From Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th of May, the Society of Ambulatory Assessment annual meeting 2025 takes place in Leuven, Belgium. Many colleagues from the Stress in Action consortium will be present, chairing a symposium, presenting their work, paper or poster. An overview below:
Monday 26th of May, 2025
Symposium: Methodological advances in ambulatory assessment: From formal modelling to qualitative data (10:30h)
Chaired by Laura Bringmann & Mirka Henninger. Including a presentation by Laura Bringmann and colleagues ‘Beyond numbers: Revisiting the role of open-response data in experience sampling methodology.’
Presentation ‘Waves of grief in daily life after loss: Two experience sampling studies. Part of the symposium ‘What zooming in on daily life after loss can teach us about grief’, (10:30) by Peter ten Klooster and colleagues.
Presentation ‘Data-driven identification of physiological stress response phenotypes’. Part of the symposium ‘Exploring the psychophysiological dynamics of stress and resilience’ (10:30h), by Thomas Vaessen, Laura van Heck and colleagues.
Paper session 1: Advancing Mental and Physical Health: Innovative measurement and intervention strategies in real-world settings. (14:10h)
Myrte Schoenmakers, Martin Gevonden, Bruno Sauce, Eco de Geus about ‘Cuffless minute-to-minute ambulatory blood pressure monitoring using bio-impedance and electrocardiography’.
Symposium: Ambulatory assessment of heart reate variability: physiological reactivity under ecological circumstances of stress and sleep (15:45h)
Chaired by Melisa Saygin. Including a presentation by Melisa Saygin, Martin Gevonden and Eco de Geus ‘Assessment of ambulatory cardiac vagal control: how to optimally control for respiratory influences on heart rate variability.’
Symposium: Reflecting on methodological challenges in intensive longitudinal data analysis (15:45h)
Chaired by Yong Zhang and Björn S. Siepe. Including a presentation by Yong Zhang, Laura Bringmann and colleagues ‘An investigation into in-sample and out-of-sample model selection for nonstationary autoregressive models.’ And two presentations involving Ellen Hamaker.
Presentation ‘Digital Markers as Early Warnings: Anticipating Momentary Careless Responding in Ecological Momentary Assessment’ (15:45), by George Aalbers and colleagues . Part of the symposium ‘Data Quality in Daily Life: Insights on Assessment, Occurrence, and Practical Solutions.’
Postersessions (17:05h)
- A single-case deep dive in concurrent wearable and self-reported data: can accelerometry sufficiently capture movement in ambulatory circumstances? – Laura Van Heck
- Individual differences in physiological stress responses in daily life – Sjors van de Ven
- Detecting early warning signals using change point analysis in a mixed-method EMA study of psilocybin for depression – Laura Bringmann
Tuesday 27th of May
Keynote: Ellen Hamaker (Utrecht University): ‘Towards alignment of theory, measurement and analysis in process research’ (9:00h)
Symposium: Theoretical and Empirical Advancements in the Ambulatory Assessment of Daily Life Stress (13:00h)
Chaired by Malin Meyer. Discussant: Thomas Vaessen. Including a presentation by Malin Meyer, Antje Schmitt, Ute Bültmann, Susanne Scheibe and Iris Arends ‘The Theoretical Landscape of Daily Life Stressors: A Multidisciplinary Systematic Review on Conceptualizations, Classifications, And Contextual Factors’. And a presentation by Solomiia Myroniuk, Annelieke Roest, Peter de Jonge and Bertus Jeronimus ‘Making sense of daily stress – Presentation of the Stress in Action living systematic database.’ And one presentation involving Laura Bringmann.
Paper session 8: Dynamic Resilience and Stress Recovery: Insights from Real-Time Monitoring. (14:25h)
Elin Hammarberg about ‘Defining delayed recovery of affect from daily-life stressors using Statistical Process Control (SPC)’.
Postersessions (17:20h)
- Examining daily affect variability and affect intensity in offspring of parents with a mood disorder – Julius März
- Exploring the Associations Between Daily-Life Affect and Behavior and Immunometabolic Health – Noa van Zwieten
- How to comprehensively capture stress in daily life? – A mixed-method EMA pilot study – Malin K. Meyer
- Stress in Action Wearables Database: A database of non-invasive wearable monitors with systematic technical, reliability, validity and usability information – Melisa Saygin
- Insights into passive measurements and cognition in daily life – Xiaochang Zhao
- Stress in Action Wearable Validation Pipelines: Standardised Assessment for Laboratory, Virtual Reality and Ambulatory Settings – Magdalena Sikora
- Predicting Dropout in Intensive Longitudinal Data: Extending the Joint Model for Autocorrelated – Fridtjof Petersen
Wednesday 28th of May
Presentation ‘Investigating anomalies in digital phenotyping data as a signal of depression relapse’ (10:30h), by George Aalbers, Femke Lamers and Brenda Penninx. Part of the symposium ‘Examining Data Quality and Analytical Strategies in the Context of Passively Collected Data’.
Paper session 11: Dynamic Assessment and Intervention for Depression and Anxiety: Insights from Ambulatory Assessment Studies (13:00h)
Marcos Ross about ‘The association between cognitive functioning and depression severity: A multi-wave longitudinal remote assessment study’. And Noa van Zwieten about ‘Group, subgroup and person-specific longitudinal associations between physical activity and affect in individuals with and without depressive and anxiety disorders’.
Paper session 16: Social Interactions and Emotional Well-Being: Contextual and Dynamic Perspectives (14:25h).
Lianne de Vries about ‘Social mismatch and affective wellbeing: a genetically-informative Ecological Momentary Assessment study’.
