Stephen Schueller
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Stephen Schueller
@stephenschueller.bsky.social
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Professor of Psychology and Informatics, University of California, Irvine. Clinical psychologist, mental health services researcher, implementation scientist, Lakers fan and Swiftie. Follow me for my views on digital mental health!
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Emphasizing in the presentation that this is a pilot! With some limitations of being a pilot - only open to a few specific areas of research, researcher's must meet eligibility, 6-month maximum timeframe for data collection, and certain Instagram data can be requested
Getting the IRB for this study was hard - 11 months and 8 rounds of revisions raising issues such as the necessity of collecting such data, consent/assent procedures, potential of explicit images from children's smartphones, and safety protocols if content is concerning
@xiaoransun.bsky.social is the PI of the Adolescent and Family Screenomics Study, a study of 163 adolescents and 107 parents who contributed 6 months of screenomic data (screenshots every 5 seconds). It resulted in ~50 million screenshots with ~38 million screenshots coming from adolescents
Next up! @xiaoransun.bsky.social talks to us about some of the nuts and bolts of data donation and ethics covering aspects like IRB, consent, privacy protections, and data storage
Nilam Ram talks about the human screenome project, collecting smartphone screenshots every 5 seconds. They've collected around 4 centuries of data at this point 😮
Next presentation Nilam Ram! Presenting on collecting, cleaning, and analyzing super-intensive longitudinal data
One aspect of participant's needs are educating them about how this data might be used
Love how @munmun10.bsky.social emphasizes that the CANDOR platform has different user types - study coordinators and participants
They also have used a browser-based user agent to pull videos and other multimedia content from public social media spaces to link with user data
Their team saves data as Parquet files which is a post-processed output format that can be easily read and scanned across participants. Can improve deserialization times and are modular and easy to share compared to a database
@munmun10.bsky.social notes the challenges of understanding relationships we're interested in due to the skew of research towards publicly accessible data which limits the ecologically validity of data
Next presentation - @munmun10.bsky.social presenting on CANDOR - a platform they've built to support observational and causal analysis specifically focused on understanding the relationships between social media and mental health
Dr. Christina Haag talks about the logistical challenges of doing data donation analysis

Emphasizing that the difficulty in analyzing this data is often not a technical challenge, but a conceptual challenge
Valerie Yap shares insights around ethical concerns with doing data donation work with young people.

They have a comprehensive consent process that includes a plain language information sheet, video demonstration, Q&A opportunities

And also be prepared for a long IRB review and back and forth
Valerie Yap discusses some ways to build trust through clear communication in data donation work with young people:

-Lead with validation, respecting adolescent's expertise on their digital life
-Frame data donation as a solution to platform gatekeeping
-Build agency and reciprocity