This study provides an analysis on the use of emerging technologies for the prevention of suicide in 8 European countries. The objective was to analyze the potentiality of using emerging technologies in the area of suicide prevention based on the opinion of different professionals. Opinions of 3 groups of professionals were gathered using a questionnaire. Goal 1 involved facilitating factors for the use of emerging technologies in suicide prevention. The analysis suggests that professionals in the field of social work attach greater relevance to those that optimize implementation and benefits. However, professionals in the area of mental health and policy makers give greater importance to professionally oriented and user-centered facilitating factors. Goal 2 was related to barriers to the usability of emerging technologies for suicide prevention. The professionals attach greater importance to barriers associated with resource constraints than to those centered on personal limitations. Although all professionals agree in identifying resource constraints as the main barrier to the use of emerging technologies, factors facilitating their use in suicide prevention differ among countries and among professionals.
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Global corporations are characterized by a large number of employees and geographically dispersed offices. Moreover, the competitiveness in the global market requires them to invest in their human resources to be able to remain a step ahead of competition. Implementing large scale classical education in such environments is challenging and costly. Mobile e-learning (m-learning) allows users to tailor their professional training and education to their needs and time constraints. However, in self-paced education, it is very hard to keep user retention and engagement. To achieve the latter, we have designed and developed an m-learning platform for corporate environments based on the triggering persuasive technology principle that try to incite users in regularly using the platform. We have evaluated the application in-the-wild in corporate environments of differently sized companies with 300 users. Users were subjected to three different conditions: no triggering, simple regular triggering, and adaptive triggering. The results show that the use of adaptive triggering in m-learning increases user engagement as well as course completion rates more than simple regular triggering and no triggering.
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