Our smartphones capture an enormous amount of information about us.  It is possible that this information could be used to keep track of our mental health, assuming that this can be done so in a privacy-enabled way.  This project seeks to determine what might be inferred about a patient’s mental health through analysis of data streams from a person’s smartphone, including samples of the audio environment, location, ambient light, activity and screen activity among others.  We have also focused on detection of anxiety from impromptu speech, collected directly.

Publications

• B Teferra and J. Rose, “Predicting Generalized Anxiety Disorder From Impromptu Speech Transcripts Using Context-Aware Transformer-Based Neural Networks: Model Evaluation,” JMIR Mental Health, March 2023; 10:ee44325 
• B Teferra, S. Borwein, D. DeSouza, and  J. Rose, “Screening for Generalized Anxiety Disorder from Acoustic and Linguistic Features of Impromptu Speech: Prediction Model Evaluation Study,” JMIR Form Res, October 2022;6(10):e39998 doi: 10.2196/39998
• B Teferra, S. Borwein, D. DeSouza, W. Simpson, L. Rheault,  J. Rose, “Acoustic and Linguistic Features of Impromptu Speech and Their Association With Anxiety: Validation Study,” JMIR Ment Health. July 2022;9(7):e36828.
• Di Matteo D, K. Fotinos, S. Lokuge, G. Mason, T. Sternat, Katzman M, J. Rose, “Automated Screening for Social Anxiety, Generalized Anxiety, and Depression from Objective Smartphone-Collected Data: Cross-Sectional Study,” JMIR, August 2021;23(8):e28918.
• Di Matteo D, Wang W, Fotinos K, Lokuge S, Yu J, Sternat T, Katzman M, Rose J, "Smartphone-Detected Ambient Speech and Self-Reported Measures of Anxiety and Depression: Exploratory Observational Study," JMIR Form Res, January 2021; 5(1):e22723.
• D. Di Matteo, K. Fotinos,S. Lokuge,J Yu,T. Sternat,MA Katzman, J. Rose "The Relationship Between Smartphone-Recorded Environmental Audio and Symptomatology of Anxiety and Depression: Exploratory Study" JMIR Formative Research, Vol 4. No. 8, pp. e18751, 2020, doi
• D. Di Matteo, A. Fine, K. Fotinos, J Rose and M. Katzman, "Patient Willingness to Consent to Mobile Phone Data Collection for Mental Health Apps: Structured Questionnaire," in JMIR Ment Health 2018;5(3):e56, doi