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Engineer This!: Improving mental health through mobile technology

Dr. Farzan Sasangohar and his team combined commercial smartwatches with advanced machine learning and a wide range of sensors to detect signs and symptoms of high anxiety to direct users to mental health and self-care resources.

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September 29, 2020

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Dr. Farzan Sasangohar and his team from the Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems have created the Mental Health Evaluation and Lookout pilot program (mHELP), which combines commercial smartwatches with advanced machine learning and a wide range of sensors to detect signs and symptoms of high anxiety to direct users to mental health and self-care resources. This self-management suite of tools does everything from detection to closing the loop at some therapeutic activities to connecting people to the right support in order to improve the mental health of veterans, college students, health care workers and more.

Read the full article by the Texas A&M University College of Engineering.

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