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Mobile Experience Sampling

Mobile Experience Sampling (ESM) is an intensive longitudinal data-collection technique in which participants respond to brief, repeated questionnaires delivered to their smartphones at random or scheduled intervals throughout the day. By capturing thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and context at or near the moment they occur, ESM minimises retrospective recall bias and provides a high-resolution picture of psychological and behavioral fluctuations in everyday life.

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Mobile Experience Sampling Method
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / survey-methodology
  • Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Larson, R. (1987). Validity and reliability of the Experience-Sampling Method. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 175(9), 526–536. · DOI 10.1097/00005053-198709000-00004
  • Stone, A. A., Shiffman, S., Atienza, A. A., & Nebeling, L. (Eds.). (2007). The Science of Real-Time Data Capture: Self-Reports in Health Research. Oxford University Press. · ISBN 978-0195178715
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