Cited by 477Human Mobility and Location-Based AnalysisContext-Aware Activity Recognition SystemsDigital Mental Health Interventions

Trajectories of depression: unobtrusive monitoring of depressive states by means of smartphone mobility traces analysis

Canzian, Luca, Musolesi, Mirco·2015·Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Abstract

One of the most interesting applications of mobile sensing is monitoring of individual behavior, especially in the area of mental health care. Most existing systems require an interaction with the device, for example they may require the user to input his/her mood state at regular intervals. In this paper we seek to answer whether mobile phones can be used to unobtrusively monitor individuals affected by depressive mood disorders by analyzing only their mobility patterns from GPS traces. In order to get ground-truth measurements, we have developed a smartphone application that periodically collects the locations of the users and the answers to daily questionnaires that quantify their depressive mood. We demonstrate that there exists a significant correlation between mobility trace characteristics and the depressive moods. Finally, we present the design of models that are able to successfully predict changes in the depressive mood of individuals by analyzing their movements.

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Authors
Canzian, L., & Musolesi, M.
Affiliations
  • University of Birmingham (GB)
  • University College London (GB)
Venue
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Publisher
ACM
Published
2015-09-07
Pages
1293-1304
OpenAlex
W2066806488
Cited by
477
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 24 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 38 · 2023: 39 · 2022: 64 · 2021: 58 · 2020: 56 · 2019: 57 · 2018: 52 · 2017: 43 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 2
FWCI
65.10
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) (publishedVersion)
  • Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • EPSRC (EP/L006340/1)
  • European Commission (318132)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Transportation › Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
Keywords
depression, mobile sensing, GPS tracks, movement patterns, non-intrusive monitoring, mental health monitoring, mobile application, location data

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