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Neal Lesh is affiliated with Dimagi in the United States and has a research focus centered primarily in the field of Psychology, with significant contributions also in Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Systems.

Their research explores a variety of topics, including:

  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction

Neal Lesh has contributed to several recent papers, reflecting a focus on digital interventions and health technologies. These include:

  • Chatbots to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health: Realist Synthesis (2023), published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Chatbots That Deliver Contraceptive Support: Systematic Review (2023), published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Scaling up the task-sharing of psychological therapies: A formative study of the PEERS smartphone application for supervision and quality assurance in rural India (2024), published in Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health
  • Using a Responsive Feedback Approach to Develop and Pilot a Counseling Chatbot to Strengthen Child Nutrition in Rural India (2023), published in Global Health Science and Practice
  • Implementing a digital system for contact tracing and case investigation during COVID-19 pandemic in San Francisco: a qualitative study (2021), published in JAMIA Open

Their work has appeared frequently in publication venues such as:

  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health
  • JMIR Formative Research
  • Annals of Emergency Medicine
  • Global Health Science and Practice

Neal Lesh has collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors, including:

  • Vikram Patel
  • Ravindra Agrawal
  • Anant Bhan
  • Abhijit Nadkarni
  • John A. Naslund

Best Publications

  • Explorations in engagement for humans and robots

    Candace L. Sidner;Christopher Lee;Cory D. Kidd;Neal Lesh

  • Where to look: a study of human-robot engagement

    Candace L. Sidner;Cory D. Kidd;Christopher Lee;Neal Lesh

  • Collagen: applying collaborative discourse theory to human-computer interaction

    Charles Rich;Candace L. Sidner;Neal Lesh

  • Interactive Assessment of User Preference Models: The Automated Travel Assistant

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  • Mining features for sequence classification

    Neal Lesh;Mohammed J. Zaki;Mitsunori Ogihara

  • E-imci: improving pediatric health care in low-income countries

    Brian DeRenzi;Neal Lesh;Tapan Parikh;Clayton Sims

  • Sharing and building digital group histories

    Chia Shen;Neal B. Lesh;Frederic Vernier;Clifton Forlines

  • Using plan recognition in human-computer collaboration

    Neal Lesh;Charles Rich;Candace L. Sidner

  • A complete and effective move set for simplified protein folding

    Neal Lesh;Michael Mitzenmacher;Sue Whitesides

  • Circular graphical user interfaces

    Frederic Vernier;Chia Shen;Neal B. Lesh

  • Method and device for navigation in indoor environment

    Andrew R Golding;Neal B Lesh;アンドリュウ・アール・ゴールディング;ニール・ビー・レッシュ

  • Indoor navigation using a diverse set of cheap, wearable sensors

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  • Using electronic technology to improve clinical care – results from a before-after cluster trial to evaluate assessment and classification of sick children according to Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) protocol in Tanzania

    Marc Mitchell;Bethany L Hedt-Gauthier;Daniel Msellemu;Melania Nkaka

  • Mobile Phone Tools for Field‐Based Health care Workers in Low‐Income Countries

    Brian DeRenzi;Gaetano Borriello;Jonathan Jackson;Vikram S. Kumar

  • Visualization techniques for circular tabletop interfaces

    Frédéric Vernier;Neal Lesh;Chia Shen

  • Personal digital historian: story sharing around the table

    Chia Shen;Neal Lesh;Frédéric Vernier

  • Human-Guided Simple Search

    David Anderson;Emily Anderson;Neal Lesh;Joe Marks

  • Improving community health worker performance through automated SMS

    Brian DeRenzi;Leah Findlater;Jonathan Payne;Benjamin Birnbaum

  • Visualization and User-Modeling for Browsing Personal Photo Libraries

    Baback Moghaddam;Qi Tian;Neal Lesh;Chia Shen

  • Exhaustive approaches to 2D rectangular perfect packings

    N. Lesh;J. Marks;A. McMahon;M. Mitzenmacher

  • Investigating human-computer optimization

    Stacey D. Scott;Neal Lesh;Gunnar W. Klau

  • Personal digital historian: user interface design

    Chia Shen;Neal Lesh;Baback Moghaddam;Paul Beardsley

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Mitzenmacher
Michael Mitzenmacher Harvard University
Candace L. Sidner
Candace L. Sidner Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Charles Rich
Charles Rich Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Chia Shen
Chia Shen Harvard University
Gaetano Borriello
Gaetano Borriello University of Washington
Gunnar W. Klau
Gunnar W. Klau Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Clifton Forlines
Clifton Forlines Draper Labs
Martin P. Grobusch
Martin P. Grobusch University of Amsterdam
Qi Tian
Qi Tian Huawei Technologies (China)
Thomas S. Huang
Thomas S. Huang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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