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Meeting on Personalised Medicine

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019

I was very happy to participate in the REA Cluster Event on Personalised Medicine at the Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Madrid on the 5th-6th November, on behalf of the AffecTech project. The meeting was organised by Laurence Marrama-Rakatoarivony. As well as hearing about the variety of innovative work being carried out across a number of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Innovative Training Networks (ITN’s), a series of roundtable discussions between policy makers and researchers explored key topics relating to the future of personalised medicine.… Read more

ACM Distinguished Member

October 30, 2019October 31, 2019

I’m delighted to be named as a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest and most prestigious association of computing professionals. The recognition was for Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing, and I was one of five European researchers included.

https://www.acm.org/media-center/2019/october/distinguished-members-2019… Read more

ACM Europe Council Award at CHI 2019

May 15, 2019May 15, 2019

We were surprised and delighted to receive the ACM Europe Council sponsored award for best paper at CHI 2019! The award-winning paper was selected amongst the 29 Best Paper Award winners at CHI 2019 (themselves selected as the top 1% of 2960 submissions), by members of the CHI 2019 Best Paper Selection Committee. The award acknowledges groundbreaking research for its importance and contribution to the area and to highlight theoretical and practical innovations that are likely to shape the future of computing both in Europe and worldwide.… Read more

PhD positions on technology in mental health.

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019

We are currently looking to recruit PhD students as part of a Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training. I am interested in the topic of Technology for Mental Health. Positions to start September 2019.

Available topics include: Psychological self-report with wearable technology
Supervision Team: Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin (University of Dublin) / David Coyle, University College Dublin
Description: There has been much interest recently in the design of technologies to support the delivery of mental healthcare, looking at many different aspects ranging from assessment and diagnosis, through intervention and long term self-monitoring.… Read more

Workshop on ML in Mental Health

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019

Machine Learning for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Affective Disorders (ML4AD)

CfP: ACII 2019 WORKSHOP, 3^rd SEPTEMBER, CAMBRIDGE UK

In recent years, there has been an increase in interest and explorations of the use of machine learning (ML) to assist in the diagnosis of mental health problems; and for improving access to, engagement with, and the outcomes of, therapeutic treatment. Research has started to explore the identification of mental health problems through inferences about peoples’ behaviours on social media, online searches, or mobile phone app uses; as well as varied approaches to assess, or continuously monitor, a person’s mental health and related symptoms by measuring sleep, mood, stress, social or physical activity via audio, visual or physiological signal processing.… Read more

Best paper and honorable mention awards at CHI 2019

March 25, 2019March 25, 2019

We are delighted to announce a best paper award (top 1% of 2960 submissions) for our paper “Engagement with Mental Health Screening on Mobile Devices: Results from an Antenatal Feasibility Study” at CHI 2019 (PDF). We have also received an honorable mention award (top 5%) for our paper “HCI and Affective Health: Taking stock of a decade of studies and charting future research directions” (PDF).… Read more

Three papers at CHI 2019

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019

We are delighted that three research papers have been accepted for presentation at CHI 2019! ACM CHI is the highest profile competitive venue for publishing HCI research – there were just under 3000 paper submissions this year.

The first is based on our collaboration with Imperial College London on antenatal mental health screening: K. Doherty, J. Marcano-Belisario, M. Cohn, N. Mastellos, C. Morrison, J. Car, and G. Doherty. 2019. Engagement with Mental Health Screening on Mobile Devices: Results from an Antenatal Feasibility Study.… Read more

Engagement in Human-Computer Interaction – ACM Computing Surveys

November 23, 2018November 23, 2018

Much of our work concerns the topic of user engagement, but there are many ways of defining and measuring the concept. We have just published a systematic review of the different conceptions of engagement in the HCI literature:

K. Doherty and G. Doherty, Engagement in HCI: Conception, Theory and Measurement, ACM Computing Surveys 51(5), 2018 (open access PDF).… Read more

200,000 users on World Mental Health day

October 12, 2018October 12, 2018

On World Mental Health day, we announced reaching the milestone of 200,000 people who have used the SilverCloud platform to access online mental and behavioural health programs. This is an amazing achievement for all of the team involved and a great example of interdisciplinary research with an impact. The company emerged directly from work we have carried out over the last 15 years, and particularly our Technology Enhanced Therapy project between TCD, the NDRC, and the ParentsPlus charity.

We are truly humbled to announce that today we passed the milestone of 200,000 users on our platform.

PhD Studentship on Mobile Interventions for Mental Health

June 5, 2018September 5, 2018

School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin.

Mental and behavioural health conditions pose a major challenge to healthcare providers and society at large. It is generally accepted that mental health services are struggling to meet the needs of existing audiences as well as failing to reach large proportions of those in need. Technologies can help both to improve access to treatment, and help people to engage with treatment.… Read more

Experience report on our summer school.

May 16, 2018

Last year we ran a summer school on e-Health together with KTH, supported by EIT Health, ACM SIGCHI, and the Adapt Centre. It was a great experience and we put together a short piece for ACM interactions on how it went.… Read more

Understanding Self-Report

November 6, 2017May 16, 2018

Design is driven by our understanding of users’ experiences. This may involve users’ reports of their experiences, in the moment, after the fact, or ahead of time. Likewise many mental and behavioural health interventions rely on various forms of self report. In our new paper we look at how both design and health interventions might be better informed by attending more carefully to differences between different forms of self-report.

Kevin Doherty, Gavin Doherty, The construal of experience in HCI: Understanding self-reports, In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 110, 2018, Pages 63-74, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2017.10.006… Read more