Mark Matthews

Research

My aim is to develop tools which help people attain and maintain positive mental health.

PlaySpace

Run Your Marathon Every Day

Affective Postcards

Moving Pictures Exhibition

Haven HeadSpace

Altavista Me

Mobile Mental Health Apps

Mental Health Visualization

Darkness as a kind of light

Videogames as mental acuity aid

Medicating ADHD in Kids

Project Videos

Publications

Journals

Doherty, G., Coyle, D., Matthews, M. (2010). Design Guidelines for Mental Health Technology. Interacting with Computers. Special Issue: Supportive Interaction: Computer Interventions for Mental Health DOI 10.1016/j.intcom.2010.02.006 .

M. Matthews and G. Doherty, The Invisible User, ACM interactions, XVI(6), pp. 13-19, November/December 2009. DOI 10.1145/1620693.1620697 .

Matthews, M., Doherty, G., Sharry, J. & Fitzpatrick, C. (2008). Mobile Phone Mood Charting for Adolescents, British Journal of Guidance and Conselling, 36(2), pp.113 - 129, 2008. DOI 10.1080/03069880801926400.

Coyle, D., Doherty, G., Matthews, M & Sharry, J.(2007). Computers in Talk-Based Mental Health Care. Interacting with Computers, 19(4), pp.545-562. DOI 10.1016/j.intcom.2007.02.001.

Coyle, D., Matthews, M., Sharry, J.,A. Nisbet and G. Doherty, (2005)Personal Investigator: A Therapeutic 3D Game for Adolescent Psychotherapy, International Journal of Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2(2), pp. 73 - 88.

Conferences

M. Matthews and G. Doherty, In the Mood: engaging teenagers in psychotherapy using mobile phones, to appear at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011).

M. Matthews and G. Doherty, My Mobile Story: Therapeutic Storytelling for Children, Extended abstracts of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, Canada., ACM, 2011.

M. Matthews, Relapse Prevention: Personal Informatics for Clinical Mental Health. Accepted paper and presentation for the Personal Informatics & HCI: Design, Theory, & Social Implications Workshop, at CHI 2011, Vancouver, Canada.

Coyle, D., Matthews, M., Doherty, G. & Sharry, J. (2010). Engaging with mental health: a global challenge. Accepted paper and presentation for the WISH 2010 Workshop April 11, at CHI 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Doherty, G., Coyle, D., Matthews, M. and Sharry, J. (2010). Client-Centered Design of Technology to Support Mental Health, presented at Med-e-Tel 2010.

Projects

TodayIFeel

TodayIFeel is a free service which helps you keep track of your thoughts and emotions on the go. Think of it like a personal diary which automagically orders your thoughts. All you have to do is start tracking anything you like and TodayIFeel will follow your lead. You can track information using email, sms and twitter and then analyse patterns online.
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My Mobile Story

The telling and re-telling of personal stories is a fundamental aspect of many mental health interventions. In this project a system has been developed which allows people to us the media capabilities of mobile phones to gather a personal story. Materials gathered on a mobile phone (e.g. text, images, audio) can then be accessed and organised on a personalised website. By creating structured templates for stories and providing people with 'missions' regarding the materials they aim to collect, therapists can help people to begin telling stories in therapeutically beneficial ways.
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Mobile Mood Diary

'Mood monitoring' is an important component of many intervention approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). This involves people recording their mood at regular intervals, to help them to recognize the factors which may be impacting on their mood and how they have managed at times when they have felt depressed. 'Mood monitoring' is traditionally done as a pen and paper exercise, using a mood chart supplied by the therapist. Young people are notoriously poor at completing these charts or remembering to bring them to the next session. In this project a mobile phone version of a paper diary was developed.
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