Mental Health
How AI models assess risk, emotion and distress, and how they can support people and the professionals who care for them.
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The Human–AI–Affect Lab
Where AI Meets the Human Mind
Our work spans four areas: mental health, health and medicine, information behavior, and AI simulators. We test how AI models assess and support people, study how people seek and trust information, build simulators that train professionals across many fields, and ask what it takes to use AI wisely and safely.
Research Pillars
Four Domains. One Mission.
Health and Medicine
How AI shapes medical decisions, patient trust and health communication, from clinical reasoning to wearables and older adults.
Information Behavior
How people seek, evaluate and trust information in AI-mediated environments, and how they manage it across languages and life transitions.
AI Simulators
AI-powered role-play simulators that let students and professionals across many fields practice real conversations and decisions safely.