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JoinTS
Full Title
Joint psychological TherapieSDescription
JoinTS (Joint psychological TherapieS) is a project that aims at providing extended support to psychotherapy processes that focus patients’ autonomy, activity and self-regulation. It provides coverage of the patient centred activities through different settings and utilizing emerging technologies. The computational support will also aim at facilitating group therapy and therapist collaboration. In a word, the project stands on joint therapy processes.
Research Goals:
- Definition of functional and interaction mechanisms that enable non-technical therapists to creation patient specific applications for different devices
- Definition and integration of interactive modalities and monitoring techniques, for emerging hand-held devices, that facilitate and encourage patients to perform scheduled activities
- Definition of cooperation mechanisms adequate for group therapy and group diagnosis
- Improve joint psychotherapy processes, and evaluate the impact of the design systems, interaction techniques and cooperation mechanisms