CoRhythMo: A Computational Framework for Modeling Biobehavioral Rhythms from Mobile and Wearable Data Streams

This paper presents CoRhythMo, the first computational framework for modeling biobehavioral rhythms - the repeating cycles of physiological, psychological, social, and environmental events - from mobile and wearable data streams. The framework incorporates four main components: mobile data processing, rhythm discovery, rhythm modeling, and machine learning. We use a dataset of smartphone and Fitbit data collected from 138 college students over a semester to evaluate the framework’s ability to 1) model biobehavioral rhythms of students, 2) measure the stability of their rhythms over the course of the semester, 3) model differences between rhythms of students with different health status, and 4) predict the mental health status in students using the model of their biobehavioral rhythms. Our evaluation provides evidence for the feasibility of using CoRhythMo for modeling and discovering human rhythms and using them to assess and predict different life and health outcomes.