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Two Journals for Mobile Health Researchers

Nature partner journals DIGITAL MEDICINE is open for submissions!

​Digital Medicine publishes the highest quality digital medicine research, including the clinical implementation of digital and mobile technologies, virtual healthcare, data analytic methodologies and innovative sensor development to provide the necessary data and longitudinal monitoring to best inform the broadest medical community.
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​ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH)
ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH) is a multi-disciplinary journal for the publication of high-quality original research papers, survey papers, and challenge papers that have scientific and technological results pertaining to how computing is improving healthcare. This journal is multidisciplinary, intersecting CS, ECE, mechanical engineering, bio-medical engineering, behavioral and social science, psychology, and the health field, in general. Papers must have novel computing research results. Datasets and other artifacts needed to support reproducibility of results are highly encouraged. Proposals for special issues are encouraged. Bring us your best!!
https://health.acm.org

Technology, Mind, and Behavior – New Journal from APA

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​Technology, Mind, and Behavior is an open access, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original work in the area of human–technology interaction with a focus on human behavior at the individual or group level.
More information here: https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/tmb/index

New smartphone app developed at USC aims to support fitness among older adults

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​If the infomercials are to be believed, older adults want cellphones that are anything but smart. With oversized displays and one-touch medical alert buttons, products like the Jitterbug flip phone are simple by design.But technology usage trends among seniors are changing faster than ever. According to the Pew Research Center, 42 percent of Americans aged 65-and-older own a smartphone. As the digital gap between generations narrows, USC researchers hope to harness the potential of smartphone apps to improve the lives of older Americans.
“We’re looking at a wonderful opportunity for utilizing mobile devices to promote wellness and prevent disease,” said Stacey Schepens Niemiec, assistant professor of research at the USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy.
That opportunity will soon be made a reality. Thanks to a new $468,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging, Schepens Niemiec and her team of health professionals, engineers and community partners will systematically develop and test MovingUp, a multi-feature smartphone app designed to facilitate older adults’ levels of physical activity.
(Read full article here)

​All your health and fitness data, and one woman who mines it

Understanding human health-related behavior in real time (read full post)

his post discusses using transdisciplinary alliances to create innovative modes of data collection and new, dynamic computational models health-related behavior in real time.
By Donna Spruijt-Metz and Zan Romanoff
Real-time digital data streaming from smartphone apps offer us the opportunity for radically new understandings of human behavior – but also requires that we break away from outdated models of data collection and analysis in order to take full advantage of the richness of the information available.(read more)
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 Video: Introduction to MOST

​We recently released an eight-minute video that provides a conceptual overview of the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST). In the video, Methodology Center Director Linda Collins explains the phases of MOST, a framework for optimizing behavioral and biobehavioral interventions. This is the third in our series of instructional videos; video introductions to latent class analysis and time-varying effect modeling are also available.

Watch the video.
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software: R Package for MOST
Our latest software release will assist R users who are planning studies that follow the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST). The MOST: Multiphase Optimization Strategy R package combines the functionality of the RelativeCosts1 SAS macro for charting the relative costs of reduced factorial designs; the FactorialPowerPlan SAS macro for calculating the power, effect size, or sample size of a factorial experiment; and the Random Assignment Generator for factorial experiments web applet. The software is hosted on CRAN, the Comprehensive R Archive Network, rather than on our website in order to make it available to as many R users as possible.
Read more or download.
An interesting trend in commercial weight loss apps

Lose It! releases DNA-based weight loss app embodyDNA​Weight loss app Lose It!, which boasts 30 million users and more than 50 million pounds lost, has launched embodyDNA, a DNA-based weight loss plan that personalizes results using an interactive app-based interface.
Lose It! developed embodyDNA, which offers customized recommendations on food and beverage consumption and physical activities, in collaboration with Helix, a personal genomics company, that has just launched what it touts as the first online marketplace for DNA-powered products.​
For $188.99, interested users can go to embodydna.com and order a kit, which involves a saliva sample.  (read more)
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