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most citedExploring Socio-Cultural Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Mental Health Chatbots for Adolescents in India

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"We Are Tired of Explaining": Communication Practice and AI Roleplay Training for Community Health Workers in Rural India

Neil K. R. Sehgal, Sunny Rai, Sai Preethi Matam +4

Community health workers (CHWs) in the Global South increasingly encounter AI-powered tools, yet the counseling work central to their role remains largely unsupported. We study com…

cs.CL2026

LLMs Mirror Country-Specific Gender Patterns If Asked, but Skew Male When Generating Media in Local Languages

Sharif Kazemi, Tanya Popli, Neil K. R. Sehgal +7

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate media, but whether their content perpetuates gender stereotypes is unknown: standard benchmarks rely on selection-bas…

cs.CL2026

Predictors of Loneliness in Older Adults Using Multimodal Analysis of Speech and Language

Vinmay Khandode, Sai Karthik Kosuri, Neil K. R. Sehgal +6

Loneliness is a critical public health issue among older adults, linked to higher risks of depression, cognitive decline, and mortality. Scalable, objective methods for its detecti…

cs.AI2026

Beyond Right and Wrong: Evaluating Second-order Social Reasoning in Large Language Models

Sunny Rai, Jinyi Kuang, Reyhan Jamalova +7

Previous AI alignment efforts have focused primarily on first-order social norms -- teaching models what is socially acceptable or unacceptable (e.g., `do not steal'). However, soc…

cs.HC2026

Depression Symptoms and Relational Patterns in 187k ChatGPT Histories

Neil K. R. Sehgal, Dunigan Folk, Lyle Ungar +1

Large language models are increasingly used as private, always-available conversational systems, but little is known about how people with depressive symptoms use them. Building on…

cs.HC2026

Narrative Sharpens Gender Gaps: Surveying Film Characters with LLM Agents

Vivienne Bihe Chi, Reyhan Jamalova, Lyle Ungar +1

Mainstream film is one of the richest sources of cultural content that AI systems learn from. Yet we have few tools for measuring the gender values it encodes. We present a proof-o…