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David Plans
Ba(Hons), MSc, PhD
DPhil Candidate
- Clinical Social Cognition (Bird Lab)
Telemetric measurement of interoception and digital therapeutics
My early research focused on computational intelligence approaches to understand and classify emotion in music making, which forced me to examine the psychophysiology of play, flow and stress. Having built technology (apps+sensors) that attempts to measure stress and interoception in neurotypical adults, I am now investigating the influence of interoceptive awareness on stress, as well as aspects of organisational behaviour surrounding empathy and vulnerability. I'm most interested in whether training interoceptive awareness through digital forms of biofeedback could contribute to better stress resilience and foster empathy, currently building pilot studies to test the feasibility of these ideas in large populations.
Recent publications
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Disentangling change across the time and true stability of employees’ resilience using latent state model
Journal article
Ollis L. et al, (2022), BMC Psychiatry, 22
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Smartphone movement sensors for the remote monitoring of respiratory rates: Technical validation.
Journal article
Valentine S. et al, (2022), Digit Health, 8
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Measuring Interoception: The CARdiac Elevation Detection Task
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Ponzo S. et al, (2021), Frontiers in Psychology, 12
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Measuring interoception: The phase adjustment task.
Journal article
Plans D. et al, (2021), Biol Psychol
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Implementation of a mHealth solution to remotely monitor patients on a cardiac surgical waiting list: service evaluation.
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Obika BD. et al, (2021), JAMIA Open, 4