Category: Projects

We evaluate support types and mechanisms of video-based social media on mental health challenges among college students. Bogeum Choi, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Heejun Kim, University of North Texas. Acknowledgement to Sunyoung Park, Eugenia Chan, and Nadien Zerban. View work-in-progress:

We assess usability of Google Assistants and Alexa Skills on dementia using the Design Heuristics for Conversational Agents. Diva Smriti, Nadien Zerban, Drexel University College of Computing and Informatics. With Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili, Aleks Sarcevic, and Erjia Yan. View work-in-progress:

We review existing Alexa Skills to understand strategies of user engagement in conversational agents. Elizabeth Ominski, Cornell University View work-in-progress:

We develop and evaluate usability and feasibility of TAMICA, which integrates motivational interviewing technique to improve parenting in healthy eating. We explore the feasibility of tailoring conversational agent by users. Diva Smriti, Drexel University College of Computing and Informatics. With Annie Kao, Wei Peng, Jiyoun Shin. Also acknowledgement to Jake Williams, Munif Mujib, and Megan Colosimo. View work-in-progress:

We explore Open AI GPT-2 as a potential solution to generative chatbot model supporting therapist-patient interaction. Lu Wang, Drexel University College of Computing and Informatics. With George Demiris. View work-in-progress:

We investigate existing conversational agent development platforms to understand the level of privacy control over user data available to the developers. Rahil Rathod and Diva Smriti, Drexel University College of Computing and Information Science. View work-in-progress:

We investigate how ageism is exercised or called out in Twitter data with COVID19 related hashtags between 3/1-6/30/2020. Funded by 2020 STAR Scholar Program; Emily Schramm, Drexel University College of Medicine. With: Chris Yang, Kristine Mulhorn, and Shushi Yoshinaga. View work-in-progress:

The goal of this project is to understand the role of laugh and humor in chatbots to provide implications for designing health chatbots. Funded by 2020 STAR Scholar Program. Nishtha Gupta, Drexel University College of Medicine. With George Demiris. View work-in-progress: