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AffecTech · Personal Technologies for Affective Health

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-01-01 → 2021-03-31
EU contribution
€3,871,210
Participants
25
Scheme
MSCA-ITN-ETN

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Results in brief

Personal Technologies for Affective Health

Personalised health is a European priority and one of the strategic research areas for Horizon 2020. It holds the potential of reducing the ever-increasing costs of institutional healthcare across Europe and worldwide. This project advances the state-of-the-art of personal health technologies for affective disorders, estimated to be the highest-ranking cause of disease in the Western world by 2020. Among these, anxiety, depression and bipolar disorders are the most prevalent, incurring the largest social costs. AffecTech integrates outstanding yet fragmented expertise in developing personal systems for mental health with the most influential models of emotion regulation from health and clinical psychology. It marks a significant shift from the current technologies capturing emotional responses whose understanding usually requires physicians’ input, to low-cost, non-invasive, wearable self-help technologies for visualising and regulating one’s emotions in daily life. The specific aim is to support self-understanding and successful adoption of adaptive emotion regulation strategies. AffecTech contributes towards four significant outcomes: (1) wearable systems for capturing emotions and their regulation in real life, (2) applications for understanding of emotions and their regulatory processes, (3) interactive tools for training adaptive emotion regulation strategies, and (4) theoretical contributions to emotion regulation research in real life. AffecTech builds on exceptional European and North American expertise from both academic and private sector to provide personalised health research with a timely and much needed momentum to address the pressing social challenge of emotional wellbeing and health.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Personalized health is a European priority and one of the strategic research areas for Horizon 2020. This project advances the state-of-the-art of personal health technologies for affective disorders, estimated to be the highest ranking cause of disease by 2020. It marks a significant shift from the current wearable technologies capturing emotional responses whose understanding usually requires physicians’ input, to low-cost self-help technologies for visualizing, exploring and regulating emotions. AFFECTIVA integrates the latest Human-Computer Interaction and Biomedical Engineering findings in designing and developing personal health systems for mental health, with the most influential outcomes and models of emotion regulation from Clinical Psychology. The overall aim is to support self-understanding and successful adoption of adaptive emotion regulation strategies in daily life. AFFECTIVA will contribute towards four significant outcomes: (1) wearable systems for capturing emotion regulation, (2) applications for understanding emotions and their regulatory processes, (3) interactive tools for training adaptive emotion regulation strategies, and (4) theoretical contributions to emotion regulation research in real life. AFFECTIVA builds on exceptional European and North American expertise from both academic and private sector to provide personalized health research with a timely and much needed momentum to address the pressing social challenge of emotional wellbeing and health.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER · LANCASTERCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
  • BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY · STANFORDUnited States
  • BOGAZICI UNIVERSITESI · IstanbulTürkiye
  • Biosync Technology AB · KistaSweden
  • CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY · PittsburghUnited States
  • Centro Clínico de Psicologia PREVI · ValenciaSpain
  • Codasign Ltd · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • Dovetailed Ltd · CambridgeUnited Kingdom
  • ERICSSON ARASTIRMA GELISTIRME VE BILISIM HIZMETLERI ANONIM SIRKETI · IstanbulTürkiye
  • ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO · MILANOItaly
  • KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · StockholmSweden
  • Lifemote Yasam Teknolojileri Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi · IstanbulTürkiye
  • PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND BV · EindhovenNetherlands
  • PLUX - WIRELESS BIOSIGNALS S.A. · LisboaPortugal
  • SILVERCLOUD HEALTH LIMITED · DUBLINIreland
  • SMARTEX SRL · PratoItaly
  • THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · OxfordUnited Kingdom
  • THE LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TRUST · LeedsUnited Kingdom
  • THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN · DublinIreland
  • UNIVERSITA CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE · MILANOItaly
  • UNIVERSITA DI PISA · PisaItaly
  • UNIVERSITAT JAUME I DE CASTELLON · Castellon De La PlanaSpain
  • UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES · SydneyAustralia
  • University of California at Santa Cruz · Santa CruzUnited States
  • dacadoo ag · ZurichSwitzerland

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union