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20232026
most citedUsing Adaptive Bandit Experiments to Increase and Investigate Engagement in Mental Health

10 citations · 16 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CY2026★ 2 cited

Beyond Simulations: What 20,000 Real Conversations Reveal About Mental Health AI Safety

Caitlin A. Stamatis, Jonah Meyerhoff, Richard Zhang +3

Mental-health AI safety is typically evaluated with small, simulation-based benchmarks that may not reflect the linguistic and contextual diversity of deployment. We pair four benc…

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.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.HC2025

Investigating the Role of Situational Disruptors in Engagement with Digital Mental Health Tools

Ananya Bhattacharjee, Joseph Jay Williams, Miranda Beltzer +6

Challenges in engagement with digital mental health (DMH) tools are commonly addressed through technical enhancements and algorithmic interventions. This paper shifts the focus tow…

cs.HC2024★ 4 cited

Perfectly to a Tee: Understanding User Perceptions of Personalized LLM-Enhanced Narrative Interventions

Ananya Bhattacharjee, Sarah Yi Xu, Pranav Rao +8

Stories about overcoming personal struggles can effectively illustrate the application of psychological theories in real life, yet they may fail to resonate with individuals' exper…

cs.AI2023★ 10 cited

Using Adaptive Bandit Experiments to Increase and Investigate Engagement in Mental Health

Harsh Kumar, Tong Li, Jiakai Shi +11

Digital mental health (DMH) interventions, such as text-message-based lessons and activities, offer immense potential for accessible mental health support. While these intervention…