Activities

• Keynote: The ethics of big data for digital wellbeing and mental health, Mental Wellbeing Workshop at DIS'20

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Keynote: HCI research and wellbeing, Science and Spirituality Conference, Cambridge UK

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Invited talk: Memory technologies: capture, recall and disposal, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Invited talk, Seminar Series: Technologies for emotional wellbeing and mental health, UCLIC Research Seminar, University College London (UCL).

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Invited talk: HCI and affective health, University of Kent

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Invited talk: Technologies for wellbeing and affective health, Design Lab, University of California San Diego

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Invited talk: Emotional wellbeing and affective health, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Dagstuhl Seminar Invited Talk: Body-centric computing: neurofeedback, affect, memories, gestures

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Invited talk, Seminar Series: Technologies for emotional awareness and regulation, Computational Media Department, Seminar Series, University of California Santa Cruz

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

• Invited talk: Technologies for mindfulness practices, Computational Media, University of California Santa Cruz

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Invited talk: Ethical design for wellbeing and mental health, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California Irvine

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

• Invited talk: Design for digital wellbeing and mental health. UXWaterloo: professional interest community for improving the “user experience” of products and services.

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Press/Media

• Tech may evoke good times for depressed individuals. Interview for McKnight's Long-Term Care New swith 46,000 readers

  Press/Media: Research

• AffecTech wristband in media global Reuters newswire, Daily Mirror, Sun, Metro, Daily Record, Forbes magazine, Daily Mirror, Yahoo, and many medical sites such as Health Day with a reach of over 6.6 million people

  Press/Media: Research

• AffecTech wristband on radio with reach of over 4.4 million people

  Press/Media: Research

• Call to protect children with depression from accessing unsuitable apps

  Press/Media: Research

• Smart Devices Can Detect Mood, Help Track and Manage Emotions

  Press/Media: Research

• Designing technologies that interpret your mood from your skin

  Press/Media: Research

• Professor Corina Sas and Muhammad Umair spoke to ORF (Austria) on 28th June about smart wearable technology that detects emotions.

  Press/Media: Research

• Innovative personal tech can help people manage their affective disorders

  Press/Media: Newspaper Article

• Invited interview for CORDIS Magazine on AffecTech ITN success

  Press/Media: Newspaper Article

• The doctors are in the house - CORDIS podcast

  Press/Media: Other

• Women in science research culture perspectives

  Press/Media: Other

• Extensive media coverage of Anima prototype described in "Exploring Anima: a brain–computer interface for peripheral materialization of mindfulness states during mandala coloring" https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2021.1968864

  Press/Media: Research

Prizes

• Digital Female Leader Award 2019: Science Category

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

• Best Paper Honourable Mention Award ACM CHI 2020

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

• Best Paper Honourable Mention Award ACM CHI 2019

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

• Best Paper Honourable Mention Award ACM DIS 2020

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

• Lancaster University Outstanding Contribution Staff Award 2019

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

• Best Paper Award ACM CHI 2022

  Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Research outputs

• A hybrid intervention for challenging the stigma of mental illness

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Personal Values in HCI Research

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Evaluating Mindfulness Meditation Apps

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Dynamic Displays at Wrist for Real Time Visualization of Affective Data

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Body-Centric Computing: Results from a weeklong Dagstuhl seminar in a German castle

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• AFFECTECH: Personal Technologies for Affective Health

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Exploring and Designing for Memory Impairments in Depression

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• HCI and Affective Health Taking stock of a decade of studies and charting future research directions

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Ambiguity as a resource to inform proto-practices: The case of skin conductance

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• A systemic ethical framework for mobile mental health: From design to implementation

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Poster

• Evaluation of a self-report system for assessing mood using facial expressions

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Towards Affective Chronometry: Exploring Smart Materials and Actuators for Real-time Representations of Changes in Arousal

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Designing for Self-Management of Affective Disorders from Ethics of Care Approach

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Exploring Memory Interventions in Depression through Lifelogging Lens

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Experiencing discomfort: designing for affect from first-person perspective

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Futures of Digital Death: Past, Present and Charting Emerging Research Agenda

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Editorial

• Problems in Practice: Critiquing on Thermochromic based Displays for Representing Skin Conductance

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• The Need for Change: Understanding Emotion Regulation Deployment and Consequences Using Ecological Momentary Assessment

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Functionality of Top-Rated Mobile Apps for Depression: Systematic Search and Evaluation

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Digital Wellbeing: Evaluating Mandala Coloring Apps

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Millennials: Digitally Connected never Unplugged?

