Digital health: Tracking mental stress and mood using wearable data and machine learning

Through wearable technology and digital footprints on our mobile phones, social media, etc., we can extract valuable insights on our lifestyle and well-being. imec is developing new tools to encourage behavior change towards a healthier lifestyle, that may lead to new therapeutic tools for patients with mental health problems such as depression or eating disorders.

Through habit monitoring, physiological monitoring, and personalized, intelligent algorithms we aim to identify triggers of unhealthy behavior, increase awareness and contribute to preventive health.

This talk will touch on data-driven machine-learning enabled health and virtual reality applications to detect cognition, mood and behavior using wearable data.