15 papers
Mental Health AI Safety Claims Must Preserve Temporal Evidence
Srimonti Dutta, Ratna Kandala
The safety of mental health AI is often judged at the wrong temporal scale. Current evaluations typically score isolated responses, endpoint outcomes, or aggregate dialogue quality…
FLAME: A New Dataset on FLemish Accounts of Momentary Experiences
Ratna Kandala, Niels Vanhasbroeck, Katie Hoemann
We introduce FLAME (FLemish Accounts of Momentary Experiences), a new corpus of nearly 25,000 daily personal narratives in Belgian-Dutch (Flemish), designed to support research on…
Dharma, Data and Deception: An LLM-Powered Rhetorical Analysis of Cow-Urine Health Claims on YouTube
Sheza Munir, Ratna Kandala, Anamta Khan +2
Health misinformation remains one of the most pressing challenges on social media, particularly when cultural traditions intersect with scientific-sounding claims. These dynamics a…
When Cow Urine Cures Constipation on YouTube: Limits of LLMs in Detecting Culture-specific Health Misinformation
Anamta Khan, Ratna Kandala, Deepti +2
Social media platforms have become primary channels for health information in the Global South. Using gomutra (cow urine) discourse on YouTube in India as a case study, we present…
Designing Explainable Conversational Agentic Systems for Guaranà Speakers
Samantha Adorno, Akshata Kishore Moharir, Ratna Kandala
Although artificial intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) systems are often presented as universal solutions, their design remains predominantly text-first, unders…
The Nonverbal Gap: Toward Affective Computer Vision for Safer and More Equitable Online Dating
Ratna Kandala, Niva Manchanda, Akshata Kishore Moharir
Online dating has become the dominant way romantic relationships begin, yet current platforms strip the nonverbal cues: gaze, facial expression, body posture, response timing, that…