HCI and Affective Health: Taking stock of a decade of studies and charting future research directions

P Sanches, A Janson, P Karpashevich… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In the last decade, the number of articles on HCI and health has increased dramatically. We
extracted 139 papers on depression, anxiety and bipolar health issues from 10 years of …

How HCI bridges health and design in online health communities: a systematic review

D Gatos, A Günay, G Kırlangıç, K Kuscu… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a systematic review of online health communities (OHCs) published
between 2009 and 2020 in the ACM Digital Library. Aiming to consolidate the current issues …

“Suddenly, we got to become therapists for each other” Designing Peer Support Chats for Mental Health

K O'Leary, SM Schueller, JO Wobbrock… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Talk therapy is a common, effective, and desirable form of mental health treatment. Yet, it is
inaccessible to many people. Enabling peers to chat online using effective principles of talk …

Design opportunities for mental health peer support technologies

K O'Leary, A Bhattacharya, SA Munson… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Barriers to accessing mental health care leave the majority of people with mental illnesses
without professional care. Peer support has been shown to address gaps in care, and could …

Learning from and with Menstrupedia: Towards Menstrual Health Education in India

A Tuli, S Chopra, N Kumar, P Singh - … of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Menstruation has long remained a conversational taboo across India, resulting in
inadequate dissemination of menstrual health education (MHE). Menstrupedia, a digital …

Precarious interventions: Designing for ecologies of care

E Kaziunas, MS Klinkman, MS Ackerman - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present ethnographic account of people's everyday behavioral health
experiences in the city of Jackson, Michigan to explore community forms of care work …

“That courage to encourage”: Participation and Aspirations in Chat-based Peer Support for Youth Living with HIV

N Karusala, DO Seeh, C Mugo, B Guthrie… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We present a qualitative study of a six-month pilot of WhatsApp-based facilitated peer
support groups, serving youth living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in an informal …

Living with uncertainty and stigma: self-experimentation and support-seeking around polycystic ovary syndrome

S Chopra, R Zehrung, TA Shanmugam… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a condition that causes hormonal imbalance and
infertility in women and people with female reproductive organs. PCOS causes different …

Exploring the effects of technological writing assistance for support providers in online mental health community

Z Peng, Q Guo, KW Tsang, X Ma - … of the 2020 CHI Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Textual comments from peers with informational and emotional support are beneficial to
members of online mental health communities (OMHCs). However, many comments are not …

Everyday experiences: small stories and mental illness on Instagram

JL Feuston, AM Piper - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Despite historical precedence and modern prevalence, mental illness and associated
disorders are frequently aligned with notions of deviance and, by association, abnormality …