SEMA3 : A free smartphone platform for daily life surveys
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O’Brien, Sarah T., Dozo, Nerisa, Hinton, Jordan D. X., Moeck, Ella K., Susanto, Rio, Jayaputera, Glenn T., Sinnott, Richard O., Vu, Duy, Álvarez-Jiménez, Mario, Gleeson, John and Koval, Peter. (2024). SEMA3 : A free smartphone platform for daily life surveys. Behavior Research Methods. 56, pp. 7691-7706. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02445-w
Authors | O’Brien, Sarah T., Dozo, Nerisa, Hinton, Jordan D. X., Moeck, Ella K., Susanto, Rio, Jayaputera, Glenn T., Sinnott, Richard O., Vu, Duy, Álvarez-Jiménez, Mario, Gleeson, John and Koval, Peter |
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Abstract | Traditionally, behavioral, social, and health science researchers have relied on global/retrospective survey methods administered cross-sectionally (i.e., on a single occasion) or longitudinally (i.e., on several occasions separated by weeks, months, or years). More recently, social and health scientists have added daily life survey methods (also known as intensive longitudinal methods or ambulatory assessment) to their toolkit. These methods (e.g., daily diaries, experience sampling, ecological momentary assessment) involve dense repeated assessments in everyday settings. To facilitate research using daily life survey methods, we present SEMA3 (http://www.SEMA3.com), a platform for designing and administering intensive longitudinal daily life surveys via Android and iOS smartphones. SEMA3 fills an important gap by providing researchers with a free, intuitive, and flexible platform with basic and advanced functionality. In this article, we describe SEMA3’s development history and system architecture, provide an overview of how to design a study using SEMA3 and outline its key features, and discuss the platform’s limitations and propose directions for future development of SEMA3. |
Keywords | daily life; intensive longitudinal methods; ambulatory assessment; smartphone surveys; experience sampling method (ESM); ecological momentary assessment (EMA); daily diary method |
Year | 2024 |
Journal | Behavior Research Methods |
Journal citation | 56, pp. 7691-7706 |
Publisher | Springer |
ISSN | 1554-3528 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02445-w |
PubMed ID | 38914788 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85196726735 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC11362263 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Page range | 7691-7706 |
Funder | Australian Research Council (ARC) |
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) | |
Australian Catholic University (ACU) | |
University of Melbourne | |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 24 Jun 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 16 May 2024 |
Deposited | 07 May 2025 |
Additional information | © The Author(s) 2024. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
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