, and explore how temporal data can be transformed into live musical performances.

Time for Change

The devices in our pockets and on our wrists often demand our immediate attention. They also facilitate full-scale reconsideration of how we study and optimize human behavior.

The Affective Dynamics of Everyday Digital Life: Opening Computational Possibility

Up to now, there was no way to observe and track the affective impacts of the massive amount of complex visual stimuli that people encounter “in the wild” during their many hours of digital life.

The Change Lab Goes To The Affective Science Annual Conference 2023 in Long Beach, CA

Developmental Change in Infants’ Emotion Regulation Readiness and Regulation Proclivity; Tracking Divergence of Well-Being across Time; and Change in Affect as Individuals Move Through Physical and Digital Green Space in Everyday Life.

The Change Lab Web Design Proposal

Lavender Chen

Analyzing Psychological Dynamics in the Multilevel Modeling Framework

A psychological dynamic is a conceptualization of psychological activity that includes a psychological state and the perturbation of that state by some dynamic. I studied psychological dynamics by quantitatively operationalizing and modeling them as follows:

No Evidence that Digital Activity is Related to Long or Short-term Changes in Depressive Symptoms

Individuals are engaged with digital activity on their smartphones through all stages of moods or wellness periods. Prior research into mental health’s relation to smartphone use has been mixed.