March 2025

📝 Wrapping Up Phase I: Insights & Expert Roundtable

We’ve now completed an in-depth qualitative analysis of all the workshops and interviews conducted in recent months. This involved:

✔️ Comparing perspectives across different stakeholder groups (patients, carers, clinicians) to identify common ground and key differences.

✔️ Highlighting critical insights that must be addressed in the next phase.

✔️ Hosting a roundtable with experts from multiple disciplines to discuss these findings and strategize how to carry them forward into Phase II.

This has been an eye-opening process, and we are now in a strong position to move forward with designing potential solutions!

🚀 Phase II: Idea Generation Has Begun!

Last Friday, we sent invitations to all our participants to take part in the next set of activities, which will focus on generating solution ideas to address the needs identified in Phase I.

Participants in Phase II will receive:

📌 A brief overview of insights from Phase I.

📌 A snapshot of current technological advancements in emotion detection.

📌 Devices and Data Modalities we might consider for our ideas generation.

As in Phase I, all Phase II activities will take place fully remotely and online:

🔹 Patients: 2-hour workshops, over the 3rd week of April.

🔹 Carers & Clinicians: 30-minute one-to-one interviews, from the 2nd to the 3rd week of April.

If you’re interested in getting involved, please feel free to reach out!

🎪 Behind the Scenes: Progress & Milestones

💡 Conference Paper Now Publicly Available! You can access it here: Affective_Computing_in_Anxiety_Disorders_A_Rapid_Literature_Review_of_Emotion_Recognition_Applications

💡 Advancing Technological Developments – We continue refining our technology to ensure it aligns with the directions our co-design process will highlight.

💡 Celebrating Positivity! Last week, I successfully passed my annual PhD review, which means everything is progressing well and as planned. We can continue our work without any modifications to the project, great news for me and all involved! 🎉