Written Submission

Each attendee is invited to write a short submission of 1-3 pages (including citations, figures etc)

As digital data are transformed into insights, the concept of “ground truth” operates at so many levels, it seemingly creates a double bind. While objective standards play a necessary role, how symptoms manifest vary dramatically across social and therapeutic contexts, platforms, and measurement methods.

How can we think about measurement in one context (e.g., structured clinical interviews, psychometrically valid self-report scales) as “ground truth” when clinician-reported observations or language-based models based on the lived experience of a mental health condition only modestly correlate; meanwhile, digital mental health platforms produce heterogeneous outcome data with no industry standards.

How does “ground truth" play into the collection, labeling, analysis, and/or validation of the mental health data and insights you manage? What role should it play in the detection, treatment, or design of digital interventions?

Each (virtual) attendee is invited to write a 1-3 page submission (citations and figures, included) on the role of “ground truth” in digital mental health, from your perspective. In particular, we welcome short remarks in the form of position papers (including those from a subjective truth perspective based on lived experience and/or expert procedural knowledge) on:

• the role of standards and lived experience in evaluating digital mental health applications;

• the collection, analysis, and/or integration of data generated by digital mental health solutions;

• fidelity-monitoring in training and implementation of evidence based practices; and,

• more broadly gaining consensus on which metrics are meaningful across the many stakeholders in the digital mental health ecosystem (researchers, practitioners, industry, peers, individuals).

Papers will be accepted until 7th September 2020

There will be a brief window of moderated commenting by the DIMH community, during which authors may revise their papers if they wish. Final papers will be published online in conjunction with the conference wrap-up.

For more information on the submission process please email: k.niederhoffer@gmail.com and becky@beckyinkster.com

Thank you to the digital artist, Michael Adesina, who has kindly shared his artwork shown above along with other pieces for the DIMH2020 Digital Art Galley. You can see more of his work and the work of other artists here.