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"Always Want to Use it for Everything": Understanding Young Adults' Perceptions of AI Dependence
Ashlee Milton, Leah Ajmani, Amy Heger +3
The growing integration of general-purpose AI chatbots into people's daily lives has raised concerns about the potential for unhealthy dependence, particularly among young adults.…
Thought Experiments for Conceptual Work: A New Application of a (Very) Old Method
Leah Hope Ajmani, Mo Houtti, Eric P. S. Baumer +1
In this paper, we propose thought experiments (TEs) as a crucial method for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers to engage in conceptual work. As an interdisciplinary field…
From Risk Avoidance to User Empowerment in AI Mental Health Crisis Support
Benjamin Kaveladze, Arka Ghosh, Leah Ajmani +11
People experiencing mental health crises frequently turn to open-ended generative AI (GenAI) chatbots for support. However, rather than providing immediate assistance, some GenAI c…
Seeking Late Night Life Lines: Experiences of Conversational AI Use in Mental Health Crisis
Leah Hope Ajmani, Arka Ghosh, Benjamin Kaveladze +7
Online, people often recount their experiences turning to conversational AI agents (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot) for mental health support -- going so far as to replace their th…
Secondary Stakeholders in AI: Fighting for, Brokering, and Navigating Agency
Leah Hope Ajmani, Nuredin Ali Abdelkadir, Stevie Chancellor
As AI technologies become more human-facing, there have been numerous calls to adapt participatory approaches to AI development -- spurring the idea of participatory AI. However, t…
Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering Participant Knowledge
Leah Hope Ajmani, Talia Bhatt, Michael Ann Devito
Justice, epistemology, and marginalization are rich areas of study in HCI. And yet, we repeatedly find platforms and algorithms that push communities further into the margins. In t…
Whose Knowledge is Valued?: Epistemic Injustice in CSCW Applications
Leah Hope Ajmani, Jasmine C Foriest, Jordan Taylor +3
Social computing scholars have long known that people do not interact with knowledge in straightforward ways, especially in digital environments. While policies around knowledge ar…