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...

The annual Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) convention has taken place in Washington DC (15-18 November 2018), bringing the cognitive-behavioural community together to explore current developments in research and practice. At the conference,...

The 9th Reflect Symposium has taken place at Philips Research's facility in Eindhoven, Netherlands. This yearly symposium shares the work of PhD students with other researchers and fosters cooperation between departments and institutions. The Philips PhD Community...

AffecTech Researchers Honoured at International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science   AffecTech researchers Andrea Patanè and Professor Marta Kwiatkowska have received the prestigious best paper award at LOD 2018: the International...

By Javier Fernández-Álvarez Again this year WHO's World Mental Health Day has arrived, and lots of efforts have been made by scientific and professional communities to spread the message about the importance of enhancing people's mental health. However, there are...

Many thanks to AffecTech Consortium partner, Bogazici Universitesi for hosting our latest well received training event in Istanbul, Turkey. AffecTech Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) / PhD fellows benefited from a week-long series of informative workshops, hands on...

By Camille Nadal Children in primary school are at an age where they are expected to be more aware and in control of their emotions. Some children however show aggressive behaviour towards other kids or teachers. Verbal or physical threats, throwing things with intent...

Research shows young people express preference for using mental health technologies. But how can we enhance and improve mental health technology solutions to help young people? Infographic by Dionne Bowie, AffecTech researcher and PhD student: WHO Mental Health Day...