Andrew T. Campbell

A world where mobile AI helps keep people healthy

In the news

  • Smartphones can predict brain function associated with anxiety and depression, Medical Xpress, Sept 2020.Study finds college students more anxious, depressed because of COVID-19, Hatchet, August 2020
  • Phones and wearables combine to assess worker performance, Science Daily, June 2019
  • Wearable technology started by tracking steps. Soon, it may allow your boss to track your performance, Washington Post, June 2019

  • Wearable tech started by tracking steps; soon it may let your boss to track your performance, South Bends Tribune, July 2019
  • Smartphones and fitness trackers used to gauge employee performance, New Atlas, June 2019.
  • What if your boss knew how much you slept last night, Boston Globe, July 2019
  • With A Fitness Band And App, This Guy Built The Perfect Employee Surveillance System, Indian Times, June 2019
  • The perils and promise of staff appraisal by smartphone, Financial Times, July 2019.

  • Researchers developed a sensing system to constantly track the performance of workers, Tech Crunch, June 2019
  • Workplace wearables, Bloomberg, July 2019
  • Dartmouth Predicts GPA Based on Phone Tracking App, Information Week, June 2015.
  • Really smart phones: Now they can predict your GPA, NetworkWorld, June 2015.
  • Creative methods help teens with depression, Boston Globe, February 2015.
  • We Know How You Feel, New Yorker, January 2015.
  • How Smartphone Apps Can Treat Schizophrenia, Wired Magazine, November 2014.
  • Diagnosing depression with an app, The Independent, November 2014.

  • Smartphone apps could be next tool for mental wellbeing, ABC, Nov 2014.
  • How Smartphone Apps Can Treat Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Wired, Nov 2014.
  • Mental Health App, BBC World News, October 2014.
  • New App Measures Students' Mental Health, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 2014.
  • App Can Tell When Students Are Stressed Out, Huffington Post, September 2014.
  • Sensing Depression, Radio interview with Nora Young on CBC/NPR Spark, September 2014.

  • Your App, Yourself, Editorial, Valley News, September 2014.
  • Failing Students Saved by Stress-Detecting App, New Scientist, September 2014.
  • The Habits Of Successful Students, Forbes Magazine, September 2014.
  • This App Passively Tracks Your Mental Health, Wired, September 2014.
  • Stressed Out? New Republic, September 2014.
  • This Phone App Knows If You're Depressed, MIT Technology Review, September 2014.

  • Your Smartphone Thinks You're Sad, CBS News, September 2014.
  • Smartphone App Knows When You're Feeling Blue, CNET, September 2014.
  • Dartmouth Teacher Makes Health App, Valley News, September 2014.
  • StudentLife App: Mental Health Is Hurting Your Grades, Engadget, September 2014.
  • Smartphone App Keeps Watch Over Schizophrenic Patients, IEEE spectrum, July 2014.
  • Higher Ed Adapts to the Mobile App Economy, NPR's morning edition, July 2013.

  • Using a Smartphone’s Eyes and Ears, MIT Technology Review, July 2013.
  • Microphones as sensors: Teaching old microphones new tricks, Economist, June 2013.
  • Smartphone App Alerts Drowsy Drivers, Tech News Daily, December 2012.
  • App Crams Driver Aids Into Android Phone, Wired, October 2012.
  • CarSafe app: CBS/NBC, September, 2012.

  • Lane-keeping app makes any car smarter, New Scientist, October 2012.
  • Smartphone that feels your strain, New Scientist, August, 2012.
  • Voice-Stress Software Is Put to the Test, PhysOrg and ACM Tech, August 2012.
  • 3 Next-Gen Apps for the Stressed-Out Urbanite Cities, The Atlantic Cities, August 2012.
  • The Little Voice in Your Head, New York Times and Sunday Times Mag, January 2012.

  • Texting While Walking Draws Safety Concerns, NPR Morning Edition, December 2011.
  • Daily Planet aired a piece on WalkSafe, Discovery Channel, November, 2011.
  • Smart-Phone App Warns Pedestrians of Oncoming Cars, MIT Technology Review, Nov 2011.
  • When You're About to Get Hit By a Car, Popular Science, November 2011.
  • Safely Cross the Street With An App That Watches For Traffic, Gizmodo, November 2011.
  • WalkSafe App Keeps you from Strolling into Traffic, GadgetBox, November 2011.
  • Get Some Therapy From An App, Fast Company, November 2011.
  • The next step in bionics, CBS News Sunday Morning, October 2011.
  • The Cyborg The Cyborg in us all, New York Times Magazine, September 2011.

  • Smartphone sensing, IT conversation, January 2011.
  • The eyes have it, Communications of ACM, December 2010.
  • Nokia toys with context-aware smartphone settings switch, Engadget, November 2010.
  • Smartphone app monitors your every move, New Scientist, November 2010.
  • Share Information to Boost Cellphone Performance, New Scientist, June 2010.
  • New Cellphone Software Tracks Users' Eye Movements, Popular Science, May 2010.
  • Eye Tracking for Mobile Control, MIT Technology Review, May 2010
  • The NeuroPhone, The Atlantic, September 2010.