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Technology acceptability, acceptance and adoption - definitions and measurement

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• A content analysis and ethical review of mobile applications for depression: Exploring the app marketplace

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper

• Supporting stimulation needs in dementia care through wall-sized displays

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• From Biodata to Somadata

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• The need for change: Understanding emotion regulation antecedents and consequences using ecological momentary assessment

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Thanatosensitive Design Exemplars for Embodied Experience of Nonattachment

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Other chapter contribution

• Mental Health Resources: Reflection on AffecTech Platform

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Other chapter contribution

• Reviewing and evaluating mobile apps for memory impairments in depression

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Poster › peer-review

• A Scoping Review of Interactive Mindfulness Technologies for Mental Wellbeing: Considerations from HCI and Psychology

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Acceptance of smartwatches for automated self-report in mental health interventions

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• A call for responsible innovation in mobile mental health: findings from a content analysis and ethical review of the depression app marketplace

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• On the perception of facial expressions in affective disorders and potential technological uses

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• A comparison of wearable heart rate sensors for HRV biofeedback in the wild: an ethnographic study

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Mental Wellbeing: Future Agenda Drawing from Design, HCI and Big Data

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• ManneqKit Cards: A Kinesthetic Empathic Design Tool Communicating Depression Experiences

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Body Matters: Exploration of the Human Body as a Resource for the Design of Technologies for Meditation

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• ThermoPixels: Toolkit for Personalizing Arousal-based Interfaces through Hybrid Crafting

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Reflection on interdisciplinary training in doctoral education

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Evaluation of depression app store treatment descriptions and alignment with clinical guidance: Systematic search and content analysis

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Transdisciplinary ethical principles and standards for mobile mental health

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper

• Keynote: The ethics of big data for digital wellbeing and mental health

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Speech

• Keynote: HCI research and wellbeing

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Speech

• Body-centric computing: neurofeedback, affect, memories, gestures: Dagstuhl Seminar Invited Talk

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Speech

• First person HCI research: Tapping into designers’ tacit experiences

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Technology Acceptance in Mobile Health: Scoping Review of Definitions, Models, and Measurement

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Representing and Interpreting Affective Data

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Abstract

• Biosensing and Actuation—Platforms Coupling Body Input-Output Modalities for Affective Technologies

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• HRV and Stress: A Mixed-Methods Approach for Comparison of Wearable Heart RateSensors for Biofeedback

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Interoceptive Interaction: An Embodied Metaphor Inspired Approach to Designing for Meditation

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Integration of a smartwatch within an internet-delivered intervention for depression: Protocol for a feasibility randomized controlled trial on acceptance

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Sensory probes: An exploratory design research method for Human-Food Interaction

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Exploring Personalized Vibrotactile and Thermal Patterns for Affect Regulation

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• AN INTERFACE WITH COMPUTER-GENERATED FACIAL EXPRESSIONS AS AN ALTERNATIVE FOR MOOD SELF-REPORTS IN AN EMA CONTEXT

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Poster › peer-review

• Applying Delaunay triangulation augmentation for deep learning facial expression generation and recognition

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Towards inclusive multisensory embodied experiences for affective and cognitive health

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Interoceptive awareness: Metaphorical mapping & bodily experiences for insourcing tuning

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Exploring and Designing Embodied Mindfulness-based Interactive Technologies For Mental Wellbeing

  Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

• Designing for aging across borders: Craft, body, personhood

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Exploring the design space for human-food-technology interaction: An approach from the lens of eating experiences

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Exploring Anima: A brain-computer interface for peripheral materialization of mindfulness states during mandala coloring

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Design and Evaluation of Biofeedback: Interfaces for Awareness and Regulation of Affect

  Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

• Fostering interdisciplinary learning in large-scale doctoral programmes.

  Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Blog

• The TAC toolkit: Supporting the design for user acceptance of health technologies from a macro-temporal perspective.

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• User perspectives and ethical experiences of apps for depression: A qualitative analysis of user reviews

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Toward Research-Informed Design Implications for Interventions Limiting Smartphone Use: Functionalities Review of Digital Well-being Apps

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Emotions in HCI: Future Research Agenda

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• FlavorDesigner App: Capturing Multisensory Experiences and Crafting Personalized Flavors for Cueing their Recall

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

• Evaluation of facial expression feedback within self-report tools and an exploration of depression's symptomatology as facial cues

  Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

• “It took me back 25 years in one bound”: Self-Generated Flavor-based Cues for Self-defining Memories in Later Life

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• User Mental Models of AI-based Personal Informatics

  Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN › Conference paper › peer-review

• Application Level Performance Evaluation of Wearable Devices for Stress Classification with Explainable AI

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Patient acceptance of self-monitoring on smartwatch in a routine digital therapy: A mixed-methods study

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

• Ethical Design for Wellbeing and Affective Health

  Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper

• A Mindfulness-Based Brain-Computer Interface to Augment Mandala Coloring for Depression: Protocol for a Single-Case Experimental Design

  Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review