UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                            presents

           "Go-with-the-flow": An Affect-based Framework 
            for Physical Rehabilitation in Chronic Pain 

                     Prof. Nadia Berthouze
         (Interaction Centre, University College London)

                       28 October 2015 (Wednesday)
                          1 pm -2 pm

                  Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                       Seminar Room LF233

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend

                  Refreshments will be available




ABSTRACT: Research to guide the design of interactive technology that
supports physical activity in people with chronic pain is lacking. I'll
present our studies with: (1) people with chronic pain to understand what
strategies they use to maintain and increase physical activity in daily
life and what factors deter them; and (2) pain-specialist physiotherapists
to understand how they support such people. I will then report on
two design studies that build on this understanding. The first study
demonstrates how auditory feedback could be used to address some of the
psychological barriers and needs identified and increase self-efficacy,
motivation and confidence in physical activity.  Then I will present
some results on the creation of a system that can automatically recognize
pain and pain related expressions from non-verbal behaviour.



About the Speaker: 
Prof Nadia Berthouze leads the Affective Computing and Interaction
group within the UCL Interaction Centre. She pioneered the study of body
posture/movement (both kinematics and muscle activity) and touch behaviour
as modalities for affective automatic recognition and modulation in
technology-mediated scenarios (games, health sector). Her work has
gone beyond acted emotions by investigating naturalistic affective
expressions such as laughter and pain. She was invited to write chapters
for prestigious handbooks (Oxford Handbooks, APA Psychology series),
to give a TEDxStMartin talk and been a keynote speaker for various
academic and industry -led conferences. She has published more than 150
papers in affective computing, HCI, and pattern recognition and she has
been PI and Co-I in various UK, EU and Japan funded projects.


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