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Therapy: location-aware assessment and tasks

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Luís Carriço,

Tiago AntunesAuthors Info & Claims

AH '12: Proceedings of the 3rd Augmented Human International Conference

Article No.: 2, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/2160125.2160127

Published: 08 March 2012 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we present a system that allows therapists to assess and engage patients' in activities triggered by specific stressing contexts. The system is composed by: 1) a web application that the therapist uses to specify the activities and its triggering conditions; and 2) a mobile app that measures physiologic characteristics and challenges the patient to perform the activities according to those conditions. This toolset is part of an extended cognitive behaviour therapy framework. The preliminary evaluation results are encouraging and indicate that the system can be of use and usable for direct application in therapy procedures.

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Gooding PKariotis T(2021)Ethics and Law in Research on Algorithmic and Data-Driven Technology in Mental Health Care: Scoping ReviewJMIR Mental Health10.2196/246688:6(e24668)Online publication date: 10-Jun-2021
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Fernandes FDuarte LCarriço L(2013)Flow Specification Patterns of End-User Programmers: Lessons Learnt from a Health Mobile Application Authoring Environment DesignHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 201310.1007/978-3-642-40480-1_52(748-755)Online publication date: 2013
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40480-1_52

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Therapy: location-aware assessment and tasks
1. Human-centered computing

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AH '12: Proceedings of the 3rd Augmented Human International Conference

March 2012

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ISBN:9781450310772

DOI:10.1145/2160125

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Gooding PKariotis T(2021)Ethics and Law in Research on Algorithmic and Data-Driven Technology in Mental Health Care: Scoping ReviewJMIR Mental Health10.2196/246688:6(e24668)Online publication date: 10-Jun-2021
https://doi.org/10.2196/24668
Al-barrak LKanjo EYounis E(2017)NeuroPlace: Categorizing urban places according to mental statesPLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.018389012:9(e0183890)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183890
Fernandes FDuarte LCarriço L(2013)Flow Specification Patterns of End-User Programmers: Lessons Learnt from a Health Mobile Application Authoring Environment DesignHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 201310.1007/978-3-642-40480-1_52(748-755)Online publication date: 2013
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40480-1_52

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