Health

This subcommittee is suitable for contributions related to health, wellness, and medicine, including physical, mental, and emotional well-being, clinical environments, self-management, and everyday wellness. Accepted papers will balance the rigor required in all CHI submissions with awareness of the challenges of conducting research in these challenging contexts. The research problem can be grounded in both formal and informal health and care contexts. Submissions to this subcommittee will be evaluated in part based on their inclusion of and potential impact on their stakeholders. We welcome papers that are empirical, theoretical, conceptual, methodological, design, and systems contributions. Papers must have a clear and novel contribution to HCI in terms of our understanding of people’s interaction with technology in a healthcare context, or the design of health and wellness technologies. For example, systematic reviews or usability studies associated with clinical trials must also have contributions for the HCI community.

Subcommittee Chairs

  • Eun Kyoung Choe, University of Maryland College Park
  • Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin
  • Lauren Wilcox, Google; Georgia Tech
  • Greg Wadley, University of Melbourne

Contact: sc.health@chi2022.acm.org

Associate Chairs

  • Elena Agapie, UC Irvine
  • Asa Cajander, Uppsala University
  • David Coyle, University College Dublin
  • Elizabeth Eikey, UC San Diego
  • Pin Sym Foong, National University of Singapore
  • Ashley Griffin, Stanford University
  • Kyungsik Han, Hanyang University
  • Thuong N. Hoang, Deakin University
  • Matthew Hong, Toyota Research Institute
  • Jina Huh-Yoo, Drexel University
  • Ravi Karkar, University of Washington
  • Ryan M. Kelly, University of Melbourne
  • Aqueasha Martin-Hammond, Indiana University
  • Terika McCall, Yale
  • Jochen Meyer, OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology
  • Andrew Miller, Indiana University (IUPUI)
  • Troels Mønsted, Roskilde University
  • Kellie Morrisey, University of Limerick
  • Aisling O’Kane, University of Bristol
  • Jessica Pater, Parkview Research Center
  • Bernd Ploderer, Qld University of Technology
  • Herman Saksono, Harvard University
  • Petr Slovak, Kings College London
  • Nadir Weibel, UC San Diego
  • Stephanie Wilson, City University, London

Example Papers

  • Reem Talhouk, Sandra Mesmar, Anja Thieme, Madeline Balaam, Patrick Olivier, Chaza Akik, and Hala Ghattas. 2016. Syrian Refugees and Digital Health in Lebanon: Opportunities for Improving Antenatal Health. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 331–342. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858331
  • Edward Jay Wang, Junyi Zhu, Mohit Jain, Tien-Jui Lee, Elliot Saba, Lama Nachman, and Shwetak N. Patel. 2018. Seismo: Blood Pressure Monitoring using Built-in Smartphone Accelerometer and Camera. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 425, 1–9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173999
  • Elizabeth Stowell, Mercedes C. Lyson, Herman Saksono, Reneé C. Wurth, Holly Jimison, Misha Pavel, and Andrea G. Parker. 2018. Designing and Evaluating mHealth Interventions for Vulnerable Populations: A Systematic Review. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 15, 1–17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173589
  • Eric B. Hekler, Predrag Klasnja, Jon E. Froehlich, and Matthew P. Buman. 2013. Mind the theoretical gap: interpreting, using, and developing behavioral theory in HCI research. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’13). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3307–3316. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466452
  • Kevin Doherty, José Marcano-Belisario, Martin Cohn, Nikolaos Mastellos, Cecily Morrison, Josip Car, and Gavin Doherty. 2019. Engagement with Mental Health Screening on Mobile Devices: Results from an Antenatal Feasibility Study. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 186, 1–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300416
  • Yuhan Luo, Peiyi Liu, and Eun Kyoung Choe. 2019. Co-Designing Food Trackers with Dietitians: Identifying Design Opportunities for Food Tracker Customization. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 592, 1–13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300822
  • Marcela C. C. Bomfim, Sharon I. Kirkpatrick, Lennart E. Nacke, and James R. Wallace. 2020. Food Literacy while Shopping: Motivating Informed Food Purchasing Behaviour with a Situated Gameful App. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376801 
  • Elizabeth L. Murnane, Xin Jiang, Anna Kong, Michelle Park, Weili Shi, Connor Soohoo, Luke Vink, Iris Xia, Xin Yu, John Yang-Sammataro, Grace Young, Jenny Zhi, Paula Moya, and James A. Landay. 2020. Designing Ambient Narrative-Based Interfaces to Reflect and Motivate Physical Activity. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376478
  • Emma Beede, Elizabeth Baylor, Fred Hersch, Anna Iurchenko, Lauren Wilcox, Paisan Ruamviboonsuk, and Laura M. Vardoulakis. 2020. A Human-Centered Evaluation of a Deep Learning System Deployed in Clinics for the Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376718
  • Maximilian Dürr, Carla Gröschel, Ulrike Pfeil, and Harald Reiterer. 2020. NurseCare: Design and ‘In-The-Wild’ Evaluation of a Mobile System to Promote the Ergonomic Transfer of Patients. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376851
  • Sachin R Pendse, Amit Sharma, Aditya Vashistha, Munmun De Choudhury, and Neha Kumar. 2021. “Can I Not Be Suicidal on a Sunday?”: Understanding Technology-Mediated Pathways to Mental Health Support. Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 545, 1–16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445410
  • Ryan M. Kelly, Yueyang Cheng, Dana McKay, Greg Wadley, and George Buchanan. 2021. “It’s About Missing Much More Than the People”: How Students use Digital Technologies to Alleviate Homesickness. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 226, 1–17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445362
  • Xi Lu, Tera L. Reynolds, Eunkyung Jo, Hwajung Hong, Xinru Page, Yunan Chen, and Daniel A. Epstein. 2021. Comparing Perspectives Around Human and Technology Support for Contact Tracing. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 200, 1–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445669
  • Cassidy Pyle, Lee Roosevelt, Ashley Lacombe-Duncan, and Nazanin Andalibi. 2021. LGBTQ Persons’ Pregnancy Loss Disclosures to Known Ties on Social Media: Disclosure Decisions and Ideal Disclosure Environments. Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 543, 1–17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445331
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