2025
Alemitu Bezabih, Anne-Marie Snider, Jesan Ahammed Ovi, Shadi Nourriz, George Handzo, and C. Estelle Smith. “Reddit Ministry”: Conceptualizing Online Communities as Novel Sites for Spiritual Care Delivery. Journal of Health and Social Care Chaplaincy: Special issue on Digital Spiritual Care. 2025. (HSCC journal | local copy)
Cynthia Matuszek, Tom Williams, Nick DePalma, Ross Mead, Ruchen Wen, Eike Schneiders, Casey Kennington, and Alemitu Bezabih. 2025. Reporting Guidelines for Large Language Models in Human-Robot Interaction. Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI). (ACM DL | local copy)
Alemitu Bezabih, Shadi Nourriz, Anne-Marie Snider, Rosalie Rauenzahn, George Handzo, and C. Estelle Smith. Meeting Patients Where They’re At: Toward the Expansion of Professional Chaplaincy Care into Online Spiritual Care Communities. CSCW 2025. (ACM DL | local copy)
2024
C. Estelle Smith, Alemitu Bezabih, Diana Freed, Brett A. Halperin, Sara Wolf, Caroline Claisse, Jingjin Li, Michael Hoefer, and Md Rashidujjaman Rifat. (Un)designing AI for Mental and Spiritual Wellbeing. Panel at CSCW 2024. Moderator: Jingjin Li. Panelists: Munmun De Choudhury, George Handzo, Diana Freed, C. Estelle Smith. (local copy)
C. Estelle Smith, Alemitu Bezabih, and Shadi Nourriz. On the Challenges of Implementing Online Spiritual Care Communities (OSCCs) in Collaboration with Diverse Healthcare Teams. Paper for CHI 2024 Workshop: Conducting Research at the Intersection of HCI and Health: Building and Supporting Teams with Diverse Expertise to Increase Public Health Impact. Honolulu, Hawaii. May 2024. (local copy)
Shadi Nourriz, Alemitu Bezabih, and C. Estelle Smith. On the Design Risks of Empathy Fatigue. Paper for CHI 2024 Workshop: Empathy-Centric Design: Scrutinizing Empathy Beyond the Individual. Honolulu, Hawaii. May 2024. (ACM DL | local copy)
C. Estelle Smith, Alemitu Bezabih, Shadi Nourriz, Bo Wu, and Gabe Fierro. Toward LLM-Powered Robots In Engineering Education. Workshop paper for HRI 2024 Workshop: Human – Large Language Model Interaction: The dawn of a new era or the end of it all? Boulder, Colorado. March 2024. (local copy)
Alemitu Bezabih, Shadi Nourriz, and C. Estelle Smith. Toward LLM-Powered Social Robots for Supporting Sensitive Disclosures of Stigmatized Health Conditions. Workshop paper for HRI 2024 Workshop: Scarecrows in Oz: Large Language Models in Human-Robot Interaction. Boulder, Colorado. March 2024. (local copy)
2023
Bezabih, Alemitu, Kathrin Gerling, Workeabeba Abebe, and Vero Vanden Abeele. “Challenges and Opportunities for Interactive Technology to Support Parents of HIV-Positive Children in Ethiopia in the Disclosure Process.” In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-17. 2023. Download from ACM
Bezabih, Alemitu Mequanint, Veronika Vanden Abeele, Katrien Verbert, and Kathrin Gerling. “Interactive Technology to Support HIV Management among Adolescents in Ethiopia.” (2023).
2022
Mequanint Bezabih, Alemitu, Kathrin Gerling, Workeabeba Abebe, and Vero Vanden Abeele. “The Challenge of (Non-) Disclosure: Exploring the Lived Experience of Ethiopian Adolescents with HIV and Their Attitudes Toward Technology.” In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-19. 2022. Download from ACM
2021
Bezabih, A. M., Gerling, K., Abebe, W., & Abeele, V. V. (2021). Behavioral theories and motivational features underlying eHealth interventions for adolescent antiretroviral adherence: Systematic review. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 9(12), e25129. Download from JMIR
2019
De Croon, R., Bezabih, A.M., Geuens, J., Wildemeersch, D., Oeyen, D., Verbert, K. and Abeele, V.V., 2019, June. Motivational design techniques to increase adherence to a telemonitoring therapy a study with adolescent pectus patients. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI) (pp. 1-12). IEEE. Download from IEEE
2015
Alemitu Bezabih, Taehun Kim,and Soon Joo Hyun. “Context-Aware Social Support System for Medication Adherence in Chronic Illnesses.” In The Global Conference on Information Technology, Computing, and Applications Conference (Global IT 2015)
2012
Alemitu Bezabih, and Dejene Ejigu. “CAPHS: Context-Aware Pervasive Healthcare System for HIV/AIDS Patients.” In IST-Africa Conference, 2012.
