Periodic Reporting for period 2 - AffecTech (Personal Technologies for Affective Health)
Reporting period: 2019-01-01 to 2021-03-31
Key highlights include collaborative papers in high impact journals such as Nature, JMIR, JMIR Research Protocol, JMIR Formative Research, JMIR Mental Health, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Systematic Reviews, MDPI Sensors, APA Emotions, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction and IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. In terms of conference and workshop papers, highlights include 11 CHI papers (4 Awards) and 6 DIS papers (2 Awards): two Honourable Mention Awards at CHI’20, one Honourable Mention Award at DIS’ 20, two Honourable Mentions Awards at CHI’19, one Honourable Mention Award at DIS’ 19, and 2 Awards at Pervasive Computing’19, and a Best Paper Award at LOD 2018: the International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science.
Other achievements include AffecTech acknowledgement in EC’s annual Innovation Radar Prize for wearables for mental wellbeing. In 2020 following submission, ESR1 prototype was recognised as an innovation actively exploring value creation opportunities in the innovation category ‘excellent science.’ Notably, also in 2020 Philips ESR12 became the first inventor of a patent application titled: Method and system to assess depression severity by means of analysis of MRI scans together with perceptual bias in experiencing facial expression.
Impact targeting ESRs includes the enhancement of their career perspective and employability through a high quality training programme designed to strengthen their industrial and academic profiles, in particular with respect to interdisciplinary research. Impact in academic communities is reflected in the high quality publications published in the three research areas relevant for AffecTech: HCI, biomedical engineering, and clinical psychology.