Table 3.

Recommendations for AI-informed mHealth apps in qualitative research by experts and young people

Recommendations by young people

- App includes a variety of exercises and gives orientation

- Personalized personalization–App includes users in AI decision making process

- App gives recommendations when “it’s smart enough”

- App suggests solutions for “difficult situations”

- App suggests distance to mobile phone

- Mutual trainings or sharing trainings with others rarely desired

- Reasonable time requirements for app usage

Recommendations by experts

- Inclusion of young people into app development

- Target group–specific language

- Forwarding young people to counseling centers

- Low–threshold access to potentially endangered young people

- Careful framing of AI technology