Society for Ambulatory Assessment 2024

Ambulatory Assessment comprises the use of field methods to assess the ongoing behavior, physiology, experience and environmental aspects of people in naturalistic or unconstrained settings. Ambulatory Assessment uses ecologically-valid tools to understand biopsychosocial processes as they unfold naturally in time and in context.

Ambulatory Assessment covers a range of real-time data capture methodologies that originate from different scientific disciplines (psychology, medicine, computer science, etc.). These methodologies include but are not limited to:

• Experience sampling and ecological momentary assessment

• Repeated-entry diary techniques

• Monitoring of physiological function, in combination with or without physical behaviour

• Acquisition of ambient environmental parameters

• Wearable and biosensor monitoring

• Quantitative and mathematical modeling for ambulatory assessment data

To foster research in everyday life, the Society for Ambulatory Assessment was launched in 2008. With the first SAA conference in 2009 in Greifswald, Germany, the SAA conference evolved to be the flagship scientific meeting for Ambulatory Assessment methods and research including keynote talks by the leading experts in the field and hands-on methods and statistics workshops.