Monday 3rd of August, 2026

10:45 Presentation session 1: Oral session on Mood Disorders by Julius März on ‘Examining daily affect variability and intensity in offspring of parents with a mood disorder’.

Postersessions (14:45h)

• Convergence of Fitbit and Research-Grade Electrodermal Activity in Predicting Momentary Self-Reported Stress in Daily Life – Flavia Ercoli (poster 15)
• CAPSULE Pilot: Comparing App-Based Passive Sensing to Understand Daily Life Stress Environments – Alec Zirnheld (poster 16)
• Virtual Reality Tasks for Physiological Reactivity and Future Wearables Validation: Findings from a Systematic Scoping Review – Magdalena Sikora (poster 21)

17:05 Presentation session 4: Oral session on Measuring affect and cognition by Marcos Ross-Adelman on ‘Between Persons, Across Days, and Within Day: Multilevel Variance Decomposition of Affective and Cognitive EMA Items’.

Tuesday 4th of August, 2026

9:00 Keynote Brenda Penninx, Stress in daily life

10:30 Presentation session 5: Symposium chaired by Thomas Vaessen and Jannis Kraiss on ‘Validating and Optimizing Mechanism Targeted EMIs: Toward Personalized Intervention Delivery’. With a presentation of Jannis Kraiss on ‘Examining distinct mechanisms of ecological momentary interventions: a micro-randomized trial’.

Postersessions (14:45h)

• Measuring Cognition in Ecological Momentary Assessment settings: A Systematic Scoping Review in Healthy and Clinical Populations – Artemis Stefani (poster 10)

17:05 Presentation session 8: Oral session on Novel platforms and toolkits for ambulatory assessment research by Magdalena Sikora on ‘Feasibility and user acceptance of the Stress in Action toolkit for multimodal, ambulatory stress measurement: a mixed-method study’ and Artemis Stefani on ‘The Stress in Action wearable validation pipeline: A reproducible framework for wearable validation in the lab and in daily life’.

Wednesday 5th of August, 2026

10:45 Presentation session 9: Symposium chaired by Melisa Saygin and Amanda M. Bernal on ‘Leveraging Speech Detection Methods to Understand Biopsychosocial Processes in Everyday Life’. With a presentation of Melisa Saygin on ‘Detecting and controlling for the confounding effects of speech activity on heart rate variability in ambulatory recordings’ (online).

10:45 Presentation session 9: Symposium chaired by Fridtjof Petersen on ‘Examining Modelling Assumptions and Choices in Ecological Momentary Assessment Research’. With a presentation of Fridtjof Petersen on ‘Joint Ordinal Time-Series Modelling of Momentary Affective Dynamics and Distal
Health Outcomes’.

13:30 Presentation session 10: Oral session on Ensuring reliability and validity in experience sampling research by DanaéKrikorian on ‘Reliability, stability and validity of EMA measures assessing the costs and benefits of listening effort in real-life settings’.

13:30 Presentation session 10: Symposium on Capturing Cognitive Variability in Daily Life: Methodological Challenges and Solutions by Xiaochang Zhao on ‘Insights into cognition and smartphone passive measurements in daily life’.