OPUS: An Open Platform for User Studies

An open platform for collecting and analyzing data about people's online behavior.

Henry Kautz (Professor, Computer Science)
Graduate Students
Sabit Ahmed (Lead)
Canyu Lei, Almas Telek, Abhinav Pasual,
Sheharyar Khalid, Olli Muchandani

OPUS diagram

Papers

Henry Kautz, Sabit Ahmed (2025). Building OPUS, an Open Platform for social media User Studies. White paper.

Wilson-Lemoine, E., Kautz, H., Petz, K. D., Ahmed, M. S., Barnes, L. E., & Teachman, B. A. (2025, November 20-23). Examining race and ethnic group differences in openness to donating personal data from digital devices for mental health research among college students. [Poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) 59th Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Wilson-Lemoine, E., Kautz, H., Petz, K. D., Ahmed, M. S., Barnes, L. E., & Teachman, B. A. (2025, August 4-7). Examining sexual and gender identity differences in openness to donating personal data from digital devices for mental health research among college students. [Poster presentation]. International Society for Research on Internet Interventions, 13th Scientific Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States.

Wilson-Lemoine, E., Kautz, H., Petz, K. D., Ahmed, M. S., Barnes, L. E., & Teachman, B. A. (2025, June 9-10). Examining openness to donating personal data from digital devices for mental health research among college students. [Poster presentation]. Society for Digital Mental Health Annual Virtual Conference, Online.

Anis Zaman, Vincent Silenzio, and Henry Kautz (2020). MIND: A Tool for Mental Health Screening and Support of Therapy to Improve Clinical and Research Outcomes. EAI PervasiveHealth 2020 - 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 6-8 October 2020.