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Depressive symptoms are reflected differently across digital contexts
Yajing Wang, Emilia Marchese, Talayeh Aledavood +1
As more of everyday life takes place online, digital behavior may provide a potential window into how depressive symptoms are reflected in daily life. Yet digital mental health stu…
Disrupted Companionship: A Risk Assessment Framework and Cross-Platform Quantitative Analysis of Psychosocial Responses to AI Companion Disruptions
Chau Do, Yunhao Yuan, Koustuv Saha +2
AI companions can provide meaningful relationships, yet these relationships remain vulnerable to platform-initiated changes. We study AI companion disruptions: platform changes tha…
When AI Companions Disappear: Relational Continuity and Collective Contestation during China's National AI Regulatory Transition
Yunhao Yuan, Kejia Zhang, Yuqi Niu +3
AI model updates and service withdrawals can disrupt relationships with AI companions, but research has largely examined individual platform events. Less is known about users' resp…
Quantifying the Persistence of Daily Routines
Nguyen Luong, Talayeh Aledavood
Daily life is structured by recurring routines that coordinate biological rhythms with social and occupational demands. Individual differences in work schedules, family obligations…
Lonely Individuals Show Distinct Patterns of Social Media Engagement
Yajing Wang, Talayeh Aledavood, Juhi Kulshrestha
Loneliness has reached epidemic proportions globally, posing serious risks to mental and physical health. As social media platforms increasingly mediate social interaction, underst…
Mental Health Impacts of AI Companions: Triangulating Social Media Quasi-Experiments, User Perspectives, and Relational Theory
Yunhao Yuan, Jiaxun Zhang, Talayeh Aledavood +2
AI-powered companion chatbots (AICCs) such as Replika are increasingly popular, offering empathetic interactions, yet their psychosocial impacts remain unclear. We examined how eng…
Stress Bytes: Decoding the Associations between Internet Use and Perceived Stress
Mohammad Belal, Nguyen Luong, Talayeh Aledavood +1
In today's digital era, internet plays a pervasive role in our lives, influencing everyday activities such as communication, work, and leisure. This online engagement intertwines w…
Sleep during COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal observational study combining multisensor data with questionnaires
Nguyen Luong, Gloria Mark, Juhi Kulshrestha +1
The COVID-19 pandemic led to various containment strategies, such as work-from-home policies and reduced social contact, which significantly altered people's sleep patterns. Our st…
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on daily rhythms
Nguyen Luong, Ian Barnett, Talayeh Aledavood
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted daily activity rhythms and life routines. Understanding the dynamics of these impacts on different groups of people is essential fo…
Niimpy: a toolbox for behavioral data analysis
A. Ikäheimonen, A. M. Triana, N. Luong +4
Behavioral studies using personal digital devices typically produce rich longitudinal datasets of mixed data types. These data provide information about the behavior of users of th…