2024

Quantifying the Pollan Effect: Investigating the Impact of Emerging Psychiatric Interventions on Online Mental Health Discourse
Sachin R. Pendse, Neha Kumar, and Munmun De Choudhury
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

The Typing Cure: Experiences with Large Language Model Chatbots for Mental Health Support
Inhwa Song, Sachin R. Pendse, Neha Kumar, and Munmun De Choudhury
arXiv preprint

2023

Post-growth HCI
Vishal Sharma, Neha Kumar, and Bonnie Nardi
Transactions of Computer—Human Interaction (ToCHI)

Public Health Calls for/with AI
Azra Ismail*, Divy Thakkar*, Neha Madhiwalla, and Neha Kumar
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (PACM HCI)
Best Paper Honorable Mention

Marginalization and the Construction of Mental Illness Narratives Online: Foregrounding Institutions in Technology-Mediated Care
Sachin R. Pendse, Neha Kumar, and Munmun De Choudhury
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (PACM HCI)

“We are half-doctors”: Family Caregivers as Boundary Actors in Chronic Disease Management
Karthik S. Bhat, Amanda K. Hall, Tiffany Kuo, and Neha Kumar
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (PACM HCI)

“Information-Backward but Sex-Forward”: Navigating Masculinity towards Intimate Wellbeing and Heterosexual Relationships
Anupriya Tuli*, Azra Ismail*, Karthik S. Bhat*, Pushpendra Singh, and Neha Kumar
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Learning to Navigate Health Taboos through Online Safe Spaces
Hannah Tam*, Karthik S. Bhat*, Priyanka Mohindra, and Neha Kumar
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Towards Intermediated Workflows for Hybrid Telemedicine
Karthik S. Bhat, Neha Kumar, Karthik Shamanna, Nipun Kwatra, and Mohit Jain
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work
Vishal Sharma, Kirsten Bray, Neha Kumar, and Rebecca E. Grinter
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Leveraging symptom search data to understand disparities in US mental health care: demographic analysis of search engine trace data
Benjamin Rochford, Sachin R. Pendse, Neha Kumar, and Munmun De Choudhury
JMIR Mental Health

2022

Imagining Caring Futures for Frontline Health Work
Azra Ismail, Deepika Yadav, Meghna Gupta, Kirti Dabas, Pushpendra Singh, and Neha Kumar
CSCW 2022

Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work
Vishal Sharma, Kirsten Bray, Neha Kumar, and Rebecca E. Grinter
CSCW 2022

Visualization Design Practices in a Crisis: Behind the Scenes with COVID-19 Dashboard Creators
Yixuan Zhang, Yifan Sun, Joseph D Gaggiano, Neha Kumar, Clio Andris, and Andrea G Parker
IEEE VIS 2022

Unpacking Tensions in Designing an Annotation System for Public Toilets to Support Menstrual Mobilities
Gauri Bhatnagar, Pushpendra Singh, Neha Kumar, and Anupriya Tuli
ICTD 2022

Alternative Pathways to Caring for Limits:The Case of Ecospirituality
Sarah Cooney, Vishal Sharma, Joshua Palmer, Neha Kumar, and Barath Raghavan
LIMITS 2022

Investigating Culturally Responsive Design for Menstrual Tracking and Sharing Practices Among Individuals with Minimal Sexual Education
Georgianna Lin, Elizabeth Mynatt, and Neha Kumar
CHI 2022

Rethinking Menstrual Trackers Towards Period-Positive Ecologies
Anupriya Tuli, Surbhi Singh, Rikita Narula, Neha Kumar, and Pushpendra Singh
CHI 2022

When is Machine Learning Data Good?: Valuing in Public Health Datafication
Divy Thakkar*, Azra Ismail*, Pratyush Kumar, Alex Hanna, Nithya Sambasivan, and Neha Kumar
CHI 2022

