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Virtual Simulation for Mental Health
Anna Fang
Poorly designed interventions or those deployed without adequate safeguards can harm the communities they aim to serve, thus exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and leaving indiv…
Social Simulation for Integrating Self-Care: Measuring the Effects of Contextual Environments in Augmented Reality for Mental Health Practice
Anna Fang, Jiayang Shi, Hriday Chhabria +2
Despite growing interest in virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) for mental well-being, prior work using immersive interventions to teach mental health skills has largely focused…
Practicing Stress Relief for the Everyday: Designing Social Simulation Using VR, AR, and LLMs
Anna Fang, Hriday Chhabria, Alekhya Maram +1
Stress is an inevitable part of day-to-day life yet many find themselves unable to manage it themselves, particularly when professional or peer support are not always readily avail…
Envisioning New Futures of Positive Social Technology: Beyond Paradigms of Fixing, Protecting, and Preventing
JaeWon Kim, Lindsay Popowski, Anna Fang +8
Social technology research today largely focuses on mitigating the negative impacts of technology and, therefore, often misses the potential of technology to enhance human connecti…
What Makes Digital Support Effective? How Therapeutic Skills Affect Clinical Well-Being
Anna Fang, Wenjie Yang, Raj Sanjay Shah +4
Online mental health support communities have grown in recent years for providing accessible mental and emotional health support through volunteer counselors. Despite millions of p…
Shaping Online Dialogue: Examining How Community Rules Affect Discussion Structures on Reddit
Anna Fang, Wenjie Yang, Haiyi Zhu
Community rules play a key part in enabling or constraining the behaviors of members in online communities. However, little is unknown regarding whether and to what degree changing…