Publications

2024

Advancing a consent-forward paradigm for digital mental health data
Sachin R. Pendse, Logan Stapleton, Neha Kumar, Munmun De Choudhury, and Stevie Chancellor.
Nature Mental Health, 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 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024.

The Typing Cure: Experiences with Large Language Model Chatbots for Mental Health Support
Inhwa Song*, Sachin R. Pendse*, Neha Kumar, and Munmun De Choudhury. (*Equal contribution)
arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.14362, 2024.

Rethinking technology innovation for mental health: framework for multi-sectoral collaboration
Jina Suh, Sachin R. Pendse, Robert Lewis, Esther Howe, Koustuv Saha, Ebele Okoli, Judith Amores, Gonzalo Ramos, Jenny Shen, Judith Borghouts, Ashish Sharma, Paola Pedrelli, Liz Friedman, Charmain Jackman, Yusra Benhalim, Desmond C. Ong, Sameer Segal, Tim Althoff, and Mary Czerwinski.
Nature Mental Health, 2024.

Towards Inclusive Futures for Worker Wellbeing
Sachin R. Pendse, Talie Massachi, Jaleh Mahdavimoghaddam, Jenna Butler, Jina Suh, Mary Czerwinski.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (PACM HCI) 2024.

2023

Benefits and harms of large language models in digital mental health
Munmun De Choudhury, Sachin R. Pendse, and Neha Kumar.
arXiv preprint, 2023.

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) 2023.

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

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.
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022.

2021

"Can I Not Be Suicidal On a Sunday?": Understanding Technology-Mediated Pathways to Mental Health Support
Sachin R. Pendse, Amit Sharma, Aditya Vashistha, Munmun De Choudhury, Neha Kumar.
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2021.

2020

Sochiatrist: Signals of Affect in Messaging Data
Talie Massachi*, Grant Fong*, Varun Mathur*, Sachin R Pendse*, Hoefer Gabriela, Jessica J Fu, Chong Wang, Nicole R Nugent, Megan L Ranney, Daniel P Dickstein, Michael F Armey, Jeff Huang.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (PACM HCI) 2020.
“Like Shock Absorbers”: Understanding the Human Infrastructures of Technology-Mediated Mental Health Support
Sachin R. Pendse, Faisal M. Lalani, Munmun De Choudhury, Amit Sharma, Neha Kumar.
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020.

2019

Cross-Cultural Differences in the Use of Online Mental Health Support Forums
Sachin R. Pendse, Kate Niederhoffer, Amit Sharma.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Presented at CSCW (PACM HCI) 2019.
Digital innovations for global mental health: opportunities for data science, task sharing, and early intervention
John A. Naslund, Pattie P. Gonsalves, Oliver Gruebner, Sachin R. Pendse, Stephanie L. Smith, Amit Sharma, Giuseppe Raviola MD
Technology and its Impact on Mental Health Care, 2019
Innovations in Technology and Mechanisms of Change in Behavioral Interventions
Nicole R. Nugent, Sachin R. Pendse, Heather T. Schatten, Michael F. Armey.
Behavior Modification, 2019
Mental Health in the Global South: Challenges and Opportunities in HCI for Development
Sachin R. Pendse, Naveena Karusala, Divya Siddarth, Pattie Gonsalves, Seema Mehrotra, John A. Naslund, Mamta Sood, Neha Kumar, Amit Sharma.
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, Presented at COMPASS 2019
Moments of Change: Analyzing Peer-Based Cognitive Support in Online Mental Health Forums
Yada Pruksachatkun*, Sachin R. Pendse*, Amit Sharma.
Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Presented at CHI 2019

2018

Sochiatrist: Inferring the Relationship Between Emotion and Private Social Messages.
Sachin R. Pendse
Capstone Project for the Degree of Masters of Science in Computer Science
Brown University

2017

How mobile health applications can help treat depression
Adam Rosenfeld, Sachin R. Pendse, Nicole R. Nugent.
The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter
Mental health challenges and opportunities in rural communities.
Sachin R. Pendse and Nicole R. Nugent.
The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter
Resistance, Exile, and a Nation Connected: The Impact of Social Media on the Tibetan Community of McLeod Ganj, India
Sachin R. Pendse
Capstone Project for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in International Relations
Brown University