Therapy: location-aware assessment and tasks

Abstract

In this paper, we present a system that allows therapists to assess and engage patients' in activities triggered by specific stressing contexts. The system is composed by: 1) a web application that the therapist uses to specify the activities and its triggering conditions; and 2) a mobile app that measures physiologic characteristics and challenges the patient to perform the activities according to those conditions. This toolset is part of an extended cognitive behaviour therapy framework. The preliminary evaluation results are encouraging and indicate that the system can be of use and usable for direct application in therapy procedures.