Wellbeing Technologies Lab

The Wellbeing Technologies Lab is a design and engineering research lab at the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London.  Our vision is of a future in which all digital experience contributes to the thriving of individuals, communities and our world.

We work with users and other stakeholders to advance ethical practice and evidence-based technology for health and wellbeing. This includes research on human autonomy, natural language processing, human computer interaction, digital health, mental health, and wellbeing supportive design to create mobile, conversational and multimodal technologies.

OUR DIRECTOR

Professor Rafael Calvo
Chair of Design Engineering
Dyson School of Design Engineering
Imperial College London
@rafael_a_calvo

OUR TEAM

Juan Pablo Bermudez
Research Associate (Philosophy)

Ami Bhavsar
Project Manager

Darren Cook
Research Assistant (Natural Language Processing)

Marco da Re
Research Assistant (IMPACT + Brisa projects)

Fernanda Espinoza
Research Assistant (IMPACT project)

Pippa Kirby
Honorary Clinical Research Fellow

Laura Moradbakhti
Research Assistant (Psychology and HCI)

Dorian Peters
Research Associate (Design and HCI)

Cassandra Seah
PhD Candidate

Alina-Irina Serban
PhD Candidate

Sijin Sun
PhD Candidate

Fangzhou You
Research Associate (Cross-cultural HCI)

Zheyuan (Julian) Zhang 
PhD Candidate

CURRENT PROJECTS

BRISA
A Conversational Agent for Asthma Support

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This project brings together specialist doctors, nurses and people with asthma to create a conversational agent (available online or via WhatsApp) that can help people better understand and manage their asthma, as well as more accurately assess their risk of an having an asthma attack within 3 months.  

Funders: EPSRC  |  Partners: Asthma+Lung UK; Healthily
Outputs: Website  |  Protocol paper

IMPACT
Digital health for dementia in Peru

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"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 scalable support for people with dementia and their carers. Target communities include those living across the diverse regions of Peru including within Andean, Amazonian and other rural and urban locations.

Funders: EPSRC  |  Partners: Asthma+Lung UK, Healthily
Outputs: In progress

METUX MEASURES
Evaluating wellbeing support within technology experience

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An ongoing project working toward the development and refinement of validated measures for assessing the psychological impact of technologies and digital experience. This work, forms part of our work as the Imperial spoke of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

Funders: Leverhulme Trust
Outputs: Most recent measures paper  |  Foundational paper