Experience Sampling
5 posts tagged with “Experience Sampling”
The Open Handbook of Experience Sampling has a third edition — and a whole chapter on choosing your tool
The field's standard step-by-step guide to experience sampling was re-released in April 2026, free to download, with every chapter updated and a new one on studying couples in daily life. Its platform chapter is a tool-agnostic checklist worth reading before you commit to any app — here's what it says, and how a smartphone platform like SMAAT reads against it.
July 6, 2026
Geofenced experience sampling: what location-triggered prompts can and can't do
Location-triggered prompts let you sample experience where it happens — but continuous location tracking has real costs in battery, accuracy, and privacy. A plain-language guide to when geofenced sampling is the right design, when it isn't, and what to check before you build a study around it.
April 20, 2026
EMA vs ESM vs DRM: which intensive-longitudinal method when
ESM, EMA, and DRM are often used interchangeably but answer different questions. A practical decision guide.
April 13, 2026
Designing your first experience-sampling study: a step-by-step guide
A practical guide to scoping, designing, and validating your first ESM/EMA study — from research question to pilot.
March 2, 2026
Five EMA study templates you can clone today: mental health, sleep, social, behavioural economics, cognition
Five peer-reviewed-style EMA templates available in SMAAT, with the design decisions behind each.
February 16, 2026