Towards Ontologies for Technology in Mental Health Interventions

Author

Coyle, David ; Doherty, Gavin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Trinity Coll. Dublin, Dublin

fYear

2008

fDate

1-1 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

18

Lastpage

26

Abstract

The mental health care sector has been slow to adopt technology. However pressure on services from worsening mental health trends and a pressing need to develop innovative approaches to improved services has led to increased activity in this area. This paper discusses potential uses of ontologies in the development of interactive systems to support mental health interventions. Different aspects of the domain that may be modelled using ontologies are discussed and initial work in the development of an ontology based system is described. The paper also notes the importance and benefits of incorporating risk management into ontology based systems for this domain.

Keywords

health care; interactive systems; ontologies (artificial intelligence); psychology; risk management; innovative approach; interactive system; mental health care intervention; ontology; risk management; Cancer; Cardiac disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Computer science; Educational institutions; Interactive systems; Mental disorders; Ontologies; Psychology; Risk management; Interactive systems; Mental Health; Ontology design; Technology for mental health;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ontologies in Interactive Systems, 2008. ONTORACT '08. First International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Liverpool

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3459-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ONTORACT.2008.12

Filename

4756191