About
I am a Senior Lecturer in Digital Health in the School of Computing and Information Systems (CIS) at the University of Melbourne. With undergraduate backgrounds in both computer science and philosophy, in general my research interests have fallen between the two. My PhD thesis was in the areas of artificial intelligence and the philosophy of information and computation.
My work now focuses on the application of digital technology, ubiquitous computing and artificial intelligence to mental health and behavioural science more generally, and I lead project activity in the CIS computing and mental health hub. Given my background in philosophy and computer science, I am also interested in exploring the philosophical and ethical dimensions of AI and digital (mental health) technologies.
The Latest
- October 2, 2023 - Seeking clinical psychologists/therapists to test out a new chatbot.
- February 19, 2023 - I have just revamped my School's digital health web section, including the addition of a new digital mental health section.
- January 7, 2023 - One of my PhD students is looking for participants to try out a digital mental health app in order to validate the first ever measure of digital therapeutic alliance that she is developing.
- October 20, 2021 - Clinician Perspectives on How Digital Phenotyping Can Inform Client Treatment - Invitation to Participate in Study
- October 7, 2021 - Special Issue Call for Papers: Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health
- July 30, 2021 - Seed funding from the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics for the project Looking into the Psychiatric Panopticon: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Automated Nursing Observations in Acute Psychiatric Settings.
- June 4, 2021 - Funding awarded from Cisco for smartphone digital phenotyping research.
- March 29, 2021 - 2021 Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health being held 25–26 November 2021 at The University of Melbourne.
- January 21, 2020 - Starting work as an investigator on the project "Orygen Virtual World Project: bringing to life a new age of digitally enhanced youth mental health services"
- October 8, 2020 - Personal sensing for mental health and wellbeing project page now up.
- August 17, 2020 - Looking for a web developer..
- March 23, 2020 -
Seeking a researcher interested in ethics and digital mental health. - July 23, 2019 -
Looking for a Psychology/HCI/IS researcher to do some work on digital mental health. - May 15, 2019 - Organising the upcoming symposium #digitalta2019, on the therapeutic alliance in digital mental health.
Media Articles
- Should smartphone data be harnessed to track mental health? (January 2021)
- Online social networking, digital mental health and COVID-19 - what helps and what hinders? (March 2020)
- Could your smartphone become your therapist? (August 2019)
- Digital Phenotyping: Smartphones as a Window into the Mind (May 2019)
- From Social Media to Social Support (March 2019)
- Smartphone technology taps into mental health of young people (July 2018)
- 4 Ways Tech can help your Mental Health (December 2017)
- Using Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health (July 2017)
Team Members
PhD Students
- Tianyi Zhang - Digital phenotyping (personal sensing) for mental health and wellbeing
- Daniel Cabrera Lozoya - NLP for quality improvements in online mental health therapy services
- Fangziyun Tong - Digital therapeutic alliance
Research Assistants
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