Ambulatory Assessment and Mobile Monitoring

Ambulatory Assessment (AA) comprises the use of field methods to assess the ongoing behavior, physiology, experience and environmental aspects of people in naturalistic or unconstrained settings. AA uses ecologically-valid tools to understand biopsychosocial processes as they unfold naturally in time and in context.

movisensXS provides a complete solution for smartphone based experience sampling (ESM). Whether Interactive Ambulatory Assessment (IAA), Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMAs) or Ecological Momentary Interventions (EMIs), with movisens you’ll realize innovative research ideas and capture insightful data at the right time, in real time and in everyday life.
Comprising of an intuitive and easy to use web platform and an App for Android smartphones or tablets, movisensXS allows the mobile acquisition of questionnaires, triggered by customisable sampling schemas. Inside the web platform you can create questionnaires and sampling schemes using our simple drag and drop interface. A complete study management suite with no programming skills required!

The sensors available within the smartphone can be used for different questions. For example, the internal acceleration sensor allows a rough estimate of physical activity.
Whilst Physical Activity cannot be measured accurately with a Smartphone, it can provide a very broad estimate of the amount of overall movement within a specified timeframe. Smartphone accelerometers lack the accuracy and uniformity of a dedicated activity tracker. To accurately measure activity please use a dedicated research quality activity sensor like the movisens Move 4.

movisens sensors provide insights into physical activity, the 24hour Activity cycle, sleep, and the state of the Autonomic Nervous System. Our ability to capture high quality long term ambulatory physical data via a broad range of physiological signals allows researchers to investigate participants behaviour at a level of detail and fidelity previously not possible.

movisens sensors provide physiological data to movisensXS, enabling a unique capability to trigger questionnaires when they matter most. movisensXS evaluates the data within your customisable algorithm, and as a result of the evaluation, can trigger a questionnaire or an intervention on the smartphone. This feature allows you to capture the contextual information from a participant, enabling you to fully understand the objective physiological data. Instead of looking at the data and wondering what that spike or dip was in a particular metric, you can use this feature to ask the participant themselves at the moment it occurs.

Mobile sensing uses the sensors of a mobile device to acquire data from the environment. Modern Smartphones contain a range of that monitor a diverse range of human activities and commonly encountered contexts. movisens provides researchers easy access to the Mobile Sensing features of smartphones. The mobile sensing capabilities also enable the precise delivery of interventions. Researchers can determine the optimal time for an outpatient intervention or to adapt the intervention to the situation.

Mobile Monitoring (MoMo) is a collective term for time-limited monitoring by means of mobile technical aids. Mobile stands for movable and mobile as well as for mobile communication. Mobile monitoring supports scientists in monitoring participants and provides information about their actions and traits.

Ambulatory Assessment (AA) covers a wide range of assessment methods to study people in their natural environment, including self-report, observational, and biological/physiological/behavioral. AA methods minimize retrospective biases while gathering ecologically valid data from patients’ everyday life in real time or near real time.