University of California, Irvine

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CHI '26Health Self-Tracking +2

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 '26Mental 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 '26Generative 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 '26Participatory Design +2

Hiring for Creativity in a World of UX Design Systems

In digital product organizations, design systems have enabled speed and consistency by structuring design work as the assembly of predefined components. Design is recognized as a creative activity, but assembly work typically is not, and this shift may have an impact on how creativity is realized in the workplace. To…

CHI '26Hand Gesture Recognition +2

AmIWrite: Exploring Scalable One-on-One Handwriting-Based Tutoring for Mathematical Problem-Solving with an LLM-Powered AI Tutor

Real-time handwriting interactions between tutors and students —where tutors observe individual problem-solving processes, provide personalized annotations, and adapt explanations based on students' work—are fundamental to effective STEM tutoring. However, scaling such personalized handwriting-based tutoring remains c…

CHI '26Research Ethics & Open Science +2

Designing for Resistance: Analyzing Data Work Among Direct Service Providers

Information systems, such as electronic health records (EHRs) and case note software, increasingly support direct service providers (DSPs) in social service administration. Previous scholarship examined how these digital interventions enhance care but also create unintended consequences for DSPs and their clients. Des…

CHI '26Health 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 '25Self-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…

CSCW '25Self-Disclosure

Understanding User Experience of Support-Seeking on Reddit During Stressful Times

When individuals experience stressful situations, it is common to disclose personal challenges and stress and seek social support on social media platforms. To better understand and improve social support in online environments, this study uses Reddit as a case study to examine how people navigate support-seeking onli…

UIST '25Makerspace Culture +2

Designing Looms as Kits for Collaborative Assembly

Both engineering kits and collaboration skills are increasingly prevalent in education and are often used in conjunction, yet little research addresses how kit hardware can be designed to support collaboration. Collaboration skills are best acquired through carefully designed collaborative experiences. While prior wor…

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Health, Healthcare & Wellbeing

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