The Smartphone Psychology Manifesto
The Smartphone Psychology Manifesto
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DOI：
10.1177/1745691612441215
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发表时间：
2012-05-01
影响因子：
12.6
通讯作者：
Miller, Geoffrey
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作者：
Miller, Geoffrey
到2025年，当今天的大多数心理学本科生将在30多岁时，我们这个星球上将有超过50亿人使用超宽带，传感器丰富的智能手机，远远超过今天的iPhone，Android和黑莓的能力。虽然智能手机不是为心理学研究而设计的，但它们可以从全球大样本中轻松快速地收集大量生态有效数据。如果参与者下载了正确的“心理应用程序”，智能手机可以记录他们在哪里，他们正在做什么，他们可以看到和听到什么，并可以通过触摸屏和无线连接到附近的屏幕，耳机，生物传感器和其他外围设备进行交互式调查，测试和实验。本文回顾了以前使用移动的电子设备进行的行为研究，概述了智能手机现在可以做什么以及在不久的将来可以做什么，解释了智能手机研究如何在当前技术下实际工作（例如，在研究排卵周期对女性性行为的影响），讨论了智能手机研究的一些局限性和挑战，并将智能手机与其他研究方法进行了比较。智能手机研究将需要应用程序开发和数据分析方面的新技能，并将坚韧新的道德问题，但智能手机可能比个人电脑和大脑成像更深刻地改变心理学。
By 2025, when most of today's psychology undergraduates will be in their mid-30s, more than 5 billion people on our planet will be using ultra-broadband, sensor-rich smartphones far beyond the abilities of today's iPhones, Androids, and Blackberries. Although smartphones were not designed for psychological research, they can collect vast amounts of ecologically valid data, easily and quickly, from large global samples. If participants download the right "psych apps," smartphones can record where they are, what they are doing, and what they can see and hear and can run interactive surveys, tests, and experiments through touch screens and wireless connections to nearby screens, headsets, biosensors, and other peripherals. This article reviews previous behavioral research using mobile electronic devices, outlines what smartphones can do now and will be able to do in the near future, explains how a smartphone study could work practically given current technology (e.g., in studying ovulatory cycle effects on women's sexuality), discusses some limitations and challenges of smartphone research, and compares smartphones to other research methods. Smartphone research will require new skills in app development and data analysis and will raise tough new ethical issues, but smartphones could transform psychology even more profoundly than PCs and brain imaging did.