International Centre for Translational Digital Health (ICTDH) Online Seminar: Mental health digital phenotyping research
| Dates: | 19 September 2023 |
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| Times: | 08:30 - 09:30 |
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| What is it: | Webinar |
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| Organiser: | Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health |
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| Who is it for: | University staff |
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| Speaker: | Dr Simon D'Alfonso |
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Hosted by the Christabel Pankhurst Institute. The institute is part of the International Centre for Translational Digital Health (ICTDH), a joint collaboration between the University of Toronto, the University of Manchester and the University of Melbourne.
Speaker: Dr Simon D'Alfonso
Title: Mental health digital phenotyping research within CIS
Abstract:
The ubiquitous usage of smartphones, wearables, and the Internet (particularly social media/networking) has created what is termed our 'digital footprint' or our 'data exhaust'. An individual's digital footprint is basically the data records they create resulting from their interactions with the Internet and personal digital devices such as smartphones. The fact that an individual's digital footprint could be used to infer their behaviours, preferences and mental states opens the possibility of using such a process to gain insights into their mental health, insights of clinical value that could be used to anticipate mental ill-health and also inform treatment. At the intersection of the computing, data and behavioural sciences, this process of learning about an individual's psychology from their digital footprint has been termed 'digital phenotyping'.
In this presentation I will go over some work on digital phenotyping that is happening within the University of Melbourne's School of Computing and Information Systems (CIS).
To ensure we are inclusive, and to account for the different time zones covered by the ICTDH, all seminars will be recorded and made available to those who register to attend the seminar.
17:30-18:30 (Melbourne, Australia), 19 September
08:30-09:30 (Manchester, UK), 19 September
03:30-04:00 (Toronto, Canada), 19 September
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Speaker
Dr Simon D'Alfonso
Role: Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems
Organisation: The University of Melbourne
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