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Transdiagnostic Mental Health Interventions (265) Digital Mental Health Interventions, e-Mental Health and Cyberpsychology (3014) Innovations in Mental Health Systems (652) Users' and Patients' Needs for Mental Health Services (653) Anxiety and Stress Disorders (1574) Robots in Healthcare (246)

Published on in Vol 10 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/46826, first published .
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Feasibility, Perceived Impact, and Acceptability of a Socially Assistive Robot to Support Emotion Regulation With Highly Anxious University Students: Mixed Methods Open Trial

Feasibility, Perceived Impact, and Acceptability of a Socially Assistive Robot to Support Emotion Regulation With Highly Anxious University Students: Mixed Methods Open Trial

Authors of this article:

A Jess Williams1 Author Orcid Image ;   Maureen Freed2 Author Orcid Image ;   Nikki Theofanopoulou1 Author Orcid Image ;   Claudia Daudén Roquet1 Author Orcid Image ;   Predrag Klasnja3 Author Orcid Image ;   James Gross4 Author Orcid Image ;   Jessica Schleider5 Author Orcid Image ;   Petr Slovak1 Author Orcid Image
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Journals

  1. Williams A, Townsend E, Naeche N, Chapman-Nisar A, Hollis C, Slovak P. Investigating the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Appropriation of a Socially Assistive Robot Among Minority Youth at Risk of Self-Harm: Results of 2 Mixed Methods Pilot Studies. JMIR Formative Research 2023;7:e52336 View
  2. Williams A, Cleare S, Borschmann R, Tench C, Gross J, Hollis C, Chapman-Nisar A, Naeche N, Townsend E, Slovak P. Enhancing emotion regulation with an in situ socially assistive robot among LGBTQ+ youth with self-harm ideation: protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open 2024;14(1):e079801 View
  3. Chubinidze D, Li Z, Slovak P, Baudinet J, Dufour E, Tchanturia K. Introducing a Smart Toy in Eating Disorder Treatment: A Pilot Study. Nutrients 2024;16(4):467 View
  4. Kusnirakova D, Bangui H, Buhnova B. Exploring Robot Acceptance Across Domains Considering Trust and Social Aspects: A Survey. International Journal of Social Robotics 2025;17(10):2327 View
  5. Chubinidze D, Li Z, Croft P, Nodding B, Slovak P, Tchanturia K, Scarpelli S. “Calming the nightmares”: A qualitative study of a socially assistive robot for sensory and emotional support in individuals with eating disorders and PTSD. PLOS One 2025;20(6):e0325469 View
  6. Ahmadi Majd S, Parsaeian M, Madani M, Moradi H, Mohammadi A. A machine learning web application for screening social anxiety disorder based on participants’ emotion regulation (ML-SAD). Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2025;12 View
  7. Voysey I, Baillie L, Williams J, Herrmann M. Co-Designing Educational Robotic Pet Concepts with Animal Welfare Educators and Children. International Journal of Social Robotics 2025;17(11):2623 View
  8. Jia L, Ayoub J, Tian D, Song M, Pari E, Du N. Robots with Heart: How Emotion Regulation Shapes Human-Robot Interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics 2026;18(1) View
  9. Habeck J, Knepple Carney A, McArthur E, Chung S. Educational Robotics in Health Care. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing 2026 View
  10. Williams A, Rhodes C, Cleare S, Borschmann R, Gross J, Petrova K, Posada L, Tench C, Chapman-Nisar A, Martin L, Hollis C, Townsend E, Slovak P. A socially assistive robot to support mental wellbeing in LGBTQ+ young people at risk of self-harm: a randomized controlled trial. Nature Medicine 2026;32(6):2267 View
  11. Antunes A, Campos J, Dias J, Santos P. Care Over Time: The Long-Term Potential of Socially Interactive Agents for Improving Mental Health and Well-being. ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare 2026 View

Conference Proceedings

  1. Slovak P, Munson S. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. HCI Contributions in Mental Health: A Modular Framework to Guide Psychosocial Intervention Design View
  2. Vyas P, Guta B, Bao A, Reis Guerra R, Solen M, Himam N, Uusberg A, E MacLean K. Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Tattered Teddies and Pentagram Charms: How People Use Touchable Comfort Objects and What This Means for Designing Affective Haptic Systems View