Existing/Past Studies

ohmage has been used primarily for research in the education and medical fields. Below are some recent studies that have made use of ohmage for their projects!



  • Voice and Depression in Adults

    • McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • N-of-1 Trials Using mHealth in Chronic Pain

    • Richard L. Kravitz, MD, MSPH, Ida Sim (Medicine, University of California San Francisco & Co-Founder openmhealth.org)
  • Studying Diet, Stress, and Exercise Related Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease

    • Nithya Ramanathan (Computer Science, UCLA)
  • High Risk Behaviors in HIV+ Men

    • Dallas Swendeman (Center for HIV Intervention, Prevention, and Treatment Services, UCLA)
  • Social Networks and Risky Behaviors Related to HIV in Men Who Have Sex With Men

    • Scott Comulada (Center for HIV Intervention, Prevention, and Treatment Services, UCLA)
  • ADHD

    • Fred Sabb & Jim McCracken (Neuroscience, Neuropsychiatry, UCLA)
  • Exercise in South Asian Women

    • Namratha Kandula (Medicine, Northwestern University)
  • Mood and Energy in Breast Cancer Survivors

    • Patricia Ganz (Medicine & Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health)
  • Mobilize: Mobilizing LAUSD High School Students in STEM Education

    • Deborah Estrin (Computer Science, Cornell Tech & Co-Founder openmhealth.org), Mark Hansen (Journalism, Columbia University), Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit (UCLA)
  • Monitoring Diabetes in an n-of-1 Trial

    • Deborah Estrin (Computer Science, Cornell Tech & Co-Founder openmhealth.org), Ida Sim (Medicine, University of California San Francisco & Co-Founder openmhealth.org)
  • Exploring PTSD in Veterans

    • Deborah Estrin (Computer Science, Cornell Tech & Co-Founder openmhealth.org), Ida Sim (Medicine, University of California San Francisco & Co-Founder openmhealth.org)
  • NSF Smart and Connected Health project: Behavioral Biomarkers and Contextual Self Report for Chronic Pain and Rheumatoid Arthritis

    • Clinical: C. Reid, V. Bykerk, A. Levine; Technology: T. Choudhury, JP Pollak, G. Gay
  • mHealth for Genomics research with NYGC and Rockefeller: Initial Focus on RA

    • Clinical: D. Orange, R. Darnel
  • mHealth for Weight Management Research

    • Clinical: Erica Phillips; Technology: JP Pollak
  • Behavioral Biomarkers for Post-Surgical Outcomes

    • Clinical: S. Lyman; Technology: Hamzad Persaud
  • mHealth and ohmage in Epidemiological, Psychobiological, and Intervention (Psychotherapy) Research

    • Dr. Gunther Meinlschmidt (PsychTh, Department of Clinical Psychology and Epidemiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel)

Research Publications

Here is a list of publications that are about the ohmage suite itself, or that used ohmage as a research tool.



  • ohmage: a General and Extensible End-to-End Participatory Sensing Platform

    • H. Tangmunarunkit, C.K. Hsieh, F. Alquaddoomi, J. Jenkins, J. Kang, C. Ketcham, Z. Khalapyan, B. Longstaff, S. Nolen, J. Ooms, J. Selsky, N. Ramanathan, D. Estrin
    • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Volume 6 Issue 3, April 2015.
  • ohmage: An Open Mobile System for Activity and Experience Sampling

    • Nithya Ramanathan, Faisal Alquaddoomi, Hossein Falaki, Dony George, Cheng-Kang Hsieh, John Jenkins, Cameron Ketcham, Brent Longstaff, Jeroen Ooms, Joshua Selsky, Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, Deborah Estrin
    • In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. May 21-24th, 2012.
  • ohmage: An Open Mobile System for Activity and Experience Sampling

    • John Hicks, Nithya Ramanathan, Hossein Falaki, Brent Longstaff, Kannan Parameswaran, Mohamad Monibi, Donnie H. Kim, Joshua Selsky, John Jenkins, Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, Deborah Estrin
    • Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, Technical Report #100. November 3, 2011
  • Open mHealth Architecture: An Engine for Health Care Innovation

    • Estrin, D., Sim, I.
    • Science Magazine, AAAS, vol. 330, no. 6005, pp. 759-760, November 5, 2010
  • Patients’ Preferences for Mobile Health Applications in HIV and Cardiovascular Disease

    • Ramanathan, N., et al
    • in review (technical report preprint available upon request)
  • Employing User Feedback for Semantic Location Services

    • Kim, D., et al
    • Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp’11), Beijing, China, September 2011
  • SystemSens: A Tool for Monitoring Usage in Smartphone Research Deployments

    • Falaki, H., et al
    • In Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Architecture (ACM MobiArch 2011), Washington D.C., June 28, 2011
  • Personal Data Vaults: A Locus of Control for Personal Data Streams

    • M. Mun, et al
    • In Proceedings of The 6rd International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) 2010, Philadelphia, PA, November 30, 2010
  • A First Look at Traffic on Smartphones

    • Falaki, H., et al
    • In Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Melbourne, Australia, November 2010
  • SensLoc: Sensing Everyday Places and Paths Using Less Energy

    • Donnie H. Kim, et al
    • In Proceedings of 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2010), Zurich, Switzerland, November 3-5, 2010
  • AndWellness: An Open Mobile System for Activity and Experience Sampling

    • Hicks, J., et al
    • In proceedings of Wireless Health 2010: Academic and Research Conference, La Jolla, CA, October 5-7, 2010
  • Diversity in Smartphone Usage

    • Falaki, H., et al
    • In Proceedings of 8th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), June 2010
  • Identifying Preferences for Mobile Health Applications Self-Monitoring and Self-Management: Focus Group Findings from HIV-Positive Persons and Young Mothers

    • Ramanathan, N., Swendeman, D., Comulada, S., Estrin, D., Rotheram-Borus, M.J.
    • Int J Med Inform. 2012 Jun 13; PMID: 
  • South Asia Women’s Perspectives on Mobile Phone Usage and Functionality to Increase Physical Activity

    • Khurana, N., Hasnain Wynia, R., Ramanathan, N., Kandula, N.
    • 2012 UIC Minority Health in the Midwest Conference, February 4, 2012. (Oral Presentation.)
  • Identifying Preferences for Mobile Health Applications Self-Monitoring and Self-Management: Focus Group Findings from HIV-Positive Persons and Young Mothers

    • Ooms, J., Ramanathan, N., Swendeman, D., Comulada, S., Dawson, B., Rotheram-Borus, MJ., Estrin, D.
    • Medicine 2.0 2012, Boston, MA. (Oral Presentation.)
  • Measures and Real-Time Feedback of Diet, Activity, and Stress Using GPS and Accelerometer Enabled Smartphones

    • Tangmunarunkit, H., Ramanathan, N., Falaki, H., Jenkins, J., Ketcham, C., Longstaff, B., Monibi, M., Ooms, J., Parameswaran, K., Selsky, J., Estrin, D.
    • Medicine 2.0 2012, Boston, MA (Oral Presentation.)
  • Ambulation: A Tool for Monitoring Mobility Patterns over Time Using Mobile Phones

    • Ryder, J.; Longstaff, B.; Reddy, S.; Estrin, D.
    • Computational Science and Engineering, 2009. CSE '09. International Conference on
  • Improving activity classification for health applications on mobile devices using active and semi-supervised learning

    • Longstaff, B.; Reddy, S.; Estrin, D.
    • Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2010 4th International Conference on