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most citedExploreSelf: Fostering User-driven Exploration and Reflection on Personal Challenges with Adaptive Guidance by Large Language Models

25 citations · 65 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.HC2025

The Agony of Opacity: Foundations for Reflective Interpretability in AI-Mediated Mental Health Support

Sachin R. Pendse, Darren Gergle, Rachel Kornfield +6

Throughout history, a prevailing paradigm in mental healthcare has been one in which distressed people may receive treatment with little understanding around how their experience i…

cs.HC2025

The Role of Partisan Culture in Mental Health Language Online

Sachin R. Pendse, Ben Rochford, Neha Kumar +1

The impact of culture on how people express distress in online support communities is increasingly a topic of interest within Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-C…

cs.CY2025

When Testing AI Tests Us: Safeguarding Mental Health on the Digital Frontlines

Sachin R. Pendse, Darren Gergle, Rachel Kornfield +6

Red-teaming is a core part of the infrastructure that ensures that AI models do not produce harmful content. Unlike past technologies, the black box nature of generative AI systems…

cs.HC2024★ 25 cited

ExploreSelf: Fostering User-driven Exploration and Reflection on Personal Challenges with Adaptive Guidance by Large Language Models

Inhwa Song, SoHyun Park, Sachin R. Pendse +3

Expressing stressful experiences in words is proven to improve mental and physical health, but individuals often disengage with writing interventions as they struggle to organize t…

cs.CY2024★ 1 cited

Advancing a Consent-Forward Paradigm for Digital Mental Health Data

Sachin R. Pendse, Logan Stapleton, Neha Kumar +2

The field of digital mental health is advancing at a rapid pace. Passively collected data from user engagements with digital tools and services continue to contribute new insights…

cs.HC2024★ 20 cited

The Typing Cure: Experiences with Large Language Model Chatbots for Mental Health Support

Inhwa Song, Sachin R. Pendse, Neha Kumar +1

People experiencing severe distress increasingly use Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots as mental health support tools. Discussions on social media have described how engagements…

cs.CL2023★ 19 cited

Benefits and Harms of Large Language Models in Digital Mental Health

Munmun De Choudhury, Sachin R. Pendse, Neha Kumar

The past decade has been transformative for mental health research and practice. The ability to harness large repositories of data, whether from electronic health records (EHR), mo…