Community 1
Date: Tuesday 11 Nov 2025
Room: S/2.22 - Sandpit/Katherine Johnson Suite
| Time | Presentation | Abstract | Authors | Contribution type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00-13:30 | Who cares? Revisiting Vincent / Design and Development of an Embodied and Collective Digital Mental Health Intervention for Healthcare Professionals | Based on the paper on Vincent, a chatbot for self-compassion, I propose a community dialogue to discuss LLMs, emotions, and care. I shortly present the work on Vincent and why it is timely to critically discuss the methods and ethics in HCI, given the changes in conversational agents when comparing between pre- and post-LLM eras. Topic area experts (Aneesha Singh, Rafel Calvo, and Malak Sadek) will kick off the discussion thereafter, followed by questions and contributions from the audience. / Healthcare professionals (HCPs) often face high levels of stress and burnout in their work. Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) offer affordable, accessible and flexible support, which are ideal for HCPs to relax and mitigate stress and burnout at work. However, a lack of user engagement with DMHIs has been a predominant challenge in academia and the industry. More effort is needed to design and develop engaging DMHIs that are designed for user motivation and retention. In this Community demonstration, we hope to present a novel DMHI, named HealersRx, which is tailored for HCPs to provide embodied and collective mental health and wellbeing sessions. This tool offers unique on-site, embodied and collective interventions for HCPs, with gamified design elements and motivational design considerations. | Minha Lee / Zheyuan Zhang, Jingjing Sun, Dorian Peters and Rafael A. Calvo | Community |
| 13:30-14:00 | When Communities Lead Design: Tensions, Failures, and Learnings from mHealth Development in Peru | This presentation examines real-world learnings from designing dementia screening tools with Community Health Workers across four diverse regions of Peru - tools now screening 32,000 older adults nationwide. Through candid reflection on methodological tensions and implementation failures, we foster genuine dialogue about community-led design in practice. For the BCS HCI community, particularly as healthcare systems shift toward community-based care, these insights from resource-constrained settings offer practical lessons for ethical technology deployment. | Marco Da Re and Rafael A. Calvo | Community |