Nazanin Andalibi, Ph.D.

Oct 29, 2020

I have a paper titled "Digital Peer Support for Mental Health: An Interview Study on the Case of the Buddy Project" accepted to the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Mental Health. The paper is co-authored with Madison Flood, UROP fellow. Preprint to come soon! 

Excited to serve on CSCW 2021's organizing committee as Communication and Outreach co-chair. 

I have been serving on the program committee for CSCW 2020 as an associate chair for papers. Excited to help form an amazing program for the conference. 

I am excited to be serving as a mentor for the CSCW 2020 doctoral consortium. Attending DCs was a great privilege for me as a student, and I am excited to have the chance to pay it forward in this role. 

Mar 22, 2020

I am thrilled and honored to have received an award for my project "Towards Accounting for the Human in Emotion Recognition Technologies" from The National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Secure &Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Program. Super excited for this upcoming work and thankful for the support! 

Mar 17, 2020

I am excited and grateful to have received a grant from University of Michigan's Digital Studies Institute, to support my work around privacy, ethics, emotions, and voice assistants! 

Mar 09, 2020

I am very excited that my paper "Disclosure, Privacy, and Stigma on Social Media: Examining Non-Disclosure of Distressing Experiences" has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). The article is open access and available here.

Feb 01, 2020

I have a paper titled "Understanding Students’ Mental Wellbeing Challenges on a University Campus: An Interview Study" accepted to Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) Formative Research. The paper is co-authored with Sun Young Park (lead), Yikai Zou, Sid Ambulkar, and Jina Huh-Yoo. Preprint to come soon! 

Dec 11, 2019

I have a paper titled "The Human in Emotion Recognition on Social Media: Attitudes, Outcomes, Risks" accepted to CHI 2020. The paper is co-authored with Master's student Justin Buss. Preprint here. Blog post to come! 

Jul 31, 2019

I have a paper titled "“Giving a little ’ayyy, I feel ya’ to someone’s personal post”: Performing Support on Social Media" accepted to CSCW 2019. The paper is co-authored with Danielle Lottridge (lead author), Joy Kim, and Jofish Kaye. 

Jul 31, 2019

Congratulations to my UROP undergraduate student, Madison Flood, who joined me to investigate Buddy Project's use, benefits, and drawbacks for young people and peer support.

Apr 24, 2019

Congratulations to my UROP undergraduate students, Rocío Cuesta, Joyce Ho, and Annabelle Angus, who joined me to investigate how current technologies account for pregnancy loss. It has been a pleasure to see them grow as researchers.

Mar 15, 2019

I am thrilled that my paper "What Happens After Disclosing Stigmatized Experiences on Identified Social Media: Individual, Dyadic, and Social/Network Outcomes," has received a best paper honorable mention award at CHI 2019! Thanks to the CHI community for this recognition and encouragement. 

Feb 01, 2019

"Helpful Information to Whom? An Intersectional Critique of the ‘It Gets Better Project'," a short paper co-authored with Blake Hawkins (lead) and Oliver Haimson, has been published in Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST). 

Jan 17, 2019

I am beyond excited and delighted to have accepted an offer from University of Michigan School of Information to start as a (social media) tenure-track assistant professor in Fall 2019. 

Dec 14, 2018

I am delighted to have given a Social Media faculty candidate job talk at University of Michigan School of Information, titled "Self-Disclosures, Responses, and Social Support Exchange in Socially Stigmatized Contexts on Social Media." 

Dec 10, 2018

I am super excited that my solo-authored paper titled "What Happens After Disclosing Stigmatized Experiences on Identified Social Media: Individual, Dyadic, and Social/Network Outcomes" was accepted to CHI 2019. Click here for camera ready!

Nov 28, 2018

I am delighted that a workshop I co-proposed to organize is accepted to the CHI 2019's workshop program. The workshop is titled "Sensitive Research, Practice and Design in HCI" with amazing co-organizers Stevie Chancellor, Lindsay Blackwell, David Nemer, and Wendy Moncur. For more information and to apply, please visit: http://www.sensitivehci.com/ 

Nov 28, 2018

I am super excited to have received a 15K grant from the M-Cubed program at U-M to lead a project I have been wanting to do in collaboration with Ashley Lacombe-Duncan of Social Work and Lee Roosevelt of Nursing. This project will examine how social technologies/social media might be leveraged and designed to include intersecting experiences and needs in relation to reproductive health of marginalized communities. More info to come soon. We will be hiring a student to contribute to this project! 

