Sun Young Park

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Enhancing Pediatric Communication: The Role of an AI-Driven Chatbot in Facilitating Child-Parent-Provider Interaction

Communication with child patients is challenging due to their developing ability to express emotions and symptoms. Additionally, healthcare providers often have limited time to offer resources to parents. By leveraging AI to facilitate free-form conversations, our study aims to design an AI-driven chatbot to bridge th…

CHI '25CorrespondingMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +2

Collaborative Health-Tracking Technologies for Children and Parents: A Review of Current Studies and Directions for Future Research

Collaborative health-tracking technologies for children and parents have gained significant attention in recent years in HCI. This review examines the current state of these technologies by analyzing 29 studies screened from 15,973 search results across three databases. Our findings revealed three primary goals in the…

CHI '24CorrespondingChronic Disease Self-Management (Diabetes, Hypertension, etc.)

Shared Responsibility in Collaborative Tracking for Children with Type 1 Diabetes and their Parents

Efficient Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) management necessitates comprehensive tracking of various factors that influence blood sugar levels. However, tracking health data for children with T1D poses unique challenges, as it requires the active involvement of both children and their parents. This study aims to uncover the bene…

CHI '23CorrespondingCollaborative Learning & Peer Teaching +2

It’s Like an Educated Guessing Game: Parents’ Strategies for Collaborative Diabetes Management with Their Children

Children with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) face many challenges with keeping their blood glucose levels within a healthy range because they cannot manage their illness by themselves. To prevent children’s blood glucose from becoming too high or too low, parents apply different strategies to avoid risky situations. To underst…

CSCW '22CorrespondingMental Health and Spirituality Tools; Mental Health and Spirituality Tools

Characteristics and Challenges of Clinical Documentation in Self-Organized Fast-Paced Medical Work

Clinical documentation is a time-consuming and challenging task, especially for time-critical medical settings. Even with a dedicated scribe person, timely and accurate documentation under time constraints is never easy. In this work, we present a unique type of fast-paced medical team---emergency medical services (EM…

CHI '22CorrespondingMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +2

Transitioning Toward Independence: Enhancing Collaborative Self-Management of Children with Type 1 Diabetes

Although child participation is required for successful Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) management, it is challenging because the child’s young age and immaturity make it difficult to perform self-care. Thus, parental caregivers are expected to be heavily involved in their child’s everyday illness management. Our study aims to…

CHI '22CorrespondingConversational Chatbots +2

Designing Chatbots with Black Americans with Chronic Conditions: Overcoming Challenges against COVID-19

Recently, chatbots have been deployed in health care in various ways such as providing educational information, and monitoring and triaging symptoms. However, they can be ineffective when they are designed without a careful consideration of the cultural context of the users, especially for marginalized groups. Chatbot…

CSCW '21CorrespondingCare and Caregiving

Challenges in the Parent-Child Communication of Health-related Information in Pediatric Cancer Care

Previous works have shown that effective communication between parental caregivers and child patients has many benefits to the children, such as providing emotional support and coping skills for health management. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, we have identified the challenges parental caregivers face when co…

CHI '21CorrespondingEV Charging & Eco-Driving Interfaces +1

Learning from Healthcare Providers' Strategies: Designing Technology to Support Effective Child Patient-Provider Communication

Effective patient-provider communication is critical to promote patient satisfaction, encourage patient involvement in care, and improve health outcomes. Although prior HCI works aim to enhance dyadic communication by improving patients’ communication skills, little is known about healthcare providers’ communication w…

CHI '201st AuthorMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities

Learning from Positive Adaptations of Pediatric Cancer Patients to Design Health Technologies

The diagnosis of cancer brings about significant changes in the life of a child. In addition to physical pain, pediatric patients face psychological and social challenges. At the same time, some patients also have positive experiences with and attitudes toward their illness and treatment. Drawing on 19 semi-structured…

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