Conversational Agents for health and wellness
VIDEO Wizard-of-Oz prototype of TAMI, a Raspberry Pi platform without Internet access for possible opportunity to disseminate to low-resource communities. However, speech-to-text technology with high performance require high processing power and internet bandwidth. In this phase of feasibility testing, TAMI is controlled by the researcher as the participants talk with TAMI.
We are developing and evaluating an in-house conversational agents (CAs) for various health support contexts and clinical approaches.
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.
Healthy aging and technology
We have multiple exciting projects happening in collaboration with Dr. DiMaria with the Cell2Society project funded by Drexel's DARE program and Dr. Demiris' group at UPenn and his research on managing mental health of the caregivers of older adults.
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.