Moving psychological assessment out of the controlled laboratory setting: Practical challenges.
Behavioral assessment using smart devices affords novel methods, notably remote self-administration by the individuals themselves. However, this new approach requires navigating complex legal and technical terrain. Given the limited empirical data that currently exists, we provide and discuss anecdo...
| Publicado en: | Psychological Assessment Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 292 - 304 |
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American Psychological Association
Mar2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=135098074&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 135098074 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10403590 POL jtl: Psychological Assessment issn: 10403590 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2019 vid: 31 iid: 3 pid: 34 pub: American Psychological Association artinfo: ui: 135098074 10.1037/pas0000647 ppf: 292 ppct: 12 formats: tig: atl: Moving psychological assessment out of the controlled laboratory setting: Practical challenges. aug: au: Holmlund, Terje B. Cohen, Alex S. Fugelli, Pål Bergsager, Dagfinn Foltz, Peter W. Johansen, Håvard D. Sigurdsen, Randi Jian Cheng Bernstein, Jared Rosenfeld, Elizabeth Elvevåg, Brita Cheng, Jian affil: University of Tromsø Louisiana State University University of Oslo University of Colorado and Pearson PLC, London, United Kingdom Analytic Measures Inc., Palo Alto, California University of Tromsø and University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway Analytic Measures Inc su: United States Psychological tests Motor ability Behavioral assessment Psychodiagnostics Acquisition of data Application software sug: subj: Psychological tests Motor ability United States Software Publishers Software publishers (except video game publishers) Custom Computer Programming Services Behavioral assessment Psychodiagnostics Acquisition of data Application software keyword: assessment consent information security mental health mobile health assessment consent information security mental health mobile health ab: Behavioral assessment using smart devices affords novel methods, notably remote self-administration by the individuals themselves. However, this new approach requires navigating complex legal and technical terrain. Given the limited empirical data that currently exists, we provide and discuss anecdotes of the methodological, technical, legal, and cultural issues associated with an implementation in both U.S. and European settings of a mobile software application for regular psychological monitoring purposes. The tasks required participants to listen, watch, speak, and touch to interact with the smart device, thus assessing cognition, motor skill, and language. Four major findings merit mention: First, moving assessment out of the hands of a trained investigator necessitates excellent usability engineering, such that the tool is easily usable by the participant and the resulting data relevant to the investigator. Second, remote assessment requires that the data are transferred safely back to the investigator, and that risk of compromising participant confidentiality is minimized. Third, frequent data collection over long periods of time is associated with a possibility that participants may choose to withdraw consent for participation thus requiring data retraction. Fourth, data collection and analysis across international borders creates new challenges and new opportunities because of important cultural and language issues that may inform the underlying behavioral constructs of interest. In conclusion, the new technological frameworks provide unprecedented opportunities for remote self-administered behavioral assessments but will be most productive in multidisciplinary teams to ensure the highest level of user satisfaction and data quality, and to guarantee the highest level of data protection. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved). pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: journal article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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