Affective Health is a tracking system dedicated to people with mental afflictions or extreme stress. It helps them to manage their mental health through self bio-data tracking. The data tracker takes input, such as pulse, sweat and movement, and links these data with activity from the user’s smartphone and app usage.

We worked with the Affective Health team in designing and formalizing the user interaction with the device and its community.

Users are sensitive and mental health is still taboo, so we built the community features with caution in mind. We focused on enabling safe interactions between users, their medical practitioners, advisors and relatives. We clustered information between different groups, shared through anonymity and progressive levels of trust, enabled by users when they feel more comfortable with the person they share with.

We also added fun concepts, such as ice-breaking games between anonymous members, to break loneliness safely.

Client: Affective Health (MobileLife)
Scopes: Design Research, User Experience, Interface Design