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Achievements & Milestones

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Secured a NHS BNSSG ICB grant

Secured a £1,500 grant for PPIE activities from the NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board

Secured CATE Student Internship

Secured a '2024/25 CATE Student Internship' grant for Louis Robinson from UWE Bristol, to support the development of the working prototype.

Accepted as EPS Postgraduate Member

Granted postgraduate membership with the prestigious Experimental Psychology Society (EPS).

Secured CATE Public Engagement Fund

Awarded an additional £3000 from UWE Bristol's '2024-25 CATE Public/Community Engagement & Knowledge Exchange Project Fund' to support the project's PPIE activities.

Accepted as IHT Fellow

Welcomed into the dynamic Innovate Healthier Together community, dedicated to reimagining health and care across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG, NHS). Learn more

Secured Sponsored Research Visit

Selected for a sponsored research visit at the University of Bristol, focusing on affective computing implementations. Supervised by Zahraa Abdallah and sponsored by MaVi: Machine Learning and Computer Vision.

Won Best Student Poster Award

Our poster was awarded 'Best Student Poster' at the Second Workshop on Multimodal AI, organized by the University of Sheffield and the Alan Turing Institute. View post

Secured PhD Scholarship

Awarded a full PhD scholarship at UWE Bristol, including £3000 for project expenses. Learn more

Paper at the BCS HCI 2025

Published a position paper about the first three stages of our co-design project, at the 'Co-Designing Human-Centered AI Technologies for Health and Wellbeing' Workshop. This work was developed in collaboration with Carmel McGrath and Lucy Condon from the NIHR ARC West, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. See Position Papers

Technical poster at the 3rd Multimodal AI Workshop

Presented a technical poster for introducing our proposal for the multimodal and contextualised affective computing analysis of longitudinal data. A work realised in collaboration with Vincenzo Dentamaro from the University of Bari -currently in research visit at Oxford University. Won best human photo about multimodal AI. View all abstracts

Presented at HEALTHINF 2025

Published our paper, 'Affective Computing in Anxiety Disorders: A Rapid Literature Review', at the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. The paper was selected for post-publication invitation due to its high quality. See event

Presented at NIHR & University of Bristol Event

Presented at the 'Researcher coffee catch-up: Digital solutions for anxiety disorders', an event organized by NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West (ARC West). See event

Presentation at 'AI in Precision Psychiatry' workshop

An event hosted by Elizabeth Blackwell Institute and the Bristol Neuroscience Network at the University of Bristol. Watch video

Published 2 abstracts at DMHW 2024 Conference

Presented MEMoPAD project and published the abstract at the Second International Digital Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference at Ulster University. View published abstracts

Invited Speaker at University of Aberdeen

Delivered a speech titled 'Emotion recognition can support the early detection of neurodegenerative diseases' at the AI & Computer Vision for Neurodegenerative Diseases workshop of BMVC 2023. See event

Publishing collaboration

Published our paper, 'An Approach using transformer architecture for emotion recognition through Electrocardiogram Signal(s)'; co-authored with Dr Vincenzo Dentamaro, former CTO at IntelliHearts. Read paper

HUG&SmartSocks

Parallel project exploring emotion responses in people reporting anxiety while using HUG and wearing Milbotix smart socks

Co-Design Phase V Planned

Obtained the ethical approval for the 'Implementation' co-design phase, for testing a first iteration of the working prototypes. Method: lab controlled data collection sessions. Analysis: physiological time series analysis; expert roundtable. We are currently recruiting for this phase, click here to take part!

Co-Design Phase IV Completed

Successfully concluded the 'Evaluative' co-design phase with 25 participants, collecting feedback and suggestions for the user interface and experience. Method: focus groups, interviews, and demo. Analysis: affinity diagrams and comparative analysis; expert roundtable.

Co-Design Phase III Completed

Successfully concluded the 'Prototype' co-design phase with 19 participants, gathering ideas for the user interface and experience. Method: focus groups, interviews, and mock-ups. Analysis: affinity diagrams and comparative analysis; expert roundtable.

Co-Design Phase II Completed

Successfully concluded the 'Generative' co-design phase with 20 participants, defining core features and user requirements. Method: focus groups, interviews, and storyboards. Analysis: thematic and comparative; expert roundtable.

Co-Design Phase I Completed

Successfully concluded the 'Pre-design' co-design phase with 24 participants, exploring problems and needs of the different stakeholders. Method: focus groups, interviews, and whiteboard. Analysis: thematic and comparative; expert roundtable.

Co-Design Phase 0 Completed

Successfully concluded the 'Recruiting Material Consultations' co-design phase with 12 participants. Method: focus groups, interviews, and surveys. Analysis: affinity diagrams.

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