Co-Designing Digital Trust: Lessons from Developing a Privacy-Preserving Behavioural Framework for Mental-Health Technology
Date: 3 June 2026
Theatre: Workshop
3-june-2026
3-june-2026
Europe/London
Co-Designing Digital Trust: Lessons from Developing a Privacy-Preserving Behavioural Framework for Mental-Health Technology
Digital technologies can support recovery and wellbeing, but they also risk eroding trust when users feel monitored rather than understood. This presentation shares practice-based learning from a collaborative project that explored how behavioural analytics can be used to promote emotional safety rather than surveillance. Working through IdeaChef CIC’s social-innovation programme, a multidisciplinary team of designers,
Design in Mental HealthSynopsis
Digital technologies can support recovery and wellbeing, but they also risk eroding trust when users feel monitored rather than understood. This presentation shares practice-based learning from a collaborative project that explored how behavioural analytics can be used to promote emotional safety rather than surveillance.
Working through IdeaChef CIC’s social-innovation programme, a multidisciplinary team of designers, clinicians, and service users co-created a privacy-preserving framework for mapping online stress patterns and resilience factors. The process emphasised transparency, consent, and psychological safety.
The session will trace the journey from early consultation to prototype testing, highlighting the ethical tensions that emerged, how participants resolved them, and what principles now guide responsible digital-mental-health design.
Rather than focusing on a commercial product, the talk reflects on what worked, what changed, and how co-production reshaped assumptions about data, risk, and agency. Attendees will gain practical insights into:
Speakers
Faithful Freeman Cybersecurity & Innovation Lead - IdeaChef CIC | IdentiChain | Coventry University
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