Emotion Lab

This week's episode is the last of season one and Graeme welcomes back Dr James Somauroo to recap the season and talk about their highlights. 

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On this week’s episode of Emotion Lab, Graeme Cox is joined by David Ripert from Poplar Studio. Poplar Studio is a creative platform that provides award-winning 3D and Augmented Reality (AR) experiences on-demand for marketing and commerce. Drawing upon David’s experiences at Netflix, Google and Youtube and his current role as UK President for the VR/AR Association, we discuss how immersive technologies are revolutionising user experiences across industries and use cases. David provides his unique insights on the future of immersive technologies.

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On this week’s episode of Emotion Lab, join us for part two of the Safety in XR roundtable. Together with XR Safety Initiative (XRSI) members Walter Greenleaf, Rachel Michelson and emteq’s own Dr Charles Nduka, we discuss the challenges in building evidence for XR use in clinical settings, the role of big pharma companies and how XR can help scale and personalise healthcare.

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On this week’s episode of Emotion Lab, join us for part one of the Safety in XR roundtable. Together with a team of experts, including XRSI members Walter Greenleaf, Rachel Michelson and emteq’s own Dr Charles Nduka, we explored regulation, safety and security in XR, covering the XR Safety Initiative, as well as the latest evidence and opportunities in VR research and technology.

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This week on Emotion Lab, Dr Charles Nduka is joined by Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett. In this episode,, Charles and Lisa take a deep dive into the neuroscience of emotions. They discuss the human “metabolic budget” and its impact on emotions, the concepts of allostasis and facial feedback and much more!

This week Dr Charles Nduka is joined by Professor Karen Quigley - Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University in Boston. In this episode of the Emotion Lab, Charles and Karen discuss the peripheral physiological measurements of emotions, individual differences between emotional experience, as well as the application of emotions research in real-life scenarios.

In this episode of Emotion Lab, Graeme is joined by Olivia Lory Kay, the Head of Partnerships at Capita Learning, an organisation that supports in the development of workplace learning strategies. Olivia and Graeme discuss the value of quantifying emotions and behaviour to improve the education industry and explore the impact it may have on individuals and workplace efficiency.

In this episode of Emotion Lab, Graeme is joined by William Hamilton, the Founder and CTO of Mimerse - a Stockholm based VR company which builds evidence-based treatments for mental health conditions. During the podcast, William and Graeme discuss how VR is already being used to treat people suffering from mental health conditions and  explore the potential for automated virtual reality exposure therapies (VRETs), which are a new clinically validated approach for treating phobias.

This week Charles is joined by Sarah Hill, CEO of Healium - a virtual and augmented reality tool for the self-management of stress, powered by the user's own brainwaves and heart rate. In this episode of the Emotion Lab Charles and Sarah discuss neurofeedback and how VR and wearables can help us train our minds. Listen in to hear about how VR can be used as “digi-ceutical’ now, and developed even further to support stress management and anxiety in future.

This week Charles is joined by John Muñoz - a research scientist and game designer. In this episode Charles and John discuss exergaming, the future of games and their applications in medicine. Listen in to hear about “tech-emotional intelligence”, how John is using VR exergaming to engage seniors in physical activities and much more!

This week Charles is joined by Sarah Ticho - founder of Hatsumi and the healthcare lead at Immerse UK. From staff welfare and training to mental health, social prescribing, PTSD, COPD and diagnosing ADHD, Charles and Sarah discuss various possible scenarios for using VR in medicine. Listen in to hear about this, NHSX‘s VR strategy and much more!

This week, Charles Nduka is joined by Dr James Somauroo, an anaesthetics and ICU doctor by training, now the founder of somX. Charles is a world renowned Consultant Reconstructive Plastic Surgeon, Associate Professor at Sussex University and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, multi-award winning academic, who published over 100 scientific articles, monographs and book chapters and is an experienced entrepreneur. As a surgeon, he is passionate about developing ways to use technology to improve lives. This episode of the Emotion Lab covers clinical research and explores the current challenges and future of emotion research.

This week, Graeme is joined by Dr James Somauroo, founder of somX, to discuss the technology frontier of human emotion research. Listen in to find out why quantifying emotions is important, how cutting-edge tech is changing research and how a global community is working together in this new field of research.