Understanding What Drives Long-term Engagement in Digital Mental Health Interventions: Secondary Causal Analysis of the Relationship Between Social Networking and Therapy Engagement.

Background: Low engagement rates with digital mental health interventions are a major challenge in the field. Multicomponent digital interventions aim to improve engagement by adding components such as social networks. Although social networks may be engaging, they may not be sufficient to improve clinical outcomes or lead users to engage with key therapeutic components.

Supporting mental health self-care discovery through a chatbot.

Good mental health is imperative for one's wellbeing. While clinical mental disorder treatments exist, self-care is an essential aspect of mental health. This paper explores the use and perceived trust of conversational agents, chatbots, in the context of crowdsourced self-care through a between-subjects study ( = 80).

Satisfaction and performance of software developers during enforced work from home in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, the daily lives of software engineers were heavily disrupted as they were abruptly forced to work remotely from home. To better understand and contrast typical working days in this new reality with work in pre-pandemic times, we conducted one exploratory ( = 192) and one confirmatory study ( = 290) with software engineers recruited remotely. Specifically, we build on self-determination theory to evaluate whether and how specific activities are associated with software engineers' satisfaction and productivity.

Evaluation of a calibration rig for stereo laparoscopes.

Background: Accurate camera and hand-eye calibration are essential to ensure high-quality results in image-guided surgery applications. The process must also be able to be undertaken by a nonexpert user in a surgical setting.

Purpose: This work seeks to identify a suitable method for tracked stereo laparoscope calibration within theater.

Predictors of well-being and productivity among software professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic - a longitudinal study.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments worldwide to impose movement restrictions on their citizens. Although critical to reducing the virus' reproduction rate, these restrictions come with far-reaching social and economic consequences. In this paper, we investigate the impact of these restrictions on an individual level among software engineers who were working from home.

Dimensions of ecological validity for usability evaluations in clinical settings.

The development, evaluation, and eventual deployment of novel medical devices is a complex process involving various areas of expertise. Although the need for a User Centred Design approach to the development of both hardware and software has long been established, both current regulatory guidelines and widespread evaluation approaches fail to reflect the challenges encountered during day-to-day clinical practice. As such, the results from these evaluations may not provide a realistic account of the problems encountered by users when introduced to clinical practice.