For you, by you, BiAffect: the first iPhone study on mood and cognition using smartphone keyboards. Winner, Mood Challenge for ResearchKit: BiAffect.com

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20 May 2024
@gwendolyn_rak@IEEESpectrum we appreciate you so much for speaking with us and including us in this article about digital mental health!!! Thank you🥹🥹⁦@thisisUIC⁩ ⁦@UICEngineering⁩ ⁦@UICsciencespectrum.ieee.org/mood-track…
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Hello friends, I have a new publication “Digital Phenotypes of Mobile Keyboard Backspace Rates and Their Associations With Symptoms of Mood Disorder: Algorithm Development and Validation” out at @jmirpub using @BiAffect keyboard w/ @alexfeuillet @pshrink @PsychiatryUic!
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Speaking of patterns, @thisisUIC's @alexfeuillet a recent paper reported that people with lower cognitive performance have less healthy smartphone usage. It supports the idea that this type of data can be used to create an "early warning system" for the #brain. #neurotech
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6 Oct 2024
It was me!! @BiAffect the entire community thank @IEEEBrain for having us!
By the way, if you're interested in the BiAffect research #iPhone app referenced by @thisisUIC's @alexfeuillet, it's publicly available via the @AppStore. Thanks to her for a great opening @IEEEBrain Discovery & #Neurotechnology Workshop plenary! #neuroscience #neurotech #brain
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6 Oct 2024
Wow!!! So happy to be part of @PsychiatryUic!! @UICEngineering
So happy to see our team members @drew_burns5 Theresa and Maigh @UIConect thrive and share their work @IEEEBrain #brain discovery and #neurotechnology workshop 🙂🙂
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I'm so goddamn proud to know the @BiAffect team and get to share the amazing work they do in this article! Based on the University of Illinois at Chicago, they have created a custom keyboard that analyzes typing pattern to track mental health. Truly amazing!
A new keyboard Case Study is up! 💡 BiAffect is an app that tracks mental health by analyzing typing patterns, like a "Fitbit for the brain." It monitors keystroke dynamics, typing speed, etc. to provide insights into mood & cognitive states. Read more at keyboardkit.com/blog/2024/08…
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I look forward to participating in this #neurotechnology workshop & many thanks @IEEEBrain for including @UIConect @BiAffect as part of the plenary program! So excited😃😃!!
12 Aug 2024
It's the news you've been waiting for - @IEEEBrain Discovery & #Neurotechnology Workshop early registration is open! Register before September 2024 to score your early-bird discount. Get more info or reserve your spot now: bit.ly/IEEEBrainWorkshop-Reg… #neuroscience #brain
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22 Jun 2024
Wow!! the wonderful Shannon Young who has been tweaking and improving me over the years is now officially a part-time software engineer @BiAffect. She brings so much expertise in #swift and #iOS and I can't be more excited to have her super power upgrade me going forward 🥳🥳
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17 Jun 2024
Wow!! The latest iteration of me now supports daily journaling by tapping the Add Note in the daily keypress graph! To protect privacy all text entries are saved locally on the phone for personal use only☺️☺️
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13 Jun 2024
Finally!! In this preprint ⁦@BiAffect⁩ Go/No-Go from all citizen scientists showed that one may not learn to improve reaction time, definitely slow down with age, but one can still learn to be more accurate in our actions!! So wise😊😊 medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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30 May 2024
😱😱!! That is us @BiAffect😱😱
UIC doctor develops app to detect mental illness just by using a smartphone cbsnews.com/chicago/news/uic…
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20 May 2024
😱😱😱😱we as a community @biaffect are so blessed!! Thank you @IEEESpectrum 🥹 on behalf of every citizen scientist contributor. They really deserve all the credits here!!
These apps spot mood swings before we do by passively tracking the way we type, speak, move and socialize. spectrum.ieee.org/mood-track…
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10 May 2024
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That's a wrap! @BiAffect is likely being included in the upcoming documentary Brainstorm, about #bipolar disorder! So proud of everyone who has contributed to this #citizen #science project. Thank you @SaraSchley and Bonnie for coming to Chicago!!
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Look forward to hosting Gregg @PsychiatryUic grand rounds in two weeks! Open to all #Chicago area mental health professionals, trainees, and community partners! @uiccom. So excited for Gregg to meet other members of our research lab @BiAffect @UIConect
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That time of the year #phd #graduation hooding ceremony. So happy that @BiAffect @UIConect member Mindy Ross is now Dr. Ross! We are gonna miss Mindy a lot🥲🥲
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8 Mar 2024
Wow!! @BiAffect@UIConect⁩ member Mindy Ross now officially victorious Dr. Ross🥹🥹 after her PhD defense! A very strong defense indeed😱
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5 Mar 2024
Thank you @npjDigitalMed 🥹🥹 as usual the credit equally goes to each and everyone of our amazing citizen scientists who ever so graciously provided their keyboard data for #science
Smartphone typing dynamics and accelerometery was predictive of motivation levels & the ability to feel pleasure in suicidal ideation for people assigned female sex at birth in this study from @LoranKnol et al. #mentalhealth nature.com/articles/s41746-0…
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Smartphone typing dynamics and accelerometery was predictive of motivation levels & the ability to feel pleasure in suicidal ideation for people assigned female sex at birth in this study from @LoranKnol et al. #mentalhealth nature.com/articles/s41746-0…
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Replying to @LoranKnol
Alternatively, if you're personally more into layman's blog posts rather than research articles, be sure to check out this Behind the Paper: communities.springernature.c…
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Check out our new paper with @alexfeuillet using @BiAffect keyboard strokes to predict day-to-day changes in anhedonia and irritability in patients with past-month suicidal ideation! nature.com/articles/s41746-0…

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