Passive Sensing
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What your ethics board will ask about smartphone sensor data
Background location and health-sensor collection raise ethics questions that questionnaire templates do not prepare you for: what runs continuously, what the phone's permission prompts actually say, what happens when a participant revokes access, and why each stream needs the resolution you chose. Seven questions committees ask, and what a usable answer looks like.
September 7, 2026
The Open Handbook of Experience Sampling has a third edition — and a whole chapter on choosing your tool
The field's standard step-by-step guide to experience sampling was re-released in April 2026, free to download, with every chapter updated and a new one on studying couples in daily life. Its platform chapter is a tool-agnostic checklist worth reading before you commit to any app — here's what it says, and how a smartphone platform like SMAAT reads against it.
April 27, 2026