Patient Monitoring Technologies for In-Situ Assessment of Emotional Processes In Naturalistic Settings

在自然环境中进行现场和门诊患者监测，可以在受控的临床环境之外观察症状，最终增强评估和诊断过程。虽然已经提出了大量用于现场监测生理病理（例如，心脏异常，癫痫发作）的系统，但监测精神和精神健康相关症状的技术很少。这些技术可以补充和加强一般依赖高度主观的自我和照护者报告的现有评估方法。在这个领域，情绪过程的监测是特别感兴趣的，因为这些过程在精神病理学中起着关键作用（例如，焦虑，抑郁，边缘型人格障碍，双相情感障碍）。该计划的长期目标是开发智能、移动和可穿戴计算系统，用于持续和现场监测与精神疾病相关的症状以及相关的环境因素。

In-situ and ambulatory patient monitoring in naturalistic settings enables symptom observation outside controlled clinical settings, ultimately enhancing assessment and diagnostic processes. While a plethora of systems have been proposed for in-situ monitoring of physiological pathologies (e.g., cardiac abnormalities, seizures), technologies that monitor psychiatric- and mental health-related symptoms are scarce. These technologies can complement and enhance existing assessment methods which generally rely on highly subjective self- and care-giver reports. In this domain, monitoring of emotional processes is of specific interest as these processes play a key role in psychopathology (e.g., anxiety, depression, borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorders). The long-term objective of the proposed program is to develop intelligent, mobile, and wearable computing systems for continuous and in-situ monitoring of symptoms associated with psychiatric disorders as well as the related contextual factors.