Oct 30, 2018

As part of my commitment to communicating research to the public in non-academic language, I wrote a piece for The Conversation  about some of my research on social media, sharing about difficult and stigmatizing life experiences, and social support. This piece focuses on my work related to pregnancy loss. 

Oct 15, 2018

I am serving on the program committee for CHI 2019 as an associate chair for workshops and symposiums. Excited to help form an amazing workshop program for the conference. 

Aug 09, 2017

I wrote a blog post on one of my CSCW 2018 papers. Here's a link to it on the CSCW Medium page.

Aug 09, 2017

My paper titled "Testing Waters, Sending Clues: Indirect Disclosures of Socially Stigmatized Experiences on Social Media," co-authored with Margaret Morris and Andrea Forte was accepted to CSCW 2018. I will write a blog post and upload a copy soon. 

Jul 01, 2018

I am very excited that my paper "Responding to Sensitive Disclosures on Social Media: A Decision Making Framework" co-authored by Andrea Forte has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). I will post a link when it's available and will present it at CHI 2019. Much appreciation to the review team and AE for their time and feedback. 

Jun 27, 2018

I am thrilled that my paper "Social Support, Reciprocity, and Anonymity in Responses to Sexual Abuse Disclosures on Social Media" co-authored by Oliver Haimson, Munmun De Choudhury, and Andrea Forte has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). I will post a link when it's available and will present it at CHI 2019. Much appreciation to the review team and AE for their time and feedback. 

May 01, 2018

I am thrilled to be serving on the program committee for CHI 2019 as an associate chair for papers. I appreciate the opportunity to provide this service to my academic community. 

Apr 20, 2018

I am delighted to announce that I have decided to join University of Michigan's School of Information this fall as a Research Investigator/Research Fellow! Can't wait to start this next phase of my career at UMSI and be a part of its fantastic community. 

Apr 18, 2018

I am excited to share that I successfully defended my dissertation "Self-Disclosure and Response Behaviors in Socially Stigmatized Contexts on Social Media" on April 18! Many thanks to the most amazing advisor (Andrea Forte), committee members (Elizabeth Churchill, Sarita Schoenebeck, Aleksandra Sarcevic, and Gabriela Marcu), mentors, family, friends, and participants. 

Feb 26, 2018

Here is some press coverage of upcoming CHI 2018 paper and part of my dissertation work: CNN, Romper, DrexelNow. Romper specifically covers women's health and motherhood.

Feb 21, 2018

A paper I co-authored with Blake Hawkins (lead author) and Oliver Haimson titled "It Gets Better, But it Takes More Than a YouTube Video: Reconsidering Online Mental Health Campaigns," was accepted to CHI 2018's Symposium on Computing and Mental Health. Looking forward to discussing computing and wellbeing in April! 

Feb 16, 2018

I am thrilled that my paper titled "Not Alone: Designing for Self-Disclosure and Social Support Exchange After Pregnancy Loss," was accepted to CHI 2018's Late Breaking Work venue. I will present this design exploration (based on my dissertation work) in April 2018. Thanks to Tim Moesgen and Rebecca Mullin (undergraduate research/design assistants), and Gabi Marcu and Andrea Forte. 

Dec 12, 2017

I am thrilled that my paper titled "Announcing Pregnancy Loss on Facebook: A Decision-Making Framework for Stigmatized Disclosures on Identified Social Network Sites," was accepted to CHI 2018. I will present this work in April 2018. Thanks to my amazing co-author, Andrea Forte. This work would not have been possible without participants' trust and heartening support. 

Dec 01, 2017

Always thrilled to be recognized for high quality service work.

Oct 22, 2017

A paper I collaborated on with Andrea Forte, Tim Gorichanaz, Meen Chul Kim, Thomas Park, and Aaron Halfaker was accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork (Group). The title of the paper is: Information Fortification: An Online Citation Behavior! 

Oct 01, 2017

Jessica Pater of Georgia Institute of Technology, Tammy Toscos of Parkview Health, 

John Torous of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and I had a poster accepted to the  Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) at the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium to be held in Washington DC in November 2017. Our poster is titled: "Interactive Systems in Mental & Behavioral Health"

Oct 01, 2017

In Summer 2017, I served as a STAR (Students Tackling Advanced Research) Scholar mentor. This program allows first-year students to participate in research, scholarship, or creative work during the summer after their freshman year. STAR Scholars work on a project during the summer term and earn stipend. 

