{"id":145,"date":"2023-04-28T18:32:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T18:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/heatlab\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:24:32","slug":"current-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/heatlab\/current-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\"><strong>Infusing clinical research with participants stories using Fabla<\/strong><br>In collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/georgiactsa.org\/research\/commercialization\/apphatchery.html\">Georgia CTSA AppHatchery<\/a>, our lab administers <a href=\"https:\/\/fabla.framer.website\/\">Fabla<\/a>, a highly customizable ecological assessment platform that centers participants&#8217; stories as told in their own words and images. Current projects include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-regular-font-size\">\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">Optimizing psilocybin for treatment of depression <em>(funded by the Vail Health Foundation and Tiny Blue Dot Foundation<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">Challenging and adverse effects of psychedelics: Phenomenology, influencing factors and remedies (<em>funded by the Sarlo Family Foundation)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">Investigating daily experiences during ketamine treatment for chronic pain (<em>funded by Legacy Health<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">Understanding and treating substance use disorder and comorbid conditions in veterans\u2019 real-life settings <em>(funded by the Minneapolis VA Medical Center<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">Feasibility study of a chaplain-delivered compassion intervention to improve psychological safety among interprofessional healthcare teams <em>(funded by NIH<\/em>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">Identifying neural signatures of racial discrimination in black individuals with a multivariate data fusion approach <em>(funded by NIH)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">When does meditation expand the perception box? A comparative longitudinal study <em>(funded by the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\"><strong>Innovating speech-based tools and analytics for health and wellbeing<\/strong><br>Leveraging cutting-edge developments in ambulatory technologies and artificial intelligence, our lab is developing new tools and analytic methods for speech-based technologies. Examples include speech-based detection of depression and anxiety and the development of a speech-based tool for use in psychotherapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Development and validation of ecological assessment measures for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy<\/strong><br>After the acute &#8220;trip&#8221; of a psychedelic has worn off, what changes for people about their day-to-day life experiences? In collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/psychedelics.emory.edu\/\">Emory Center for Psychedelics and Spirituality<\/a>, the HEAT lab is developing and validating ecological assessment tools that enable investigations of how psychological and behavioral changes unfold over time following psychedelic experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Digital twin decision making tools in healthcare<\/strong><br>Digital Twins are a type of artificial intelligence technology that uses a Tacit Object Modeler (TOM). With support from the <a href=\"https:\/\/med.aws.emory.edu\/departments\/medicine\/divisions\/general-medicine\/academic-internal-medicine-center\/index.html\">Emory AIM Center<\/a>, we are conducting pre-implementation research that aims to identify healthcare providers&#8217; perspectives and preferences about how this type of technology can best support medical decision-making in their clinical practices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Psycho-spiritual dimensions of generative artificial intelligence (AI)<\/strong><br>ChatGPT, Claude, and other generative AI technologies are forcing a public confrontation with what it means to be sentient in the first place. In collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/adjust.emory.edu\/\">Emory University Center for the Advancement of Diagnostics for a Just Society<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/spiritualhealth.emory.edu\/\">Emory Spiritual Health<\/a>, our lab is pursuing cross-disciplinary scholarship and empirical research that probes existential and spiritual questions underlying the emerging human partnership with chatbots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infusing clinical research with participants stories using FablaIn collaboration with the Georgia CTSA AppHatchery, our lab administers Fabla, a highly customizable ecological assessment platform that centers participants&#8217; stories as told in their own words and images. 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