Lab

Wellbeing Technologies Lab

The Wellbeing Technologies Lab is located at Imperial College London at the Dyson School of Design Engineering. We work to advance ethical practice and wellbeing-supportive design in technology. This includes research in digital health, mental health and wellbeing. Our vision is of a future in which all digital experience contributes to the thriving of individuals, communities and our world.

People

Rafael Calvo
Lab Director
Professor of Software Engineering
Dyson School of Design Engineering
Imperial College London
@rafael_a_calvo

Dorian Peters
Research Associate
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence,
University of Cambridge;
Imperial College London
@dorian_peters

Ami Bhavsar

Project Manager

 

Pippa  Kirby

Clinical Fellow

Darren Cook
Research Associate

Juan Pablo Bermudez

Research Associate

Fangzhou You

Research Associate

 

Laura Moradbakhti

Research Associate

 

PhD candidates

• Cassandra Seah
• Sijin Sun
• Alina-Irina Serban
• Zheyuan Zhang 
  

Current Projects 

AshtmaShield - a conversational agent for asthma support

Funded by the EPSRC and in partnership with Asthma UK, this project is bringing together Asthma specialists, doctors, nurses and patients to create a WhatsApp based conversational agent to help people with asthma better understand and manage their condition, as well as more accurately assess their risk of an exacerbation.  

IMPACT - mHealth for dimentia in Peru

"Innovating with mHealth in Peru for Dementia and Co-morbidities" is a project in collaboration with a team or researchers in Peru where we are exploring pathways to scaleable support for people with dimentia and their carers living across various regions of Peru including in Andean, Amazonian and other rural areas.  

Measuring wellbeing within technology experience

This work which forms part of the Imperial spoke of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence is funded by the Leverhulme trust and develops validated measures for assessing the psychological impact of technologies and digital experience.

Selected publications 

Below are some example publications.
For complete lists see:  Rafael's publications and Dorian's Publications.

•  Peters, D. (2022). Wellbeing Supportive Design – Research-Based Guidelines for Supporting Psychological Wellbeing in User Experience. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 0(0), 1–13.
  
• Calvo, R.A., Peters, D. & Cave, S. Advancing impact assessment for intelligent systems. Nature Machine Intelligence (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-020-0151-z. [read online]
• Peters, D. Vold K.,  Robinson D. and Calvo R. A. , “Responsible AI -Two Frameworks for Ethical Design Practice,” in IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. Vol 1, No 1, pp 34-47 
• Designing for Motivation, Engagement, and Thriving in Digital Experience. D. Peters, R.A. Calvo, R. M. Ryan. Frontiers in Psychology, 9 (MAY).
• Positive Computing.  R.A. Calvo and D. Peters. MIT Press. 
•  D. Peters, RA Calvo (2014) “Compassion v. empathy: Designing for resilience.” ACM Interactions. September – October pp 48-53. [PDF]
• RA Calvo, D. Peters, D. Johnson, Y. Rogers "Autonomy in Technology Design" CHI'14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2014 [Prepub PDF]
• RA Calvo, D. Peters (2013) "Promoting psychological wellbeing: loftier goals for new technologies" IEEE Technology and Society, December vol 32, 4. 
• RA Calvo, D. Vella-Brodrick, P. Desmet & RM Ryan. “Positive Computing: A new partnership between psychology, social sciences and technologists” Psychology of Well-being, 2016, 6 (5) 
• Oxford Handbook on Affective Computing: R.A. Calvo, S.K. D'Mello, J. Gratch and A. Kappas (Eds). Handbook of Affective Computing. Oxford University Press. 2014.  

Previous Projects

View some of our projects on Behance

Until 2018, we ran the Wellbeing Technology Lab (previously the Positive Computing Lab) at the University of Sydney (see the feature in Interactions Magazine) with collaborators at the Black Dog Institute, Brain and Mind Centre, Cambridge Wellbeing Institute, Changineers, Charles Perkins Centre, Microsoft Research, ReachOut, Tobias, UCL Interaction Centre and many others.