Burgess Eleanor R, Mohr David C, Munson Sean A, Reddy Madhu C
School of Communication Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Proc SIGCHI Conf Hum Factor Comput Syst. 2025 Apr-May;2025. doi: 10.1145/3706598.3713585. Epub 2025 Apr 25.
This paper characterizes the mental health technology "kits" of individuals managing depression: the specific technologies on their digital devices and physical items in their environments that people turn to as part of their mental health management. We interviewed 28 individuals living across the United States who use bundles of connected tools for both individual and collaborative mental health activities. We contribute to the HCI community by conceptualizing these tool assemblages that people managing depression have constructed over time. We detail categories of tools, describe kit characteristics (intentional, adaptable, available), and present participant ideas for future mental health support technologies. We then discuss what a mental health technology kit perspective means for researchers and designers and describe design principles (building within current toolkits; creating new tools from current self-management strategies; and identifying gaps in people's current kits) to support depression self-management across an evolving set of tools.
本文描述了管理抑郁症患者的心理健康“工具包”：即他们数字设备上的特定技术以及周围环境中的实体物品，这些都是他们进行心理健康管理时会用到的。我们采访了美国各地28位使用一系列互联工具进行个人和协作心理健康活动的人。我们通过对抑郁症患者随着时间推移构建的这些工具组合进行概念化，为HCI社区做出了贡献。我们详细介绍了工具类别，描述了工具包的特点（有针对性、可适应、可用），并展示了参与者对未来心理健康支持技术的想法。然后，我们讨论了心理健康技术工具包视角对研究人员和设计师意味着什么，并描述了设计原则（在现有工具包基础上构建；从当前自我管理策略中创造新工具；以及识别人们现有工具包中的差距），以支持在不断发展的一系列工具中进行抑郁症自我管理。
