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Abstract Emerging technological innovations will create new opportunities for researchers interested in using real-time data collection for health research. This chapter reviews some of the technologies that will change the type and quality of health data that can be collected from free-living subjects in natural environments such as homes, workplaces, and communities. The technologies can be leveraged to support automatic, context-sensitive ecological momentary assessment, where mobile computers such as PDAs or phones continuously collect and analyze data to trigger real-time, context-sensitive, and highly tailored self-report. Four different enabling technologies for real-time, self-report data collection are described and compared: paper, current electronic mobile computing devices, current context-sensitive computing devices, and future context-sensitive computing devices (ten years from now). Keywords Context-sensitive ecological momentary assessment, context-aware experience sampling, context-aware computing, longitudinal assessment, mobile computing. Acknowledgements
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