Participatory design for future care related technologies: lessons from the Smart Distress Monitor Project

The Third Conference celebrated in June 2010 at Universidad Iberoamericana in Puebla, Mexico, focused on “Community Approaches to Contemporary Social Problems”. It addressed the scientific and professional status of Community Psychology as an international endeavour from the perspective of the historical and sociocultural context of present day social concerns and as a multidisciplinary “linking science” able to afford an original and needed contribution to deal with them. Community psychology worldwide has been relevant in relation to key socio-psychological issues in rich and disadvantaged nations confronted by psychologists since the mid-fifties of the last century. Three important recent sources of International Community Psychology give the information to support this general overview: International Community Psychology: History and Theories (Reich et al., 2007); International Community Psychology: Shared Agendas in Diversity (Vázquez Rivera, et al., 2009); and Historias de la Psicología Comunitaria en América Latina. Participación y Transformación (Montero y Serrano-García, 2011).