UNIPI Team Leader: Prof. Enzo Pasquale Scilingo, CENTRO PIAGGIO
Personalized health is a European priority and one of the strategic research areas for Horizon 2020. This project advances the state-of-the-art of personal health technologies for affective disorders, estimated to be the highest ranking cause of disease by 2020. It marks a significant shift from the current wearable technologies capturing emotional responses whose understanding usually requires physicians’ input, to low-cost self-help technologies for visualizing, exploring and regulating emotions.
AffecTech integrates the latest Human-Computer Interaction and Biomedical Engineering findings in designing and developing personal health systems for mental health, with the most influential outcomes and models of emotion regulation from Clinical Psychology.
The overall aim is to support self-understanding and successful adoption of adaptive emotion regulation strategies in daily life. AffecTech will contribute towards four significant outcomes:
- wearable systems for capturing emotion regulation,
- applications for understanding emotions and their regulatory processes,
- interactive tools for training adaptive emotion regulation strategies, and
- theoretical contributions to emotion regulation research in real life.
AffecTech builds on exceptional European and North American expertise from both academic and private sector to provide personalized health research with a timely and much needed momentum to address the pressing social challenge of emotional wellbeing and health.
Coordinator
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY United Kingdom
Other participants
- KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN Sweden
- THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN Ireland
- THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD United Kingdom
- UNIVERSITA DI PISA Italy
- UNIVERSITAT JAUME I DE CASTELLON Spain
- UNIVERSITA CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE Italy
- BOGAZICI UNIVERSITESI Turkey
- PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND B.V. Netherlands
- THE LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TRUST United Kingdom
- PLUX - WIRELESS BIOSIGNALS S.A. Portugal
Start date 01/01/2017
End date 31/12/2020
Duration 48 months
Project cost 3.888.273,60 €
Project funding 3.888.273,60 €
UNIPI quota 258 061,32 €
Call title H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016
Funding scheme MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training Networks
UNIPI role Partner
Project website: http://www.affectech.org/