Expert Meeting 2025

This year’s ESM Expert Network Meeting 2025 welcomed more than 130 researchers from the field for two days of collaboration and knowledge sharing. This year’s meeting of the Belgian-Dutch Network for ESM Research in Mental Health was hosted by the Rotterdam ESM Group.

Program overview

1. Towards a Better Understanding of the (unequal) Influence of Parenting: It’s about time!
2. What ESM Items Matter? Adolescent-Based Validation Through a Thinking-Aloud Task.
3. Analyzing Skewed ESM Data
4. VR therapy for burnout. A single case experimental design.
5. Predicting Dropout in Intensive Longitudinal Data.
6. Smartphone Prohibition’s Link to physical Activity, Sleep and Student’s  mental well-being in secondary education.
7. Mapping Methodological Variation in Experience Sampling Research from design to data analysis.
8. Introduction REMAC

1. Hackathon: Co-Creating EMA: Challenges and Design Solutions for Person-Centered Assessment.
2. Hackathon: Collating and Sharing Implementation Strategies for the Clinical Use of ESM.
3. Hackathon: Development of an open repository of ecological momentary interventions.
4. Hackathon: Do machine learning methods fit ESM needs? On expectations, usages, and promises for the future.
5. Workshop: Drawing directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) for ESM studies: what are pitfalls and solutions.
6. Workshop: Right Time, Right Support: Designing Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions for Behavior Change?
7. Paper-in-a-Day: Defining and Measuring Cognition in Experience Sampling: Need of a Unified Framework.
8. Paper-in-a-Day: How ESM Helps Us Study Daily Life: A Frontiers for Young Minds.
9. Paper-in-a-Day: From Dynamics to Decisions: Integrating Complex ESM Models in Mental Health Treatment.