Apple is developing a feature to detect depression from iPhone usage
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Apple Is Working on iPhone Features to Help Detect Depression, Cognitive Decline --WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-wants-iphones-to-help-detect-depression-cognitive-decline-sources-say-11632216601
Apple Watch has been providing ECG function since December 2018, and it is reported that many userssaved their lives immediately after the provision of ECG function. Since the release of iOS 14.4 and watchOS 7.3 in 2021, the electrocardiogram function has been available in Japan, and Haruo Ozaki, chairman of the Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Association, said, 'In the future, these functions of Apple Watch will be atrial fibrillation in Japan. I hope that it will play a role in discovering the disease at an early stage, interacting with doctors, and linking it to treatment. '
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As mentioned above, Apple, which provides services that help maintain user health, is working with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and biogen , a drug manufacturer, to detect signs of depression from device usage. The Wall Street Journal reports that it is working on research and development.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the research team will start collecting user data for 150 Apple Watches and iPhones in the fall of 2020, and plans to collect data for 3,000 subjects from 2021. The collected data includes data recorded by the iPhone camera, keyboard, and microphone, heart rate and sleep data measured by Apple Watch, etc., and the collected data, questionnaire results to subjects, and stress hormone secretion. The relationship between the data and stress / anxiety / depression is being investigated by comparing the measurement results of the amount.
According to The Wall Street Journal, 'If the development of this psychoanalytic feature is successful, Apple and its partners will be able to improve the detection of the mental state of tens of millions of users around the world. Gathering this information can raise privacy concerns. ' Apple is trying to establish a way to not send data to the server to solve the privacy issue.
Previous studies have shown evidence that 'in people with cognitive impairment, behavioral data detected on Apple devices differed from that of healthy elderly people,' according to people involved in psychoanalytic function research. It is said that it is. However, he said it was unclear if he could create a reliable algorithm for detecting mental states, arguing that the features reported this time are in the early stages of research and it is unclear whether they will be realized.
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