Help4Mood

A Computational Distributed System to Support the Treatment of Patients with Major Depression

The aim of the Help4Mood is to develop a system that will help people with major depression recover in their own home. The Help4Mood system is designed to be used together with other forms of therapy, such as self-help, counselling, or medication. Help4Mood has three main components:
a personal monitoring system that keeps track of important aspects of behaviour such as sleep or activity levels
an interactive virtual agent who asks patients about their health and well-being, provides a portal to trusted health information, and feeds back information collected through monitoring and questionnaires.
a decision support system that tailors each session with the virtual agent to the individual needs of the person with depression and that supports clinicians in interpreting the data collected through the virtual agent and the personal monitoring system

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH UEDIN United Kingdom

FUNDACIO PRIVADA I2CAT, INTERNET I INNOVACIO DIGITAL A CATALUNYA I2CAT Spain

UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI UBB Romania

FVA SAS DI LOUIS FERRINI & C FVA Italy

UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA UPVLC Spain

OBS Medical Ltd OBSM United Kingdom

UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA UPC Spain

HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY HWU United Kingdom

starting 2011/01/01 - end 2013/12/31

Javier Rosell (UPC)
Colin Mathelson (UEDIN)