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David Plans
Ba(Hons), MSc, PhD
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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Development and feasibility of a digital Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based Intervention for Generalised Anxiety Disorder: Pilot study (Preprint)
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Hemmings NR. et al, (2020)
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Efficacy of the Digital Therapeutic Mobile App BioBase to Reduce Stress and Improve Mental Well-Being Among University Students: Randomized Controlled Trial.
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Ponzo S. et al, (2020), JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 8
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Effectiveness of a smart phone application BioBase for reducing anxiety and increasing mental wellbeing: a pilot feasibility and acceptability study (Preprint)
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Kawadler JM. et al, (2020)
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Efficacy of the Digital Therapeutic Mobile App “BioBase” to Reduce Stress and Improve Mental Wellbeing Among University Students: a Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)
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Ponzo S. et al, (2020)
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Testing the independence of self-reported interoceptive accuracy and attention.
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Murphy J. et al, (2020), Q J Exp Psychol (Hove), 73, 115 - 133