mDOT Center’s All-Remote MOODS Study Researched What Kind of Stressors Impacted People’s Lives

The MOODS study researched what kinds of stressors impacted people’s lives. Participants reported lower frequency and magnitude of stress, and improved self-reported stress management behaviors. Results are informing new cutting-edge mHealth research: https://t.co/eF3PneAbcE

In conjunction with the mProv Collaborative Project, we successfully deployed the Mobile Open Observation of Daily Stressors (MOODS) study with real-world participants, completing data collection in Summer 2022. To reach this stage, we secured approvals from both major app stores (Google and Apple) for the MOODS app, including implementing required customizations for Apple.

Study citation
Sameer Neupane, Mithun Saha, Nasir Ali, Timothy Hnat, Shahin Alan Samiei, Anandatirtha Nandugudi, David M. Almeida, and Santosh Kumar. 2024. Momentary Stressor Logging and Reflective Visualizations: Implications for Stress Management with Wearables. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 809, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642662