Happy to announce the COVIDStates.org 100th report! We look at vaccination rates nationally & in states. Our data look _very_ different from the CDCs; and those differences highlight some the deep systemic failures at getting good data regarding COVID.

Congratulations on completing your PhD Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing, Dr. Zhang! I am so beyond proud of you and excited for all the amazing things you will do in the years ahead.

As with all our projects, this work was a labor of love. We are so grateful to have received a best paper award for this systematic review of trust in social media at #CHI2023! See below for a summary from Janice Zhang. Full paper: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114… Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing Georgia Tech Computing

At #chi2023 today - phd student Vanessa Oguamanam presents our work exploring how well digital mental health tools are serving perinatal Black women's wellbeing. full paper here! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114… Natalie Hernandez Rasheeta Chandler, PhD, APRN, FAANP, FAAN Dominique Guillaume-Rolland , PhD

Closing out Wednesday at #CHI2023 with Vanessa Oguamanam's paper on Digital Mental Health and Perinatal Black Women. You can read about Vanessa's work in our CHI preview story b.gatech.edu/4465ZIJ Andrea Grimes Parker Georgia Tech Computing

Our final Wellness Tech Lab #CHI2023 talk is today, from the awesome D :)! This paper focuses on digitally-mediated care provision in the Black church. Full paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114….

Mental illness is a brain disorder? Right? We thought so. Hang on though, our new study JAMA Psychiatry shows that poor body health is a more pronounced manifestation of mental illness than poor brain health. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap… 🧵1/9

Happy to share that despite the odds, I gave my first CHI talk(& research talk in general lol) without disintegrating to dust on stage🎉

Yay! So happy this is out! 😍 Checkout Loading’s outstanding thesis work looking at the role of racial identity latent profiles among Black women in the relationship of race-related stress and trauma symptoms. So many implications for future work 🤩

There’s been quite a bit of writing in critical mental health spaces on how "new, innovative" mental health technologies can be used as a reason to take away important social services (or here, union bust). Scary to see it happening more and more. vice.com/en/article/n7e…

Interested in pursuing a PhD in an AI-related field? Apply to our Emerging Leaders In AI Program! The program aims to break down financial and social barriers, increasing the representation of black and brown researchers, professionals and academics through graduate admissions.

Congrats to two of our students for earning some impressive award recognition: Sherilyn Francis was named an NIH AIM-AHEAD research fellow, while @sannevanwaveren is an EECS Rising Star! CORE Robotics Lab Matthew Gombolay Andrea Grimes Parker b.gatech.edu/48whY4G

🗣 #Publication announcement SavvyHER_ #savvyher is currently being tested to be an effective and community endorsed tool to promote optimal #sexualhealth and #hivprevention among #women We describe HOW in this article! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37713259/

🗣Article alert🔥: Our #team wants you to know what we are doing out here in these #Digital streets!!! Natalie Hernandez Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Anthony Velasco, PhD (on Bluesky: AnthonyVelasco) Andrea Grimes Parker Dominique Guillaume-Rolland , PhD

Many consider LLMs as the "savior" of challenges that low resource communities face; e.g., healthcare disparities in the Global South. Our preprint below shows that these claims are premature. For Spanish, Chinese, and Hindi, LLMs can surface harmful info. Read on to learn more!

👋 My stint as a #ResearchScientist at #Spotify has ended with recent #layoffs. I was lucky to work with highly talented folks on hard problems in #UX, #algorithms, and #AI. I am back in the research job market with an interest in human-centered AI and #ux research. Please RT.

Absolutely honored to have received the ACM ACM SIGCHI Dissertation Award!! Huge thanks to Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing Georgia Tech, my wonderful dissertation committee—Neha Kumar Andrea Grimes Parker Pushpendra Singh Thomas Ploetz Shaowen Bardzell & Mike Best, & folks Emory BMI EmoryCSI Gari Clifford.

HUGE congratulations Catherine D'Ignazio @kanarinka.bsky.social!! I can’t wait to read this amazing work!!

Last week, I had the honor of sharing 5 years of collected research during my (successful!) PhD defense. Next, I'll spend one year as a @cbitshealth postdoc, then begin as an assistant professor at UCSF DoC-IT in Sept 2025. I am so thankful and excited for what the future holds!

Excited for this work to be out in the world - check out our new ToCHI paper!