From Treatment to Healing:Envisioning a Decolonial Digital Mental Health
Sachin R. Pendse, Daniel Nkemelu, Nicola J. Bidwell, Sushrut Jadhav, Soumitra Pathare, Munmun De Choudhury, and Neha Kumar
CHI 2022
Best Paper Honorable Mention

2021

Infrastructuring Telehealth in (In)Formal Patient-Doctor Contexts
Karthik S. Bhat, Mohit Jain, and Neha Kumar
CSCW 2021
Best Paper Honorable Mention

The Pandemic Shift to Remote Learning under Resource Constraints
Prerna Ravi, Azra Ismail, and Neha Kumar
CSCW 2021

Individually Vulnerable, Collectively Safe: The Security and Privacy Practices of Households with Older Adults
Savanthi Murthy, Karthik S. Bhat, Sauvik Das, and Neha Kumar
CSCW 2021

Braving Citational Justice in Human-Computer Interaction
Neha Kumar and Naveena Karusala
alt.CHI 2021

AI in Global Health: The View from the Front Lines (Summary)
Azra Ismail and Neha Kumar
CHI 2021

"Can I Not Be Suicidal On a Sunday?": Understanding Technology-Mediated Pathways to Mental Health Support (Summary)
Sachin Pendse, Aditya Vashistha, Amit Sharma, Munmun De Choudhury, and Neha Kumar
CHI 2021
Best Paper

2020

Sociocultural Dimensions of Tracking Health and Taking Care
Karthik S. Bhat and Neha Kumar
CSCW 2020
Best Paper

Menstrual (Im)Mobilities and Safe Spaces
Anupriya Tuli, Shaan Chopra, Pushpendra Singh, and Neha Kumar
CHI 2020

"Like Shock Absorbers": Understanding Human Infrastructures of Technology-Mediated Mental Health Support
Sachin Pendse, Faisal Lalani, Amit Sharma, Munmun De Choudhury, and Neha Kumar
CHI 2020

Understanding the Care Ecologies of Veterans with PTSD
Hayley Evans, Udaya Lakshmi, Hue Watson, Azra Ismail, Neha Kumar, and Rosa Arriaga
CHI 2020

Culture in Action: Unpacking Capacities to Inform Assets-Based Design
Marisol Wong-Villacres, Carl DiSalvo, Neha Kumar, Betsy DiSalvo
CHI 2020
Best Paper Honorable Mention

Towards an AI-powered Future that Works for Vocational Workers
Divy Thakkar, Neha Kumar, and Nithya Sambasivan
CHI 2020

Taking the Long, Holistic, and Intersectional View to Women’s Wellbeing
Neha Kumar, Naveena Karusala, Azra Ismail, and Anupriya Tuli
ToCHI Special Issue on “HCI and the Body: Reimagining Women’s Health”

2019

2018

Engaging Solidarity in Data Collection Practices for Community Health
Azra Ismail and Neha Kumar
CSCW 2018

Bridging Disconnected Knowledges for Community Health
Azra Ismail, Naveena Karusala, and Neha Kumar
CSCW 2018

Towards Informed Practice in HCI for Development
Neha Kumar and Nicola Dell
CSCW 2018

Uber in Bangladesh: The Tangled Web of Mobility and Justice
Neha Kumar, Nassim JafariNaimi, and Mehrab Bin Morshed
CSCW 2018

Learning from and with Menstrupedia: Towards Menstrual Health Education in India
Anupriya Tuli, Shaan Chopra, Neha Kumar, and Pushpendra Singh
CSCW 2018

Knowledge, Access, and Decision-Making: Women's Financial Inclusion In Pakistan
Samia Ibtasam, Lubna Razaq, Haider W. Anwar, Hamid Mehmood, Kushal Shah, Jennifer Webster, Neha Kumar, and Richard Anderson
COMPASS 2018

Designing for Intersections
Marisol Wong-Villacres, Arkadeep Kumar, Aditya Vishwanath, Naveena Karusala, Betsy DiSalvo, and Neha Kumar
DIS 2018

