Research

Extreme Weather and Mental Health

Designing participatory technologies to build psychological resilience and collective climate advocacy in the face of extreme weather events.

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Project Overview

This transdisciplinary initiative investigates how Collaborative Climate Journaling can transform climate-related distress into emotional agency. By addressing the need for integrated disaster response, it explores the design of asynchronous audiovisual environments for both anticipatory preparedness and post-disaster recovery. These platforms empower individuals to share their lived experiences of extreme weather, helping them safely process complex trauma and engage in collective climate advocacy.

The foundation of this work is grounded in the peer-reviewed study 'Exploring the Intersection of Extreme Weather and Mental Health,' presented at the Interactive Health Conference (IH ’26). Using Value Sensitive Design, the research established critical technical requirements for psychological safety, including archive-first workflows, offline-first syncing, and privacy-preserving AI sentiment heatmaps.

These findings now drive our next stage: partnering in large-scale demonstrations to design and deploy these secure platforms and inform evidence-based climate policy.

Strategic Objectives

This initiative seeks consortium partners to scale our foundational research into real-world demonstrations. Our primary objectives are:

  • Foster Relational Engagement: Investigate how participation in rich audiovisual journaling can contribute to emotional harm mitigiation, by building "psychological ownership" and relational engagement within communities, transforming passive climate trauma into active pro-social stewardship in climate adaptation.
  • Deploy Setting-Driven Design: Map the complex physical and social contexts of post-disaster behaviour settings to validate our offline-first, asynchronous platform-proposal. This ensures our interventions remain contextually grounded and accessible despite acute infrastructural failures for dealing with the emotional burdens of extreme weather events.
  • Inform Policy & Resource Allocation: Utilise privacy-preserving AI sentiment heatmaps to help local authorities gauge shared trauma levels, enabling the systematic allocation of mental health resources without exposing vulnerable individuals.

Exploring the Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change

The exhibition poster below and the full paper—accessible via the ACM Digital Library—represent the peer-reviewed evidence base of this initiative. Presented at the Interactive Health Conference (IH ’26), this work utilised Value Sensitive Design to address extreme weather distress, laying the critical foundation for our current focus on large-scale consortium dective climate advocacy.

Read the full paper on the ACM Digital Library

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