naa a22 4500 510777007 CHVBK 20180411083234.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.3758/s13428-012-0287-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.3758/s13428-012-0287-9 TelEMA: a low-cost and user-friendly telephone assessment platform [Elektronische Daten] [Katya Fernandez, Matthew Johnson, Thomas Rodebaugh] Ecological momentary assessment (EMA), or the repeated assessment of individuals' behaviors and experiences over time, is a methodologically advantageous approach to the study of psychological constructs. Recently, advances in computer technology have allowed for EMA research to be conducted in a more convenient, automated, and secure manner by administering surveys on participants' telephones and storing the results directly to a central server. The present article introduces TelEMA, an easy-to-use, low-cost telephone assessment platform for clinical and research applications. A single server running TelEMA can be shared among many experimenters, studies, and participants simultaneously. TelEMA routes telephone calls and text messages through a third-party service, so experimenters may conduct studies with no up-front cost or technical expertise. TelEMA provides a secure Web interface for experimenters or clinicians to design studies, enroll participants, monitor compliance, and collate response data from anywhere. Participants complete surveys using their own telephones. Surveys may contain keypress or voice recording questions, and the timing and content of each survey may be randomized and customized. A pilot study was conducted in which individuals used the TelEMA system to complete four randomly timed surveys per day for oneweek; the surveys assessed state affect and social anxiety. Results indicated that participants found TelEMA easy to use and secure, and compliance rates were on par with other EMA methods using mobile devices. Overall, TelEMA is a practical and robust system that enables fast and inexpensive deployment of EMAs. Psychonomic Society, Inc., 2012 TelEMA nationallicence Ecological momentary assessment nationallicence Mobile assessment nationallicence Interactive voice response nationallicence Fernandez Katya Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1125, 63130, St. Louis, MO, USA aut Johnson Matthew Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1308 W. Main St., 61801, Urbana, IL, USA aut Rodebaugh Thomas Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1125, 63130, St. Louis, MO, USA aut Behavior Research Methods Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 45/4(2013-12-01), 1279-1291 45:4<1279 2013 45 13428 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-012-0287-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-012-0287-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fernandez Katya Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1125, 63130, St. Louis, MO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Johnson Matthew Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1308 W. Main St., 61801, Urbana, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rodebaugh Thomas Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1125, 63130, St. Louis, MO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Behavior Research Methods Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 45/4(2013-12-01), 1279-1291 45:4<1279 2013 45 13428 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer