Melo presented at Ulster University’s ‘Digital mental health and wellbeing’ 2024 conference

Melo recently presented work at the ‘Digital mental health and wellbeing’ conference, hosted by Ulster University in Derry, Ireland. Alongside James Chapman, one of the co-founders of Decently, were colleagues from Salford Royal’s neuropsychology team, including Dr Alistair Teager.

We were given the opportunity to deliver our recent work, in the form of two presentations, one on our Melo AI chatbot, and one on the acceptability and feasibility of using digital health technologies to understand ‘challenging to manage’ behaviours.

It was a perfect opportunity to showcase the important work that Decently have been doing, and an even better opportunity to do so in a way that engaged our audience, building new networks. James had this to say about his experience:

““It was a proud moment for me and the team to present Melo to an international audience of academics and healthcare professionals. The broader conference was also a great opportunity to build new connections and learn about some of the ground breaking research and innovation coming out of Ulster University right now”.”

— James Chapman, Decently Co-founder

Presentation 1: Development of an artificial intelligence chatbot to analyse challenging to manage behaviours

The three day conference was packed with topics from around the digital mental health space, including a strong focus on the co-design of mental health services, with input from stakeholders and patients.

Presentation 2: Ascertaining the acceptability and feasibility of using digital health technologies to assess and understand challenging to manage behaviours in neurorehabilitation

Decently recently hosted a similar session, gathering insights from brain injured patients and their families. To find out more about this, please click here.

By presenting in the ‘Usability evaluation of digital interventions’ section on day 2 of the conference, we were able to showcase Melo and present our acceptability and feasibility findings to an audience sharing similar interests and ambitions for digital health technology, and the potential benefits it can add to current practice.

Feel free to click on each presentation to have a look at the presentations in more detail