Professor ELVIRA PEREZ VALLEJOS's Outputs (64)

A Call to Action: Designing a more transparent online world for children and young people (2024)
Journal Article
Portillo, V., Dowthwaite, L., Creswick, H., Vallejos, E. P., Ten Holter, C., Koene, A., Jirotka, M., & Zhao, J. (2024). A Call to Action: Designing a more transparent online world for children and young people. Journal of Responsible Technology, 19, Article 100093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2024.100093

This paper reports on a qualitative research study that explored the practical and emotional experiences of young people aged 13–17 using algorithmically-mediated online platforms. It demonstrates an RI-based methodology for responsible two-way dialo... Read More about A Call to Action: Designing a more transparent online world for children and young people.

Insights from explainable AI in oesophageal cancer team decisions (2024)
Journal Article
Thavanesan, N., Farahi, A., Parfitt, C., Belkhatir, Z., Azim, T., Vallejos, E. P., Walters, Z., Ramchurn, S., Underwood, T. J., & Vigneswaran, G. (2024). Insights from explainable AI in oesophageal cancer team decisions. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 180, Article 108978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108978

Background: Clinician-led quality control into oncological decision-making is crucial for optimising patient care. Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques provide data-driven approaches to unravel how clinical variables influence this de... Read More about Insights from explainable AI in oesophageal cancer team decisions.

Bridging the gap from medical to psychological safety assessment: consensus study in a digital mental health context (2024)
Journal Article
Taher, R., Bhanushali, P., Allan, S., Alvarez-Jimenez, M., Bolton, H., Dennison, L., Wallace, B. E., Hadjistavropoulos, H. D., Hall, C. L., Hardy, A., Henry, A. L., Lane, S., Maguire, T., Moreton, A., Moukhtarian, T. R., Perez Vallejos, E., Shergill, S., Stahl, D., Thew, G. R., Timulak, L., …Yiend, J. (2024). Bridging the gap from medical to psychological safety assessment: consensus study in a digital mental health context. BJPsych Open, 10(4), Article e126. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.713

Background
Digital Mental Health Interventions (DMHIs) that meet the definition of a medical device are regulated by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the UK. The MHRA uses procedures that were originally developed fo... Read More about Bridging the gap from medical to psychological safety assessment: consensus study in a digital mental health context.

Perception and appropriation of a web-based recovery narratives intervention: qualitative interview study (2024)
Journal Article
Ali, Y., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Ng, F., Yeo, C., Franklin, D., Perez Vallejos, E., Ben-Zeev, D., Kotera, Y., & Slade, M. (2024). Perception and appropriation of a web-based recovery narratives intervention: qualitative interview study. Frontiers in Digital Health, 6, Article 1297935. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2024.1297935

Introduction

Mental health recovery narratives are widely available to the public, and can benefit people affected by mental health problems. The NEON Intervention is a novel web-based digital health intervention providing access to the NEON Colle... Read More about Perception and appropriation of a web-based recovery narratives intervention: qualitative interview study.

Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milligan, G., Harvey, J., Dowthwaite, L., Vallejos, E. P., Nica-Avram, G., & Goulding, J. (2023, December). Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data. Presented at 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Sorrento, Italy

Life satisfaction significantly contributes to wellbe-ing and is linked to positive outcomes for individual people and society more broadly. However, previous research demonstrates that many factors contribute to the life satisfaction of an individua... Read More about Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data.

“I Don’t Feel Like There’s Enough Awareness about the Damage That Social Media Does”: A Thematic Analysis of the Relationships between Social Media Use, Mental Wellbeing, and Care Experience (2023)
Journal Article
Pepper, C., Perez Vallejos, E., & Carter, C. J. (2023). “I Don’t Feel Like There’s Enough Awareness about the Damage That Social Media Does”: A Thematic Analysis of the Relationships between Social Media Use, Mental Wellbeing, and Care Experience. Youth, 3(4), 1244-1267. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth3040079

Social media (SM) has become an unavoidable mode of communication for many young people today, leading to increasing importance in exploring its impact on mental wellbeing. This includes exploring the impact on those who may be more susceptible to de... Read More about “I Don’t Feel Like There’s Enough Awareness about the Damage That Social Media Does”: A Thematic Analysis of the Relationships between Social Media Use, Mental Wellbeing, and Care Experience.

