Politico March 6, 2024
Carmen Paun, Erin Schumaker, Daniel Payne and Ruth Reader

A smartphone app under development at Dartmouth College uses image processing and artificial intelligence to detect when a user might be sliding into depression — even before the person knows it.

Andrew Campbell, a Dartmouth professor of computer science, became interested in what smartphones reveal about human behavior when the first devices came on the market more than a decade ago. Shortly after, his brother died by suicide after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 19.

“That really completely changed my research direction,” he told Carmen. Campbell started focusing on the mental health of college students because signs of mental illness are most likely to appear around that age, he said.

How it works: Campbell and his colleagues recruited...

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