"Only if you use English you will get to more things": Using Smartphones to Navigate Multilingualism
Naveena Karusala, Aditya Vishwanath, Aditya Vashistha, Sunita Kumar, and Neha Kumar
CHI 2018

Stitching Infrastructures to Facilitate Telemedicine in Low-Resource Environments
Rajesh Chandwani and Neha Kumar
CHI 2018

El Paquete Semanal: The Week's Internet in Havana
Michaelanne Dye, David Nemer, Josiah Mangiameli, Amy Bruckman, and Neha Kumar
CHI 2018

Social Media for Earthquake Response: Unpacking its Limitations with Care
Marisol Wong-Villacres, Cristina Velasquez, and Neha Kumar
CSCW 2018

Care as a Resource for Underserved Learning Environments
Naveena Karusala*, Aditya Vishwanath*, Arkadeep Kumar, Aman Mangal, and Neha Kumar
CSCW 2018
Diversity and Inclusion Recognition

“Is Twitter meant for celebrities only?” A Qualitative Study of Twitter Use in India
Neha Kumar
In Abigail De Kosnik & Keith Feldman (eds.), #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sex, and Nation. University of Michigan Press. 2018

#ifafricawasabar: Participation on Twitter across African Borders
Naveena Karusala, Trevor Perrier, and Neha Kumar
In Abigail De Kosnik & Keith Feldman (eds.), #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sex, and Nation. University of Michigan Press. 2018

Examining Low-Cost Virtual Reality for Low-Resource Learning Environments
Aditya Vishwanath, Matthew Kam, and Neha Kumar
DIS 2017

Examining Localization Approaches for Community Health
Aditya Vashistha, Neha Kumar, Anil Mishra, and Richard Anderson
DIS 2017

Locating the Internet in the Parks of Havana
Michaelanne Dye, David Nemer, Laura Pina, Nithya Sambasivan, Amy Bruckman, and Neha Kumar
CHI 2017
Best Paper Honorable Mention

Sidestepping the Elephant in the Classroom: Using Culturally Appropriate Software To Teach Around Taboos
Piya Sorcar, Ben Strauber, Prashant Loyalka, Neha Kumar, and Shelley Goldman
CHI 2017
Best Paper Honorable Mention

Women’s Safety in Public Spaces: Examining the Efficacy of Panic Buttons in New Delhi
Naveena Karusala and Neha Kumar
CHI 2017

Goodbye Text, Hello Emoji: Mobile Communication on WeChat in China
Rui Zhou, Jasmine Hentschel, and Neha Kumar
CHI 2017

Rice Today, Roti Tomorrow: Diets and Diabetes in Urban Indian Households
Jasmine Hentschel, Samyukta Sherugar, Rui Zhou, Vaishnav Kameswaran, Rajesh Chandwani, and Neha Kumar
CHI 2017

When the Internet Goes Down in Bangladesh
Mehrab Bin Morshed, Michaelanne Dye, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Neha Kumar
CSCW 2017

Computing Beyond Gender-Imposed Limits
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nova Ahmed, Faheem Hussain, and Neha Kumar
LIMITS 2016

Mobile Video Dissemination for Community Health
Aditya Vashistha, Neha Kumar, Anil Mishra, and Richard Anderson
ICTD 2016

The Ins and Outs for HCI for Development
Nicola Dell and Neha Kumar
CHI 2016
Best Paper Honorable Mention

Interviewing Against the Odds
Neha Kumar
In Sebastian Kubitschko & Anne Kaun (eds.), Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016

2015

Understanding Sociotechnical Implications of Mobile Health Deployments in India, Kenya, and Zimbabwe
Neha Kumar, Waylon Brunette, Nicola Dell, Trevor Perrier, Beth Kolko, Gaetano Borriello and Richard Anderson
ITID 11(4) 2015

The Gender-Technology Divide or Perceptions of Non-Use?
Neha Kumar
First Monday 20(11) 2015

Mobile Phones for Maternal Health in Rural India
Neha Kumar and Richard Anderson
CHI 2015

