“An Ad Posing as Medical Advice”: User Accounts of Dark UX in FemTech mHealth Apps by Ghada Alsebayel, Giovanni M Troiano, @johannagunawan.bsky.social @hermansaksono.bsky.social & Casper Harteveld
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We are excited to present our ToCHI paper today at #CHI2025.

Socio-Cognitive Framework for Personal Informatics: A Preliminary Framework for Socially-Enabled Health Technologies

11:46 AM, Room 9301
Designing with Different Users

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✨As we kick-off the New Year, we want to share 4 Visions for User-Centered Design of Digital Health Solutions Grounded in Equity✨

How do disparities in healthcare access affect ML models? 💰📉🧐 We found that low access to care -> worse EHR data quality -> worse ML performance in a dataset of 134k patients. Work with Anna Zink (on the faculty job market rn!) + Hongzhou Luan, presented at #ML4H2024

Writing is a lot like weight training. You won't be able to lift a lot at first. You start small. Short session, light weights. Day by day though you get just a *little* stronger. Eventually your sessions get longer, the bars get heavier, and everyone says "I could never do that." Just like you did.

It’s not really a lifehack if it’s a well established social psychology theory from 38 years ago.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Faculty opening at Northeastern in AI for healthcare management. Tenure home will be in business school with interdisciplinary appointment (like me and many other Northeastern faculty — I'm jointly appointed in Public Health and Computer Sciences.) northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

The business plan is take advantage of people who want to self-publish a book

So *many* concerns here, but I don't understand why would a qualitative researcher even want this? Why not use a survey instead?The whole point of qualitative interviews is that we co-produce knowledge with our interlocutors through participation in the research process.

Listening the #Wicked album

New statues at the Museum of Fine Art’s Huntington Ave entrace. This is Julia Marden, a member the Aquinnah Wampanoah, a local indigenous cultural leader.

New #CSCW2024 paper in which we found that people's definitions of fairness for an algorithmic distribution system (school choice) differ across socioeconomic groups. These definitions of fairness shape how fair they see the system, controlling for their own outcome. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

If you've gotten some weird/confusing/challenging/bad reviewer comments on your qualitative study (any discipline), I'd love for you to share them in this document. I've been aggregating common critiques and ideas for responding to them over the last year. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I will miss you, Costa Rica. Until we meet again, pura vida. #cscw2024