具有地理空间特征的生态瞬时评估 (GEMA) 架构和组成部分:从 PMOMS 中吸取的经验教训。
Geographically-explicit Ecological Momentary Assessment (GEMA) Architecture and Components: Lessons Learned from PMOMS.
机构信息
Geoinformatics Laboratory, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Department of Health and Community Systems, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
出版信息
Inform Health Soc Care. 2021 Jun 2;46(2):158-177. doi: 10.1080/17538157.2021.1877140. Epub 2021 Feb 20.
Geographically explicit Ecological Momentary Assessment (GEMA), an extension of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), allows to record time-stamped geographic location information for behavioral data in the every-day environments of study participants. Considering that GEMA studies are continually gaining the attention of researchers and currently there is no single approach in collecting GEMA data, in this paper, we propose and present a GEMA architecture that can be used to conduct any GEMA study based on our experience developing and maintaining the Postpartum Mothers Mobile Study (PMOMS). Our GEMA client-server architecture can be customized to meet the specific requirements of each GEMA study. Key features of our proposed GEMA architecture include: utilization of widely used smartphones to make GEMA studies practical; alleviation of the burden of activities on participants by designing clients (mobile applications) that are very lightweight and servers that are heavyweight in terms of functionality; utilization of at least one positioning sensor to determine EMA contexts marked with locations; and communication through the Internet. We believe that our proposed GEMA architecture, with the illustrated foundation for GEMA studies in our exemplar study (PMOMS), will help researchers from any field conduct GEMA studies efficiently and effectively.
地理上明确的生态瞬时评估(GEMA)是生态瞬时评估(EMA)的扩展,允许为研究参与者的日常环境中的行为数据记录带时间戳的地理位置信息。考虑到 GEMA 研究不断引起研究人员的关注,并且目前尚无收集 GEMA 数据的单一方法,在本文中,我们提出并介绍了一种 GEMA 架构,该架构可用于根据我们在开发和维护产后母亲移动研究(PMOMS)方面的经验进行任何 GEMA 研究。我们的 GEMA 客户端-服务器架构可以根据每个 GEMA 研究的具体要求进行定制。我们提出的 GEMA 架构的主要功能包括:利用广泛使用的智能手机使 GEMA 研究实用化;通过设计非常轻量级的客户端(移动应用程序)和功能强大的服务器来减轻参与者活动的负担;利用至少一个定位传感器来确定带有位置标记的 EMA 上下文;并通过互联网进行通信。我们相信,我们提出的 GEMA 架构,以及我们的范例研究(PMOMS)中 GEMA 研究的说明性基础,将帮助来自任何领域的研究人员高效,有效地进行 GEMA 研究。
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