Inventors: Dr. Tristan Bekinschtein & Dr Barbara Jachs, Human Experience Dynamcs
Website: www.hed-insights.com
Despite many advances in medicine over the 20th and 21st centuries, the human experiences like pain, anxiety, and many other clinically relevant aspects of emotion are still mostly tracked using a simple 1-10 point scale at infrequent intervals.
The inventors’ goal is to redefine how the subjective aspects of human experience like pain, anxiety, sense of accomplishment, guilt, etc, are measured in clinical trials, with the aim of providing more sensitive, precise and continuous insights throughout to improve diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease.
They have a series of methodologies and a platform based on a method called Temporal Experience Tracing ™ which allows multiple aspects of experience to be traced over the course of each day, giving much richer data and information, and enabling different aspects to be tracked in addition to the relevant measure for each trial (pain, social anxiety, lack of will). Through a partnership with Bitbrain, they are also able to link the reported experience with at-home brain measurements along with other wearable measures.
The system includes data-gathering aspects, questionnaire design, and analysis, interpretation and reporting of the results. Each step is based on the significant expertise and know-how that the inventors have built up during their research. The team has run
The challenge for the i-Team is to investigate the market need for this type of sophisticated approach and recommend where the researchers should focus their efforts for the greatest impact. Is it private/public healthtech, wellbeing, clinical research, clinical treatment? For example, what outcome measurements and types of analysis would be most useful for different stakeholders’ reports? In addition to the initial market for use in clinical trials, are there other opportunities for this software to be widely used?