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Record W4416572738 · doi:10.2196/71920

Digital Measurement of Subjective Experiences in Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD)

2025· article· en· W4416572738 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Colin A. Depp, Jason Holden, Eric Granholm

Bibliographic record

VenueJMIR Aging · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicDementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTransformative learningCognitionQuality of life (healthcare)SadnessAlzheimer's diseaseActivities of daily livingDisease

Abstract

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Unlabelled: Symptoms such as loss of pleasure, agitation, and sadness are subjective experiences that contribute significantly to caregiver burden and health care costs in Alzheimer disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). However, traditional self-report measures of subjective experiences are limited in AD/ADRD due to cognitive impairments and awareness. Passive sensing, which collects data without active participant input, has emerged as a promising approach to quantify aspects of subjective experiences. Smartphones, wearables, and in-home sensors can quantify mobility, physiology, speech, and social interaction markers of constructs relevant to AD/ADRD. Available research indicates potential but is largely at the proof-of-concept stage. In this Commentary, we discuss several roadblocks to future translation of passive sensing in measuring subjective experiences in AD/ADRD, including technical implementation, data harmonization, validation, ethical and privacy principles. Addressing these challenges could lead to transformative applications to care for AD/ADRD, enabling precise monitoring of behavioral symptoms and related treatment targets, ultimately improving quality of life for persons with AD/ADRD and their caregivers.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.012
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.040
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.062

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0120.040
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.328
Teacher spread0.303 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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