2020

The Children’s Oncology Planning for Emergencies (COPE) Tool: Prototyping with Caregivers of Children with Cancer

As part of a larger project to co-design and create a mHealth tool to support caregivers of children with cancer, we performed a pilot, qualitative study. For this portion of the project, we engaged with caregivers of children with cancer to …

Coming to America: Iranians' use of Telegram for immigration information seeking

Purpose This study examines Iran-US migrants' use of the most popular messaging application in Iran—Telegram—and shows how they use it to manage their migration information practices.Design/methodology/approach This study took a qualitative …

Parental Acceptance of Children’s Storytelling Robots: A Projection of the Uncanny Valley of AI

Parent–child story time is an important ritual of contemporary parenting. Recently, robots with artificial intelligence (AI) have become common. Parental acceptance of children’s storytelling robots, however, has received scant attention. To address …

Design Opportunities and Challenges for App-Based Telemental Health Technologies for Teens and Young Adults

Telemental health (TMH) technologies allow for mental health services to be delivered regardless of geolocation or time, and a new wave of mobile app-based TMH resources hold particular promise for engaging the mental health issues associated with …

Sociotechnical Design Opportunities for Pervasive Family Sleep Technologies

Getting the right amount of high quality sleep is crucial for overall health and wellbeing, and pervasive and ubiquitous computing technologies have shown promise for allowing individuals to track and manage their sleep quality. However, sleep …