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8 papers
Self-Care and Mental Health: Mapping Over A Decade of HCI Interventions
Anna Fang, Tony Wang, Jenny Fu
Technology increasingly supports self-care for understanding and improving one's own mental health. HCI is at the center of the turn towards self-care technology, yet we lack an ac…
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 Mental Health: Evaluating Contextual Environments in Augmented Reality for Training Self-Care Skills
Anna Fang, Jiayang Shi, Hriday Chhabria +2
Stress and anxiety are common, and there is growing interest in using VR/AR for training coping skills. However, these skills are meant to be applied during real-world distress, wh…
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…
Agent-based Simulation for Online Mental Health Matching
Yuhan Liu, Anna Fang, Glen Moriarty +2
Online mental health communities (OMHCs) are an effective and accessible channel to give and receive social support for individuals with mental and emotional issues. However, a key…