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We are co-designing a human-centered digital tool that uses technology to understand emotion responses, providing clear and continuous data to empower users and facilitate deeper conversations with clinicians.

The Clinical Need

Previous attempts to integrate structured data in mental health have faced persistent challenges, including the complexity of multimodal data, the social stigma that delays help-seeking, and difficulties in data interpretation which can hinder user engagement. We believe focusing on emotion can mitigate these issues by providing a universally understood common ground.

Our Approach

Commercially available wearable devices feature increasingly sophisticated sensors at affordable prices, without the stigma associated with medical-looking hardware. Our approach focuses on data collected from consumer wearables and mobile phones to capture longitudinal and contextualised data through multimodal affective computing.

Our Vision

Our goal is to co-design a digital tool that provides clear, continuous, and interpretable emotion data. We aim to help users understand themselves better, foster proactive self-management, and facilitate deeper, more effective conversations with their clinicians, ultimately improving pathways for anxiety care.

Our Unique Value Proposition

  • Emotion as a Common Language: We use emotion as a foundational layer to make complex multimodal data more understandable and to avoid the stigma of clinical labels or to trigger more anxiety.
  • Hybrid Data Fusion: We combine passive data from everyday wearables with active, user-provided content to create a richer, more complete picture of an individual's well-being and foster self-reflection.
  • Semi-Structured Context: The tool allows users to add context to their data in a simple way, making the insights personally relevant and clinically valuable.
  • Clinical Integration Focus: From the outset, the project is designed as a tool to be integrated directly into existing clinical pathways, supporting patients, clinicians, and carers.

Alignment with UK Health Priorities

The MEMoPAD project directly supports the UK's 10-Year Health Plan by developing the framework needed to integrate wearable devices and AI into clinical pathways. By empowering patients with their own data, we enable a more personalized approach to care. This focus on prevention addresses a key challenge identified by our co-design participants: supporting individuals in seeking help for the first time. By improving mental well-being, our work also contributes to the wider societal benefit of boosting workforce productivity and supporting people's mental health in daily as well as in challenging scenarios.

See MEMoPAD in Action

Explore our progress through the latest video trailer of the mobile app and the interactive prototype of our web app for clinicians.

Mobile App for Personal Use

A brief trailer showcasing the core features for mood logging, data visualization, and contextual note-taking.

Web App for Professionals

Navigate a clickable prototype of the clinician-facing dashboard. Click the image to explore.