Grand Challenge 5
How do we make high-quality cognitive and mental health support available to all?
More than one-third of the nearly 1.3 million adults in Washington state with a mental health condition in 2023 did not receive the care they needed — a situation that is repeated in communities across the country and around the world.
Cost and a shortage of behavioral health providers are two of the factors that prevent people from accessing mental health treatment. Allen School researchers are working with clinicians and community partners to explore how technology can be used to massively improve access to and quality of cognitive and mental health support for all.
Faculty Meeting the Challenge
Associate Professor
Computing Education Research; Fabrication; Human-Centered AI; Human-Computer Interaction
Professor
Accessibility; Human-Centered AI; Human-Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous Computing, Sensing & Embedded Systems
Associate Professor
Data Management; Data Science; Data Visualization; Human-Centered AI; Human-Computer Interaction
Associate Professor
Data Science; Ethics & Fairness; Human-Centered AI; Natural Language Processing; Social Computing
Associate Professor
Computer Networking; Computing for Development; Human-Computer Interaction
Collaborators & Partner Institutions
Selected Projects
Towards Facilitating Empathic Conversations in Online Mental Health Support: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Ashish Sharma, Inna Lin, Adam Miner, David Atkins, Tim Althoff…
GLOBEM: Cross-Dataset Generalization of Longitudinal Human Behavior Modeling
Xuhai Xu, Xin Liu, Han Zhang, Weichen Wang, Subgiya Nepal, Kevin S. Kuehn, Jerem…
Cognitive Reframing of Negative Thoughts through Human-Language Model Interaction
Ashish Sharma, Kevin Rushton, Inna Lin, David Wadden, Khendra Lucas, Adam Miner…