UIC doctor develops app to detect mental illness just by using a smartphone
A brain expert and professor at the University of Illinois Chicago has created a smartphone app to detect mental illness in real time.Dr. Alex Leow, a professor in psychiatry and bio-engineering at UIC, had different career aspirations while growing up. 'I wanted to be a concert pianist or a pure mathematician,' she saidLeow is exceptional at the piano and still plays almost daily. Originally from Taiwan, she put that career path aside and traveled to the United States to study.
In 2015, when smartwatches and wearable technology came on the scene, she had an 'ah-ha' moment. It came to her when looking at her hands on the piano keyboard.'I asked myself if we can have a fitness tracker for the human body, why can't we have one for the human brain,' she said.That's when the app BiAffect was born. The app has users replace their smartphone keyboard with the app's keyboard.
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