Gabriella M. Harari

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Stanford University

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Gabriella M. Harari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, where she directs the Media and Personality Lab. Before joining Stanford, she completed her PhD and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin. Gabriella’s research is focused on how personality is expressed in the physical and digital contexts of everyday life. The core questions driving her work are about understanding what digital technologies reveal about who we are, and how our use of digital technologies shapes who we are. Methodologically, she takes an ecological approach to conducting research and believes in the importance of studying people and their behavior in natural settings. Over the last decade, Gabriella has published extensively on mobile sensing and recently co-edited a handbook on the method titled “Mobile Sensing in Psychology: Methods and Applications” (Guilford Press, 2023). She teaches courses and gives workshops about using the method for social science researchers interested in combining approaches from the social and computer sciences to study daily life.

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Mobile Sensing Methods

Smartphones are sensor-rich, computationally powerful, and near constant companions to their owners, providing researchers with unparalleled access to people’s behaviors as they unfold in their everyday lives. Moreover, smartphones can query people about their subjective psychological states (via notifications to respond to experience sampling survey questions). These features have paved the way for the use of smartphones as data-collection tools in social science research. In this course, participants will: (1) be introduced to mobile sensing methods, becoming familiar with the breadth of behavior and fidelity of measurement that is possible, (2) understand the practical, technical, and ethical considerations involved in conducting mobile sensing studies, and (3) get some hands-on experience planning a mobile sensing study and working with mobile sensing data. The course format will include a mix of lectures and discussions, as well as activities that will be guided by participants’ own research interests and needs. By the end of the course, participants will understand how to go about conducting mobile sensing research and will be prepared to integrate mobile sensing into their own methodological toolkit.
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Mobile Sensing Methods

Smartphones are sensor-rich, computationally powerful, and near constant companions to their owners, providing researchers with unparalleled access to people’s behaviors as they unfold in their everyday lives. Moreover, smartphones can query people about their subjective psychological states (via notifications to respond to experience sampling survey questions). These features have paved the way for the use of smartphones as data-collection tools in social science research. In this course, participants will: (1) be introduced to mobile sensing methods, becoming familiar with the breadth of behavior and fidelity of measurement that is possible, (2) understand the practical, technical, and ethical considerations involved in conducting mobile sensing studies, and (3) get some hands-on experience planning a mobile sensing study and working with mobile sensing data. The course format will include a mix of lectures and discussions, as well as activities that will be guided by participants’ own research interests and needs. By the end of the course, participants will understand how to go about conducting mobile sensing research and will be prepared to integrate mobile sensing into their own methodological toolkit.
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