Rafael A. Calvo, PhD is Professor at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. He is also co-lead at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (Imperial spoke). He focuses on the design of systems that support wellbeing in areas of mental health, medicine and education, and on the ethical challenges raised by new technologies.
Featured tech: Headgear
An app to support the mental health of employees. Funded by Beyondblue. The app has been evaluated in the largest RCT of a workplace mental health app ever conducted. In collaboration with mental health researchers at the Black Dog Institute and Brain and Mind Centre. Headgear is available now for iOS & Android.
Featured project: EQ Clinic
The EQ Clinic is a unique software environment designed to help medical students develop their communication and empathy skills. The EQ Clinic, which incorporates automated feedback on telemedicine interactions, has been used by hundreds of students across Australia. Soon to be commercialized internationally by Changineers
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Featured Talk: Positive Computing at Google