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Is gaming good for stress?

... phone for 10 minutes, to do mindfulness exercise using an app, or a control condition was to just use a fidget spinner ... your and energetic arousal. Whereas the mindfulness app wasn't. So the authors wanted to take this out into the ... scales. Half of them would engage in the mindfulness app exercise and half of them would engage in playing a game ...

A smartphone chatbot that reinforces positive thinking and emotion-tracking tech are designed to support users living with mental health conditions.

The tech tapping into user emotions to tackle depression and anxiety

... in AI to offer patients support on chat-based apps. Chat app The Shim project, run by a team of psychologists, ... issues – with human-like support on a mobile-based chat app. The system uses AI to spot language patterns and ... of the project’s company Hello Shim, explained that the app uses positive psychology to help a user reflect more ...

Researchers are developing technology to use alongside therapy in order to support eating disorder treatment.

Unhealthy cravings curbed by smartphone treatment

What if an app could recognise when you are craving unhealthy food and ... like sweets. NewEat researchers have created a smartphone app that they hope will benefit the therapy process, and ... in which unhealthy eating behaviours take place. The app, PsyDiary, currently undertakes smaller interventions. In ...

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A new app to detect anaemia?

... to be able to develop this eyelid photography test into an app for any smartphone. But what's wrong with a simple blood ... would probably take a few days. Whereas if you had this app, you can take a picture of your lower eyelid and have the ... there enough smartphones with good enough cameras for your app to be useful in those countries? Selim - Well, we've ...

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The insecure Internet of Things

... The idea was that you could connect to the kettle using an app on your phone and you could boil the water remotely. ... the morning, roll over out of bed, press a button on the app, and by the time you get to the kitchen, you've got a ... what should us ordinary people do? Ken - Make sure your app is completely up to date. Make sure you got the latest ...

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Shopping without tills

... though none outside that. The way it works is you have an app on your phone - you assume you have the app - you scan on entry, you are then tracked around the ... accused of shoplifting. And it's quite important that the app apparently will tell you what you've bought; so before ...

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How many are still ill with COVID-19?

... problem? One way is using the UK’s COVID symptom tracker app, which has got millions of willing participants logging ... were these people getting? Tim - Well, we ask in the app about 19 symptoms, and the ones that seem to be coming up ... records for mild cases - but data from a symptom tracker app shows the problem's scale... How many are still ill with ...

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Emotions and eating disorders

... carry out their research, the team developed a smartphone app, which over two weeks asks multiple questions of its ... said Prof. Blechert. The team is now developing their app to be used for personalised intervention for a project ... ‘People (with eating disorders) could profit from an app or an internet programme that would run in an ...

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Diabetes control by smartphone

Cells controlled remotely by a smartphone app can release insulin into the bloodstream to regulate ... that did not require any active intervention via the phone app but nonetheless permitted human external monitoring and ... medicine."   Cells controlled remotely by a smartphone app can release insulin into the bloodstream to regulate ...

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Nature or nurture: How do we end child obesity?

A smartphone app that challenges children to engage in healthy behaviour, ... The project is designing a personalised, entertaining app for children – accessible via smartphone and computer ... its design and wearables and hope to launch the draft app in January 2019. Their ultimate aim is to prevent ...

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Smartphone sensors make roads greener

... bike schemes. Users can log into the project’s mobile app and gain access to a single platform to plan, book and ... environmental performance of urban transport networks. The app also provides the urban transport sector with new data ... project is in the final stages of testing its RideMyRoute app. Once it is ready, users will be able to carpool within ...

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Spider in da House

... How will you process all the data because you've got this app, people will use it?  We'll hear how Ginny got on within ... It's pretty creepy.  So, what do we need to do with your app? Rebecca - So, what we need to do is first, make sure ... to actually send the data to you? Rebecca - So, we have an app and it's called Spider in da House.  Once you go to the ...

Using an iPhone

50% heritability for key COVID-19 symptoms

... London rolled out a popular COVID-19 Symptom Tracker app, and they’ve recently released their heritability ... personalized. And the second big value I think for this app is being able to collect large volumes of data real time ... King's College London A popular UK symptom tracking app has revealed that half of the variation between people is ...

Hacking illegal animal trafficking

... people can download? Zack - Yes but this would be an app that you can download on your smartphone or it's ... creation going to do about this? Eddie - We're creating an app which alerts people on the ground to changes in land use. ... hours. And that was only the start. There was also an app for people to anonymously whistle blow on poaching, a ...

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Mailbox: COVID symptoms if you're double vaccinated

... is backed up by evidence from the ZOE symptom tracker app. They say the top most common symptoms for those who’ve ... isn’t 100% conclusive evidence, and the symptom tracker app obviously isn’t catching everyone, but something to ...

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Gaming News for October 2020

... developers have formed a coalition to fight Apple over its app store policies. “The Coalition for App Fairness” is made up of members from Spotify, Epic ...

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Stephen Chambers - Selling synbio

... Kat - Do you think that there's kind of a killer app? There's something out there that synthetic biology can ... as a technology, we're always looking for that killer app that's going to get the public's attention. But I don't ... tools out there, but I don't think we've seen the killer app yet. Kat - How do you see this technology expanding, ...

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Will the UK have a 3rd wave of COVID?

... outbreak and monitoring its trajectory with the Covid ZOE app he helped to develop and which has generated large ... number of assumptions. The data we're seeing from the ZOE app is much more reassuring than a lot of those assumptions, ...

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Detecting coronavirus in real-time

... a personalised disease detection algorithm, the MyPHD app, developed by Mike Snyder and his research team, uses the ... add a little bit of step and sleep data [as well]”. The app is easy to interpret due to a nifty traffic light system. ...

Social media peer pressure used to help adolescents live healthier lives

... in small groups – and combine it with a mobile phone app, which includes a game and personalised avatar. ‘Social ... talk to their friends using the project’s mobile phone app, while answering occasional questions for researchers. ...

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Ethereum: a computer in the sky

... bought some Bitcoin and bought some Ethereum using this app, and I just got jealous of them talking about the highs ... of an exchange on the Ethereum blockchainl; there's an app called Uniswap which will swap one asset for another ...

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Why does Face ID work after cataract surgery?

... the facial ID profile for both your phone and the banking app. But if the problem persists even after doing this, then ... software is working on your phone, but not on the app as technically they should both be reading the same ...

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Can an App Make You Happy?

... of their environment and it does that with an iPhone app that people download for free. They get beeped twice a ... users would report their mood improving as well... Can an App Make You Happy? ...

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Smartphone sonar detects drug overdoses

... University of Washington, to discuss the new life saving app. A phone app uses sonar to monitor respirations... Smartphone sonar ...

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Can brain training slow the progression to Alzheimer's?

... University neuroscientists have invented a memory-boosting app called GameShow. Katie Haylor went to see the game's ... University neuroscientists have invented a memory-boosting app called GameShow, designed to help patients in the very ...