Herman Saksono

“An Ad Posing as Medical Advice”: User Accounts of Dark UX in FemTech mHealth Apps | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction FemTech is an emerging industry offering products, software, and services to support women’s health and well-being. Within FemTech, mobile health applications (mHealth apps) are popular for managing m...

“An Ad Posing as Medical Advice”: User Accounts of Dark UX in FemTech mHealth Apps by Ghada Alsebayel, Giovanni M Troiano, @johannagunawan.bsky.social @hermansaksono.bsky.social & Casper Harteveld
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We also prepared a companion website for the Socio-Cognitive Framework.

sociocognitive.sites.northeastern.edu

#CHI2025

Socio-Cognitive Framework for Personal Informatics: A Preliminary Framework for Socially-Enabled Health Technologies | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Personal health informatics systems have been centered around individual efforts, overlooking the role of social factors in health. Over seven years of research (n \(=\) 153), we examined how social...

We are excited to present our ToCHI paper today at #CHI2025.

Socio-Cognitive Framework for Personal Informatics: A Preliminary Framework for Socially-Enabled Health Technologies

11:46 AM, Room 9301
Designing with Different Users

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Congratulations!

✨As we kick-off the New Year, we want to share 4 Visions for User-Centered Design of Digital Health Solutions Grounded in Equity✨

Thanks for clarifying this. I look forward reading the preprint!

Thanks for sharing this. Very important work. Do you mind elaborating more on how training a better model is not enough?

Bar chart of different barriers to healthcare

How do disparities in healthcare access affect ML models? 💰📉🧐 We found that low access to care -> worse EHR data quality -> worse ML performance in a dataset of 134k patients. Work with Anna Zink (on the faculty job market rn!) + Hongzhou Luan, presented at #ML4H2024

Writing is a lot like weight training. You won't be able to lift a lot at first. You start small. Short session, light weights. Day by day though you get just a *little* stronger. Eventually your sessions get longer, the bars get heavier, and everyone says "I could never do that." Just like you did.

It’s not really a lifehack if it’s a well established social psychology theory from 38 years ago.

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Faculty opening at Northeastern in AI for healthcare management. Tenure home will be in business school with interdisciplinary appointment (like me and many other Northeastern faculty — I'm jointly appointed in Public Health and Computer Sciences.) northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

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The business plan is take advantage of people who want to self-publish a book

AI chatbot can conduct research interviews on unprecedented scale Freely available tool performs strongly in trials against human interviewers and traditional online surveys

So *many* concerns here, but I don't understand why would a qualitative researcher even want this? Why not use a survey instead?The whole point of qualitative interviews is that we co-produce knowledge with our interlocutors through participation in the research process.

a man wearing a tie and a watch is laughing with his mouth open ALT: a man wearing a tie and a watch is laughing with his mouth open

Cynthia Erivo is so good 😭. Defying Gravity felt true to the original but also expanded it in a meaningful way.

a woman is making a funny face and smiling while saying `` so happy '' . ALT: a woman is making a funny face and smiling while saying `` so happy '' .

Listening the #Wicked album

The second statue is Nipmuc descendant Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines, Jr.

Both statues are part of “The Knowledge Keepers” by Mohawk artist Alan Michelson.

New statues at the Museum of Fine Art’s Huntington Ave entrace. This is Julia Marden, a member the Aquinnah Wampanoah, a local indigenous cultural leader.

I like the colors!

Definitions of Fairness Differ Across Socioeconomic Groups & Shape Perceptions of Algorithmic Decisions | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Understanding how people perceive algorithmic decision-making is remains critical, as these systems are increasingly integrated into areas such as education, healthcare, and criminal justice. These pe...

New #CSCW2024 paper in which we found that people's definitions of fairness for an algorithmic distribution system (school choice) differ across socioeconomic groups. These definitions of fairness shape how fair they see the system, controlling for their own outcome. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Reviewer Critiques (Qualitative Methods) and How to Respond to Them Reviewer Critiques (Qualitative Methods) and How to Respond to Them Author: Jessica Vitak (+ anyone who adds to the document) About This Document (and a disclaimer) Reviewing is a highly subjective pr...

If you've gotten some weird/confusing/challenging/bad reviewer comments on your qualitative study (any discipline), I'd love for you to share them in this document. I've been aggregating common critiques and ideas for responding to them over the last year. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I will miss you, Costa Rica. Until we meet again, pura vida. #cscw2024