Publications
2025
Can LLM-Simulated Practice and Feedback Upskill Human Counselors? A Randomized Study with 90+ Novice Counselors
Under review at CHI 2026
2025
MentalImager: Exploring Generative Images for Assisting Support-Seekers' Self-Disclosure in Online Mental Health Communities
CSCW 2025
2025
2024
Designing Live Human-Ai Collaboration for Musical Improvisation
Workshop on Generative AI and HCI, CHI 2024
2024
Multi-Level Feedback Generation with Large Language Models for Empowering Novice Peer Counselors
Roleplay-doh: Enabling Domain-Experts to Create LLM-simulated Patients via Eliciting and Adhering to Principles
2023
The Cane Game: An Educational Tool for Orientation and Mobility
Rawal: A Reflection Assistant with Active Listening for Peer Support Chats
Human-AI Interface Layers: Enhancing Communication of Intent for AI-Assisted Creative Pursuits and Social Experiences
Doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University
2023
2022
Affinder: Expressing Concepts of Situations that Afford Activities using Context-Detectors
Expressive Communication: Evaluating Developments in Generative Models and Steering Interfaces for Music Creation
2021
Collective Narrative: Scaffolding Community Storytelling through Context-Awareness
2020
Novice-AI Music Co-Creation via AI-Steering Tools for Deep Generative Models
Opportunistic Collective Experiences: Identifying Shared Situations and Structuring Shared Activities at Distance
CSCW 2020 in Virtual
2020
2019
Leveraging Augmented Reality to Create Apps for People with Visual Disabilities: A Case Study in Indoor Navigation
Best Artifact Award