CHI '25 Workshop on Envisioning the Future of Interactive Health

Introduction

These proceedings contain the papers presented at Envisioning the Future of Interactive Health workshop, held in-person on April 27^th in Yokohama (Japan), as part of ACM CHI 2025 conference. The workshop brought together researchers from academia and industry working at the intersection of Human–Computer Interaction, Medical Informatics, Health Informatics, and Digital Health, to share their work and prepare the launch of a SIGCHI-sponsored conference dedicated to the HCI and Health community.

This volume consists of 68 accepted papers, which were lightly reviewed by workshop organisers to ensure pertinence to the workshop. Papers more directly reflecting on the future conference were pitched in the workshop as provocations (12 papers), while other contributions were presented as posters (56 papers).

We thank the authors and conference organizing team for their efforts in making this event possible. For further details, visit the workshop website.

Provocations

Are Digital Technologies the New Silent Determinants of Mental Health? by Martin Dechant and Samuel Wilkinson

Breaking the Dogma: Misconceptions, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from AI and AR-Assisted Pancreatic Surgery by Hamraz Javaheri, Omid Ghamarnejad, Paul Lukowicz, Gregor A. Stavrou, and Jakob Karolus

Creating Opportunities for Integrating Data Visualization into Healthcare Research and Practice by Fateme Rajabiyazdi

Designing Health Technologies as Health Services by Daniel A. Adler

From HCI to HCE (Human-Computer Extraction): Opposing the Shift Toward Data-Centric AI in Patient Care by Talya Porat and Tao Bi

Lessons Learned in HCI+Health Research: Implementation Contributions Should Be Recognized as a Distinct Category in HCI+Health Research by Sarah Nikkhah

Provocation on Reviewing and Reviewers when Growing a New Conference by Anke V. Reinschluessel

Provocation – What Makes a Good Interactive Health Contribution? by Petr Slovak and Sean Munson

The Importance of Research-Through-Design in Health HCI by Sarah Homewood

The Role of Large Language Models in HCI for Personal Health Research by Lena Mamykina and Xuhai Xu

What’s in Scope for Interactive Health? Reflecting on the CHI 2025 Health Subcommittee Process by Daniel A. Epstein, Pin Sym Foong, and Aneesha Singh

Where did the practices go? On why Interactive Health should provide space for patient and healthcare professional practices by Chia-Fang (Christina) Chung, Francisco Nunes, and Elena Agapie

Posters

A Pilot Study on Sensemaking of Consumer Micronutrient Tests: Sufficiencies, Deficiencies, and Barriers to Improvement by Zilu Liang, Nhung Huyen Hoang, and Thilini Savindya Karunarathna

An HCI Health Justice Lens for Platform Work in Türkiye: The Case of Migrant Health Workers by Özge Subaşı

Beyond Technological Solutionism: Rethinking XR in Healthcare by Md Haseen Akhtar, Cecilia Landa-Avila, Shital Desai, Claire Warden, Andrew Morris, Mark Anderson, Thomas Cochrane, and Janakarajan Ramkumar

BioSyncHRI: Synchronizing Human Robot Interaction via Real-Time Biosignal Adaptation by Melanie Baumgartner, Aydin Javadov, Rayna Ney, Florian von Wangenheim, and Joseph Ollier

Bridging the Gap Between User-Centered Engineering and Clinical Research for Rehabilitation: Reflections & Opportunities by Momona Yamagami

C.O.R.R.A.: Feasibility of Community Overdose Response Respiratory Alert by Minzhu Zhao, Ahmed Y. Hassanein, and Svetlana Yarosh

Challenges in Developing Temporal Health Status Representations with Self-Tracked Data by Adrienne Pichon, Lena Mamykina, and Noémie Elhadad

Characteristics of Socially Acceptable Healthcare Devices by Sabrina Lakhdhir and Sowmya Somanath

Clini-Compare: An Interactive Patient-Similarity Visualization Tool for Clinical Decision Support by Arpit Mathur and Adam Perer

Designing a Virtual Community of Practice for Frontline Disability Workers in India by Delvin Varghese and Ananya Alagh

DYMOND: Identifying the Seams for Human-in-the-Loop Digital Phenotyping for Mental Health by Tunwa Tongtawee, Olivia Lin Wang, Joyce Hsu, Qiuyue “Joy” Zhong, Nicholas C. Jacobson, Varun Mishra, and Vedant Das Swain