Projecting Health: Community-Led Video Education for Maternal Health
Neha Kumar, Trevor Perrier, Michelle Desmond, Kiersten Israel-Ballard, Vikrant Kumar, Sudip Mahapatra, Anil Mishra, Shreya Agarwal, Rikin Gandhi, Pallavi Lal, and Richard Anderson
ICTD 2015

Paper-Digital Workflows in Global Development Organizations
Nicola Dell, Trevor Perrier, Neha Kumar, Mitchell Lee, Rachel Powers, and Gaetano Borriello
CSCW 2015

2004-2014

Facebook for Self-Empowerment? A Study of Facebook Adoption in India
Neha Kumar
New Media and Society 16(7) 2014

Mobiles, Music, and Materiality
Neha Kumar and Tapan Parikh
CHI 2013

The Mobile Media Actor-Network in Urban India
Neha Kumar and Nimmi Rangaswamy
CHI 2013

Folk Music Goes Digital in India
Neha Kumar, Gopal Singh, and Tapan Parikh
CHI 2011

Achieving Stability in Networks of Input-Queued Switches Using a Local Online Scheduling Policy
Shubha Nabar, Neha Kumar, Mohsen Bayati and Abtin Keshavarzian
GLOBECOM 2005

Fair Scheduling in Input-Queued Switches Under Inadmissible Traffic
Neha Kumar, Rong Pan, Devavrat Shah
GLOBECOM 2004

Short Papers, Magazine Articles, Workshops, Posters, & Abstracts

2017-2019

[The list below is a bit out of date. A complete list is available in my CV.]

The Future of (Vocational) Work in the Global South
Divy Thakkar, Naveena Karusala, Neha Kumar, and Nithya Sambasivan.
HCIC 2019

Bringing Shades of Feminism to Human-Centered Computing
Manasee Narvilkar, Josiah Mangiameli, Adriana Alvarado Garcia, Azra Ismail, Daniel Schiff, Danielle Schechter, Jordan Chen, Karthik Bhat, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Anusha Vasudeva, Aparna Ramesh, Michaelanne Dye, Naveena Karusala, Pragati Singh, Savanthi Murthy, Shubhangi Gupta, Udaya Lakshmi, and Neha Kumar
CHI (alt.chi) 2019

Intersectional Computing
Neha Kumar and Naveena Karusala
Interactions 26(2) 2019

The Human Infrastructure of El Paquete, Cuba's Offline Internet
Michaelanne Dye, David Nemer, Josiah Mangiameli, Amy Bruckman, and Neha Kumar
Interactions 26(1) 2019

HCI Across Borders and Intersections
Neha Kumar, Christian Sturm, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Naveena Karusala, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Leonel Morales, Rita Orji, Michaelanne Dye, Nova Ahmed, and Susan Dray
CHI EA 2019

#autism: Twitter as a Lens to Explore Differences in Autism Awareness in India and the United States
Naveena Karusala, Neha Kumar, and Rosa Arriaga
ICTD Posters 2019

Consejero Automatico: Chatbots for Supporting Latino Parents' Educational Engagement
Marisol Wong-Villacres, Hayley Evans, Danielle Schechter, Betsy DiSalvo, and Neha Kumar
ICTD Posters 2019

Solidarity Across Borders: Navigating Intersections Towards Equity and Inclusion
Michaelanne Dye, Neha Kumar, Ari Schlesinger, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Morgan G. Ames, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Jacki O'Neill, Joyojeet Pal, Mary L. Gray
CSCW Companion 2018

It's Getting Real. Virtually Real.
Neha Kumar and Aditya Vishwanath
Interactions 25(5) 2018

RefugeTech: An Assets-Based Approach to Refugee Settlement
Azalea Irani, Kriti Nelavelli, Kristin Hare, Paula Bondal, and Neha Kumar
CHI EA 2018

Extending Conversations About Gender and HCI
Sheelagh Carpendale, Shaowen Bardzell, Margaret Burnett, Neha Kumar, and Madeline Balaam
CHI EA 2018

