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StudentLife: Assessing Mental Health, Academic Performance and Behavioral Trends of College Students Using Smartphones

Abstract

Much of the stress and strain of student life remains hidden. The StudentLife continuous sensing app assesses the day-to-day and week-by-week impact of workload on stress, sleep, activity, mood, sociability, mental well-being and academic performance of a single class of 48 students across a 10 week term at Dartmouth College using Android phones. Results from the StudentLife study show a number of significant correlations between the automatic objective sensor data from smartphones and mental health and educational outcomes of the student body. We also identify a Dartmouth term lifecycle in the data that shows students start the term with high positive affect and conversation levels, low stress, and healthy sleep and daily activity patterns. As the term progresses and the workload increases, stress appreciably rises while positive affect, sleep, conversation and activity drops off. The StudentLife dataset is publicly available on the web.

 

Author(s)
Rui Wang
Fanglin Chen
Zhenyu Chen
Gabriella M. Harari
Stefanie Tignor
Xia Zhou
Dror Ben-Zeev
Andrew T. Campbell
Journal Name
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Publication Date
September 13, 2014
DOI
10.1145/2632048.2632054