Working across the fields of Art, Design, Psychology, Health and Computer Science, I value transdisciplinary research (that which combines disciplines).

Understanding context and thinking in terms of systems is fundamental to my research practice. I am interested in the social and psychological aspects of many overlapping subjects, including: health & mental health; death; biophilia; environmental conservation & protection; activism, and the ending of neoliberal capitalism.

In 2025 I graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction. My thesis was titled Understanding Readiness and Motivation for Digital Mental Health Support. This project was co-funded by Research Ireland and the Irish company SilverCloud Health (acquired by Amwell in 2021).

I am currently working as a postdoctoral Design Researcher in the Health Design Lab at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin. If you’d like to collaborate, please get in touch!

Email: jacintajardine@gmail.com

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Some of my PhD findings

• A person’s need for mental health care and their motivation to engage with this care are linked. They are influenced by the particular context or situation a person is in and the things going on around them.

• Motivation is often thought of as an internal force existing only in a person’s mind, but I found it to be something that comes about as a relationship between a person and their environment. It arises in certain circumstances that can be unique and sporadic.

• Attempts are frequently made to increase a person’s motivation as a way to increase their engagement with health and mental health services. This individualisation and instrumentalisation of motivation (i.e., treating it as a solely internal mental force and a tool that can be harnessed) can lead people to feel shame and judge themselves negatively if they experience difficulties engaging with care. This is called self-stigma, and these feelings can decrease a person’s motivation for seeking help and engaging with care.

• Digital mental health interventions can be a stepping stone to further care or an easily accessible long-term form of support, but they need to be well embedded into healthcare systems.

• Including the option for contact with a human being should be a prerequisite for any digital mental health support option.

Publications

Jardine, J., Nadal, C., Barry, M., Snow, D., McDermott, F., & Robinson, S. (2024). Design for the Long Now: Temporal Tools for Navigating Ethics in HCI. In Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 433–437.

Lewis, M., Sturdee, M., . . . Jardine, J., . . . Rivière, J. P., (2024) Traveling Arts x HCI Sketchbook: Exploring the Intersection Between Artistic Expression and Human-Computer Interaction. In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24). ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Jardine, J., Nadal, C., Robinson, S., Enrique, A., Hanratty, M., & Doherty, G. (2024). Between Rhetoric and Reality: Real-world Barriers to Uptake and Early Engagement in Digital Mental Health Interventions. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 31(2).

Jardine, J., Bowman, R., & Doherty, G. (2022). Digital Interventions to Enhance Readiness for Psychological Therapy: Scoping Review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(8).

Jardine, J., (2022). Sitting With the Soft Chaos of Subjective Experience. In Proceedings of CHI ‘22 Workshop: The State of the CHI(Art) . ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Jardine, J., Hanratty, M., Doherty., G. (2022). Real world barriers to uptake in digital mental health interventions: A mixed methods, exploratory study. In Proceedings of CHI ‘22 Workshop: Designing Ecosystems for Complex Health Needs. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Richards, D., Enrique, A., Palacios, J., Eliert, N., Duffy, D., Doherty, G., Jardine, J., Vigano, N., & Tierney, K. (2022). SilverCloud Health: Online mental health and wellbeing platform. In Digital Therapeutics: Scientific, Statistical, Clinical, and Regulatory Aspects. CRC press.

Jardine, J., Earley, C., Richards, D., Timulak, L., Palacios, J. E., Duffy, D., Tierney, K., & Doherty, G. (2020, April). The experience of guided online therapy: A longitudinal, qualitative analysis of client feedback in a naturalistic RCT. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

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Papers & books I like

Meadows, D. H. (2008). Thinking in systems: A primer. Chelsea Green Publishing.

Capra, F. (1996) The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. Anchor Books. 

Møller, J. E. (2010). Lack of motivation as suffering. In The role of chronic pain and suffering in contemporary society. Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund. 7(13).

Foulkes, L., & Andrews, J. L. (2023). Are mental health awareness efforts contributing to the rise in reported mental health problems? A call to test the prevalence inflation hypothesis. New Ideas in Psychology, 69, 101010.

Sicart, M., & Shklovski, I. (2020). ‘Pataphysical Software: (Ridiculous) Technological Solutions for Imaginary Problems. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’20). ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Lomas, T. (2018). The quiet virtues of sadness: A selective theoretical and interpretative appreciation of its potential contribution to wellbeing. New Ideas in Psychology, 49, 18-26.

Brinkmann, S. (2016). Diagnostic cultures: A cultural approach to the pathologization of modern life. Routledge.

Keyes, O., Hutson, J., & Durbin, M. (2019). A mulching proposal: Analysing and improving an algorithmic system for turning the elderly into high-nutrient slurry. In Extended abstracts of the 2019 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Sabie, S., Soden, R., Jackson, S., & Parikh, T. (2023). Unmaking as Emancipation: Lessons and Reflections from Luddism. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA.