Ethical Design for Digital Wellbeing and Mental Health

This talk outlines part of my work on technologies for wellbeing and mental health, with an emphasis on their ethical underpinnings. It outlines award winning research described in TOCHI and JMIR journals, CHI and DIS publications targeting emotion and memory processes for digital wellbeing, depression, stress, and dementia. The talk covers several prototypes developed and evaluated with my research group involving smart material interfaces, wearable biofeedback interfaces, 3D food printing, and large displays, as well as novel tools supporting their design. The talk articulates the value of this body of work for novel design implications for wellbeing and mental health technologies and their ethics. Most of the research described in the talk has been supported by the AffecTech: Personal technologies for affective health, an EC-funded Innovative Training Network.

Corina Sas is Professor in Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Health, Lead of Pervasive Systems Group with the School of Computing and Communications, and Assistant Dean for Research Enhancement with the Faculty of Science and Technology at Lancaster University, UK. Her research is in the area of technologies for wellbeing and health. She published over 200 papers, and her work received extensive media coverage, several awards for research excellence and leadership, as well as 5 Best Paper and Honourable Mention Awards. She has been investigator on grants totalling over £15.1 million and is part of the Editorial Boards of the ACM Transactions in Human-Computer Interaction, and Taylor & Francis Human Computer Interaction journals. This academic year she is in sabbatical leave visiting University of California at Santa Cruz, University of California at Irvine, and Stanford University.

Introduction.
Affective Technologies.
Affective Health Technologies: Acceptance.
Design Exemplars.
Smart Materials Interfaces.
Smart Material Interfaces: Implications.
ThermoPixels: Implications.
Haptic Interfaces: Implications.
3D Printed Flavors.
Sensory Food Probes.
Digital Wellbeing Apps.
Depression Apps.
Dementia Care.
Acknowledgement.