A group of us are looking into the possibility of a SIGCHI-sponsored HCI+Health conference. If you're working at the intersection of HCI and Health, we would appreciate your feedback on format, interest in participating, and willingness to volunteer! uci.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9B…

I am super honored to receive these recognitions!!! 🩷 Many credits go to my amazing advisors anind dey and Dr. Jennifer Mankoff (@[email protected]), my fantastic collaborators, as well as the great support from UW iSchool!

It is the opportunity to work with amazing students like Xuhai “Orson” Xu, who conducted very impactful research during his PhD and has received several awards recognizing this work, that energizes me and brings me so much joy! Congratulations Orson!

📢 I am so excited to announce that The UPLIFT THE WEB Challenge is open for submissions, NOW until May 1, 2024! This is a massive team science project to identify the most effective brief (< 10 minute) online interventions for depression See sites.northwestern.edu/10minutechalle… for info

Super cool work about the impact of #LLM in interpersonal communication and even potentially personality! Not too surprising that this paper won the Best Paper Award #CHI2024 🏆 Congrats Chris Yue Fu, Sami, and Alexis! Always proud of UW folks!

#LLM can leverage sensor data to understand context and introduce suggestions for behavior change. Our #CHI2024 paper "MindShift" shows how we can integrate ubiquitous sensors and persuasion strategies for smartphone addiction intervention! It also brings up the intriguing #HAI

AI is used to get us addicted to smartphones. But can we also use #AI to fight back? Check our #CHI2024 paper, "Time2Stop", a JITAI system for smartphone #addiction with a human-AI loop! Covered in the recent press release by New Scientist: bit.ly/3WncdCS Fantastic work

Excited to announce that we're again hosting a workshop on #mentalhealth and #tech UbiComp 2024 in Melbourne! Paper submissions due **June 7th**. This year we're looking for papers that introduce new and exciting research directions. More info: ubicomp-mental-health.github.io

Adiba and Xuhai “Orson” Xu owned every facet of this research, leading a collaboration between six different institutes! See the 30-sec teaser video here: youtu.be/2QS2dI21-no Project page: nmsl.kaist.ac.kr/projects/time2…

📱Struggling with smartphone addiction? Discover how AI can help with our latest #CHI2024 paper, Time2Stop ⏳2️⃣✋ 📜Paper: bit.ly/time2stop-paper 📽️Teaser: bit.ly/time2stop-teas… 📆Wednesday 2PM HST, 🗺️ 316B.

New MIT/NYU collaboration on risk of racial bias in LLM deployments for mental healthcare 🚨

The paper submission deadline for the UbiComp #mentalhealth workshop has been moved to **June 14th**. If you have a new idea for research, submit a paper and discuss it at the workshop! More info: ubicomp-mental-health.github.io #tech #health #AI #sensing

Excited to announce the next Emerging Rockstar of Pervasive Computing, Dr. 𝑿𝒖𝒉𝒂𝒊 "𝑶𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏" 𝑿𝒖 (Xuhai “Orson” Xu). Orson is a postdoc researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an incoming Assistant Professor at Columbia University. Read my interview with Orson here: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/docum… Xuhai “Orson” Xu is a

It’s my great honor! Looking forward to bringing this methodology to broader health and medical fields!

We are thrilled to welcome Matthew McDermott, PhD (Matthew McDermott), and Xuhai “Orson” Xu, PhD (Xuhai “Orson” Xu), to the DBMI faculty in 2025! Columbia University Columbia Medicine Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons dbmi.columbia.edu/matthew-mcderm…