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The 2026 MeTRIC Symposium at the University of Michigan, hosted by the Eisenberg Family Depression Center's Mobile Technologies Core, featured a showcase of wearable, nearable, and connected devices used in research. This gallery offered researchers and students an interactive opportunity to explore a range of mobile technologies, review their features, and discover how these innovative tools can enhance data collection and research across disciplines.

Standardized data flow for research studies that utilize mobile technologies at the University of Michigan. It depicts how data typically moves from a smart watch or wearable device, into University resources behind a firewall, and finally lands on long-term storage for preservation and analytics.

This resource guide was developed for attendees of the MeTRIC Symposium at the University of Michigan held on November 1st, 2024. MeTRIC is a campus-wide collaboration designed to foster knowledge sharing and create a single access point for University of Michigan investigators who are looking to use wearables, apps, or other mobile technologies in their health research.

A small selection of wearable and nearable devices displayed at the 2024 University of Michigan's MeTRIC Symposium.

A listing of U-M and MM offices and research cores that provide data-related consultation services, including those with expertise with mobile data and mental health data.

Research is how we learn, but our findings depend upon robust data, derived from the populations we seek to serve. As teams build digital environments for research, effort must be put into ensuring that those environments support the populations of study.