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Congratulations are due to Andreas Balaskas who successfully passed his PhD viva in the School of Computer Science and Statistics, here at Trinity College Dublin.

His thesis is entitled “The design space of mobile mental health interventions for anxiety management”, and his work examines what these applications do, what they can do, and how they can be improved. Thanks to co-supervisors Prof. Anna Cox (UCL) and Dr. Stephen Schueller (UC Irvine) for their support throughout.

Thanks to external examiner Prof. Raymond Bond (Ulster), internal examiner Dr.… Read more

I was delighted to pick up the Commercialisation Impact award from Knowledge Transfer Ireland at the ceremony on 1st December, on behalf of SilverCloud Health and Trinity College Dublin. The award is a lovely recognition of the many years of research and development work that has gone into the development of the SilverCloud digital health platform.

Many thanks to Trinity Research and Innovation for the nomination and their support over the years, and to all those who have made the platform and company such a success.… Read more

Congratulations are due to Camille Nadal and Seán Cronin who successfully passed their PhD viva voce examinations last month, subject to the usual minor revisions.

Camille’s thesis is entitled “User Acceptance of Health and Mental Health Care Technologies”. Thanks to the external examiner – Prof. Stephanie Wilson, City, University of London, internal examiner Dr. David Lewis, and chair Prof. Declan O’Sullivan, and to external co-supervisor Prof. Corina Sas, University of Lancaster.… Read more

We have released the Call for Papers for a special issue of IEEE Pervasive on mobile & pervasive computing in mental health. This special issue seeks to discuss novel approaches, opportunities, and challenges for developing effective, ethical, and trustworthy pervasive computing technology for mental health. 1st July deadline, abstracts 17 June. Ethical aspects should be considered in all submissions. Guest editors are Akane Sano (Rice University), Mirco Musolesi (University College London), Gavin Doherty (Trinity College Dublin), and Thomas Vaessen (KU Leuven).… Read more

The ACM Distinguished Speaker Program allows organisers of events to request accomplished speakers in many aspects of computing, with financial support for travel coming from the ACM. It is particularly useful for ACM chapters, professsional meetups, and (not-for-profit) conferences. It is currently run under the ACM practitioners board. Having been on the committee for the last few years, and having run recruitment initiatives together with SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH, I’ve been asked to co-chair the commitee for a while. I have a number of ideas I would like to push, but if you have any feedback or suggestions on the program then let me know!… Read more