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A Change of Scenery: Transformative Insights from Retrospective VR Embodied Perspective-Taking of Conflict With a Close Other
Seraphina Yong, Leo Cui, Evan Suma Rosenberg +1
Close relationships are irreplaceable social resources, yet prone to high-risk conflict. Building on findings from the fields of HCI, virtual reality, and behavioral therapy, we ev…
Peer Recommendation Interventions for Health-related Social Support: a Feasibility Assessment
Zachary Levonian, Matthew Zent, Ngan Nguyen +3
Online health communities (OHCs) offer the promise of connecting with supportive peers. Forming these connections first requires finding relevant peers - a process that can be time…
Comparing Generic and Community-Situated Crowdsourcing for Data Validation in the Context of Recovery from Substance Use Disorders
Sabirat Rubya, Joseph Numainville, Svetlana Yarosh
Targeting the right group of workers for crowdsourcing often achieves better quality results. One unique example of targeted crowdsourcing is seeking community-situated workers who…
Saudi Arabian Parents' Perception of Online Marital Matchmaking Technologies
Adel Al-Dawood, Serene Alhajhussein, Svetlana Yarosh
Finding a date or a spouse online is usually considered an individualistic endeavor in Western cultures. This presents a challenge for collectivist non-Western cultures such as Sau…
Patterns of Patient and Caregiver Mutual Support Connections in an Online Health Community
Zachary Levonian, Marco Dow, Drew Erikson +5
Online health communities offer the promise of support benefits to users, in particular because these communities enable users to find peers with similar experiences. Building mutu…
"I Cannot Do All of This Alone": Exploring Instrumental and Prayer Support in Online Health Communities
C. Estelle Smith, Zachary Levonian, Haiwei Ma +5
Online Health Communities (OHCs) are known to provide substantial emotional and informational support to patients and family caregivers facing life-threatening diagnoses like cance…
Against Marrying a Stranger Marital Matchmaking Technologies in Saudi Arabia
Adel Al-Dawood, Norah Abokhodair, Houda El Mimouni +1
Websites and applications that match and connect individuals for romantic purposes are commonly used in the Western world. However, there have not been many previous investigations…
Vision-Based Classification of Social Gestures in Videochat Sessions
Yuan Yao, Svetlana Yarosh
This paper describes the design and evaluation of the vision-based classification of social gestures, such as handshake, hug, high-five, etc. This is a component of the mediated so…
Toward user-centric feature composition for the Internet of Things
Pamela Zave, Eric Cheung, Svetlana Yarosh
Many user studies of home automation, as the most familiar representative of the Internet of Things, have shown the difficulty of developing technology that users understand and li…