NAME AND CONTACT DETAILS Dr. Gavin Doherty, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin Education D.Phil., 1999, Computer Science (Human Computer Interaction), University of York, U.K. B.A. (mod.), First Class, 1995, Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin. Foundation Scholar, Trinity College Dublin. Dr. Gavin Doherty is an Associate Professor and Fellow (2014) at Trinity College Dublin and has led a number of projects in the area of human-computer interaction. Much of his research is focussed on designing engaging technologies for supporting mental health and wellbeing. Dr. Doherty has over 95 peer reviewed publications, including 35 journal papers and 10 full papers at the ACM CHI conference, which is highly competitive and the highest profile in the discipline. This includes best paper awards in 2017 and 2019 (top 1% of 2400 and 2960 submissions respectively) and three honourable mention awards (top 5%). Dr. Doherty is a Senior Member of the ACM, a member of the ACM Distinguished Speaker Committee, a member of the SIGCHI Conferences Working Group, and a member of the ACM Europe Chapter Leaders Committee. Supervision Dr. Doherty has supervised interdisciplinary teams of research students, postdoctoral researchers, designers, developers, and psychologists. He has supervised 6 PhD students to completion, several Masters students and numerous dissertation projects. International and industry collaboration Dr. Doherty has invested significant effort in technology transfer and commercialisation, and is co-founder of SilverCloud Health, a leading international provider of online mental and behavioural health programmes. Dr Doherty led the development of the product as P.I. of the Technology Enhanced Therapy project. Following spinout of the company, SilverCloud Programmes have been delivered to over 250,000 patients, and are used in the majority of NHS IAPT Services. Dr. Doherty has also worked extensively with industrial partners, notably with Intel, IBM Research and Microsoft Research (ongoing). As part of our work on digital health, we have also collaborated extensively with NGO’s such as Reachout lreland, Aware (the national depression charity), Bodywhys (the national eating disorders association of Ireland), and Parents Plus. Dr. Doherty has collaborated extensively internationally, including most recently Imperial College, Lancaster University, KTH, Cornell University, Microsoft Research Cambridge and University of Cambridge. Organisational roles Dr. Doherty has been involved in the development of the discipline nationally and internationally. As well as serving as being a founder and chair of SIGCHI Ireland, he has served as an Associate Chair for CHI for seven years, has served on the SIGGRAPH Jury, and has been involved in the organisation of numerous other conferences, workshops and journal special issues. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (one of the most established HCI journals). He has acted as a proposal reviewer for the EPSRC (UK), NSERC/CIHR (Canada), Health Research Council of New Zealand, University of Macau, NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), and Enterprise Ireland. He is chair of the SCSS Ethics committee at TCD, and a member of the Web Governance Group for the University. Research and Supervision Style We build innovative, first-of-a-kind systems and bring them to real users, and real healthcare environments. This involves working with users in the design of systems, building prototypes, and conducting evaluations. We adapt the focus according to the strengths and interests of the PhD student. We would expect to meet students for a full supervision meeting weekly with additional brief meetings as required by the research. Co-supervision by external experts provides helpful additional perspective, and would involve meeting them (usually virtually) on a monthly basis. We aim to carry out, and publish, high quality, meaningful work.

Location We are located in the historic campus of Trinity College (University of Dublin), in the heart of Dublin city centre. Research Interests. Within the Advance CRT, a variety of topics relating to human-computer interaction are of interest, but particularly those relating to health and wellbeing. I am particularly interested in: - Momentary assessment, for healthcare and psychological assessment. These methods are based

on regularly answering brief questions on how you are at a particular moment in time and deliver a very different picture of user experience compared to retrospective assessments. See the BrightSelf system for psychological wellbeing in pregnancy for example: https://doi.org/10.2196/10007

- User engagement. Healthcare and sustainability interventions don’t work if people don’t use them,

but engagement is a complex topic. See our paper in ACM Computing Surveys for an overview: https://doi.org/10.1145/3234149 We have also written extensively on designing for user engagement – see our CHI 2012 paper, describing the first version of a system which has been used to deliver clinician-supported treatment to over 250,000 patients: DOI 10.1145/2207676.2208602

- Technology acceptability for healthcare. Smartphones, smart-homes, wearables, voice-driven devices (Alexa, Cortana, Siri), are powerful devices with sophisticated sensors and increasing levels of machine intelligence, but what affects people’s willingness to disclose sensitive private information? How can we design more acceptable sensor-based systems?

- Use of contextual data to enhance the delivery of health and wellbeing interventions (e.g. sensors in an office environment, or based on your smartphone).

- Wearable heath technology (e.g. smartwatch-based systems).

See for example the AffecTech project we are partners in: http://www.affectech.org

- In-the-moment interventions. If we know how people are feeling “in the moment”, perhaps we can help them with a brief intervention right then, or look at positive behaviour change at a point where they are in a position to do something about it.

Contact me (Gavin.Doherty @ tcd.ie ) in order to discuss potential supervision and develop your PhD proposal for Advance. Publications For a list of publications, see http://www.scss.tcd.ie/Gavin.Doherty.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 722022.

for mental health support By Camille Nadal

Methodology

Literature review

Acceptability study

Design and development

of the appClinical

evaluation

Conclusion on the acceptance

of the app

๏ Theoretical study on the concept of acceptability:

Proposed representation of the technology acceptance continuum

๏ Field study on the acceptability of augmented EMA

๏ Exploration of EMA interventions on wearables

๏ Qualitative analysis of the results of an iCBT

intervention for depression and anxiety

Work in progress

+Acceptability

Adoption

Acceptance

-

Appropriation

Starts using the system

Starts adapting the system

Makes full use of the systemYes/No

Addressed challenges

๏ Investigate the acceptability of EMA with sensing for

mental health

๏ Explore the design space for EMA with sensors to

support mental health

๏ Develop an app to for mental health support

๏ Conduct a clinical evaluation to assess the

acceptance of the app

Achieved results

๏ Literature review on applications for emotion

regulation

๏ Prototypes of an EMA intervention on wearables:

๏ Collaborative review of CHI publications on

technology for depression, anxiety and bipolar

disorder (ACCEPTED, CHI 2019)

Supervisor: Dr Gavin Doherty

Augmenting self-report with sensor data