Eating, Posting, Reflecting: Social Media as a Tool for Everyday Healthy Eating Habits by Chun-Han Ariel Wang and Chia-Fang (Christina) Chung

Embrace Sociable Technology! A Plea for Health as a Model Field of Human-Technology Team Research by Stephan Huber

Enhancing Food Tracking Practice with LLMs: Towards Goal-Oriented Reflection by Weijun Li and Daniel A. Epstein

Enhancing Spoken Communication Experience in Mental Health Peer Support by Manas Satish Bedmutha, Angelina Van Dyne, Federica Klaus, Lisa T.Eyler, and Nadir Weibel

Envisioning an AI-Enhanced Mental Health Ecosystem by Kellie Yu Hui Sim and Kenny Tsu Wei Choo

Explore Motor Skills Development in Individuals with Profound Intellectual Disabilities through Collaborative Art Creation by Sifan Chen, Yufan Zhu, Yifan Xu, and Chihiro Sato

Exploring Message Receptivity and Protocol Adherence in a Clinical Study: A Micro-Randomized Trial Protocol by Magdalena Fuchs, Benjamin Wirth, Stefan Bilz, Michael Brändle, Tobias Kowatsch, and Mia Jovanova

Exploring the Integration of Generative AI on Social Media to Enhance Health and Wellness Creator-Audience Interactions by Yu-Ling (Ruby) Chou and Chia-Fang (Christina) Chung

Facilitating Individuals’ Sensemaking about Sedentary Behavior via Contextualized Data by Kefan Xu and Rosa I. Arriaga

From Concept to Practice: Rethinking Proof-of-Concepts for Healthcare Research by Naja Holten Møller and Trine Rask Nielsen

From Horses to Robots: Enhancing Participant Mental Health Through Embodied Emotional Attunement by Ellen Weir

Generative AI for medical education: Insights from a case study with medical students and an AI tutor for clinical reasoning by Amy Wang, Roma Ruparel, Anna Iurchenko, Paul Jhun, Julie Anne Seguin, Patricia Strachan, Renee Wong, Alan Karthikesalingam, Yossi Matias, Avinatan Hassidim, Dale R. Webster, Christopher Semturs, Jonathan Krause, and Mike Schaekermann

Improving AR Guidance for Motor Surgical Tasks: Visualizing Uncertainty by Chaymae Acherki, Laurence Nigay, Quentin Roy, and Thibault Salque

Interactive 3D Breast Model: Empowering Women’s Health by Ziqi Yi, Séverin Ferard, Sweekrity Kanodia, Jean-Christophe Thalabard, Kevin Lhoste, and Marc Teyssier

Just Breathe: Harnessing Pretrained Audio Models for Mood Awareness in a Gamified Breathing Training App by Akshaye Shenoi, Gisbert W. Teepe, Yanick X. Lukic, Samarth Negi, Jacqueline Louise Mair, Elgar Fleisch, and Tobias Kowatsch

MindFort: Cognitive Inoculation via Conversational Agents by Dániel Szabó, Chi-Lan Yang, Aku Visuri, and Simo Hosio

Mining Physical Activity and Dietary Intake Data for Guiding Healthier Behaviour by Xiaotong Yu, Corinne Caillaud, and Kalina Yacef

Off the hAIgh horse: Realistically Supporting Dermatologists with Automated Reporting by Hubert Dariusz Zając, Niels Kvorning Ternov, and Tariq Osman Andersen

Opportunities For Wearables to Support Mental Well-being in Low-Income Latine Communities by Stefany Cruz, Josiah Hester, Stephen Xia, and Maia Jacobs

Over-Relying on Reliance: Towards Realistic Evaluations of AI-Based Clinical Decision Support by Venkatesh Sivaraman, Katelyn Morrison, Will Epperson, and Adam Perer

Perceived Toxicity and Well-Being in Online Gaming: The Impact of Gratitude Interventions and Emotional Accumulation by Chen Yu Tsai and Gen-Yih Liao

Physicians’ Lived Experiences with AI Scribes by Nina Huang, Katherine Jelich, Brenna Li, Khai N. Truong, and Alex Mariakakis

Pilot Study on Auditory xR in Laparoscopic Surgery Training: Instruments’ Movement Sonification Mapping by Henrik H.J. Detjen, Trung-Hoa Ha, Richard Gnatzy, Reinhard Fuchs, David Black, and Florian Weiler

