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Why Digital Tools Have Not Yet Revolutionized Adolescent Health Research and What We Can Do
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The promise of digital tools and devices for spurring new discoveries in adolescent health research is enticing. This special section draws attention to many of the advantages that mobile and wearable devices offer for ambulatory assessment research, which have now been realized. Despite such progress, digital tools have not yet delivered on their predicted revolution of adolescent health research. I offer four reasons for why digital devices have fallen short of this predicted promise. For each barrier, I suggest parallel strategies for ensuring adolescent research benefits from Ambulatory Assessment advances. To avoid missing out on opportunities to support young people, adolescence scholarship must develop in time with innovations in digital devices and platforms and move past what has, to date, been an overwhelming focus on fears about their usage.
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- Authors
- Odgers, C. L.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Irvine
- Venue
- Journal of Research on Adolescence
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2019-09
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 675-681
- ISSN
- 1050-8392
- 1532-7795
- PMC
- PMC6824274
- Cited by
- 22
- References
- 9
- Language
- en
- Funders
- Jacobs Foundation
- William T. Grant Foundation
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