Game On - Crafting Future-Ready Mental Health Solutions with and for Young Minds
TIME
15:45 – 17:15
TRACKS
TRACK 1: Living Labs for Grand Societal Challenges
ORGANISER
Fundación INTRAS, Diana Filipa Correia Marques
DESCRIPTION
The proposed workshop aligns with track 1 by focusing on LLs methodology to address societal challenges, particularly in younger people’s healthcare and psychosocial wellbeing. According to UNICEF sources, around nine million people (10-19 y) in Europe, are currently suffering from mental disorders. The workshop proposes the refinement and implementation of mental health and serious game AI based solutions (SMILE), illustrating how Living Labs serve as platforms for innovation and collaboration. By engaging participants in co-creation and testing processes, the session will explore how these solutions can effectively promote well-being. Our aim to implement these apps seamless to reach over 2000 participants demonstrates our commitment to scalable, impactful solutions for societal betterment, embodying the transformative potential of Living Labs.
Agenda
- Part I (20 min)
Introduction to the workshop using a presentation (concept, target groups, setting the scene to the workshop), testimonies, tools – that provide the co-creation journey within the SMILE project. Personas created and validated by stakeholders (6 profiles created) will be shown.
- Part II (30 min)
Hands-on a mock-up/prototype. Participants will have access to the latest developments of the Project and to the Personas. Firstly, we form six groups – one for each profile available. The personas will serve as a starting point so participants can empathise with. Materials based on empathy maps to capture the feelings of each group (impersonating each persona) and a card-based gamified evaluation tool will be used.
- Part III (30 min)
Participants are invited to form groups and propose a user journey map that is engaging. This systematic approach represents the step-by-step interaction between users and a system, capturing their emotions and reactions at various touch-points with the product. It delineates both the sequential actions from start to finish and concurrently delves into the user’s motivation, expectations, behaviours, and satisfaction levels at each journey’s phase. A competition will be proposed.
SPEAKER BIOS
Raquel Losada Durán
Researcher, Project Manager and Project Coordinator Fundación INTRAS
Raquel Losada Durán
Researcher, Project Manager and Project Coordinator Fundación INTRASM.S in Psychology Certificate in Proficient Studies in Social Psychology and Organizational Anthropology. University Specialist Certificate in Organizational Intelligence. At INTRAS she has worked as researcher, project manager and project coordinator of more than 30 national and European projects under programs such as H2020, HEALTH, INTERREG, ERASMUS+ LLP, FP7, CIP, National RDI. She has coordinated cooperation for development projects with Latin-American countries such as Cuba, Argentina and Peru. Other activities in which she is engaged are Competitive Intelligence, scaling-up strategies for innovative products and services and international networking.
Rosa Almeida
RDi Researcher and Gerontologist Fundación INTRAS
Rosa Almeida
RDi Researcher and Gerontologist Fundación INTRASGerontologist with a Master’s in Projects, Human Resources, and Social Facilities, and a postgraduate in Third Generation Therapies. She has over twelve years of experience managing European RDI projects focused on health, wellbeing, and integrated care through participatory and co-creation methods at Living Lab MINDLab since 2012. Responsible for over 15 national and EU projects, she addresses aging challenges and promotes integrated interventions, along with developing ICT solutions for rehabilitation and independent living Her role includes coordinating participatory approaches within RDI cycles and Living Lab services to foster research that actively involves the community, pushing the boundaries of development in health and technology.
Diana Filipa Correia Marques
Psychologist and Junior Project Manager Fundación INTRAS
Diana Filipa Correia Marques
Psychologist and Junior Project Manager Fundación INTRASPsychologist and junior project manager. Her academic training has focused on clinical and health psychology, with internships in neuropsychology and in the department of psychological support and crisis intervention centre. Currently, she works as a psychologist and junior project manager in the Research and Development department of the INTRAS Foundation. She is an international Snoezelen therapist and traumatic incident reduction therapist.
Vincenza Frisardi, MD
MD, SR. Geriatric unit and Center for Cognitive and Behavioural disorders, IRCCS-AOUBO, Policlinico Sant'Orsola, Bologna, Italy
Vincenza Frisardi, MD
MD, SR. Geriatric unit and Center for Cognitive and Behavioural disorders, IRCCS-AOUBO, Policlinico Sant'Orsola, Bologna, ItalyMember of CEO at the Italian Psychogeriatric Association-Emilia Romagna. Dr. Vincenza Frisardi is an accomplished geriatrician and gerontologist working at the Department of Geriatrics, Center for Cognitive and Behavioural Disorders at IRCCS-AOUBO, Policlinico Sant' Orsola in Bologna, Italy. She holds a master's degree in "Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: The Cochrane Collaboration Group" and project management in healthcare. She has also achieved high professional certification in "Head Manager for Complex Structures in the Healthcare system". Dr. Frisardi has extensive experience in mental health research, neurodegenerative disorders, lifestyle factors, mood disorders, and dementia-related disorders. She has published over 100 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals listed in PubMed. Currently, she serves as an associate editor for peer-reviewed journals and is a member of the CEO at the Italian Psychogeriatric Association-Emilia Romagna. Dr. Frisardi has won numerous awards recognizing her contributions to the field of geriatrics. She was awarded the 34th SIGOT national meeting's top prize for her communication on "Preventing Delirium in Acute Stroke: Lessons from the Comprehensive Geriatric Approach." She is also involved in European consortia for grant applications and works as the Principal Investigator in funded Horizon projects. Dr. Frisardi is a member of expert panels for guideline review on dementia and MCI and is part of the Scientific Consultant Group at the Italian Geriatric Hospital and Territory Society.
Ana Rehberger
Researcher University of Maribor
Ana Rehberger
Researcher University of MariborAna Rehberger is a psychologist by education, employed at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of University of Maribor, Slovenia, where she is working as a researcher on multidisciplinary european projects. In addition to researching anxiety in her job, she is also interested in emotion dynamics, which is also a field of research of her PhD dissertation. In Timisoara, her team will be presenting workshops that have been carried out for children and adolescents for the purposes of one of the mentioned projects.
Tanja Å pes
Research Assistant University of Maribor
Tanja Å pes
Research Assistant University of MariborTanja Å pes holds a master's degree in psychology and works as a research assistant in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor. She is currently working on the following projects: The role of social context in bullying: promoting inclusive school by shaping positive peer culture, Empowerment of ageing adults: Self-regulatory mechanisms and support of digital technology in achieving higher quality of life, and SMILE - Mental Health in Young People: Integrated Methodology for Clinical Decisions and evidence-based interventions.