The invisible work of maintenance in community health: challenges and opportunities for digital health to support frontline health workers in Karnataka, South India

N Verdezoto, N Bagalkot, SZ Akbar, S Sharma… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Frontline health workers are the first and often the only access point to basic health care
services in low-and-middle income countries. However, the work and the issues frontline …

The deskilling of domain expertise in AI development

N Sambasivan, R Veeraraghavan - … of the 2022 CHI Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Field workers, like farmers and radiologists, play a crucial role in dataset collection for AI
models in low-resource settings. However, we know little about how field workers' expertise …

“It cannot do all of my work”: community health worker perceptions of AI-enabled mobile health applications in rural India

CT Okolo, S Kamath, N Dell, A Vashistha - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) suggest that AI applications could transform
healthcare delivery in the Global South. However, as researchers and technology …

When is machine learning data good?: Valuing in public health datafication

D Thakkar, A Ismail, P Kumar, A Hanna… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Data-driven approaches that form the foundation of advancements in machine learning (ML)
are powered in large part by human infrastructures that enable the collection of large …

AI in global health: the view from the front lines

A Ismail, N Kumar - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
There has been growing interest in the application of AI for Social Good, motivated by scarce
and unequal resources globally. We focus on the case of AI in frontline health, a Social …

Engaging solidarity in data collection practices for community health

A Ismail, N Kumar - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Researchers and practitioners engaged in global health are increasingly turning to data-
driven approaches. However, the institutionalized roles and responsibilities---as well as …

Empowerment on the margins: The online experiences of community health workers

A Ismail, N Kumar - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Research in Human-Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D) routinely relies on and
engages with the increasing penetration of smartphones and the internet. We examine the …

" If it is easy to understand then it will have value": Examining Perceptions of Explainable AI with Community Health Workers in Rural India

CT Okolo, D Agarwal, N Dell, A Vashistha - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
AI-driven tools are increasingly deployed to support low-skilled community health workers
(CHWs) in hard-to-reach communities in the Global South. This paper examines how CHWs …

Data work and practices in healthcare: A scoping review

PS Bertelsen, C Bossen, C Knudsen… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Context In healthcare, digitization has been widespread and profound, entailing a deluge of
data. This has spurred ambitions for healthcare to become data-driven to improve efficiency …

Taking the long, holistic, and intersectional view to women's wellbeing

N Kumar, N Karusala, A Ismail, A Tuli - ACM Transactions on Computer …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In this article, we present 6 cases (contained in 13 studies) variously connected with
women's health in a range of Indian contexts. Analyzing these cases, we highlight that …