Mental mHealth Lab@KIT

📢 Workshop Alert

Advancements in technology and methodologies require state-of-art research approaches. We invite interested researchers to an introduction to e-diary methods in psychology 🧠📱

🗓️ 15–17 Oct 2025
📍 in-person
💬 German

The seats are limited! Access details & registration via the link

🎓I'm thrilled to share that I've successfully defended my doctoral dissertation on July 25, 25. I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to my esteemed supervisors, Dr. Marco Giurgiu & Prof. Markus Reichert & Prof. Uli Ebner-Priemer, for their invaluable guidance and support 🙏 @mhealthlab.bsky.social

How to attend? Please register for free at:
knowledge-hub.ecnp.eu/webinar/scal...

Get ready for our next contributor to the GET DIGITAL online series @nilsopel.bsky.social from the University of Jena (Germany). He will talk on the transformative potential of the #Scalability of digital technologies for #MentalHealth research.

Join us on Tuesday April 8th, 16:00-17:00 (CET).

How to attend? To receive the link please register for free at:
www.ecnp.eu/research-inn...

We welcome Maddie Groom (University of Nottingham, UK) to our third GET DIGITAL talk in 2025!
She will talk about patients with #ADHD and how #DigitalHealth interventions can support care pathways, including guidelines for implementation and evaluation.

Join us on March 11th, 16:00-17:00 (CET).

There are only a few places left for our workshop on #AmbulatoryAssessment from February 26th to 28th
@kit.edu

Ensure your participation now via: kit-event.ungerboeck.net/PROD/emc00/P...

Please note that the event is in German and will take place in presence only.
We are looking forward to you!

FYI: The workshop targets doctoral students primarily.

The event will take place in presence. The training language is German and there is a limited number of participants.

Registration via:
kit-event.ungerboeck.net/PROD/emc00/r...

Save the date: Join our workshop on #AmbulatoryAssessment from February 26th to 28th @kit.edu

Participants will be introduced to electronic diaries in psychological research, which enable the recording of specific phenomena in their natural environment with greater precision and less effort.

A look back to great discussions in Rauischholzhausen.
We prepare mobile assessments 📱 to collect data on affective disorder trajectories together with Movisens GmbH, @unimarburg.bsky.social @uni-muenster.de @tudresden.bsky.social and their university hospitals, starting 2025. @dfg.de #MentalHealth

Save the date: On February 1st, our dear colleague @irinatimm.bsky.social will give a talk on the topic "Fit and happy? - How well-being, social contacts and environmental factors influence our exercise behavior" accompanied by Korean pianist JiHun Hong.

(More info: www.cse.kit.edu/junge-talent...)

Prospects are able to apply until January 29th. For further information contact: markus.reichert@plus.ac.at

News: Inspect this #PhD offer from Paris Lodron University in Salzburg. The Department of Sport and Exercise Science is searching for Doctoral Candidates interested in Ambulatory Assessment in the context of #physicalactivity and affective well-being / mental health.

The results suggest that brief sedentary breaks may have a beneficial impact on valence and energetic arousal. Our within-person approach powerfully demonstrated the possibility of moving towards causal effects in everyday life. Read the full article under the link above.

Causal effects of sedentary breaks on affective and cognitive parameters in daily life: a within-person encouragement design - npj Mental Health Research npj Mental Health Research - Causal effects of sedentary breaks on affective and cognitive parameters in daily life: a within-person encouragement design

In our latest research, we conducted the first empirical study that integrated the within-person encouragement approach to test the causal effects of sedentary breaks on affective and cognitive parameters in daily life. @nature.com

#sportscience #physicalactivity

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The Within-Subject Association of Physical Behavior and Affective Well-Being in Everyday Life: A Systematic Literature Review - Sports Medicine Background The interplay of physical activity (PA) with affective well-being (AWB) is highly critical to both health behaviors and health outcomes. Current prominent theories presume AWB to be crucial...

In a recently published review by our Lab under the lead of @irinatimm.bsky.social, we investigated the association between Physical Behavior and Affective-Well Being in Ambulatory Assessment studies. Have a read here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#sportscience #physicalactivity

To those interested: please contact network_digitalhealth@ifss.kit.edu including your name and affiliation in order to receive the meeting link.

A warm welcome to Blanca Bolea-Alamanac (University of Toronto, CA) for the last talk of the GET DIGITAL series in 2024. She will conclude this year's series by focusing on the use of technology to enhance mental healthcare.

Join us tomorrow December 10th, 16:00-17:00.

To those interested: please contact network_digitalhealth@ifss.kit.edu including your name and affiliation in order to receive the meeting link.

We are very pleased to announce the penultimate GET DIGITAL talk in 2024: join the talk of our former member Philip Santangelo (University of Luxemburg, LU) on the topic of "AA-Personality" by using smartphones in patients' daily life, tomorrow 05th November at 16:00-17:00 (CET).

To those interested: please contact network_digitalhealth@ifss.kit.edu including your name and affiliation in order to receive the meeting link.

Welcome to our sixth edition of the GET DIGITAL online series 2024: Uwe Reininghaus (CIMH, Mannheim, DE) will inform about the cutting edge in ecological momentary assessment in mental health research, targeting youth especially. Join tomorrow, 8th October at 16:00-17:00 (CET).

To those interested: please contact network_digitalhealth@ifss.kit.edu including your name and affiliation in order to receive the meeting link.

Get ready for the next GET DIGITAL presentation: Amy Hardy (King's College London, UK) will talk about inclusive design and technology to deliver a next-generation blended therapy for paranoia patients. Join us tomorrow, 10th September at 16:00-17:00 (CET).

See more information at www.ifss.kit.edu/english/Rese...

The DFG (@dfgpublic.bsky.social) is now funding our proposal ‘Affective Disorders CRC393’. The mental mHealth Lab is once again responsible for the mobile infrastructure and data acquisition. The CRC takes place in close cooperation with university hospitals in Marburg, Münster, Dresden, and Bonn.

Do sports make people happy? Our researchers
Marco Giurgiu and @irinatimm.bsky.social tried to answer this question in the most recent lookKIT magazine issueing the topic of #Health. Based on their own studies, they advocate for activity breaks to improve well-being. (sts.kit.edu/lookkit_maga...)

To those interested: please contact network_digitalhealth@ifss.kit.edu including your name and affiliation in order to receive link

Our GET DIGITAL series goes on: this month we welcome Emmanuel Severus (University of Dresden, DE). He will talk about sensor based real-time recording of bipolar disorders tomorrow, Tuesday 11th June at 16:00-17:00 (CET).