Developing Skills for Social and Emotional Wellbeing

Abstract

Positive social and emotional wellbeing are essential for peoples' general health and quality of life. This workshop will bring together an inter-disciplinary community of wellbeing researchers, designers and practitioners to explore how digital technology can increase wellbeing by enabling users to develop new skills, build on existing personal strengths or social support, and promote self-efficacy more generally. We will jointly reach a better understanding of the opportunities that technology can bring for skills development across a broad range of contexts. Our aim is to consider how digital technology can support wellbeing skills for the general public and also for specific, at-need groups including the care givers of people coping with irreversible loss of mental or physical capacity and psycho-education for people experiencing mental health difficulties.

The Future of Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction

“…We believe that this combination of advances in technology, renewed interest in the relationship between technology and emotion, and variation in approaches to emotion, warrant discussion at CHI. There have already been CHI workshops on particular aspects of emotion [6,8,10,37], CHI symposia on Computing and Mental Health [42], and emotion workshops at related conferences [29,40]. However, there have been few HCI workshops that discussed emotion more broadly.…”