ACTwithpain - Building an online platform for helping Chronic Pain Patients

The main objective of this multidisciplinary project is to think up and build a digital application that joins health to engineering and design. iACTWITHPAIN is a web-platform and mobile application which aims to help chronic pain patients, by providing tools to improve their life quality. The platform will make it available a set of different digital tools and exercise plans inspired on pain self-management strategies. As iACTWITHPAIN is targeted to a specific range of people which are commonly anxious and more vulnerable to stress, the application should be dynamic and have particular attention to User Experience details. Consequently will require a whole array of specific functionalities as a chronic patient needing as an end-user. For this reason, the aim of this article is to disclose the research concept as the core focus to provide a personalized user experience design in an intuitive and user-friendly environment. The platform and this research project are being developed in ISR - Institute of Systems and Robotics of Coimbra and CINEICC - Centre for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention of Coimbra.