2023
Petr Slovak, Alissa Antle, Nikki Theofanopoulou, Claudia Daudén Roquet, James Gross, Katherine Isbister. 2023. Designing for Emotion Regulation Interventions: An Agenda for HCI Theory and Research Journal Article . In ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact., vol. 30, no. 1, 2023, ISSN: 1073-0516.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: emotion regulation, mental health, Review, technology-enabled intervention
@article{10.1145/3569898,
title = {Designing for Emotion Regulation Interventions: An Agenda for HCI Theory and Research},
author = {Petr Slovak and Alissa Antle and Nikki Theofanopoulou and Claudia Daudén Roquet and James Gross and Katherine Isbister},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3569898},
doi = {10.1145/3569898},
issn = {1073-0516},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-03-01},
urldate = {2023-03-01},
journal = {ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.},
volume = {30},
number = {1},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
abstract = {There is a growing interest in human-computer interaction (HCI) to envision, design, and evaluate technology-enabled interventions that support users’ emotion regulation. This interest stems in part from increased recognition that the ability to regulate emotions is critical to mental health, and that a lack of effective emotion regulation is a transdiagnostic factor for mental illness. However, the potential to combine innovative HCI designs with the theoretical grounding and state-of-the-art interventions from psychology has yet to be fully realised. In this article, we synthesise HCI work on emotion regulation interventions and propose a three-part framework to guide technology designers in making: (i) theory-informed decisions about intervention targets; (ii) strategic decisions regarding the technology-enabled intervention mechanisms to be included in the system; and (iii) practical decisions around previous implementations of the selected intervention components. We show how this framework can both systematise HCI work to date and suggest a research agenda for future work.},
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There is a growing interest in human-computer interaction (HCI) to envision, design, and evaluate technology-enabled interventions that support users’ emotion regulation. This interest stems in part from increased recognition that the ability to regulate emotions is critical to mental health, and that a lack of effective emotion regulation is a transdiagnostic factor for mental illness. However, the potential to combine innovative HCI designs with the theoretical grounding and state-of-the-art interventions from psychology has yet to be fully realised. In this article, we synthesise HCI work on emotion regulation interventions and propose a three-part framework to guide technology designers in making: (i) theory-informed decisions about intervention targets; (ii) strategic decisions regarding the technology-enabled intervention mechanisms to be included in the system; and (iii) practical decisions around previous implementations of the selected intervention components. We show how this framework can both systematise HCI work to date and suggest a research agenda for future work.