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Potential of using visual imagery to revolutionise measurement of emotional health (2020)
Journal Article
Herring, A. M. R., Craven, M. P., Mughal, F., Rawsthorne, M., Rees, K., Walker, L., & Wolpert, M. (2020). Potential of using visual imagery to revolutionise measurement of emotional health. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 105(7), 690-693. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2019-317758

Appropriate measurement of emotional health by all those working with children and young people is an increasing focus for professional practice. Most of the tools used for assessment or self-assessment of emotional health were designed in the mid-20... Read More about Potential of using visual imagery to revolutionise measurement of emotional health.

Automated virtual reality (VR) cognitive therapy for patients with psychosis: study protocol for a single-blind parallel group randomised controlled trial (gameChange) (2019)
Journal Article
Freeman, D., Yu, L., Kabir, T., Martin, J., Craven, M., Leal, J., …Waite, F. (2019). Automated virtual reality (VR) cognitive therapy for patients with psychosis: study protocol for a single-blind parallel group randomised controlled trial (gameChange). BMJ Open, 9(8), e031606. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031606

Introduction Many patients with psychosis experience everyday social situations as anxiety-provoking. The fears can arise, for example, from paranoia, hallucinations, social anxiety or negative-self beliefs. The fears lead patients to withdraw from a... Read More about Automated virtual reality (VR) cognitive therapy for patients with psychosis: study protocol for a single-blind parallel group randomised controlled trial (gameChange).

A mobile phone app to support young people in making shared decisions in therapy (Power Up): study protocol (2017)
Journal Article
Chapman, L., Edbrooke-Childs, J., Martin, K., Webber, H., Craven, M. P., Hollis, C., …Wolpert, M. (2017). A mobile phone app to support young people in making shared decisions in therapy (Power Up): study protocol. JMIR Research Protocols, 6(10), Article e206. https://doi.org/10.2196/resprot.7694

Background: Evidence suggests that young people want to be active participants in their care and involved in decisions about their treatment. However, there is a lack of digital shared decision-making tools available to support young people in child... Read More about A mobile phone app to support young people in making shared decisions in therapy (Power Up): study protocol.

Technologies to support community-dwelling persons with dementia: a position paper on issues regarding development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics (2017)
Journal Article
Meiland, F., Innes, A., Mountain, G., Robinson, L., Roest, H. V. D., García-Casal, J. A., …Franco-Martin, M. (2017). Technologies to support community-dwelling persons with dementia: a position paper on issues regarding development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics. JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies, 4(1), Article e1. https://doi.org/10.2196/rehab.6376

Background: With the expected increase in the numbers of persons with dementia, providing timely, adequate, and affordable care and support is challenging. Assistive and health technologies may be a valuable contribution in dementia care, but new cha... Read More about Technologies to support community-dwelling persons with dementia: a position paper on issues regarding development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics.

Early stage Healthcare Technology Assessment (2016)
Book Chapter
Pecchia, L., Castaldo, R., Melillo, P., Bracale, U., Craven, M. P., & Bracale, M. (2016). Early stage Healthcare Technology Assessment. In R. Miniati, E. Iadenza, & F. Dori (Eds.), Clinical engineering: from devices to systems. Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803767-6.00008-8

This chapter presents an overview of HTA methods aiming to inform the research and development of new medical devices, here defined as early stage HTA methods. First, standard HTA methods are briefly introduced and their limits and weaknesses are dis... Read More about Early stage Healthcare Technology Assessment.

Computer games for user engagement in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) monitoring and therapy (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Craven, M. P., & Groom, M. J. (2015). Computer games for user engagement in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) monitoring and therapy.

State-of-the-art computer games and psychological tests for symptom monitoring and therapy in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are explored and reviewed. Three foci for research studies are identified: task (human performance) focus; e... Read More about Computer games for user engagement in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) monitoring and therapy.

Government policy and healthcare management: proposal of a shared decision-making model (2015)
Journal Article
Petrillo, A., Felice, F. D., Vanzanella, C., Crispino, F., Martin, J. L., Craven, M. P., …Pecchia, L. (2015). Government policy and healthcare management: proposal of a shared decision-making model. International Journal of Management and Decision Making, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMDM.2015.070757

As a consequence of the current economic crisis many changes have been introduced to health systems on national levels to reduce expenditure and to introduce more cost-effective methods. Then recent developments in medical technology have led to a sh... Read More about Government policy and healthcare management: proposal of a shared decision-making model.

A systematic review of dementia focused assistive technology (2015)
Journal Article
Evans, J., Brown, M., Coughlan, T., Lawson, G., & Craven, M. P. (2015). A systematic review of dementia focused assistive technology. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9170, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20916-6_38

This paper presents a systematic review which explores the nature of assistive technologies currently being designed, developed and evaluated for dementia sufferers and their carers. A search through four large databases, followed by filtering by rel... Read More about A systematic review of dementia focused assistive technology.

Evaluating a public display installation with game and video to raise awareness of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Craven, M. P., Simons, L., Gillott, A., North, S., Schnädelbach, H., & Young, Z. (2015). Evaluating a public display installation with game and video to raise awareness of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. In M. Kurosu (Ed.), Human-computer interaction: interaction technologies : 17th International Conference, HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings Part II (584–595). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20916-6_54

Networked Urban Screens offer new possibilities for public health education and awareness. An information video about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) was combined with a custom browser-based video game and successfully deployed on an... Read More about Evaluating a public display installation with game and video to raise awareness of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.