Daniel A. Epstein

schoolUniversity of California, Irvinebar_chart#189 Global Rank

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Understanding Adoption, Use, and Abandonment Practices in Baby Tracking

New parents often turn to baby-tracking technology to monitor and reflect on the daily routines of their infants. However, we lack understanding of how tracking practices evolve as children grow and develop, with caregivers adopting, using, and eventually abandoning baby tracking. We analyze the logs of 60 parents and…

CHI '262nd AuthorMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +2

Sharing Women’s Health Experiences Influenced by Genetic Factors: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities

Genetics play a significant role in women’s health, with family members often experiencing shared symptoms or hereditary risks. HCI has explored how digital tools like medical records, tracking apps, and online communities can support documenting and sharing of health information and management of health conditions. H…

CHI '264th AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +3

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 '26CorrespondingHealth Self-Tracking +2

Unpacking How Pole Dancers Experience the Use of Fitness Trackers

Personal informatics literature has typically examined how fitness trackers can support understanding of cardio-based exercises, like running, which are closely associated with the step counts central to these devices. Although this focus has supported individuals in gleaning fruitful data discoveries, it confines the…

CSCW '25CorrespondingSelf-Disclosure

Understanding How Personal Activities Are Shared In Short-form Videos

Sharing activities that people do in everyday life, such as physical activity, health management, or hobbies, help people receive benefits like social support and positive self-presentation. Short-form videos present new opportunities for activity-sharing, which has traditionally been studied in static contexts like t…

CHI '25CorrespondingConversational Chatbots +1

Foody Talk: Exploring Opportunities for Conversational Food Journaling

Digital food journaling can help support reflection and improvement of wellbeing relating to eating habits. However, it is often viewed as burdensome, and abandoned before gaining benefits. Advances in conversational user interfaces (CUIs) have the potential to support people journaling in a natural and interactive ma…

CHI '25CorrespondingHuman-LLM Collaboration +2

Understanding Public Agencies' Expectations and Realities of AI-Driven Chatbots for Public Health Monitoring

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) offer the potential for chatbots to support public health monitoring by automating tasks traditionally performed by frontline workers. While introducing AI impacts public agency workers across decision-making, administration, and monitoring roles, the perceptions of workers reg…

CHI '254th AuthorHonorable MentionMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +2

Understanding Temporality of Reflection in Personal Informatics through Baby Tracking

Personal informatics literature has examined reflection in tracking, but there are gaps in our understanding of how self-initiated reflection that one engages in shortly after data collection has taken place occurs in everyday life and how technology can best support it. We use baby tracking as a case study to explore…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 4b: Patient-Centered Care and Youth Empowerment

Exploring Patient-Generated Annotations to Digital Clinical Symptom Measures for Patient-Centered Communication

Patients' self-reports are crucial for effective care management of clinical conditions involving subjective symptoms that impact individuals' daily lives. While patients often value the ability to bring in different forms of self-report data to convey their lived experiences, they often face challenges in making thei…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 1d: Understanding and Shaping Online Behavior

Exploring Activity-Sharing Response Differences Between Broad-Purpose and Dedicated Online Social Platforms

People often leverage multiple platforms to share activities they undertake in their lives, from music listening to eating. Broad-purpose platforms, which people use to share a wide variety activities with a diverse audience, and dedicated platforms, which often focus on tracking and sharing a specific activity with c…

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