USC mHealth Collaboratory

Gaming and medicine come together for unique research in the U.S. and beyond

USC’s cinema and medical schools join forces in a new effort to make tedious exercises fun and improve day-to-day life for patients in wheelchairs (read more)

Virtual humans work better than current ways to identify post-traumatic stress in soldiers.

Soldiers are more likely to open up about post-traumatic stress when interviewed by a virtual interviewer than by taking a survey, finds a study published today in open-access journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI. A computer-generated 'human' interviewer combines the advantages of anonymity with social connection and rapport, which could help soldiers to reveal more about their mental health symptoms. (Read More)

New Research

Ecological Momentary Assessment in Behavioral Research: Addressing Technological and Human Participant Challenges (more)

Beyond the Randomized Controlled Trial: A Review of Alternatives in mHealth Clinical Trial Methods (more)

A Mobile, Avatar-Based App for Improving Body Perceptions Among Adolescents: A Pilot Test (more)