I am excited to share our @chi.acm.org 2025 paper, “AI-Enabled Conversational Journaling for Advancing Parkinson’s Disease Symptom Tracking.”
Link to preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.03532
CHI program schedule: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
This work was awarded the Honorable Mention award!
![This figure shows an anonymized snippet of conversation between a patient with Parkinson’s disease and Patrika. Here: (A) The patient invokes their journal using a voice command to initiate the conversation. (B) Patrika responds with a personalized greeting [name] and prompts the patient to start recording. (C) Patrika detects “tremor” in the patient’s previous entry and initiates collecting additional data via asking relevant follow-up questions. (D) Patrika utilizes the conversation history with the patient to personalize the follow-up question, asking about symptoms previously co-occurring with tremors and their impact on their routine activities. (E) Patrika utilizes conversation history to identify and compare the severity of recurring symptoms. For instance, in a previous entry, the patient reported experiencing tremors with no change in severity or overall experience up to that point. Patrika compares this information to the most recent tremor episode, which occurred in the middle of the night. (F) Patrika confirms that the data has been recorded and then prompts the user to either end the conversation or initiate a new one.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xysw5jyu7r5xgwmacuwiezjk/bafkreiet2tk4y2jhhqacfjj6zufr5kow4ioblpn62kkwxjgaytnzamjopu)