The Research

Publications

Papers from MEMoPAD, a UWE Bristol PhD project co-designing wearable emotion monitoring with people living with anxiety disorders, their carers and mental health clinicians. Talks and posters are listed on the Achievements page.

MEMoPAD papers

  1. MEMoPAD: Multimodal Emotion Monitoring in Clinical Pathways for Anxiety Disorders

    Luigi Andrea Moretti, Miles Thompson, Paul Matthews, Michael Loizou, David Western

    ACM Interactive Health 2026 (IH '26) · pp. 1–4 · 2026

    Summary and citation PDF DOI: 10.1145/3786579.3804994

  2. Designing for Sustained Engagement in Anxiety Disorders: Lessons from MEMoPAD's Co-Design Journey

    Luigi Andrea Moretti, Miles Thompson, Paul Matthews, Michael Loizou, David Western

    CHI 2026 workshop · pp. 77–80 · 2026

    Summary and citation PDF

  3. Co-Designing MEMoPAD: Multimodal Emotion Monitoring in Clinical Pathways for Anxiety Disorders

    Luigi Andrea Moretti, Carmel McGrath, Lucy Condon, Miles Thompson, Paul Matthews, Michael Loizou, David Western

    BCS HCI 2025 workshop · 2025

    Summary and citation PDF

  4. Affective Computing in Anxiety Disorders: A Rapid Literature Review of Emotion Recognition Applications

    Luigi Andrea Moretti, Miles Thompson, Paul Matthews, Michael Loizou, David Western

    HEALTHINF 2025 · pp. 273–284 · 2025

    Abstract and citation PDF DOI: 10.5220/0013322800003911

Other publications by Luigi Andrea Moretti

Earlier and related work in affective computing, biosignals and health AI.

  1. Identifying emotion patterns in speech for Alzheimer's disease assessment: A novel perspective

    Luigi Andrea Moretti, Yingxue Guan, Zahraa Abdallah

    Behavioral Biometrics and Artificial Intelligence for Neurodegenerative Diseases Assessment · pp. 147–185 · 2026

  2. Towards deployment-centric multimodal AI beyond vision and language

    Xianyuan Liu, Jiayang Zhang, Shuo Zhou, et al. (including Luigi Andrea Moretti)

    Nature Machine Intelligence 7(10) · pp. 1612–1624 · 2025

    Open-access version

  3. Clinical AI Scribes in primary care: accuracy, error severity and implications for clinical practice

    Thomas C. Draper, Timothy Cox, Kathryn Lamb-Riddell, Luigi Andrea Moretti, John McCormick, Stephen Trowell, Janice Kiely, Richard Luxton

    BMJ Digital Health & AI 1(1) · e000092 · 2025

  4. An Approach using transformer architecture for emotion recognition through Electrocardiogram Signal(s)

    Vincenzo Dentamaro, Donato Impedovo, Luigi Andrea Moretti, Giuseppe Pirlo, Prem K. Suresh

    Data Science Techniques for Datasets on Mental and Neurodegenerative Disorders (DSTNDS 2023), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3521 · pp. 30–52 · 2023

  5. A benchmarking study of deep learning techniques applied for breath analysis

    Vincenzo Dentamaro, Paolo Giglio, Donato Impedovo, Luigi Andrea Moretti, Giuseppe Pirlo, Elena Sblendorio

    Data Science Techniques for Datasets on Mental and Neurodegenerative Disorders (DSTNDS 2023), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3521 · pp. 73–83 · 2023

  6. AUCO ResNet: an end-to-end network for Covid-19 pre-screening from cough and breath

    Vincenzo Dentamaro, Paolo Giglio, Donato Impedovo, Luigi Andrea Moretti, Giuseppe Pirlo

    Pattern Recognition 127 · 108656 · 2022

Full, up-to-date record: Google Scholar · ORCID

Cite or link to MEMoPAD

Writing about the project? Please call it MEMoPAD (Multimodal Emotion Monitoring in Clinical Pathways for Anxiety Disorders), a UWE Bristol PhD project, and link to memopad.luigiandreamoretti.com.

HTML link 
<a href="https://memopad.luigiandreamoretti.com/">MEMoPAD (Multimodal Emotion Monitoring in Clinical Pathways for Anxiety Disorders)</a>

To cite the MEMoPAD system

Moretti, L. A., Thompson, M., Matthews, P., Loizou, M., & Western, D. (2026). MEMoPAD: Multimodal Emotion Monitoring in Clinical Pathways for Anxiety Disorders. In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Interactive Health Conference (pp. 1–4). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3786579.3804994

BibTeX 
@inproceedings{moretti2026memopad,
  title = {{MEMoPAD}: Multimodal Emotion Monitoring in Clinical Pathways for Anxiety Disorders},
  author = {Moretti, Luigi Andrea and Thompson, Miles and Matthews, Paul and Loizou, Michael and Western, David},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Interactive Health Conference},
  year = {2026},
  pages = {1--4},
  publisher = {ACM},
  doi = {10.1145/3786579.3804994}
}

To cite our review of affective computing in anxiety disorders

Moretti, L. A., Thompson, M., Matthews, P., Loizou, M., & Western, D. (2025). Affective Computing in Anxiety Disorders: A Rapid Literature Review of Emotion Recognition Applications. In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2025) - Volume 2: HEALTHINF (pp. 273–284). SCITEPRESS. https://doi.org/10.5220/0013322800003911

BibTeX 
@inproceedings{moretti2025affective,
  title = {Affective Computing in Anxiety Disorders: A Rapid Literature Review of Emotion Recognition Applications},
  author = {Moretti, Luigi Andrea and Thompson, Miles and Matthews, Paul and Loizou, Michael and Western, David},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2025) - Volume 2: HEALTHINF},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {273--284},
  publisher = {SCITEPRESS},
  isbn = {978-989-758-731-3},
  doi = {10.5220/0013322800003911}
}