Voice-first ambient interfaces (VFAIs), such as Alexa, can uniquely meet the health needs of older adults. However, inequitable technology may worsen health disparities and decrease independence, calling for participatory methods to increase the agency ...

Organizations often send bulk emails to employees to make them aware of policy changes, organization plans, and events. Many of these emails, however, are long digests with many separate messages that waste employees' time and reduce their awareness. ...

Documentation enables sharing knowledge between the developers of a technology and its users. Creating quality documents, however, is challenging: Documents must satisfy the needs of a large audience without being overwhelming for individuals. We address ...

This paper evaluates a virtual teleportation system based on 360-degree video communication in a field study at a secondary school and a guided debate training session. Socioemotional aspects, including social presence and avatar representation, were ...

Depression, a prevalent and complex mental health issue affecting millions worldwide, presents significant challenges for detection and monitoring. While facial expressions have shown promise in laboratory settings for identifying depression, their ...

The integration of AI assistants, especially through the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), into computer science education has sparked significant debate, highlighting both their potential to augment student learning and the risks associated ...

This paper presents a field study of EasyGO, a mobile navigation application designed to help visually impaired individuals navigate grocery stores independently. EasyGO provided both audio and screen interaction methods for adding items, receiving ...

Low-cost sensors have enabled a wide array of data-driven applications and insights. As a result, encountering spaces with pervasive sensing has become all but unavoidable. This creates a fundamental tension: the success of smart environments will become ...

Learning companion robots for young children are increasingly adopted in informal learning environments. Although parents play a pivotal role in their children’s learning, very little is known about how parents prefer to incorporate robots into their ...

Self-guided mental health interventions, such as “do-it-yourself” tools to learn and practice coping strategies, show great promise to improve access to mental health care. However, these interventions are often cognitively demanding and emotionally ...

Rhythmic light, sound and haptic stimuli can improve cognition through neural entrainment and by modifying autonomic nervous system function. However, the effects and user experience of using wearables for inducing such rhythmic stimuli have been under-...

Politicians and care associations advocate for the use of machine learning (ML) systems to improve the delivery of adult social services. Yet, guidance on how to implement ML systems remains limited and research indicates that future implementation ...

We report on community-centered, collaborative research that weaves together HCI, natural language processing, linguistic, and design insights to develop spoken language technologies for unwritten languages. Across three visits to a Banjara farming ...

Augmented Reality (AR) offers unique opportunities for contributing to zoos’ objectives of public engagement and education about animal and conservation issues. However, the diversity of animal exhibits pose challenges in designing AR applications that ...

Clinical practice guidelines, care pathways, and protocols are designed to support evidence-based practices for clinicians; however, their adoption remains a challenge. We set out to investigate why clinicians deviate from the “Wake Up and Breathe” ...

Community-based social programs, such as interest groups and outings, provide valuable ways for older adults to maintain social connectedness. To understand how technology can be designed to support older adults in such programs, we conducted a four-...

A fundamental paradigm shift for in-home sensing is apparent. Special-purpose sensing, where there is a one-to-one relationship between sensors and applications, is evolving into general-purpose sensing, where there is a many-to-many relationship between ...

Robot designers commonly conceptualize robot sociality as a collection of features and capabilities. In contrast, sociologists define sociality as continuously constructed through interpersonal interactions. Based on the latter perspective, we trace how ...

Serendipity has been recognized as a valuable property of recommender systems. While there is a lack of consensus on the precise definition of serendipity, it is often conceptualized in terms of the relevance, novelty and unexpectedness of ...

Institutional scholarship on organizing in poverty contexts has focused on the constraining nature of extant institutions and the need for external actors to make transformative change interventions to alleviate poverty. Comparatively little attention has ...