Today is Bell Let’s Talk day and just like every year I am feeling a lot of mixed emotions. The five cents that goes towards mental health initiatives with every social media post end up being bigger[…]
We previously wrote about a study of e-mental health technologies by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC). The technologies that are considered in the report include mobile apps, social media, wearable devices, robots, telemedicine, big data,[…]
Now that we have our mockups ready, it’s time to show them off! Vidhya Arulnathan, Asiya Atcha, Jessica Mann, and Susan Sim shared the screens with acquaintances to gauge how likely people would be to use Safehouse, and[…]
Sam Beekie has just completed an undergraduate degree in New Media Design and French Studies at the University of Toronto. For Hacking Health 2014, Sam designed screens and emojis for Susan Sim’s award-winning app, Bye-Bye Meltdown. We’re[…]
Throwback Thursday takes us back to moodboards and Safehouse’s earliest inspiration! Safehouse’s target user group is military personnel who have been diagnosed with PTSD or OSI, and who wish to give and receive peer support. When we[…]
For our first design session, we split into groups of two and sketched out the login screen. We brainstormed the path users would take to sign-up with Safehouse, and considered how they would normally use the app. Our[…]
We conducted a competitive analysis to determine what apps are available and how Safehouse compares with them. Jessica Mann reviewed PTSD/OSI support apps for military users and Asiya Atcha looked at peer support apps. Sam Beekie compared social media dashboards to[…]
Safehouse App is looking for beta-testers! To participate, you’ll need an iOS or Android phone, and some friends to interact with using the app. Click here to sign up! We’d like to emphasize that this is a[…]
Our first team meeting on 7 April 2015 produced a script for interviewing potential users in the Send Up the Count (SUTC) Facebook group. The group is large (9,000 members) and diverse, and activity levels vary. So,[…]
On 30 March 2015, Susan Sim attended the Hacking Health Design Challenge Kick-Off with two team members, Jessica Mann and Harriet South. Team leaders pitched their project ideas at this event, recruited teammates, and participated in a Design[…]
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