Achievements & Milestones
(Click or swipe the 3 categories to explore the different timelines)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 on the considered approach 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. 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
Published 2 abstracts at DMHW 2024 Conference
Presented our 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
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.