Good question! These are three important parts of MoodRing:
Mood Score: an overall mood rating for the past 7 days that MoodRing users receive each Sunday. This score uses all of the data collected passively by the AWARE app, as well as information entered by the user through daily Mood Check-Ins, to calculate average mood over the past week. MoodScores are calculated differently across individuals and tailored to each person based on their behavioral patterns.
Mood Check-In: an opportunity for MoodRing users to rate their current level of depression along with associated emotions and the situational context in which the rating is occurring. On the first Mood Check-In of any given day, users are also asked to rate their sleep from the previous night. Users are permitted to complete as many Mood Check-Ins as they want.
Mood Builder: links and resources accessed through the app that can help MoodRing users improve their mood.
AWARE: an app used by researchers to capture data about human behavior from device hardware and software.
Dashboard: the area in the app where MoodRing users can view their most recent MoodScore and feature data. From there, users can navigate to detail screens for each feature.
Data Collection: a feature tracked in the app that provides feedback on data collection status and alerts MoodRing users when AWARE sensors aren’t syncing.
Emergency Contacts: the area in the app where MoodRing users can access emergency resource contact information.
Features: the categories of data collected by MoodRing. These include: Screen Unlocks During the Sleep Period, Screen Time During the Sleep Period, Screen Time Before the Sleep Period, Screen Time All Day, Active Minutes, Total Distance Traveled, and Time Away from Home. Click here for more details on these features and how to interpret data for each.
Mood Builders: links and resources accessed through the app that can help MoodRing users improve their mood.
Mood Check-In: an opportunity for MoodRing users to rate their current level of depression along with associated emotions and the situational context in which the rating is occurring. On the first Mood Check-In of any given day, users are also asked to rate their sleep from the previous night. Users are permitted to complete as many Mood Check-Ins as they want.
Mood Influencer: the part of a Mood Check-In when the app user provides context to their current depression rating. For example, a user might report Minimal for their depression rating and add “scored 2 goals at soccer” as their Mood Influencer.
Mood Label: the names for the mood categories. The preset/default Mood Labels in the app are: Minimal, Mild, Moderate, Moderately Severe, and Severe. The MoodRing user has the option of changing these labels to words that better represent the category to them. For example, a user might relabel Minimal to “feeling great”.
MoodRing: an app designed to help adolescents monitor their mood with the goal of identifying patterns over time. Understanding and tracking these patterns may lead to better habits and improved mood.
MoodScore: an overall mood rating for the past 7 days that MoodRing users receive each Sunday. This score uses all of the data collected passively by the AWARE app, as well as information entered by the user through daily Mood Check-Ins, to calculate average mood over the past week. MoodScores are calculated differently across individuals and tailored to each person based on their behavioral patterns.
Privacy Settings: An area in the app where users can adjust which features they share with their guardian. Users are able to adjust these permissions for all of the features except for the weekly MoodScore.
Sensors: These are the elements of AWARE that detect and measure the data used to generate the features shared with MoodRing users in the app. The sensors MoodRing requires users to keep activated include: (1) Activity Recognition; (2) Battery; (3) Device Usage; (4) Location ; and (5) Screen.
Sleep Quality: The part of a Mood Check-In when the MoodRing user rates their sleep from the night before. This rating only occurs on the first Mood Check-In of any given day. Sleep is rated on the following scale: very good, fairly good, fairly bad, very bad.
Tags: The part of a Mood Check-In when the MoodRing user links emotion words to their current depression rating. The user may select one of ten preset emotion tags, or, add their own. For example, a user might report Minimal for their depression rating and add “happy” as a tag.