Conversational Agents for health and wellness
We are developing and evaluating an in-house conversational agents (CAs) for various health support contexts and clinical approaches. Examples include family's healthy eating using Motivational Interviewing (See
Technology-Assisted Motivational Interviewing (TAMI)) and emerging adult's risky behavior using art therapy (forthcoming). With these contexts as testbed examples, we investigate theoretical understanding of trust in human-agent interaction (under review), design requirements of CAs (under review), and users' tailoring ability of these agents to address machine learning biases (in progress).
Digital research ethics and multi-stakeholder data management
We examine how various stakeholders of digital data--researchers, human subjects, users, and IRB staff--perceive sensitivity of information and how the information should be shared and handled. The outcome of the project would be to generate tools, policies, and guidelines for how digital data should be handled, how consent should be designed and acquired, and what educational training programs are needed.
Personal archives of online stories
We examine novel ways for people to archive, reuse, and make sense of the stories they have shared online through social media.
Study of clinical mental health support seeking behavior by analyzing social media video sharing
The aim is to understand and help clinical support seeking behavior on mental health through the study of emerging adults video sharing activities on social media.