Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)

Cathy Mengying Fang, Auren R. Liu, Valdemar Danry, Eunhae Lee, Samantha W.T Chan, Pat Pataranutaporn, Pattie Maes, Jason Phang, Michael Lampe, Lama Ahmad, and Sandhini Agarwal. How AI and Human Behaviors Shape Psychosocial Effects of Extended Chatbot Use: A Longitudinal Controlled Study, 2025.

P. Pataranutaporn, N. Powdthavee, C. Archiwaranguprok, & P. Maes, Simulating human well-being with large language models: Systematic validation and misestimation across 64,000 individuals from 64 countries, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (48) e2519394122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2519394122 (2025).

Matton, Katie & Balaji, Purvaja & Ghasemzadeh, Hamzeh & Cooper, Jameson & Mehta, Daryush & Van Stan, Jarrad & Hillman, Robert & Picard, Rosalind & Guttag, John & Abulnaga, Mazdak. (2025). Classifying Phonotrauma Severity from Vocal Fold Images with Soft Ordinal Regression. 10.48550/arXiv.2511.09702.

Zhang, C., Kim, M., Ghorbani, S., Wu, J., Picard, R., Maes, P., & Liang, P. P. (2025). When One Modality Sabotages the Others: A Diagnostic Lens on Multimodal Reasoning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.02794.

Jocelyn Scheirer, Rosalind Picard, and Aubrey Cantrell. 2025. Personalized Animations for Affective Feedback: Generative AI Helps to Visualize Skin Conductance. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Multimodal and Responsible Affective Computing (MRAC '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 146–151. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746270.3760237

Kim, M., Wang, W., Long, J., Picard, R., Barczi, N., & Maes, P. (2025). Reflective Agency: Ethical and Empirical Framework for AI-Mediated Self-Reflection Systems. Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 8(2), 1440-1452. https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v8i2.36644

Wazeer Zulfikar, Treyden Chiaravalloti, Jocelyn Shen, Rosalind Picard, and Pattie Maes. 2025. Resonance: Drawing from Memories to Imagine Positive Futures through AI-Augmented Journaling. In Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference 2025 (AHs '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 199–215. https://doi.org/10.1145/3745900.3746099

Lewis, R., Fedor, S., Julia, N.H., Curtiss, J., Kim, J., Jones, N., Mischoulon, D., Quatieri, T.F., Cummins, N., Pedrelli, P., & Picard, R.W. (2025). Towards the Objective Characterisation of Major Depressive Disorder Using Speech Data from a 12-week Observational Study with Daily Measurements. Interspeech 2025.

Hidalgo Julia, N.*, Lewis, R., Ferguson*, C., Goldberg, S., Lau, W., Swords, C., Valdivia, G., Wilson-Mendenhall, C., Tartar, R., Picard, R., Davidson, R. (2025) Identifying Vocal and Facial Biomarkers of Depression in Large-Scale Remote Recordings: A Multimodal Study Using Mixed-Effects Modeling. Proc. Interspeech 2025, 5263-5267, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2560

Pataranutaporn, P., Archiwaranguprok, C., Chan, S. W., Loftus, E., & Maes, P. (2025, April). Synthetic human memories: Ai-edited images and videos can implant false memories and distort recollection. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-20).

Christine Wu, Ila Krishna Kumar, and Rosalind Picard. 2025. Navigating Emotions Through Art: Recommendations for Designing Art-Therapy Based Chatbots for Trauma-Impacted Youth: Recommendations for Designing Art-Therapy Based Chatbots for Trauma-Impacted Youth. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '25).

Pataranutaporn, P., Archiwaranguprok, C., Chan, S. W., Loftus, E., & Maes, P. (2025, March). Slip Through the Chat: Subtle Injection of False Information in LLM Chatbot Conversations Increases False Memory Formation. In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 1297-1313).