User:Ankhan4

About Me

Hi! My name is Amal Khan and I am a senior at UW-Madison studying Philosophy and Data Science.

Week 1: (05/30/23 - 06/02/23)

Tuesday 5/30

• Attended the REU Introduction

Wednesday 5/31

• Met with mentors to understand goal of project
• Reviewed previously published material from lab

1. Progga, Kumar, Rubya “Understanding the Online Social Support Dynamics for Postpartum Depression”, 2023 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3565967.3570977

In depth discussion about findings regarding topics talked about in PPD forums and the types of support that mothers receive from forums while discussing limitations of machine learning and NLP application.

2. Rubya, Progga “‘just like therapy!’: Investigating the Potential of Storytelling in Online Postpartum Depression Communities” , 2023 https://dl-acm-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/doi/pdf/10.1145/3565967.3570977

Explains the main themes women explore through posting on PPD online health forums and how they feel supported through the online communities along with how a system that detects crisis situations in a post can provide immediate feedback to provide mothers with crisis resources and support.

Thursday 6/1

• Met with mentor to discuss milestones and discuss article topics
• Familiarized with dataset from PPD online forum
• Conducted further background research

1. Tawfiq Ammari, Sarita Schoenebeck, and Daniel Romero. 2019. Self-declared Throwaway Accounts on Reddit: How Platform Affordances and Shared Norms enable Parenting Disclosure and Support. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 3, CSCW, Article 135 (November 2019), 30 pages. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1145/3359237

Emphasizes benefits of anonymous accounts on online forums like Reddit and how they allow parents to talk about difficult topics without backlash or feeling exposed

2. Phil Adams, Eric PS Baumer, and Geri Gay. 2014. Staccato social support in mobile health applications. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 653–662. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1145/2556288.2557297

Shows how computer mediated communication can be used to boost self esteem and push participants towards healthier decisions in health through health focused app’s interactions with other users and validating follow up messages to their own posts.

Friday 6/2

• Completed online RCR training
• Uploaded project milestones
• Background research from references of previously published papers from lab

1. Baumel A, Schueller SM. Adjusting an Available Online Peer Support Platform in a Program to Supplement the Treatment of Perinatal Depression and Anxiety. JMIR Ment Health. 2016 Mar 21;3(1):e11. doi: 10.2196/mental.5335. PMID: 27001373; PMCID: PMC4820657.

Analyzed overall positive integration of e-health service similar to therapy listening service from women with perinatal depression and anxiety for women with the same health issue and how it helped them outside of the clinic but noted that though women enjoyed it they did not want to volunteer to contribute to service in future.

2. Yixin Chen and Yang Xu. 2021. Social Support is Contagious: Exploring the Effect of Social Support in Online Mental Health Communities. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 286, 1–6. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1145/3411763.3451644

Noted how quality and amount of feedback on first post in online forums has causal relationship to user posting after initial post and how robots could be introduced to help mitigate overly negative or lack of responses on posts to provide more social support to users.