The projects below highlight ongoing and completed work from The Interbeing Lab.
| Project Title | Project Summary | Methods / Approach | Collaborators |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline Nomophobia and Ambulatory Cognitive Performance in Adults’ Daily Lives | This project examines whether baseline nomophobia, or distress related to being unable to access one’s mobile phone, is associated with objective cognitive performance in adults’ daily lives. Using data from the Lifelong Development Program at Penn State, the study focuses on repeated smartphone-based assessments of processing speed and visuospatial working memory across a 10-day ecological momentary assessment burst. | Ecological momentary assessment; measurement-burst design; smartphone-based ambulatory cognitive assessment; Symbol Search; Grid Memory; linear mixed-effects modeling | Nelson A. Roque, Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University); data from the Lifelong Development Program, The Pennsylvania State University |
| Daily Screen Time and Cognitive Performance in Adults | This project examines whether day-to-day variation in self-reported screen time is associated with cognitive performance in adults’ daily lives. Using a 10-day ecological momentary assessment burst, the study distinguishes within-person fluctuations in screen exposure from between-person differences in average screen exposure and examines their associations with processing speed and visuospatial working memory. | Ecological momentary assessment; measurement-burst design; ambulatory cognitive assessment; day-level screen-time summaries; lagged autoregressive multilevel modeling; within-person and between-person decomposition | Nelson A. Roque, Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University); data from the Lifelong Development Program, The Pennsylvania State University |
| Functional Assessment Using Digital Technologies: What Exists, What Is on the Horizon | This scoping review maps existing and emerging digital technologies for assessing instrumental activities of daily living and everyday functioning. The project focuses on how technology-based tools, including mobile apps, sensors, wearables, smart home technologies, virtual reality, simulations, and other digital approaches, may support more objective and ecologically valid assessment of functional abilities in midlife and older adults. | Scoping review; literature screening; Covidence; JBI-informed evidence synthesis; PRISMA-ScR reporting; systematic database search; data charting; narrative and descriptive synthesis | Preeti Sunderaraman, Ph.D. (Brown University / Butler Hospital); Anna-Katharine Brem, Ph.D. (King’s College London / University of Bern); Nelson A. Roque, Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University); JPND DIGDEM Working Group |