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Inferring Mood Instability on Social Media by Leveraging Ecological Momentary Assessments

Saha, Koustuv, Chan, Larry, De Barbaro, Kaya, Abowd, Gregory D., De Choudhury, Munmun·2017·Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

Abstract

Active and passive sensing technologies are providing powerful mechanisms to track, model, and understand a range of health behaviors and well-being states. Despite yielding rich, dense and high fidelity data, current sensing technologies often require highly engineered study designs and persistent participant compliance, making them difficult to scale to large populations and to data acquisition tasks spanning extended time periods. This paper situates social media as a new passive, unobtrusive sensing technology. We propose a semi-supervised machine learning framework to combine small samples of data gathered through active sensing, with large-scale social media data to infer mood instability (MI) in individuals. Starting from a theoretically-grounded measure of MI obtained from mobile ecological momentary assessments (EMAs), we show that our model is able to infer MI in a large population of Twitter users with 96% accuracy and F-1 score. Additionally, we show that, our model predicts self-identifying Twitter users with bipolar and borderline personality disorder to exhibit twice the likelihood of high MI, compared to that in a suitable control. We discuss the implications and the potential for integrating complementary sensing capabilities to address complex research challenges in precision medicine.

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Authors
Saha, K., Chan, L., De Barbaro, K., Abowd, G. D., & De Choudhury, M.
Affiliations
  • Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
Venue
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Published
2017-09-11
Volume
1
Issue
3
Pages
1-27
ISSN
2474-9567 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2755222014
Cited by
77
References
84
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1
FWCI
14.88
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (publishedVersion)
Funders
Georgia Tech IISP Human Facing Privacy Thrust Award (3645129196)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health via Writing
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
Keywords
mood instability, social media sensing, ecological momentary assessment, passive sensing, semi-supervised learning, Twitter, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, mental health prediction, precision medicine, multimodal sensing

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