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Teles A.;Rocha A.;da Silva E Silva F.;Lopes J.;O¿Sullivan D.;Van de Ven P.;Endler M.
2017
January
Sensors (Switzerland)
Enriching mental health mobile assessment and intervention with situation awareness
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Ecological momentary assessment Fuzzy logic Mental disorder treatment Mobile mental health Situation awareness
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© 2017 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Current mobile devices allow the execution of sophisticated applications with the capacity for identifying the user situation, which can be helpful in treatments of mental disorders. In this paper, we present SituMan, a solution that provides situation awareness to MoodBuster, an ecological momentary assessment and intervention mobile application used to request self-assessments from patients in depression treatments. SituMan has a fuzzy inference engine to identify patient situations using context data gathered from the sensors embedded in mobile devices. Situations are specified jointly by the patient and mental health professional, and they can represent the patient¿s daily routine (e.g., ¿studying¿, ¿at work¿, ¿working out¿). MoodBuster requests mental status self-assessments from patients at adequate moments using situation awareness. In addition, SituMan saves and displays patient situations in a summary, delivering them for consultation by mental health professionals. A first experimental evaluation was performed to assess the user satisfaction with the approaches to define and identify situations. This experiment showed that SituMan was well evaluated in both criteria. A second experiment was performed to assess the accuracy of the fuzzy engine to infer situations. Results from the second experiment showed that the fuzzy inference engine has a good accuracy to identify situations.
1424-8220
10.3390/s17010127
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