Communications of the ACM 2025ACM’s membership and the broader computing field remain disproportionately skewed toward certain regions and demographics, with significant underrepresentation of women, racial minorities, and people with disabilities. As global demand for computing jobs rises, addressing these gaps becomes not just an equity issue but a workforce necessity. To help drive change, organizers of the UbiComp/ISWC 2023 conference implemented targeted programs to enhance diversity and inclusion. This article outlines those initiatives, their implementation costs, and their measured outcomes, offering lessons for fostering equity in international computing conferences.
JAMIA Open 2024
Implicit bias perpetuates health care inequities and manifests in patient–provider interactions, particularly nonverbal social cues like dominance. We investigated the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for automated communication assessment and feedback during primary care visits to raise clinician awareness of bias in patient interactions.
Telemedicine and e-Health 2024Augmented reality enables the wearer to see both their physical environment and virtual objects. Holograms could allow 3D video of providers to be transmitted to distant sites, allowing patients to interact with virtual providers as if they are in the same physical space. Our aim was to determine if Tele-Stroke augmented with Holo-Stroke, compared with Tele-Stroke alone, could improve satisfaction and perception of immersion for the patient.
TOCHI 2024MemoVis is a text editor interface that assists feedback providers in creating reference images with generative AI driven by the feedback comments
JAMIA Open 2024
This study evaluates an AI system that provides automated feedback on social communication during primary care visits. By analyzing real clinical conversations, the system detects social signals and offers targeted feedback to clinicians. Results show that the feedback is technically reliable, usable, and has the potential to improve communication skills and patient care.
Trials 2022 The Social Mobile Approaches to Reducing Weight (SMART) 2.0 Study is a 24-month parallel-group randomized controlled trial that will include 642 overweight or obese participants, aged 18–35 years, from universities and community colleges in San Diego, CA.
Stroke 2021The ALPHA sign—subtle self-support gestures of an impaired limb—proved highly specific (86 %) with a 90 % positive predictive value for acute CNS lesions in a 63-patient video review, indicating useful early stroke recognition despite moderate sensitivity.
J Am Geriatr Soc 2021Brief (2–4 h) workshops boosted clinicians’ self-rated comfort and understanding of decision-making-capacity assessments, with post-session gains in 50–90 % of participants (p