  • Mobile Phone Mind Control, MIT Technology Review, April 2010.
  • Cell Phones that Learn the Sounds of Your Life, Slashdot, July 2009.
  • Cell Phones that Listen and Learn, MIT Technology Review, June 2009.

Keynote talks


  • "Moonshot for Mental Health", Amazon Lab126 Camera & Sensors Tech Summit. November, 2022.
  • "Assessing the Mental Health of College Students using Mobile Sensing", Health Data Science Symposium at Harvard, November, 2021.
  • “Future of Mental Health Sensing”, Society for Ambulatory Assessment (SAA) Conference, Melbourne, 2020. “
  • "Future of Mental Health Sensing”, The Black Dog Sydney Institute, Sydney, 2020.
  • “Future of Mental Health Sensing on College Campuses”, ACM HotMobile, 2018.

  • "The StudentLife Project: Using Smartphones to Assess Sociability, Mental Health, and Academic Performance of College Students", AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2015), Oxford, May 2015.
  • “Using Smartphones to Assess Mental Health and Academic Performance of College Students”, 13th Annual Depression on College Campuses Conference, March 2015.
  • "StudentLife Study: A term in the life of a Dartmouth Class", at the ACM Ubicomp 13 workshop on mobile systems for computational social science, Zurich, September 2013.
  • My brother Ed: Mental illness was not his choice”, ACM Ubicomp workshop on mental health, 2016.

  • "Rise of mobile sensing and the end of the smartphone era", IEEE Conference on Sensing, Communications and Networking (SECON), New Orleans, June 2013.
  • “My phone told me I'm stressed and should go for a run", EPSRC-funded Cross-Disciplinary Research Conference, London, October 9-10, 2012.
  • “Smartphone Sensing for the Masses”, ACM Eye Tracking Research & Applications Symposium (ETRA 2012), Santa Barbara, March 28-30, 2012.

  • "Smartphone Sensing for the Masses", Workshop on Using Smartphones as Mobile Sensing Devices: A Practical Guide for Psychologists to Current and Potential Capabilities, Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), January 26-28, 2012.
  • “Smartphone Sensing”, Eighth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous), Copenhagen, December 6-8, 2011.
  • “After Smartphones, Cognitive Phones: Enabling Behavioral Applications and Networks”, Workshop on Social Sensing: Mobile Sensing meets Social Science", University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 17th March 2011.
  • “Mobile Phone Sensing is the Next Big Thing!”, ACM Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking (MobiOpp 2010), Pisa, Italy, February 22-23, 2010.

  • “People-Centric Sensing and the Rise of the Global Mobile Sensor Network”, SENIOT: From Sensor Networks to Networked Intelligent Objects, Bertinoro International Center for Informatics (BiCi), International CONET Summer School, Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena), Italy, July 26 - August 1, 2009.
  • “The Rise of People-Centric Sensing”, 10th International Conference of Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), Hyderabad, India, January 3-6, 2009.
  • “The Rise of People-Centric Sensing” (Invited talk), BCS Visions in Computer Science, London, Imperial College, London September 22-24, 2007.
  • “After Motes and Multihop: Mobile Phones and the Global Mobile Sensor Network”, 7th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), Galveston, Texas, March 9-13, 2009.

  • “MetroSense: People-Centric Sensing at Scale”, 2nd European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC 2007), Lancaster, UK, October 23-25, 2007.
  • “MetroSense: People-Centric Sensing at Scale”, ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Network Architecture, Boston, April 24, 2007.
  • “Showstoppers for Sensors", 12th IEEE International Workshop Quality of Service (IWQoS 2004), Montreal, Canada, June 7 – 9, 2004.
  • “Showstoppers for Sensors", 4th Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks (ASWN 2004), Boston, August 8-11, 2004.

  • “Genesis Project: Results and Experiences”, EPSRC Programmable Networks Workshop, Brighton, United Kingdom, December 10, 2004.
  • “Showstoppers for Sensors", EPSRC Annual Post Graduate Networking Conference (PGNet 2003), Liverpool, United Kingdom, June 16-17, 2003.
  • “IP Unwired”, IDMS/PROMS 2002 Joint International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems / Protocols for Multimedia Systems, University of Coimbra, Portugal, November 26-29, 2002.
  • “Unwiring IP – the only true path to 4G”, Symposium on The Path to 4G, London, October 21-23, 2002.
  • “Which Way to the Wireless Internet?”, 6th International Conference on Protocols for Multimedia Systems (PROM 2001), Enschede, Netherlands, October 17-19, 2001.
  • “Untangling the Wireless Web”, Symposium on The Path to 4G, Helsinki, September 13-14, 2001.

  • “Untangling the Wireless Web”, Conference on IP-based Cellular Networks (IPCN 2001), Paris, France, 16-18 May 2001.
  • “4G: What is it Good For?”, ACM Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2000) , Boston, Massachusetts, USA August 11, 2000.
  • “Service Velocity”, IFIP Mini-Conference on Multimedia Management, IFIP Networking 2000, Paris, May 2000.