Wan Jou (Lavender) She

• PhD
• Assistant Professor at Kyoto Institute of Technology

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.2196/49699.].

Background The opaque nature of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms has led to distrust in medical contexts, particularly in the treatment and monitoring of atrial fibrillation. Although previous studies in explainable AI have demonstrated potential to address this issue, they often focus solely on electrocardiography graphs and lack real-world...

In this work, we employ two AMR-enhanced semantic representations for ICL on RE: one that explores the AMR structure generated for a sentence at the subgraph level (shortest AMR path), and another that explores the full AMR structure generated for a sentence. In both cases, we demonstrate that all settings benefit from the fine-grained AMR's semant...

People living with dementia are at risk of social isolation, and conversational AI agents can potentially support such individuals by reducing their loneliness. In our study, a conversational AI agent, called MindTalker, co-designed with therapists and utilizing the GPT-4 Large Language Model (LLM), was developed to support people with early-stage...

The ‘Three Good Things’ (TGT), a structured journaling exercise, has shown great effect in helping improve mental well-being. However, the exercise could be quite tedious and difficult to carry out daily. To improve the user experience of the exercise, we developed ‘Happy Click’, a mobile application which makes use of a physically present smart bu...

Background Breast cancer affects the lives of not only those diagnosed but also the people around them. Many of those affected share their experiences on social media. However, these narratives may differ according to who the poster is and what their relationship with the patient is; a patient posting about their experiences may post different cont...

Background Despite being a pandemic, the impact of the spread of COVID-19 extends beyond public health, influencing areas such as the economy, education, work style, and social relationships. Research studies that document public opinions and estimate the long-term potential impact after the pandemic can be of value to the field. Objective This st...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer affects the lives of not only those diagnosed but also the people around them. Many of those affected share their experiences on social media. However, these narratives may differ according to who the poster is and what their relationship with the patient is; a patient posting about their experiences may post different cont...

BACKGROUND Even though COVID-19 is a pandemic, its impact is not only limited to public health but has spanned across economy, education, work style or social relationships. As the COVID-19 studies proliferating in the past two years, whether the studies would yield insights that are relevant to the individuals in the society becomes important. OB...

Conventional writing therapies are versatile, accessible and easy to facilitate online, but often require participants to self-disclose traumatic experiences. To make expressive writing therapies safer for online, unsupervised environments, we explored the use of text-to-image generation as a means to downregulate negative emotions during a fiction...

Recent years have seen increasing interest in the use of Virtual Reality technology to enhance the experience of physical exercise activities. When such technologies are used, they are traditionally employed to an indoor setting. In this study, we investigate the use of Spatialized Audio Augmented Reality (AAR) to allow users to compete against the...

This paper reports the preliminary design results of AF'fective, an AI driven patient monitoring system designed to facilitate the post-treatment of patients with Atrial Fibrillation (AF). In-depth interviews, co-design and prototype testing sessions were carried out with 16 cardiologists to investigate the context surrounding AF treatment, evaluat...

With the COVID-19 pandemic prompting predictions of a "grief pandemic," rates and risks for Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) warrant further investigation. Data were collected online from 1470 respondents between October 2020 and July 2021. Shorter time since death, deaths of siblings and "others," and deaths from accidents and homicides were positiv...

Losing a loved one through death is known to be one of the most challenging life events. To help the bereaved and their therapists monitor and better understand the factors that contribute to Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD), we co-designed and studied a web-based explainable AI screening system named “Grief Inquiries Following Tragedy (GIFT).” We us...

Although grief is a reaction to a social loss, it has been viewed almost exclusively through the lens of individual psychology and not sociology. In this article, we suggest that more attention to sociological aspects of grief is warranted. We propose a micro-sociological theory of bereavement and grief to complement, not replace, psychological per...

Prolong Grief Disorder (PGD) is a condition in which mourners are stuck in the grief process for a prolonged period and continue to suffer from an intense, mal-adaptive level of grief. Despite the increased popularity of virtual mourning practices, and subsequently the emergence of HCI research in this area, there is little research looking into ho...

Despite the substantial research interest in using Virtual Reality (VR) in healthcare in general and in Psychological, Cognitive, and Behavioral (PC&B) interventions in specific, as well as emerging research supporting the efficacy of VR in healthcare, the design process of translating therapies into VR to meet the needs of critical stakeholders su...

Activities have been proven to play a critical role in regulating emotions and in facilitating an individual's psychological well-being, this paper concentrates on identifying the activities that contribute to facilitating positive changes in bereavement and explore how technology could contribute to enabling or mediating these meaningful activitie...

Losing a loved one is a fundamental and ubiquitous life experience that is often characterized by a certain period of grief and emotional distress. Although the majority of the bereaved can cope with grief resiliently, around 1 out of 10 of individuals could experience an unusually protracted and intense response referred to as Prolonged Grief Diso...

Positive outcomes following bereavement, such as greater resilience, personal growth and enhanced meaningfulness, have long been discussed and empirically studied in psychology. However, these aspects were less explored in previous HCI studies which focused on pain easing, mediating social support and digitalizing existing practices of commemoratin...

Relationship loss is a fundamental life experience for all human beings. It is the experience of losing someone significant such as a parent, friend or lover. Whether it is through the breakup of a romantic relationship, the passing away of a family member, or in other ways, coping with loss is inevitable for all individuals. Besides inevitable, co...