EPSRC - NIHR HTC Partnership Award: Social Computing And Mental Health Research Network

据估计，目前的心理健康状况不良程度每年使英国经济在医疗保健支出和收入损失方面损失1050亿英镑。因此，解决心理健康问题是政府明确的优先事项。ICT服务、社交媒体和智能手机应用程序的广泛使用在提供临床心理健康服务以及更广泛地支持社会心理健康和福祉方面发挥着越来越重要的作用。事实上，对于大部分人口，特别是年轻人来说，Facebook，Twitter和YouTube等社交计算技术的使用已经非正式地融入了日常生活的各个方面，包括健康和福祉。因此，医疗保健社区和商业软件开发人员的期望是，数字移动的和社交技术可以提供引人注目的、可扩展的和方便的信息访问、社交和同伴支持，以及治疗和共享的自我监测工具和服务。然而，在心理健康环境中设计、部署、使用和评估这种技术存在许多困难的挑战，必须使用多学科、严格和科学的方法加以解决。社会计算的研究领域广泛关注以用户为中心的设计，实施，使用和评估技术，这些技术在日益数字化的社会中考虑社会背景。因此，英国的社会计算研究社区拥有丰富的经验和专业知识，这些经验和专业知识与心理健康服务和系统相关，但通常不针对心理健康服务和系统。这一网络将解决这方面的支助、协调和协作问题，并将两个群体聚集在一起：（i）工程和物理科学（EPS）研究人员在广泛的，包容性的，旗帜的社会计算涵盖子领域的人机交互（HCI），无处不在和移动的计算，和网络科学（ii）临床科学家，医疗保健专业人员，商业合作伙伴，慈善机构，关注心理健康和福祉的用户群体和患者。该网络将与NIHR MindTech Healthcare Technology Co-operative（HTC）中心密切合作，参与一系列协调的科学，技术，管理和临床活动，以实现其泵启动未来英国能力的总体目标，在社会计算和心理健康之间的边界提供国际领先的研究。

The current extent of ill mental health is estimated to cost the UK economy £105 billion per year in healthcare expenditure and lost revenue. Addressing mental health is therefore a clearly articulated priority for government. The broad use of ICT services, social media and smartphone applications has an increasingly important role to play in the delivery of clinical mental health services and in supporting societal mental health and wellbeing more generally. Indeed, for large sections of the population, and younger people in particular, the use of Social Computing technologies such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube is already informally entwined with every facet of everyday life including health and wellbeing. The expectation by the healthcare community, and by commercial software developers, therefore is that digital mobile and social technology can provide compelling, scalable and convenient access to information, social and peer support, as well as therapy and shared self-monitoring tools and services. However, there are a numerous difficult challenges associated with the design, deployment, use and evaluation of such technology in mental health settings which must be solved using multidisciplinary, rigorous and scientific methods. The research field of Social Computing broadly focusses on the user-centred design, implementation, use, and evaluation of technologies that consider social context in an increasingly digitally-connected society. The UK's Social Computing research community therefore has a wealth of experience and expertise that is relevant to, but not typically directed at, mental health services and systems. This network will address issues of support, coordination and collaboration in this context and bring together two communities: (i) engineering and physical sciences (EPS) researchers under the broad, and inclusive, banner of Social Computing covering sub-fields of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), ubiquitous and mobile computing, and web science (ii) clinical scientists, healthcare professionals, commercial partners, charities, user groups and patients who are concerned with mental health and wellbeing. The network will work closely with the NIHR MindTech Healthcare Technology Co-operative (HTC) centre to engage in a range of coordinated scientific, technological, management and clinical activities to realise its overarching aim of pump-priming future UK capacity to deliver internationally-leading research at the boundaries between social computing and mental healthcare.