TY - JOUR
T1 - For what it's worth. Unearthing the values embedded in digital phenotyping for mental health
AU - Birk, Rasmus
AU - Lavis, Anna
AU - Lucivero, Federica
AU - Samuel, Gabrielle
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Rasmus Birk received funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, Grant Number 8023-00013B.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Digital phenotyping for mental health is an emerging trend which uses digital data, derived from mobile applications, wearable technologies and digital sensors, to measure, track and predict the mental health of an individual. Digital phenotyping for mental health is a growing, but as yet underexamined, field. As we will show, the rapid growth of digital phenotyping for mental health raises crucial questions about the values that underpin and are reinforced by this technology, as well as regarding to whom it may become valuable. In this commentary, we explore these questions by focusing on the construction of value across two interrelated domains: user experience and epistemologies on the one hand, and issues of data and ownership on the other. In doing so, we demonstrate the need for a deeper ethical and epistemological engagement with the value assumptions that underpin the promise of digital phenotyping for mental health.
AB - Digital phenotyping for mental health is an emerging trend which uses digital data, derived from mobile applications, wearable technologies and digital sensors, to measure, track and predict the mental health of an individual. Digital phenotyping for mental health is a growing, but as yet underexamined, field. As we will show, the rapid growth of digital phenotyping for mental health raises crucial questions about the values that underpin and are reinforced by this technology, as well as regarding to whom it may become valuable. In this commentary, we explore these questions by focusing on the construction of value across two interrelated domains: user experience and epistemologies on the one hand, and issues of data and ownership on the other. In doing so, we demonstrate the need for a deeper ethical and epistemological engagement with the value assumptions that underpin the promise of digital phenotyping for mental health.
KW - big data
KW - digital mental health
KW - Digital phenotyping
KW - ethics
KW - hype
KW - mental health
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116437375&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/20539517211047319
DO - 10.1177/20539517211047319
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85116437375
SN - 2053-9517
VL - 8
JO - Big Data and Society
JF - Big Data and Society
IS - 2
ER -