Amid Ayobi
Associate Professor in Digital Health
Designs conversational AI systems and human-centred tools that support self-care for people living with chronic conditions such as multiple sclerosis and diabetes.
Amid Ayobi's lab at UCL works on accessibility, health & wellbeing, dialogue, generation & summarization and affective & health speech. 20 papers since 2023, 3 at top venues, mostly CSCW and CHI.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 15%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 7 papers2025 · T1 1
- 2 papers2024 · T1 0
- 8 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CSCW, CHI, IJHCS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Accessibility, health & wellbeing8 papers
- Affective & health speech7 papers
- Dialogue, generation & summarization2 papers
- conditions0 papers
- multiple0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20263 papers
- Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction"The chat can actually help you gauge what you're seeing": Co-Designing an LLM-Based User Reporting Tool in the Context of Ambiguous Targeted Harassment with UK Instagram Users (opens in a new tab)
- The Palgrave Encyclopedia of CyberpsychologyActivity Trackers and Wearables
- CUI ’26Is Conversational AI Taking Control?: From Individualistic to Holistic Approaches to Sustaining Human Agency (opens in a new tab)
20257 papers
- International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference-BCS HCICo-Designing Human-Centred AI Technologies for Health and Wellbeing: Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities
- TEI ’25Creatively Supporting Mental Wellbeing: A Tangible Toolkit to Scaffold Self-Tracking through Mindful Colouring (opens in a new tab)
- ASSETS '25: The International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and AccessibilityDesigning with Tensions: Understanding Professionals’ Needs in Integrating AI Chatbots for Wheelchair Assessment Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (opens in a new tab)
- CHI '25: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsExploring Positionality in HCI: Perspectives, Trends, and Challenges (opens in a new tab)
- CUI ’25Linguistic Diversity and Mental Well-Being: Co-Designing Custom AI Chatbots with Multilingual Mothers (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW (T1)Understanding Interaction with Machine Learning through a Thematic Analysis Coding Assistant (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Human Computer StudiesUsing self-tracking technologies to manage energy for health and wellbeing (opens in a new tab)
20242 papers
- DIS '24: Designing Interactive Systems ConferenceExploring the Design Space of Input Modalities for Working in Mixed Reality on Long-haul Flights (opens in a new tab)
- CHI '24: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsKnowledge Work on Airplanes: Challenges, Workarounds, and Design Implications (opens in a new tab)
20238 papers
- CSCW '23 Companion: Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social ComputingAfrocentric Collaborative Care: Supporting Context Specific Digital Health and Care
- IJHCSCo-designing opportunities for Human-Centred Machine Learning in supporting Type 1 diabetes decision-making (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Computational Notebooks as Co-Design Tools: Engaging Young Adults Living with Diabetes, Family Carers, and Clinicians with Machine Learning Models (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in Digital HealthEditorial: Factors influencing user engagement with digital mental health interventions (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW (T1)Explanation before Adoption: Supporting Informed Consent for Complex Machine Learning and IoT Health Platforms (opens in a new tab)
- INTERACTPlayful, Curious, Creative, Equitable: Exploring Opportunities for AI Technologies with Older Adults (opens in a new tab)
- CHI '23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsSocial Virtual Reality as a Mental Health Tool: How People Use VRChat to Support Social Connectedness and Wellbeing (opens in a new tab)
- CHI '23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsThe Shifting Sands of Labour: Changes in Shared Care Work with a Smart Home Health System (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went
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