David Coyle
54 papers 46 citations h-index 3 2009–2026
Personal Investigator: a Therapeutic 3D Game for Teenagers
This position paper describes the implementation and initial findings of a game called Personal Investigator (PI). PI is an online 3D detective game that implements a model of Brief Solution...
Investigating Health-Aware Smart-Nudging with Machine Learning to Help People Pursue Healthier Eating-Habits
Food-choices and eating-habits directly contribute to our long-term health. This makes the food recommender system a potential tool to address the global crisis of obesity and malnutrition. Over...
Personalized, Health-Aware Recipe Recommendation: An Ensemble Topic Modeling Based Approach
Food choices are personal and complex and have a significant impact on our long-term health and quality of life. By helping users to make informed and satisfying decisions, Recommender Systems...
Sensors for healthcare: Would you want them in your home?
This paper describes some of the challenges set within SPHERE, a large-scale Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration that aims to develop sensor systems to monitor people's health and wellbeing...
SPHERE: Meaningful and Inclusive Sensor-Based Home Healthcare
Given current demographic and health trends, and their economic implications, home healthcare technology has become a fertile area for research and development. Motivated by the need for a radical...
Engaging with mental health: a global challenge
Using the metrics of the World Health Organisation, the Global Burden of Disease Study has found that mental health difficulties are currently the leading cause of disability in developed...
Judgement and the Feeling of Agency When Instructing a Computer to Act
In cognitive psychology, the sense of agency refers to the feeling of controlling an external event through one's own actions. This paper asks how people experience agency when they give an...