Gavin McConvey at the UKRO MSCA event
Gavin McConvey is sharing today Action Mental Health Experience in the MENHIR project in the event “What can MSCA under Horizon Europe do to Boost Your Business?”, organized by the UK Research Office UKRO.
AMH
Co-creating Requirements and Assessing End-User Acceptability of a Voice-Based Chatbot to Support Mental Health: A Thematic Analysis of a Living Lab Workshop
Authors: Antonio Benítez-Guijarro, Raymond Bond, Frederick Booth, Zoraida Callejas, Edel Ennis, Anna Esposito, Matthias Kraus, Gavin McConvey, Michael McTear, Maurice Mulvenna, Courtney Potts, Louisa Pragst, Robin Turkington, Nicolas Wagner, Huiru Zheng DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8395-7_15 Preprint: https://digibug.ugr.es/handle/10481/64764 Citation: Benítez-Guijarro A. et al. (2021) Co-creating Requirements and Assessing End-User Acceptability of a Voice-Based Chatbot to Support Mental Health: A Thematic Analysis of a Living Lab Workshop. In: D’Haro L.F., Callejas Z., Nakamura S. …
Data recording season
End of October, November and December will be the months for the initial MENHIR data collection. We are recording interviews that will allow our scientists to teach chatbots how to identify negative states in the user’s voice. Such a fantastic work for recruitment and interviewing by Action Mental Health and New Life Counselling. Massive thanks …
Co-creation workshop
Today we have held a co-creation workshop in Action Mental Health Newtonards where we have shared very insightful ideas about how to design conversational technologies for mental health. The idea behind co-creation is not to design technology for its prospective users but with them. This enables people who can benefit from the technology to make …
General Assembly and Steering Committee Meetings
Yesterday we had the meetings of the General Assembly and Steering Committee in Belfast. We discussed about the managerial issues and also planned the work for the next year. We decided on very important issues related to data management, dissemination and communication, emotion analysis and conversational strategies.
Strategy for the co-creation workshop
The colleagues from University of Granada (UGR) and Action Mental Health (AMH) have started to work on the strategy for the co-creation workhop. MENHIR’s concept of co-creation is that people are not perceived as passive recipients of the technology, but as partners in its design. During the co-creation workshop, AMH clients, AMH key workers and …
First secondment to Action Mental Health
The first secondment to Action Mental Health have just started. Antonio Benítez-Guijarro will be working at the Action Mental Health offices from April until August 2019. During this period, the University of Granada and Action Mental Health will work together to analyze what are the needs and requirements to start the research work.