@conference { , title = {Mental health app design – a journey from concept to completion}, abstract = {The development of a mental health app, one with significant potential for impacting on and transforming peoples’ lives, requires a diligent approach for integrating and delivering clinical expertise which is to be used by a vulnerable user group. The challenges include ensuring adequate involvement of a user group that is not only hard to recruit, but equally complex to engage with in order to ensure ecological validity of the different elements of the user-centred design process. Discussing the design and deployment of an anxiety management app, SAM [Self-help for Anxiety Management], we discuss approaches adopted to address the challenges involved and the impact these had on the final design. The paper concludes with a set of pragmatic recommendations, based on our experience of the process.}, conference = {MobileHCI2015: 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services}, publicationstatus = {Unpublished}, url = {https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/830735}, keyword = {Social Science Research Group, mobile app design, mental health app, user-centred design process}, author = {Topham, Phil and Caleb-Solly, Praminda and Matthews, Paul and Farmer, Andy and Mash, Chris} }