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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · Sep 3

Very cool study by Laura Dewitte on how the #ESM / #EMA methodology can even be used in a population with dementia. Results:

✅ 0 dropouts
✅ 80% response rate
✅ low reported burden
✅ positive participation experiences
✅ substantial within- and between-person variability

Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · Sep 3

🤔 Can people with dementia participate in intensive experience sampling studies via smartphone?

🧐Yes, they can! Even with high-frequency sampling schemes (8 times / day)!

Work from @lauradewitte.bsky.social in npj Dementia: doi.org/10.1038/s444...

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Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · Sep 3

🤔 Can people with dementia participate in intensive experience sampling studies via smartphone?

🧐Yes, they can! Even with high-frequency sampling schemes (8 times / day)!

Work from @lauradewitte.bsky.social in npj Dementia: doi.org/10.1038/s444...

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Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · Jun 20

📱 Want to know when to schedule your #EMA / #ESM beeps for the highest completion rates?

⏰ Timing matters: some moments during the day and week are more receptive than others.

See: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · Jun 23

Cool work by Vanhasbroeck et al. (2024) relevant for #EMA / #ESM research:

🔁 Moderate to good retest consistency in fast-paced affective measures

📏 Whether it is VAS, Likert or 2D affect grid: Scale type doesn't seem to affect reliability!

🔗: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Chasing consistency: On the measurement error in self-reported affect in experiments - Behavior Research Methods

How feelings change over time is a central topic in emotion research. To study these affective fluctuations, researchers often ask participants to repeatedly indicate how they feel on a self-report ra...

link.springer.com

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Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · Jun 10

📢 New paper alert!

Invited review led by Francis Tuerlinckx for BJMSP on the latest developments in #EMA / #ESM research 📱🔍

doi-org.kuleuven.e-bronnen.be/10.1111/bmsp...

A (very) short 🧵 below:

@saa2025leuven.bsky.social

doi-org.kuleuven.e-bronnen.be

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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · May 28

Ultimate respect for dj Alter Egon @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social !

Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · May 27

What an insane crowd at the #SAA2025 m-Party (also sublime dance moves)! 💃🪩🕺🏼

#EMA researchers know how to party! 👊🙏

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Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · May 27

What an insane crowd at the #SAA2025 m-Party (also sublime dance moves)! 💃🪩🕺🏼

#EMA researchers know how to party! 👊🙏

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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · May 27

Very cool! Still processing the talk :D

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Dominique Maciejewski 🟥 @domimaciejewski.bsky.social · May 27

Really happy that @leonieschorrlepp.bsky.social presented the results of our mixed-methods study uncovering response processes in ESM studies 📱.

Take-away: people are very inconsistent in how they come up with their answers. Talking to participants in key! 🔐 #SAA2025

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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · May 27

Very exciting to see the work from @katiehoemann.bsky.social at #SAA2025! Participants were able to voice record a description of events. Katie clustered these over many different topics. 2 fun ones:
- Complaints about rain (study was in Belgium 😅)
- Complaints about the study itself (ESM...)

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Michal Frackowiak, PhD @mfrackowiak.bsky.social · May 26

#SAA2025: Laura Sels talks about daily emotional suppression and differences between males and females.

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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · May 27

Hopefully you have enough energy to make it to Egons dj set ;-)

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Nicolas Leenaerts @nicolasleenaerts.bsky.social · May 27

I had a great time discussing my work yesterday at #SAA2025! If you are interested in building sets of variables, then check out the R package @aaronjfisher.bsky.social and I made:

github.com/nicolasleena...

GitHub - nicolasleenaerts/mitools: Pairing Variables Using Mutual Information

Pairing Variables Using Mutual Information. Contribute to nicolasleenaerts/mitools development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · May 26

@leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social showing the true complexity of science!

Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · May 26

I very much appreciate @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social's openness about challenges in studying markers for careless responding and how to address them live while collecting data - among them lots of issues in dealing with participants' digital footprints #SAA2025

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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · May 26

Agree!

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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · May 26

@rayyantutunji.bsky.social showing at #SAA2025 that wearable data (EPA) is not enough to predict mental well-being (R2 = 0.01). My bet is more on timing (triggering) surveys compared to leaving out surveys.

Impressed by the commitment to correct validation (not even touching test set until later)!

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Olivia Kirtley @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social · May 26

The things you see when you're at @saa2025leuven.bsky.social! If you're looking for ZI 02.21 and you find yourself in a mini museum, you're heading in the right direction! #SAA2025

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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · May 26

More: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40080550/#:~....

Affect dynamics or response bias? The relationship between extreme response style and affect dynamics in a controlled experiment - PubMed

Intensive longitudinal data (ILD) have become a popular data format to capture people's momentary affect in everyday life. Besides describing persons' average affect over time, ILD are also often used...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · May 26

Cool #SAA2025 talk from Niels van Hasbrouck about how an extreme response style can have a severe effect on affect dynamics.

Should we push everyone to have the same response style by only allowing discrete answers?

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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · May 26

Welcome to Leuven :D!

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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · May 22

Triggering questionnaires at the right time will become increasingly important in research!

I am looking forward to see what researchers will build with these features 👩‍🔬 🧪 📑 !

Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · May 21

🚨 New m-Path feature alert!

Trigger #ESM / #EMA prompts based on proximity to a Bluetooth beacon 🔵📱

Perfect for dyadic studies 👥 — deliver mobile surveys or interventions real-time, when participants are near their partner, friend or family member.

#passivesensing @saa2025leuven.bsky.social

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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · May 14

Very happy with this new feature that automatically creates individualized invitation pages for all your participants! 📫🔥🔓

Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · May 14

Want to enroll participants to your #EMA / #ESM study privately 🔒, effortlessly 💨, and in bulk 📦?

m-Path now allows sending participants a link to their personal onboarding page 📲!

Also possible to include a study logo and tailored description!

Check it out: manual.m-path.io/knowledge-ba...

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merijn 😺📱📈 @merijnmestdagh.bsky.social · Apr 18

Small new #EMI (ecological momentary intervention) feature that makes it very easy to create adaptive module screens or psycho education interventions. Used for:
- adaptive presentation of exercises
- Only show relevant modules for a participant (modules that actually interest the participant)

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Laura Bringmann 🟥 @bringmannlaura.bsky.social · Apr 6

For those who are interested ESM feedback, happy to announce that a new paper is out, in which we combine qualitative and quantitative feedback! Innovations include clock graphs, stacked graphs, and word clouds with sentences. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Developing a qualitative and quantitative ambulatory assessment-based feedback system within cognitive behavioural interventions for people with persecutory beliefs

Although the application of self-monitoring (ambulatory assessment) and visual feedback in psychological interventions has yielded promising results, …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Egon Dejonckheere @dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · Mar 27

m-Path goes to Amsterdam! 🇳🇱

Science and Tech-companies meet each other @ the Nemo Science Museum to exchange knowledge and innovative solutions to measure and reduce stress in daily life!

🧑‍🔬📈📲

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