Intelligent Automated Online Social Therapy for Youth Mental Health:
Virtual reality finds a new use in conquering depression
A new article in the Australian Financial Review featuring members of the MOST team: http://www.afr.com/lifestyle/virtual-reality-finds-a-new-use-in-conquering-depression-20170404-gvdgrb
Building a Safer Community With New Suicide Prevention Tools
Recent work being done by Facebook: http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/03/building-a-safer-community-with-new-suicide-prevention-tools/
What Your Choice of Words Says about Your Personality
Your smartphone knows a lot about you, but what about your mental health?
Online community designed to support mental health for young people
How virtual reality is being used to deliver mental health care
MOST member Greg Wadley featured in this article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-12/how-technologies-like-vr-are-being-used-to-improve-mental-health/7921002
Upcoming Computing and Mental Health workshop
Upcoming Computing and Mental Health workshop: http://ozchimentalhealth.org/
Virtual Reality Therapy for Youth Mental Health
A new project in the MOST family investigating how virtual reality technologies like HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR can be used to improve young people’s mental health and wellbeing: http://www.cis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interaction-design/projects/vrtherapy/.
Hacking Health Participation
MOST member Simon D’Alfonso recently worked with the Amelie AI team in winning the Hacking Health event in Melbourne. Their chatbot prototype was successfully integrated and demonstrated as a conversational search feature into a copy of the Horyzons MOST system.