Spotlight on affective health research at premier HCI gathering   AffecTech was pleased to have a presence at CHI 2019, the leading conference for human-computer interaction (HCI). The conference, this year held in Glasgow, celebrates innovation and excellence in...

AffecTech presentation in Lisbon AffecTech Early Stage Researcher (ESR) Shadi Ghiasi has given a talk at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, exploring challenges in affective computing. The talk formed part of her secondment activity at Plux, the wireless...

Members of the public and healthcare professionals have tried out prototypes of innovative wearables technologies for mental health being developed at Lancaster University. They were able to test the cutting-edge technologies at a special event at Lancaster’s The...

Help shape the future of innovative technologies for mental health   Members of the public are invited to find out more about innovations in interactive mental health technologies as part of a first of its kind public event in Lancaster. This is a unique...

Is 'breathing in synchrony' the key for a good psychotherapy outcome? Will sound feedback be the instrument that lets users accomplish it? Inspired by Prof. Koole's research presented in Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore's (UNICATT) AffecTech training event in...

By Chengcheng Qu   Depression, as a medical disorder, is one of the major affective disorders especially in developed countries. A report from WHO has shown that, by 2012, there were more than 300 million people living with it worldwide [1]. Clinical depression...

Lifelogging technologies as a powerful tool for enhancing psychotherapeutic interventions to address human memory weaknesses in depression   By Chengcheng Qu AffecTech's poster presentation from HCI 2018, Exploring Memory Interventions in Depression through...

Takeaways and reflections from the NIHR MindTech MIC National Symposium - by Dionne Bowie-DaBreo   The 2018 NIHR MindTech MIC National Symposium was held under the theme Improving Lives with Digital Mental Healthcare. This one-day event saw attendees experience...

What about positive emotions?                             By Desirée Colombo In the last decades, most psychological research has focused on negative emotions and on repairing negative wounds (Seligman, Rashid, & Parks, 2006), while just little research has been...

A big thank you to our colleagues at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and to all our partners who contributed to the success of the latest AffecTech training week, in Milan, Italy. The sixth and final training event scheduled within the AffecTech project took...