Ravi Karkar

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CASEbot: A Conversational Agent for Structuring and Personalizing the Design of Self-Experiments in Personal Health

Self-experimentation, or using tracked data to systematically answer health and wellbeing questions via hypothesis testing, has significant potential to support personal health. However, technological support for self-experimentation has focused on expert-designed self-experiments for specific health conditions, limit…

CHI '26CorrespondingExplainable AI (XAI) +3

High Accuracy and Hidden Disparities: Investigating Foundation Model Performance in Clinical Cognitive Assessment

Foundation models tested for clinical practice using human-designed metrics may mask fundamental differences in information processing. We investigated this using the clock drawing test (CDT), a cognitive screening tool. Three foundation models achieved 94% accuracy on conventional metrics, matching experts. However,…

CSCW '253rd AuthorPalliative Care

SCOPE: Examining Technology-Enhanced Collaborative Care Management of Depression in the Cancer Setting

Collaborative care management is an evidence-based approach to integrated psychosocial care for patients with comorbid cancer and depression. Prior work highlights challenges in patient-provider collaboration in navigating parallel cancer care and psychosocial care journeys of these patients. We design and deploy SCOP…

CSCW '254th AuthorCaregiving & Caregivers

Balancing Caregiving and Self-Care: Exploring Mental Health Needs in Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregiving

Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) are progressive neurodegenerative conditions that impair memory, thought processes, and functioning. Family caregivers of individuals with AD/ADRD face significant mental health challenges due to long-term caregiving responsibilities. Yet, current support systems o…

CHI '255th+ AuthorBest PaperChronic Disease Self-Management (Diabetes, Hypertension, etc.) +2

Deploying and Examining Beacon for At-Home Patient Self-Monitoring with Critical Flicker Frequency

Chronic liver disease can lead to neurological conditions that result in coma or death. Although early detection can allow for intervention, testing is infrequent and unstandardized. Beacon is a device for at-home patient self-measurement of cognitive function via critical flicker frequency, which is the frequency at…

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