Kevin Doherty is an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at University College Dublin’s School of Information and Communication Studies. His work focuses on the design and development of new and improved health and mental healthcare technologies, including novel digital therapeutics, new means of leveraging health data to support care for chronic, co-morbid conditions, and the practice of in-situ design research for clinical and everyday impact.

 

His teaching and research exemplifies and advocates for a human-centred approach to digital technology targeting the areas of greatest human need, and is driven in particular by the desire to achieve a real-world impact on healthcare.

 

 

 

He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, ACM SIGCHI, SIGCHI Ireland and the HCI@UCD research group, regular contributor to the Informatics Europe Academic Leadership and CHI Emotionally Demanding Research communities, and hold adjunct research positions at the Technical University of Denmark and Copenhagen University.

 

 

He is interested in supervising projects broadly concerning the design, development and evaluation of new and improved health technologies, including for example, novel digital therapeutics, new means of leveraging health data to support care for chronic, co-morbid conditions, and/or the practice of in-situ design research for clinical and everyday impact.

 

 

Possible research topics include, although are not limited to: new and innovative means of accessing and supporting the provision of health and mental healthcare; digital tools to facilitate the collaboration, coordination and decision-making of care, including to improve patient-provider relationships; understanding the role of materials, tools, methods and systems to improve the clinical practice of primary and/or secondary healthcare; the self- report, sharing and disclosure of health-related data to advance wellbeing on individual and/or population scales; the practice of participatory design for health technology acceptance, engagement and adoption; the development and evaluation of novel tools to support the practice of therapy and/or self-care; systems to support the patient-centred practice of care; and any other related topic of your own framing.