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Professor Arriaga’s is a computer scientist that studies the design, development and implementation of computational systems for health and wellness. Recent projects include systems to help improve therapy outcomes for veterans who suffer from PTSD, and a mobile application to help individuals with diabetes and their families learn and monitor foot health to prevent long term complications such as amputations. A related research thrust focuses on how AI can improve clinical training for mental and health care providers.
Professor Arriaga teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Human Computer Interaction. The courses include an introduction to foundational readings in the discipline and a group-based user-centered design project. This project allows students to learn techniques in requirement gathering, ideation, prototyping and evaluation. Professor Arriaga’s Ubicomp Health and Wellness Lab provides research opportunities for undergraduates, MS and PhD students.
Computer Science Publications
Baseman, C.M., Dembure, S. M., Swinger, N., Bondu, M. Y., DiSalvo, B., & Arriaga. “Clinical Standards and Proximate Futures: Participatory Design Futuring of Diabetes Technologies with an Under-Resourced Community.” Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 9, 4, Article 159 (December 2025), 30 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3770702
Suhas Bn, Mahajan, Y. Mattioli, D. O., Sherrill, A. M., Arriaga, R. I., Wiese, C., & Abdullah S. 2025. “The Pursuit of Empathy: Evaluating Small Language Models for PTSD Dialogue Support.” In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 30900–30922, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
*Baseman C.M., *Shi, Y., Liu, Y., Santamarina, G.,.. Arriaga, R. I., "Towards More Equitable Ulcer Recognition Models: A Dataset of Naturalistic Foot Images from People of Color Living with Diabetes," 2025 IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2025, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/BHI67747.2025.11269467.
Baseman, C. M., Hasan, M., Swinger N., Rauch, S. A. M., Hoque, E., & Arriaga., R. I. 'Poker with Play Money': Exploring Psychotherapist Training with Virtual Patients. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 7, Article CSCW269 (November 2025), 29 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757450
Xu, K., Baseman, C. M., Swinger, N., & Arriaga., R. I. Understanding the Temporality of Informal Caregivers' Sense-Making on Conflicts and Life-Changing Events through Online Health Communities. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 7, Article CSCW338 (November 2025), 36 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757519
Wang, L., Anyi, C. L., Xu, K., Liu, Y., Arriaga, R. I., & Goel, A. K. 2025. Explainable AI for Daily Scenarios from End-Users’ Perspective: Non-Use, Concerns, and Ideal Design. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25), 2328–2349. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715336.3735796
Swinger, N., Baseman, C. M., Ryu, M., Abdullah, S., Weise, C.W., Sherrill, A.M., & Arriaga, R. I. “There is no ‘I’ in TEAMMAIT: Impacts of Domain and Expertise on Trust in AI Teammates for Health Work.” Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 2, Article CSCW019 (May 2025), 36 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3710917
Health Related Publications
Hawks M., McCauley L., Simpson R., Arriaga R.I, Kaligotla L. “From Tools to Transformation: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-centered Design to Educate Future Nurse Leaders.” Nurse Educ Pract. 2026 Jan;90:104591. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2025.104591. Epub 2025 Oct 25. PMID: 41224557.
Moran, L. H., Kee, S. C., Wiese, C. W., Arriaga, R. I. & Sherrill, A.M. “Artificial Intelligence as Feedback Teammate for Treatment Delivery: Cognitive Behavioral Therapists’ Hopes and Fears.” Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy Practice, 2025.
Sherrill, A.M., Weise, C.W., Abdullah, S., Arriaga, R. I. “Teaming with Artificial Intelligence to Learn and Sustain Psychotherapy Delivery Skills: Workplace, Ethical, and Research Implications.” J. technol. behav. sci. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41347-025-00484-4
Baseman, C. M., Fayfman, M., Schecter, Ostadabbas, S., Santamarina, G., Ploetz, T., & Arriaga, R. I. “Intelligent Care Management for Diabetic Foot Ulcers: A Scoping Review of Computer Vision and Machine Learning Techniques and Applications.” Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, 2025;19(3), 820-829. doi:10.1177/19322968231213378
Goodman, K., Arriaga, R.I., Korman, R. et al. “Pediatric Emergency Department-based Asthma Education Tools and Parent/child Asthma Knowledge.” Allergy Asthma Clin Immunol 20, 24 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13223-024-00884-w