Navigating the labyrinth of RI through a practical application — A case study in a cross-disciplinary research project (2023)
Journal Article
Zhao, J., Patel, M., Inglesant, P., Portillo, V., Webb, H., Dowthwaite, L., Fiddi, P., Legastelois, B., Perez Vallejos, E., Rovatsos, M., & Jirotka, M. (2023). Navigating the labyrinth of RI through a practical application — A case study in a cross-disciplinary research project. Journal of Responsible Technology, 15, Article 100064. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2023.100064

Responsible Innovation (RI) aims to enable research and innovation to take a more systematic approach to anticipating potential risks and consequences of planned research/innovative outputs. The Anticipation, Reflection, Engagement and Action (AREA)... Read More about Navigating the labyrinth of RI through a practical application — A case study in a cross-disciplinary research project.

The #longcovid revolution: A reflexive thematic analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Turner, M., Beckwith, H., Spratt, T., Vallejos, E. P., & Coughlan, B. (2023). The #longcovid revolution: A reflexive thematic analysis. Social Science and Medicine, 333, Article 116130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116130

Research has identified long COVID as the first virtual patient-made condition (Callard and Perego, 2021). It originated from Twitter users sharing their experiences using the hashtag #longcovid. Over the first two years of the pandemic, long COVID a... Read More about The #longcovid revolution: A reflexive thematic analysis.

An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dowthwaite, L., Perez Vallejos, E., Portillo, V., Patel, M., Zhao, J., & Creswick, H. (2023, July). An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing. Presented at ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Edinburgh, UK

Internet users often report feelings of stress, anxiety, and a lack of control, often related to uncertainty about the use of algorithms and autonomous systems (AS) behind what they encounter. This may lead to a loss of trust in the services, content... Read More about An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing.

“It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gibson, R., Babbage, C. M., Wagner, H. G., Price, D. J., Martindale, S., Chadborn, N. H., Ito-Jaeger, S., Darzentas, D. P., Webb, H., Jacobs, R., Atabey, A., Koleva, B., Flintham, M., Winklhofer, H., Urquhart, L. D., & Perez Vallejos, E. (2023, July). “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories. Presented at DIS '23: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Pittsburgh, USA

We present the design of the Memory Machine (MeMa), a technology probe that can store, contextualise, and document media to represent memories. We accumulate vast physical and digital possessions throughout our lives, making it difficult to distingui... Read More about “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories.

TrustScapes: A Visualisation Tool to Capture Stakeholders’ Concerns and Recommendations About Data Protection, Algorithmic Bias, and Online Safety (2023)
Journal Article
Ito-Jaeger, S., Lane, G., Dowthwaite, L., Webb, H., Patel, M., Rawsthorne, M., Portillo, V., Jirotka, M., & Perez Vallejos, E. (2023). TrustScapes: A Visualisation Tool to Capture Stakeholders’ Concerns and Recommendations About Data Protection, Algorithmic Bias, and Online Safety. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231186965

This paper presents a new methodological approach, TrustScapes, an open access tool designed to identify and visualise stakeholders’ concerns and policy recommendations on data protection, algorithmic bias, and online safety for a fairer and more tru... Read More about TrustScapes: A Visualisation Tool to Capture Stakeholders’ Concerns and Recommendations About Data Protection, Algorithmic Bias, and Online Safety.

TrustScapes: A visualisation tool to capture stakeholders' concerns and recommendations about data protection, algorithmic bias, and online safety (2023)
Journal Article
Ito-Jaeger, S., Lane, G., Dowthwaite, L., Webb, H., Patel, M., Rawsthorne, M., Portillo, V., Jirotka, M., & Perez Vallejos, E. (2023). TrustScapes: A visualisation tool to capture stakeholders' concerns and recommendations about data protection, algorithmic bias, and online safety. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406923118696

This paper presents a new methodological approach, TrustScapes, an open access tool designed to identify and visualise stakeholders’ concerns and policy recommendations on data protection, algorithmic bias, and online safety for a fairer and more tru... Read More about TrustScapes: A visualisation tool to capture stakeholders' concerns and recommendations about data protection, algorithmic bias, and online safety.

Reflections on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS): A message from Journal of Responsible Technology Special Issue's editors (2023)
Journal Article
Vallejos, E. P., Dowthwaite, L., Barnard, P., & Coomber, B. (2023). Reflections on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS): A message from Journal of Responsible Technology Special Issue's editors. Journal of Responsible Technology, 14, Article 100059. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2023.100059

What’s up with everyone?’: The effectiveness of a digital media mental health literacy campaign for young people (2023)
Journal Article
Curran, T., Ito-Jaeger, S., Perez Vallejos, E., & Crawford, P. (2023). What’s up with everyone?’: The effectiveness of a digital media mental health literacy campaign for young people. Journal of Mental Health, 32(3), 612-618. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2023.2182412

Background: In 2021, the Arts and Humanities Research Council commissioned a mass-media mental health campaign called “What’s up With Everyone?” Here, innovative co-created messages were professionally storied and animated by an internationally recog... Read More about What’s up with everyone?’: The effectiveness of a digital media mental health literacy campaign for young people.

