Ariel C. Avgar

schoolCornell Universitybar_chart#2436 Global Rank

Total Papers

HCI Rank

#2436

Research Areas

Years Active

Recent Publications

Sharing the Care: Investigating How Conversational AI Might Facilitate Coordination Among Home Care Workers and Family Caregivers

This paper presents a qualitative study with 17 participants that uses video elicitations to investigate how conversational AI agents driven by large language models might support "shared care," or coordination of home-based care among family caregivers (FCs) and home care workers (HCWs) who care for the same care rec…

CSCW '255th+ AuthorCare Work

"This is eye opening:" Raising Awareness of Home Care Workers' Health and Wellbeing via Activity Tracking

Home care workers (HCWs) are an important group of frontline workers that deliver essential at-home care services to enable older adults to age in place. Despite their importance in patient care, research has shown that HCWs are an overlooked and undervalued workforce: HCWs work in isolated conditions, are paid low wa…

CHI '254th AuthorAI-Assisted Decision-Making & Automation +1

"Who is running it?" Towards Equitable AI Deployment in Home Care Work

We present a qualitative study that investigates the implications of current and near-future AI deployment for home care workers (HCWs), an overlooked group of frontline healthcare workers. Through interviews with 22 HCWs, care agency staff, and worker advocates, we find that HCWs do not understand how AI works, how t…

CHI '255th+ AuthorBest PaperPrivacy by Design & User Control +2

Exploring Data-Driven Advocacy in Home Health Care Work

This paper explores opportunities and challenges for data-driven advocacy to support home care workers, an often overlooked group of low-wage, frontline health workers. First, we investigate what data to collect and how to collect it in ways that preserve privacy and avoid burdening workers. Second, we examine how wor…

CSCW '214th AuthorCare and Caregiving

Computer-Mediated Peer Support Needs of Home Care Workers: Emotional Labor & the Politics of Professionalism

Home care workers (HCWs) are increasingly central to post-acute and long-term health services in the United States. \update{Despite being a critical component of day-to-day care of home-dwelling adults, these workers often feel underappreciated and isolated on the job} and come from low-income and marginalized backgr…

Quick Actions

Share this page

ios_share

X in mail

https://hci.top/en/authors/14046?source=all