Article Excerpt: Dr. Rita Orji from the Faculty of Computer Science and IWK psychologist Dr. Sandra Meier have developed a mobile sensing app to track user’s activities during social distancing and create insights that can aid in providing mental health support, to minimize the negative impacts of current circumstances…The app tracks participant activity including call, text and app usage, and movement and sleep patterns. Using data from during, and prior to, social distancing and isolation, the study hopes to identify patterns that can be used to make positive real-time recommendations to participants.
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