Mindfully and confidently digital: A mixed methods study on personal resources to mitigate the dark side of digital working (2023)
Journal Article
Marsh, E., Perez Vallejos, E., & Spence, A. (2023). Mindfully and confidently digital: A mixed methods study on personal resources to mitigate the dark side of digital working. PLoS ONE, 19(2), Article e0295631. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295631

A growing body of research demonstrates the potential of mindfulness to reduce employee stress. However, with work increasingly migrating from the physical to the digital workplace, evidence is lacking on how mindfulness might help employees live hea... Read More about Mindfully and confidently digital: A mixed methods study on personal resources to mitigate the dark side of digital working.

Young People’s Trust in Cocreated Web-Based Resources to Promote Mental Health Literacy: Focus Group Study (2023)
Journal Article
Ito-Jaeger, S., Perez Vallejos, E., Logathasan, S., Curran, T., & Crawford, P. (2023). Young People’s Trust in Cocreated Web-Based Resources to Promote Mental Health Literacy: Focus Group Study. JMIR Mental Health, 10, Article e38346. https://doi.org/10.2196/38346

Background:
There is a pressing need to create resources to promote mental health literacy among young people. Digital media is one of the methods that can be used to successfully promote mental health literacy. Although digital mental health resour... Read More about Young People’s Trust in Cocreated Web-Based Resources to Promote Mental Health Literacy: Focus Group Study.

The relationship between trust and attitudes towards the COVID-19 digital contact-tracing app in the UK (2022)
Journal Article
Dowthwaite, L., Wagner, H. G., Babbage, C. M., Fischer, J. E., Barnard, P., Nichele, E., Perez Vallejos, E., Clos, J., Portillo, V., & McAuley, D. (2022). The relationship between trust and attitudes towards the COVID-19 digital contact-tracing app in the UK. PLoS ONE, 17(10), Article e0276661. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276661

During the COVID-19 pandemic, digital contact-tracing has been employed in many countries to monitor and manage the spread of the disease. However, to be effective such a system must be adopted by a substantial proportion of the population; therefore... Read More about The relationship between trust and attitudes towards the COVID-19 digital contact-tracing app in the UK.

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) prompts and practice cards (version 2.1, August 2022) (2022)
Other
Portillo, V., Greenhalgh, C., Craigon, P., Dowthwaite, L., Stahl, B., Perez Vallejos, E., Webb, H., & Wagner, H. (2022). Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) prompts and practice cards (version 2.1, August 2022). [https://www.horizon.ac.uk/rri-into-practice-launching-and-using-the-horizon-rri-prompts-and-practice-cards/]

These printable cards highlight 18 different aspects of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) that may be relevant to researchers and innovators. You can use the cards to reflect on a project and plan RRI activities. You can use the cards to faci... Read More about Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) prompts and practice cards (version 2.1, August 2022).

Health Expectations Front Cover: Volume 25 Issue 4 (2022)
Journal Article
Ito‐Jaeger, S., Perez Vallejos, E., Curran, T., & Crawford, P. (2022). Health Expectations Front Cover: Volume 25 Issue 4. Health Expectations, 25(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13575

The cover image is based on the Research Article What's Up With Everyone?: A qualitative study on young people's perceptions of co-created online animations to promote mental health literacy by Sachiyo Ito-Jaeger et al.,

What's Up With Everyone? A qualitative study on young people's perceptions of cocreated online animations to promote mental health literacy (2022)
Journal Article
Ito-Jaeger, S., Perez Vallejos, E., Curran, T., & Crawford, P. (2022). What's Up With Everyone? A qualitative study on young people's perceptions of cocreated online animations to promote mental health literacy. Health Expectations, 25(4), 1633-1642. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13507

Introduction: Adolescence and young adulthood are especially critical times to learn about mental health, given that 75% of mental health issues are developed by the age of 24. Animations have great potential to effectively deliver mental health info... Read More about What's Up With Everyone? A qualitative study on young people's perceptions of cocreated online animations to promote mental health literacy.