Investigating, prototyping and trialling interactive online youth counselling tools

该项目与澳大利亚最大的青少年咨询服务机构“儿童帮助热线”合作，对互动式在线咨询工具进行原型和试验，并评估其有效性。显然，互联网咨询的实践和理论需要结合新的信息和通信技术提供的机会，特别是要与年轻人的多媒体素养接触。该项目将调查青年咨询中的多用户图形交互，并为全球在线咨询的进展建立一个证据基础。它将在传统咨询方法的基础上研究和制作图形工具的原型，以改善服务提供，并使澳大利亚年轻人的福祉受益。

This project prototypes and trials interactive online counselling tools and evaluates their effectiveness in partnership with Australia's largest youth counselling service, Kids Help Line. There is a demonstrable need for Internet counselling practice and theory to incorporate opportunities offered by new information and communication technologies, especially to engage with the multimedia literacies of young people. The project will investigate multi-user graphical interactivity in youth counselling and develop an evidence base for advances in online counselling worldwide. It will research and prototype graphical tools based on traditional counselling methods to improve service delivery, and benefit the wellbeing of young Australians.