Tag: Smartphones

  • Science & Tech

    Tracking rapidly changing patterns of suicidal thought

    Smartphones enabled researchers to capture shifts multiple times a day, gathering data that could help guide more effective prevention.

    4 minutes
    Lead author Daniel Coppersmith (left) and co-author Professor Matthew Nock.
  • Health

    Keeping an eye on screen time

    With parents and kids in back-to-school mode, refocusing on the daily demands of homework, sports, and activities, time spent staring at a screen comes at a premium. Steven Gortmaker, professor of the practice of health sociology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been studying how we have used and sometimes abused…

    7 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    That thing attached to your hand? It might be doomed

    With some predicting the demise of the smartphone, Professor Woodward Yang spoke to the Gazette about near and far prospects in personal tech.

    7 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    When the smartphone’s turned off

    HBS professor’s experiments and book show the advantages of workplace teams getting together to share responsibility for down time, while keeping productivity high.

    4 minutes
  • Health

    A therapist at your fingertips

    In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at Harvard are exploring the use of gamelike programs on smartphones to treat anxiety disorders.

    6 minutes