For what it's worth. Unearthing the values embedded in digital phenotyping for mental health

Type Journal Article Author Rasmus Birk Author Anna Lavis Author Federica Lucivero Author Gabrielle Samuel URL https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211047319 Volume 8 Issue 2 Pages 20539517211047319 Publication Big Data & Society ISSN 2053-9517 Date 2021-07-01 Extra Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd Journal Abbr Big Data & Society DOI 10.1177/20539517211047319 Accessed 2022-07-08 15:42:15 Library Catalog SAGE Journals Abstract Digital phenotyping for mental health is an emerging trend which uses digital data, derived from mobile applications, wearable technologies and digital sensors, to measure, track and predict the mental health of an individual. Digital phenotyping for mental health is a growing, but as yet underexamined, field. As we will show, the rapid growth of digital phenotyping for mental health raises crucial questions about the values that underpin and are reinforced by this technology, as well as regarding to whom it may become valuable. In this commentary, we explore these questions by focusing on the construction of value across two interrelated domains: user experience and epistemologies on the one hand, and issues of data and ownership on the other. In doing so, we demonstrate the need for a deeper ethical and epistemological engagement with the value assumptions that underpin the promise of digital phenotyping for mental health.