Aug 15, 2017

I am happy to have the opportunity to attend the GHC this October! 

Aug 10, 2017

My paper titled "Multi-Channel Topic-Based Mobile Messaging in Romantic Relationships" co-authored with Frank Bentley and Katie Quehl was accepted to CSCW 2018. I did this work during my internship during the summer of 2016 and am excited to see it published at the first ever Proceedings of ACM: HCI! 

Jun 22, 2017

I gave an invited talk at the i3 (iSchool Inclusion Institute) program this year at the University of Pittsburg's iSchool. 

May 25, 2017

I was invited by Gabi Marcu to share my research on social media, well-being, and social support with the INFO 215 (social aspects of information systems) class. I got them to discuss this work and reflect on their own experiences, and set them up to write an essay which should be very interesting. It was really fun to see what students thought about this body of research and how they connected with it. 

May 19, 2017

I am extremely thrilled and honored to have been selected for the College of Computing and Informatics as well as the Drexel University Graduate College Award for Outstanding Promise. 

May 19, 2017

Here's an article Fast Company wrote about one of my CHI papers titled “If a person is emailing you, it just doesn't make sense”: Exploring Changing Consumer Behaviors in Email (co-authored with Frank Bentley and Nediyana Daskalova)

Apr 28, 2017

I had a paper titled "Relationship breakup disclosures and media ideologies on Facebook" accepted to the Journal of New Media & Society, co-authored with Oliver Haimson, Munmun De Choudhury, and Gillian Hayes. Link to the paper to come soon! 

Apr 20, 2017

I am thrilled to be teaching the graduate level Human Computer Interaction (INFO-608) course at the College of Computing and Informatics this summer. 

Mar 09, 2017

My CSCW work on #depression posts, responses, and social support on Instagram has been covered by media outlets such as Huffington Post, Slate, Yahoo News, Daily Mail, Vocativ (kudos to them for a really cool visualization of part of the results), Refinery, Drexel News, and many more. Even some TV channels picked it up :)
I did this work in collaboration with my fantastic advisor, Andrea Forte and a fellow PhD candidate Pinar Ozturk. 

Feb 12, 2017

I had a case study paper accepted to CHI 2017, titled "It’s All About Coupons: Exploring Coupon Use Behaviors in Email", co-authored with Nediyana Daskalova and Frank Bentley.

Feb 06, 2017

I am on the program committee for the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2017.

Jan 22, 2017

I am beyond thrilled and thankful that the paper, Privacy, Anonymity, and Perceived Risk in Open Collaboration: A Study of Tor Users and Wikipedians, co-authored with Andrea Forte and Rachel Greenstadt, received a best paper honorable mention award at CSCW 2017. 

Jan 22, 2017

I am beyond thrilled and thankful that the paper, Sensitive Self-disclosures, Responses, and Social Support on Instagram: The Case of #Depression, co-authored with Andrea Forte and Pinar Ozturk, received a best paper honorable mention award at CSCW 2017. 

Jan 22, 2017

I am happy to announce that I had 3 full papers accepted to CHI 2017. 

1. "People are Either too Fake or too Real”: Opportunities and Challenges in Tie-based Anonymity, co-authored with Xiao Ma, Louise Barkhuus, and Mor Naaman. 

2. Class Confessions: Restorative Properties in Online Experiences of Socioeconomic Stigma, co-authored with Eugenia Ha Rim Rho, Oliver Haimson, Melissa Mazmanian, and Gillian Hayes.

3. “If a person is emailing you, it just doesn't make sense”: Exploring Changing Consumer Behaviors in Email, co-authored with Frank Bentley and Nediyana Daskalova. 

Nov 23, 2016

I am thrilled to have been accepted to participate in the CHI 2017 Doctoral Consortium. So looking forward to what I'm sure is going to be a fantastic 2 days to discuss my and others' dissertation work. 

Nov 24, 2019

I am extremely thrilled and honored that I was invited to attend the 2017 iConference DC. However, I am sad that I had to decline as I won't be able to attend due to international travel restrictions. 

Nov 18, 2019

I video-called into Dr. Madeline Smith's User-Centered Design class together with Oliver Haimson as a guest, and discussed research and design for sensitive populations. It was lovely to hear how students thought about these topics and what questions they had. 

