Digital Health

Biography

Dr. Silvia Riva is currently a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton working on a European project (Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, Horizon 2020, European Commission) about stress management using digital health supports. She is Italian and she studied at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Milan (Faculty of Psychology).

Dr. Riva area of expertise is Cognitive Psychology, particularly decision making processes in different contexts (e.g. health, organisations) and under different conditions (e.g. uncertainty, risk and stress)

Her research interests examine the application of Cognitive Psychology (judgment, heuristics, bias, and decision making processes). At a theoretical level she is interested in the issue of how people make good decisions to improve individual performance and how do they cope with the environment. At a practical level, she is interested in studying potential environmental or educational interventions designed to promote healthier and safety environment with the goal improving individual performance and general wellness. More generally, she is interested in how we can use our knowledge of human cognition to design interventions in practical settings.

In relation with her clinical activity, Dr. Riva is a Cognitive Behavioural psychotherapist. She has experience of working with individual cases (particularly, the enhancement of individual performance, coping with stress and anxiety disorders) and with complex cases (e.g. interventions with frail population, interventions to improve organizational wellness at work). Her approach is grounded in the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and in the Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, specifically.

Abstract

Abstract : Data stream ensemble in a new health application for stress management at work: the case of Streblo