Designing for Emotion Regulation Interventions: An Agenda for HCI Theory and Research

There is a growing interest in human-computer interaction (HCI) to envision, design, and evaluate technology-enabled interventions that support users’ emotion regulation. This stems part from increased recognition the ability regulate emotions critical mental health, lack of effective regulation transdiagnostic factor for illness. However, potential combine innovative HCI designs with theoretical grounding state-of-the-art psychology has yet be fully realised. In this article, we synthesise work on propose three-part framework guide technology designers making: (i) theory-informed decisions about intervention targets; (ii) strategic regarding mechanisms included system; (iii) practical around previous implementations selected components. We show how can both systematise date suggest research agenda future work.