TEAM - Technology Enabled Mental Health for Young People

TEAM (Technology Enabled Mental Health for Young People), is a 4-year Innovation Training Network (ITN), funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions initiative. There has been considerable research and many commercial products for improving physical health. However, the use of technology to support mental health lags far behind. The aim of the training network is to deliver new applications and technologies that support rapid, large-scale early assessment, prevention and treatment of mental health issues in young people.

As part of the TEAM project, the HCI group focuses on design, development and evaluation of technology-enabled, evidence-based programs, which aim to empower young people and help them to build resilience and care for their own mental health, thus reducing mental health difficulties and improve their wellbeing.

At the HCI group, there are two individual research projects:

• Designing for resilience with unaccompanied migrant youth Franziska Tachtler
• Developing an inclusive technological toolkit to support prevention approaches Toni Michel

Seletected publications

Thesis

• Thesis: Promoting Resilience in Unaccompanied Migrant Youth: A Social-ecological Design Framework for Technology-enabled Support

Peer-reviewed Conference publications – Full Papers:

• Tachtler, F., Talhouk, R., Michel, T., Slovák, P. & Fitzpatrick, G. (2021). Unaccompanied Migrant Youth and Mental Health Technologies: A Social-Ecological Approach to Understanding and Designing. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21), May 8–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445470, Honorable Mention

• Tachtler, F., Michel, T., Slovák, P. & Fitzpatrick, G. (2020). Supporting the Supporters of Unaccompanied Migrant Youth: Designing for Social-ecological Resilience. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376458, Honorable Mention (Premier HCI publication venue according to Google Scholar, Acceptance Rate: 23,8%)

Team: Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Petr Slovak, Franziska Tachtler, Toni Michel

Partners: Medical University of Vienna, Anna Freud Centre in London, University of Glasgow

Project website: http://www.team-itn.ucd.ie

• Human-Centered Design
• Prevention
• Health
• Mental Illness
• Youth Mental Health
• Migrant Youth