Estelle Smith 🌟

Advancing Online Spiritual Care: A Three-Phase Study with Chaplains on Co-Designing New Models of Delivery

This work is being presented as a poster presentation at the Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in San Diego, CA (March 4-6, 2026). This research was generously funded by Grant #62930 from the John Templeton Foundation, "Expanding Models of Delivery for Online Spiritual Care" (August 2023-July 2026). This blog post includes an updated…

http://estellesmithphd.com/2026/02/15/advancing-online-spiritual-care/

Hey #CSCW attendees! I'm a Community Co-Chair for #CSCW2025. This year, we're hoping to help folks coordinate things like: hotel roommates, ride shares to/from the airport, and fun travel activities in Norway before/after the conference. Your input will be helpful for us to time this well. Given that the conference is Oct. 18-22, around what time would you estimate that you'll be booking your travel arrangements? (Blog post coming early this summer!)

Observation for #HCI / #CSCW: Rather than submitting to specific conferences, I should encourage the international students in my lab to submit to #TOCHI (etc.) so that they can *choose* any ACM presentation venue that works, even if it takes much longer to be accepted. 🤔💭💡

Would love to see you at #CSCW2024 Session 2f today: "Governance, Online Communities, and Design” from 11:00AM-12:30PM in Room Central 3. I've been eager to share our work on Community Archetypes for a long time, and the day is *finally* here! 😄

https://medium.com/acm-cscw/how-about-some-better-criteria-for-online-community-membership-than-posting-three-times-042af5466506

@andresmh@hci.social Amazing. 🤩

@andresmh@hci.social Oops, thanks for letting me know! I have fixed it. And thank you for the kind words, too! :)

Our panel on Tuesday afternoon is the single event I am *most excited about* at #CSCW2024. Our community dearly needs to balance AI hype against thoughtful opportunities to integrate #AI into mental & spiritual healthcare. Add it to your schedule!

Panelists include Munmun De Choudhury, Diana Freed, Rev. George Handzo (a preeminent spiritual care expert with 150+ papers), and myself, moderated by Jingjin Li.

https://programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2024/program/content/179230

🏅Our work on #BlackReddit has been awarded a DEI recognition!🏅🥲
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After the opening #CSCW2024 keynote, please join us for the first paper session (Session 2b): "Exploring Race, Gender, and Identity in Digital Platforms" from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Room Guanacaste 1.

https://tinyurl.com/2jumc5cy-cscw2024

Come join my research lab in CS@Mines
and help us to pioneer a ✨✨brand new field ✨✨ for #HCI in online spiritual care! I am looking for an excellent PhD student for Fall 2025. Find me at #CSCW2024 to introduce yourself in-person. I’d love to meet you!

How are Students Using Generative AI at the Colorado School of Mines? And What is Mines Doing about it?

In May 2023, I led a research team including about a dozen students, along with several professors and administrators from across campus to launch a survey of all students at the Colorado School of Mines. The goal was to understand how Generative AI had been adopted across engineering education. The survey was taken by over 600 students--a representative sample of…

http://estellesmithphd.com/2024/09/11/how-are-students-using-generative-ai-at-the-colorado-school-of-mines-and-what-is-mines-doing-about-it/

Our #CSCW2022 paper titled "The Impact of Governance Bots on Sense of Virtual Community: Development and Validation of the GOV-BOTs Scale" is now available in the ACM DL at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555563.

Thanks to co-authors Irfanul Alam, @bkeegan@hci.social @chenhaotan@mastodon.social and @anitablanchard@mstdn.social!

Short medium blog post here, if you want the quick summary: https://medium.com/acm-cscw/introducing-the-gov-bots-psychometric-scale-for-measuring-users-perceptions-of-bots-in-online-23f19f11c6ae