Nov 15, 2016

I am excited to announce that a poster I presented on my dissertation work at the ACM GROUP conference won the best poster award. 

Oct 23, 2016

Business Insider and Drexel Now are some of the sources that wrote about our CSCW 2017 paper on anonymity, privacy, and perceived risk in open collaboration. Read more: https://goo.gl/zI2svh and https://goo.gl/e30aI2

Oct 21, 2016

This week Instagram rolled out a new feature that allows users to flag content when they think a friend might be in serious emotional trouble. I shared some of my thoughts on this new tool in an interview with Britt Faulstick. Read more here: https://goo.gl/yRnuYZ

Sep 10, 2016

I am thrilled to announce that I was accepted and invited to attend the doctoral consortium at the 2016 ACM GROUP Conference. 

Sep 07, 2016

I am very happy to announce that my paper titled "Sensitive Self-disclosures, Responses, and Social Support on Instagram: The Case of #depression," work in collaboration with Pinar Ozturk and Andrea Forte is accepted to CSCW 2017! I am super excited to present this work in Portland in February 2017!

Sep 07, 2016

I am happy to announce that our paper titled "Privacy, Anonymity, and Perceived Risk in Open Collaboration: A Study of Tor Users and Wikipedians" (Andrea Forte, Nazanin Andalibi, Rachel Greenstadt) is accepted to CSCW 2017!

Aug 02, 2016

I am excited to be giving a research talk at Google about my work on disclosures of sexual abuse on social media, anonymity, and support seeking. Very happy to see that Google cares about at-risk populations and their technological needs.

Jun 20, 2016

I am co-organizing a workshop at the 2016 ACM GROUP conference: "Exploring Ethics and Obligations for Studying Digital Communities," with Casey Fiesler, Pamela Wisniewski, and Jessica Pater. Submission deadline is August 12. Join us! 

Jun 10, 2016

I am extremely happy to announce that I am now ABD. I am very thankful to my advisor Andrea Forte, and committee members Elizabeth Churchill, Gabriela Marcu, Aleksandra Sarcevic, and Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck. Attendees enjoyed these cookies!

May 26, 2016

I am co-organizing a workshop for NordiCHI 2016 called "HCI and Sensitive Life Experiences," with Daniel Herron, Oliver Haimson, Wendy Moncur, and Elise van den Hoven. Consider submitting your work and join us! Submission deadline is August 22. 

May 16, 2016

I am thrilled and honored to have been selected to attend the Human Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC) this year. The theme is "Connected Life"! 

May 05, 2016

I am super excited to announce that I have accepted an internship offer from Yahoo! for summer 2016. I will be joining as a research intern where I will be working with the Communications product team and Frank Bentley. Psyched to work on exciting projects, impact products, and write lots of papers: best of the two worlds! 

May 05, 2016

I am super excited be part of the organizing committee for the new venue at CHI 2017: CHI Stories, "designed to make visible the deeper lives of people in our field through their personal stories of inspirations, challenges, breakthroughs, setbacks, twists and turns."

May 05, 2016

I am extremely honored to receive the Phoebe W. Haas Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year.

Mar 10, 2016

I am invited and awarded a travel grant to attend the Culture Analytics and User Experience Design workshop at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA, to be held April 11-15.

Mar 01, 2016

Our paper titled “TreatYoSelf: Empathy-driven Behavioral Intervention via Smartphone for Youth Living with HIV” (Gabriela Marcu, Nadia Dowshen, Shuvadittya Saha, Ressa Reneth Sarreal, Nazanin Andalibi) is accepted for the 10th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. 

Feb 27, 2016

Some press coverage of my CHI 2016 paper about social media disclosures of sexual abuse are available here, here, and here.

Feb 02, 2016

My abstract titled "Sensitive Self-disclosures and Responses on Instagram," co-authored with Pinar Ozturk and Andrea Forte, was accepted for the INSNA 2016 Sunbelt Conference! I'll be giving a 20 minute talk on this research.

Feb 01, 2016

I have a workshop paper accepted for the CHI 2016  Ethical Encounters in HCI workshop: “Social Computing Researchers, Vulnerability, and Peer Support,” co authored with Andrea Forte. The theme of the workshop is right up my alley, and I’m excited to be able to share my work and hear about other researchers’ experiences studying vulnerable populations. 

