A5039928982- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- Emotional Labor in Professions
- AI in Service Interactions
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Music Therapy and Health
- Media Influence and Health
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Community Health and Development
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Child Development and Digital Technology
Drexel University
2020-2024
University of Maryland, College Park
2019
Mobile social media applications ("apps"), such as TikTok (previously Musical.ly), have recently surfaced in news due to harmful incidents involving young children engaging with strangers through these mobile apps. To better understand children's awareness of online stranger danger and explore their visions for technologies that can help them manage related risks (e.g., sexual solicitations cyberbullying), we held two participatory design sessions 12 (ages 8-11 years old). We found desired...
The CSCW and HCI community has increasingly examined ways to support informal caregivers through technology, given the increasing burden its consequences on caregivers' emotional physical health. In this paper, we interviewed 12 of Persons Living With Dementia (PLWD) understand their needs current coping strategies for overcoming caregiving burden, specifically around emotion work. associated different personal meanings with caregiving. Participants wanted technology take over some...
Increased adoption of off-the-shelf conversational agents (CAs) brings opportunities to integrate therapeutic interventions. Motivational Interviewing (MI) can then be integrated with CAs for cost-effective access it. MI especially beneficial parents who often have low motivation because limited time and resources eat healthy together their children.We developed a Conversational Agent (MICA) improve eating in serve as proxy health behavior change children. Proxy relationships involve person...
The demanding nature of informal caregiving has negative consequences on caregivers' emotional and physical health. HCI community increasingly examined ways to support caregivers, but the solutions mostly focus emotions caregivers. Informal caregivers go through a range experiences, both positive negative. In this dissertation work, I aim understand work how AI systems can be better designed work. start with conducting user studies interviews valence intensity in affects burden. Then, plan...
Informal or family caregivers receive no professional training and are overburdened. The CSCW community has increasingly examined ways to support informal caregivers. However, the solutions have primarily focused on managing negative emotions of go through a range emotional experiences, which often invisible others. In this work, we aim use context caregiving needs experiences understand how can design future Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems for supporting emotion work. We conducted user...
With the increased adoption of voice assistants in people's homes such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home, conversational agents (CA) bring numerous opportunities to support health management everyday settings. We present our ongoing effort on developing Tailorable Autonomous Motivational Interviewing Conversational Agent (TAMICA). TAMICA incorporates (MI) techniques help parents strategize tailored healthy eating goals for their families. The system is accompanied by a tailoring interface...
Abstract Persons with dementia and caregivers can benefit from online resources. The quality accessibility of these resources, however, vary. We present work on the Information Quality Framework for Online Dementia Care Resources. To develop framework, we first empirically examine resources being retrieved query terms developed a medical librarian. Searching one possible keyword combinations related to living Google “Alzheimer AND financial planning” returned 18,900,000 results. Among top 13...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Healthcare and wellbeing are two main interconnected application areas of conversational agents (CAs). There is a significant increase in research, development, commercial implementations this area. In parallel to the increasing interest, new challenges designing evaluating CAs have emerged. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This study aims identify key design, evaluation healthcare research. The focus on very recent projects with their emerging challenges....
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Increased adoption of off-the-shelf conversational agents (CAs) brings opportunities to integrate therapeutic interventions. Motivational Interviewing (MI) can then be integrated with CAs for cost-effective access MI. MI especially beneficial parents who often have low motivation due limited time and resources eat healthy together their children. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> We developed MICA—Motivational Conversational Agent improve eating in serve as a...