Reconfiguring Computer-Supported Shift Planning to Support Nurse Well-Being by Alarith Uhde, Manami Takaoka, Shady Salama, and Ayumi Igarashi

Recovery through Videogame Play - the Role of Mental Workload by Linqi Zhao, Michael Thomas Knierim, Max L. Wilson, Patrick Dickinson, and Horia A. Maior

Rethinking Digital Health: Designing Learner-Centered Technologies for Health by Rimika Chaudhury

Rethinking Wearable Health Sensing: Towards a Modular, Repairable and Sustainable Design Paradigm by Glenn J. Fernandes, Farzad Shahabi, Yuxin Du, Mahdi Pedram, and Nabil Alshurafa

Self-Care with Generative AI Tools: Reflections on HCI and Health by Tara Capel and Bernd Ploderer

Smartphone Exergames with Real-Time Markerless Motion Capture: Challenges and Trade-offs by Mathieu Phosanarack, Laura Wallard, Sophie Lepreux, Christophe Kolski, and Eugénie Avril

Statistical Lessons Learned in Personal Informatics Research by Zilu Liang

Tell Me or Show Me? Evaluating Diagnostic Support for Electrocardiogram Interpretation by Tobias Grundgeiger, Nicole Dering, Julia Wienkop, Lena Kutter, Sabrina Baum, Leo Schwarzkopf, Carlos Hölzing, and Oliver Happel

Tendencies Matter: Augmenting One-to-One Medical Apprenticeship with Crowdsourced Expert Contours by Matin Yarmand, Joyce Lu, Yunhao Luo, Megan Orr, Michael Sherer, and Nadir Weibel

Tensions in Personal Informatics: Considering Product Design and Academic Responsibility by Meagan B. Loerakker, Nadine Wagener, Evropi Stefanidi, Jasmin Niess, and Paweł W. Woźniak

The Promise of Personalized Care: Patients’ Experiences of a Technology-Supported Lifestyle Change Program by Daisy O’Neill, Kathelijn van der Horst, Eva Deckers, Stephan Wensveen, and Max V. Birk

Toward a Human-Centered AI-assisted Colonoscopy System in Australia by Hsiang-Ting Chen, Yuan Zhang, Gustavo Carneiro, and Rajvinder Singh

Towards Designing AI Systems that Help Improve Both Short-Term and Long-Term Mental Well-Being by Tony Wang and Qian Yang

Towards Gaze Tracking on Short Form Videos for Body Image Disturbance-Driven Condition Detection and Self-Monitoring by Eden Shaveet, Jonathan Isaac Segal, Hannah Mitchell, and Tanzeem Choudhury

Towards Human-Precision Medicine Interaction by Yuhao Sun

Typing Patterns as Digital Footprints: Enhancing Health Monitoring by Diana Pimentel, Diogo Branco, Filipa Brito, André Santos, and Tiago Guerreiro

Unpacking Health Data: How Metrics Shape Personal Informatics Experiences by Marit Bentvelzen

Visual Self-Presentation on Video-Based Social Media: A Pilot Study of Mental Illness Narratives on YouTube by Jiaying "Lizzy" Liu, Yunlong Wang, Yunlong Wang, Yao Lyu, Yiheng Su, Shuo Niu, and Yan Zhang

Vital Insight: Assisting Experts’ Sensemaking of Multi-modal Personal Tracking Data Using Visualization and LLMs by Jiachen Li, Xiwen Li, Akshat Choube, Justin Steinberg, Bingsheng Yao, Xuhai Xu, Dakuo Wang, Elizabeth Mynatt, and Varun Mishra

Wearable Brain-Computer Interfaces for Everyday Mental Fatigue Research by Michael T. Knierim, Lukas Schick, Jwan Shaban, Alexander Maedche, and Max L. Wilson

Wandering as CLOUDS: Designing Soft Nudges for Mood Logging and Reflection on Smartwatches by Hamzah Ahmed and Zilu Liang

Warm Technology: A Design Perspective on Dementia Research in HCI by Maarten Houben, Rens Brankaert, and Wijnand IJsselsteijn

Who Hears My Secrets? Self-Disclosure in Text, Voice, and Robotic AI Counseling: How Context Collapse, Contextual Integrity Explain Cross-Platform Differences by Jihye Lee