NICM HRI Seminar 2021: Leveraging personal digital devices to assess depression
| Event Name | NICM HRI Seminar 2021: Leveraging personal digital devices to assess depression |
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| Start Date | 10th Jun 2021 11:00 am |
| Description | NICM Health Research Institute presents Dr Paola Pedrelli, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School; and Associate in Psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital, United States.Join guest seminar speaker, Dr Pedrelli, as she discusses how digital phenotyping, using personal digital devices such as smartphones and sensors to assess human behaviour, can be used to measure and assess depressive symptoms. Dr Pedrelli’s research program focuses on the development of novel assessment tools and treatments of depression when occurring alone and when co-occurring with heavy episodic drinking. Recently, she has examined methods combining artificial intelligence and sensors to develop objective markers of depression. She has received funding to support her research program by the National Institute of Health as well as private foundations, extensively presented her body of work, and successfully published more than 55 peer-reviewed papers in high profile journals. AbstractUnlike other fields of medicine, psychiatry does not rely on objective indices to diagnose mental health disorders and to assess symptoms severity. Recent advances in the fields of engineering, computer science, and computational science have led to the development of novel methods to quantify and measure behavioural phenotypes of mental health disorders. In this presentation, Dr Pedrelli will describe the concept of digital phenotyping and outline research measuring depressive symptoms severity by collecting behavioural and physiological data with wearable and mobile sensors. How to join and requirements: Our online seminars use the Zoom platform. Joining the webinar is easy. If you don’t already use Zoom don’t worry, Zoom will download automatically when you click the link to join the webinar. This link will be provided to you in a confirmation email upon registration, and is the easiest and more direct way to join the webinar. Alternatively you can go to the Zoom website https://zoom.us/join (opens in a new window) and enter the Meeting ID (provided in the confirmation email) and click join. Otherwise, you can also dial in on the phone number (provided in the confirmation email). If you have any questions before the day, please contact our seminar programs team at nicm@westernsydney.edu.au To ensure a seamless learning experience, please follow these simple steps:
Please note this webinar will not require a webcam or audio for participants. This webinar will have the Q&A function available for questions at the end of the webinar and a recording may also be made available to participants. Closed captioning is available for this webinar, however please note the live transcript is automatically generated and accuracy may be limited due to this. Webinar recording disclaimer: The presenter’s video and audio (including screen shared content) will be recorded. As attendees, your video and audio are not being transmitted and you will not be visible or heard during the webinar. You will also not be recorded. Further to this, a recording of this webinar may be published online for reference. Attendees will not be visible or heard in this recording. Participation in the ‘Chat’, ‘Question and Answer’ and/or ‘Poll’ sections of the webinar is completely optional. Any personal information collected by Western Sydney University during the webinar will be handled in accordance with its Privacy Policy and Privacy Management Plan which can be accessed online at https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/policy/policy_dds Event detailsWHEN: Thursday 10 June 2021 |