Feb 01, 2016

I have a paper accepted for the CSCW 2016 Deceptive/Honest/Unreliable/Reliable? Unpacking Social Signaling Theory for Social Computing Systems Analysis and Design Workshop: “Social Signaling on Facebook After Relationship Dissolution,” (Oliver Haimson, Nazanin Andalibi) 

Very happy to announce that I will be on the program committee (PC) for CHI 2016's Late Breaking Work category serving as an associate chair for the CSCW LBW subcommittee. Such a great start to serving on the PC as a junior researcher. Watch out for review requests! :)

Dec 13, 2015

Very happy that a work dear to my heart is accepted to CHI 2016: “Understanding Social Media Disclosures of Sexual Abuse Through the Lenses of Support Seeking and Anonymity” with my amazing collaborators Oliver Haimson, Munmun De Choudhury, and Andrea Forte.

Dec 04, 2015

Happy to be on the program committee for the CHI 2016 workshop “Bridging the Gap Between Privacy by Design and Privacy in Practice“.

Nov 19, 2015

I will be on the program committee for the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2016.

Oct 13, 2015

I will be a CSCW 2016 student volunteer this year as well. Looking forward to it!

Oct 08, 2015

I am honored and excited to be on the organizing committee for iConference 2016 as the Student Volunteer Co-chair with Oliver Haimson. I am committed to help create a fantastic experience for all the SVs and attendees :)

Sep 10, 2015

Oliver Haimson and I wrote a blog post titled "Revisiting the Online/Offline Binary: Conceptualizing Factors Influencing Self-disclosure" as a follow up from the CHI 2015 workshop on Reevaluating the Online/Offline Binary. 

Aug 17, 2015

Our paper "'Hunger Hurts but Starving Works:' Characterizing the Presentation of Eating Disorders Online”, lead by Jessica Pater and in collaboration with Oliver Haimson and Elizabeth Mynatt was accepted to CSCW 2016! 

Jun 01, 2015

I will be at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech for collaboration for the month of June.

Mar 10, 2015

As of today, I am a PhD candidate. Many thanks to my advisor, Andrea Forte, and my candidacy committee members Denise Agosto and Gabriela Marcu. 

Jan 29, 2015

I have a workshop paper accepted for the CHI 2015 Between the lines: Reevaluating the Offline/Online Binary workshop: ”Rethinking Self-disclosure:Online and Offline,” co-authored with Andrea Forte.

Jan 16, 2015

I was invited and awarded a travel grant to attend the Graduate Cohort Workshop (CRA-W) held by the Computing Research Association in San Francisco, CA.

Dec 16, 2014

I have a workshop paper accepted for the CSCW 2015 Ethics for Studying Sociotechnical Systems in a Big Data World workshop: "Social Computing Researchers and Vulnerable Populations," co-authored with Andrea Forte.

Dec 14, 2014

My extended abstract was accepted to CSCW 2015: "Depression-related Imagery on Instagram," co-authored with Pinar Ozturk and Andrea Forte. 

Oct 27, 2014

I will be a CSCW 2015 student volunteer! First time being a CSCW SV should be awesome! I will also be the official photographer for the conference! :)

Aug 28, 2014

Just learned that my work for doing CSCW2015 reviews received “Special Recognition” :)

Aug 01, 2014

My poster "Exploring Online Public Interactions Surrounding Mental Health: The Case of The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’s Facebook Page" was accepted to the Conference on Social Media and Society. Also, my first time volunteering for a conference as the official photographer! 

Jun 15, 2014

I was awarded a grant to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference in Phoenix, Arizona!

Jan 21, 2014

I was invited and awarded a travel grant to attend the Graduate Cohort Workshop (CRA-W) held by the Computing Research Association in Santa Clara, CA.

Dec 08, 2013

Our paper "Designing Information Savvy Societies: An Introduction to Assessability,” (Andrea Forte, Nazanin Andalibi, Heather Willever-Farr, Thomas Park) was accepted to CHI 2014. I will be presenting this work in Toronto. 

May 28, 2013

I am extremely honored to receive the Phoebe W. Haas Fellowship for the 2013-14 academic year.

Apr 05, 2013

I was invited and awarded a travel grant to attend the Graduate Cohort Workshop (CRA-W) held by the Computing Research Association in Boston, MA.

Sep 28, 2012

I am starting my PhD in Information Studies at Drexel University's iSchool. I am beyond happy that I am going to be doing what I am most passianate about for the next few years and be part of a wonderful community. Cheers!