ULTEMAT: A mobile framework for smart ecological momentary assessments and interventions

- An Android library for scheduling of Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMAs) is presented.
- The impact context awareness may have on EMAs is discussed and EMAs using such context awareness are defined as smart EMAs.
- The capabilities of the Android library in relation to these smart EMAs are described
- The extension of smart EMAs to smart Ecological Momentary Interventions (EMIs) is discussed.
- The smart Ecological Momentary Entity (EME) is introduced as umbrella term for smart EMAs and EMIs.

In this paper we introduce a new Android library, called ULTEMAT, for the delivery of ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) on mobile devices and we present its use in the MoodBuster app developed in the H2020 E-COMPARED project. We discuss context-aware, or event-based, triggers for the presentation of EMAs and discuss the potential they have to improve the effectiveness of mobile provision of mental health interventions as they allow for the delivery of assessments to the patients when and where these are most appropriate. Following this, we present the abilities of ULTEMAT to use such context-aware triggers to schedule EMAs and we discuss how a similar approach can be used for Ecological Momentary Interventions (EMIs).