Designing, developing, and implementing a WhatsApp chatbot for social-emotional wellbeing assessments in South Africa.

Paper Publications: 

Draper, C. E., Cook, C. J., Ankrah, E. A., Beltran, J. A., Cibrian, F. L., Lakes, K. D., … & Hayes, G. R. (2025). Feasibility and acceptability of the Mazi Umntanakho digital tool in South African settings: a qualitative evaluation. Infant and Child Development, e2567.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/icd.2567

Draper, C. E., Cook, C. J., Ankrah, E. A., Beltran, J. A., Cibrian, F. L., Johnson, J., … & Hayes, G. R. (2024). Young children’s mental well-being in low-income South African settings: A qualitative study. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 1-17. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10826-024-02929-5

Beltran, J. A., Mofid, H., Williams, L., Ankrah, E., Johnson, J., Cook, C., … & Hayes, G. R. (2023, October). Mazi Umntanakho “Know Your Child”: An Accessible Social-Emotional Assessment Tool for Children in Low-Income South African Communities. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing (pp. 30-34). https://scholar.archive.org/work/yorxwzl6azegtd5boiobvzft7a/access/wayback/https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3594739.3610685