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. 2024 Jul 30;10(15):e35472. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e35472

Table 2.

Smartphone data collection methods and sensor data features of studies included in the scoping review.

Study Year Phone Source Operating System (Model) Application or Platform Name Behaviour Inference Sensor Data Features Extracted
GPS/Wifi Accel. Step Count Gyro. Call logs SMS logs BT Mic. Light Lock/Unlock Screen Other N Unique Features
Depression
Ben-Zeev et al. 2015 Personal or study phone provided Android (study phone ≥4.0) StudentLife Social X 8
Activity X X
Sleep X X X X X
Chikersal et al. 2021 Personal IOS and Android (NR) AWARE Location X 5
Social X X
Phone Use X X
Demasi et al. 2016 Personal Android (NR) NR Activity X 1
Sleep X
Dissing et al. 2021 Study phone provided NR NR Social X X X * 1
Elhai et al. 2018 Personal IOS (≥4S) Moment Phone Use X X X 3
Farhan, Lu et al. 2016 Personal or study phone provided Android (study phone ≥4.0) StudentLife Location X 5
Activity X
Social X
Sleep X
Phone Use X
Farhan, Yue et al. 2016 Personal IOS (≥8) and Android (≥4.0) LifeRhythm Location X 2
Activity X
Gerych et al. 2019 Personal or study phone provided Android (study phone ≥4.0) StudentLife Location X 1
Jacobson & Chung 2020 Personal Android MoodTriggers Location X 2
Social X
Kim et al. 2021 Personal or study phone provided Android (study phone ≥4.0) StudentLife Sleep X 1
Li et al. 2017 Personal or study phone provided Android (study phone ≥4.0) StudentLife Location X 2
Social X
Lu et al. 2018 Personal Android and IOS (NR) LifeRhythm Location X 1
Saeb et al. 2016 Personal or study phone provided Android (study phone ≥4.0) StudentLife Location X 1
Circadian Movement X
Wang, Chen et al. 2014 Personal or study phone provided Android (study phone ≥4.0) StudentLife Location X X 6
Activity X
Social X
Sleep X X X X
Wang, Wang et al. 2018 Personal IOS and Android (NR) StudentLife Location X 5
Activity X
Social X
Sleep X X X X
Phone Use X
Ware, Yue et al. (phase 1 and 2) 2019 Personal IOS and Android (NR) LifeRhythm Location X 1
Circadian Movement X
Xu, Chikersal, Doryab et al. (phase 1 and 2) 2019 Personal NR AWARE Location X 4
Social X X
Phone Use X
Circadian Movement X
Xu, Chikersal, Dutcher et al. (phase 1 and 2) 2021 Personal IOS (NR) AWARE Location X 4
Social X X
Phone Use X
Circadian Movement X
Yang, Mo et al. 2017 Personal or study phone provided Android (study phone ≥4.0) StudentLife Location X 5
Activity X
Social X
Phone Use X
Other Contextual Features X X
Yue et al. 2017 Personal or study phone provided IOS and Android (NR) LifeRhythm Location X 1





Activity
X











Anxiety
Boukhechba, Chow et al. 2018 Personal IOS and Android (NR) Sensus Location X 1
Boukhechba, Huang et al. 2017 Personal Android (NR) NR Location X 2
Social X X
Fukazawa et al. 2019 Personal Android (NR) NR Activity X 6
Social X X X**
Phone Use X
Orientation X
Gong et al. 2019 Personal Android (NR) Sensus Location X 4
Activity X
Social X X
Huang et al. 2016 Personal NR NR Location X 1
Yang, Tang et al.
2021
Study phone provided
NR
WeChat applet
Activity

X










1
Depression and Anxiety
Boukhechba, Daros et al. 2018 Personal Android (≥4.3) Sensus Location X 4
Activity X
Social X X
Cao et al. 2020 Personal Android (NR) SOLVD Location X X 7
Activity X
Social X X
Sleep X
Phone Use X
Chow et al. 2017 Personal Android (≥4.3) Sensus Location X 1
Jacobson et al. 2020 Personal Android (≥4.3) Sensus Activity X 3
Social X X
Knight & Bidargaddi 2018 Personal NR Pre-existing apps on users' phone Activity X 1
MacLeod et al. 2021 Personal IOS and Android (NR) PROSIT Location X 5
Social X
Sleep X
Phone Use X X
Melcher et al. 2021 Personal IOS and Android (NR) mindLAMP Location X 4
Social X
Sleep X
Phone Use X
Rozgonjuk et al. 2018 Personal IOS (≥10) Moment Phone Use X X 2
Shoval et al. 2020 Personal Android (NR) QualityTime (Mobi-days, Inc) Sleep X*** Unclear

Note. Some phone specifications and sensors for studies using the same dataset or app (e.g., StudentLife) are assumed to be the same as those reported in the primary paper, when they are not explicitly reported in text. Application or Platform Name – PROSIT = Predicting Risk and Outcomes of Social Interactions. Sensor Data Features Extracted – GPS = Global Positioning System (GPS/WiFi includes GPS/phone location services, and/or WiFi receivers and/or cell towers); Accel = Accelerometer (includes phone core motion systems); BT = Bluetooth; Total = Total number of features explored in each study. *Social media use & network size. **Social networking via execution status of smartphone applications. ***App-based monitoring of phone activity including type of application, time spent using it, and time of night. Study authors created an index of whether phone was checked at night or not checked at night. NR = Not reported.