Mental health in the global south: challenges and opportunities in HCI for development

SR Pendse, N Karusala, D Siddarth… - Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Mental illness is rapidly gaining recognition as a serious global challenge. Recent human-
computer interaction (HCI) research has investigated mental health as a domain of concern …

10 years of research with and on hackathons

J Falk Olesen, K Halskov - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM designing …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Hackathon formats have been praised for their potential for promoting innovative thinking
and making in a short time-frame. For this reason, hackathons have also been embraced by …

Sociocultural dimensions of tracking health and taking care

KS Bhat, N Kumar - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The field of personal health informatics has received increasing attention within the CSCW
and HCI communities as health tracking becomes more affordable, accessible, and …

TableChat: mobile food journaling to facilitate family support for healthy eating

K Lukoff, T Li, Y Zhuang, BY Lim - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Support from family members is an important determinant of health. In this work, we probe
opportunities for facilitating family support with TableChat, a chat-based mobile application …

" We are half-doctors": Family Caregivers as Boundary Actors in Chronic Disease Management

KS Bhat, AK Hall, T Kuo, N Kumar - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human--Computer Interaction (HCI)
research is increasingly investigating the roles of caregivers as ancillary stakeholders in …

Bridging disconnected knowledges for community health

A Ismail, N Karusala, N Kumar - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We conducted a field study of Mohalla Clinics in Delhi (India), drawing on Haraway's work to
highlight the importance of considering disparate, partial perspectives in the ecologies of …

“Is it Even Giving the Correct Reading or Not?”: How Trust and Relationships Mediate Blood Pressure Management in India

N Karnatak, B Loughrin, TA Kuo… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
While chronic disease afflicts a large Indian population, the technologies used to manage
chronic diseases have largely been informed by studies conducted in other sociocultural …

Learning to Navigate Health Taboos through Online Safe Spaces

H Tam, KS Bhat, P Mohindra, N Kumar - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Social and cultural taboos frequently prevent meaningful conversation around gendered
health and wellbeing, across the globe and to varying degrees. Safe spaces can offer …

Towards Conviviality in NavigatingHealth Information on Social Media

N Karusala, R Anderson - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
HCI is increasingly concerned with health information quality and spread of misinformation
on social media. Despite many major platforms having been adopted across the world, the …

Contemplative interactions: exploring the use of defamiliarization in a serious game to promote reflective thinking about personal health

J Wong, PS Foong, A Mitchell - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Counsellors use Motivational Interviewing (MI) to boost intrinsic motivation for healthier
lifestyles by supporting 1) the identification of personal values and 2) the linking of these …