Comulada W Scott
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, California. He is also a Methods Core scientist for the Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services (CHIPTS; P30MH058107).
Connect (Tor). 2014 Dec 1;34(1-2):43-51. doi: 10.17266/34.1.4.
Mobile phone-based data collection encompasses the richness of social network research. Both individual-level and network-level measures can be recorded. For example, health-related behaviors can be reported via mobile assessment. Social interactions can be assessed by phone-log data. Yet the potential of mobile phone data collection has largely been untapped. This is especially true of egocentric studies in public health settings where mobile phones can enhance both data collection and intervention delivery, e.g. mobile users can video chat with counselors. This is due in part to privacy issues and other barriers that are more difficult to address outside of academic settings where most mobile research to date has taken place. In this article, we aim to inform a broader discussion on mobile research. In particular, benefits and challenges to mobile phone-based data collection are highlighted through our mobile phone-based pilot study that was conducted on egocentric networks of 12 gay men (n = 44 total participants). HIV-transmission and general health behaviors were reported through a mobile phone-based daily assessment that was administered through study participants' own mobile phones. Phone log information was collected from gay men with Android phones. Benefits and challenges to mobile implementation are discussed, along with the application of multi-level models to the type of longitudinal egocentric data that we collected.
基于手机的数据收集涵盖了丰富的社交网络研究。个体层面和网络层面的测量都可以被记录下来。例如，与健康相关的行为可以通过移动评估来报告。社交互动可以通过通话记录数据来评估。然而，手机数据收集的潜力在很大程度上尚未被挖掘。在公共卫生环境中的自我中心研究尤其如此，在这些研究中，手机可以加强数据收集和干预措施的实施，例如，手机用户可以与咨询师进行视频聊天。这部分是由于隐私问题以及其他在学术环境之外更难解决的障碍，而迄今为止大多数手机研究都是在学术环境中进行的。在本文中，我们旨在为关于移动研究的更广泛讨论提供信息。特别是，通过我们基于手机的试点研究突出了基于手机的数据收集的益处和挑战，该研究是在12名男同性恋者的自我中心网络上进行的（总共有44名参与者）。通过参与者自己的手机进行的基于手机的每日评估来报告艾滋病毒传播和一般健康行为。从使用安卓手机的男同性恋者那里收集通话记录信息。讨论了移动实施的益处和挑战，以及多层次模型在我们收集的纵向自我中心数据类型中的应用。