Intersectionality as a Lens to Promote Equity and Inclusivity within SIGCHI
Pamela Wisniewski, Neha Kumar, Sarah Clinch, Christine Bassem, Susan Dray, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Cliff Lampe, Michael Muller, and Anicia Peters
CHI EA 2018

HCI Across Borders: Paving New Pathways
Neha Kumar, Kurtis Heimerl, Naveena Karusala, Aditya Vashistha, David Nemer, Michaelanne Dye, Christian Sturm, Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo, Anicia Peters, Nova Ahmed, Nicola Dell, and Jay Chen
CHI EA 2018

Working with Women in ICTD
Jasmine Hentschel, Ishtiaque Ahmed, Faheem Hussain, Nova Ahmed, and Neha Kumar
ICTD Notes 2017

Usability, Tested?
Neha Kumar, Naveena Karusala, Aaditeshwar Seth, and Biswajit Patra
Interactions 24(4) 2017

ICT for an Inclusive Ecology of Parental Engagement: An Assets-Based Approach
Marisol Wong-Villacres, Neha Kumar, and Betsy DiSalvo
IDC Workshop on Equity and Inclusivity 2017

Crossing Borders, Building Bridges
Neha Kumar and Susan Dray
Interactions 24(3) 2017

Symposium 2017: HCI Across Borders
Neha Kumar, Susan Dray, Christian Sturm, Nithya Sambasivan, Laura S. Gaytan Lugo, Leonel Morales, Negin Dahya, and Nova Ahmed
CHI EA 2017

Twitter as an Across-Border Social Media Platform: Who is Participating?
Naveena Karusala, Trevor Perrier, and Neha Kumar
CHI Symposium on HCI Across Borders 2017

Designing for Use and Non-Use: The Case of Neighborhood Clinics
Azra Ismail, Naveena Karusala, and Neha Kumar
CHI Symposium on HCI Across Borders 2017

Crossing Disciplinary Borders to Address Challenges of HIV Outreach
Samyukta Sherugar, Rajesh Chandwani, and Neha Kumar
CHI Symposium on HCI Across Borders 2017

Virtual Reality for Many Kinds of Learning
Aditya Vishwanath and Neha Kumar
CHI Symposium on HCI Across Borders 2017

A Tale of Two (Smart) Cities: Atlanta (USA) and Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh) 
Mehrab Bin Morshed, Jay Chen, and Neha Kumar
CHI Symposium on HCI Across Borders 2017

Designing Technologies for Non-Dominant Communities to Cross Social-Cultural Borders
Marisol Wong-Villacres, Betsy DiSalvo, and Neha Kumar
CHI Symposium on HCI Across Borders 2017

Social Computing & Development
Michaelanne Dye, Amy Bruckman, and Neha Kumar
CHI Symposium on HCI Across Borders 2017

Taking a Feminist Approach to Feminist Futures
Naveena Karusala, Michael Muller, and Neha Kumar
CSCW Workshop on Imagining Intersectional Futures 2017

2016

2012-2015

Designing for a Rural Online Learning Community
Aditya Vishwanath and Neha Kumar
DEV 2015

Balancing the Local and Global
Neha Kumar
Participatory Progress on the Digital Divide 2015

Being Gender-Aware in ICTD Research
Neha Kumar and Nicola Dell
ICTD Open Sessions 2015

Ten Years of Facebook
Brady Robards, Sian Lincoln, Neha Kumar, Alice Marwick, and Ben Light
Association of Internet Researchers 2014

The ‘Mobility’ of Indian Youth
Neha Kumar
Madison South Asia Conference 2014

Banking 101: Mobile‐izing Financial Inclusion in an Emerging India
Neha Kumar, Akhil Mathur, and Siddhartha Lal
Bell Labs Technical Journal, 17(4) 2013

Mobile Media and Piracy in India
Neha Kumar and Tapan Parikh
Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth 2012

New Media and Folk Music in Rural India
Neha Kumar and Tapan Parikh
CHI EA 2010