A new era for understanding mental health with smartphone-derived digital traces
A new era for understanding mental health with smartphone-derived digital traces
- March 17, 2026
- Stephen Schueller, psychology, informatics and CPIP affiliate, Nature, March 17, 2026
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Stephen Schueller, UC Irvine psychology and informatics professor writes, “Smartphones offer a way to understand our lives and health through digital tracing, but trust, transparency and value of information exchange need to be preserved — which is the aim of a new data-processing platform.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.nature.com/articles/s44360-026-00097-y.
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