Challenges to the accurate monitoring cognitive health: recent findings from Sheffield

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• Heidi Christensen, University of Sheffield
• Tuesday 20 February 2024, 16:00-17:00
• Computer Lab, FW26 and Online.

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https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81629625472?pwd=eTRQTHRtajdVaG85RG1HUXE1TWY3Zz09

Abstract: Cognitive decline is a pressing and growing global health challenge. One in which it is increasingly clear that appropriately designed digital health technologies can provide solutions that offer easy-to-use, home-based, and accurate assessments to help healthcare professionals diagnose conditions like dementia. This talk will outline the major challenges in detecting and tracking cognitive health including challenges of co-morbidities and bias and outline recent state-of-the-art research from current projects at the University of Sheffield (UK)’s Speech and Hearing (SPandH) & Healthcare lab.

Bio: Heidi Christensen is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Sheffield (UoS), United Kingdom. Her research interests are in the use of speech and language processing in the healthcare domain. Her core expertise is in the detection and tracking of people’s physical and mental health including verbal and non-verbal expressions of emotion, anxiety, depression and neurodegenerative conditions in e.g., a therapeutic or diagnostic setting.

This talk is part of the Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series series.

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