Rosie: A Chatbot for New and Expectant Mothers

Project funded by DARPA
PI: Jordan Boyd-Graber

New parents have always looked to grandma, a more-experienced friend or books like “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” to navigate the uncertainties of caring for a baby. The next generation of parents could also look to their phones for reliable guidance on hundreds of child care topics, thanks to a chatbot that University of Maryland researchers are developing.

Supported by a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, the tech-enabled tool known as Rosie is intended to reduce postpartum depression among new moms and improve infant health with immediate, individualized and accurate information that eliminates the need for new moms to go down a Google rabbit hole late at night while dealing with an unfamiliar situation, and potentially being misled by the resources they find.

• Quynh C. Nguyen
• Elizabeth M. Aparicio
• Michelle Jasczynski
• Amara Channell Doig
• Xiaohe Yue
• Heran Mane
• Neha Pundlik Srikanth
• Francia Ximena Marin Gutierrez
• Nataly Delcid
• Xin He
• Jordan Boyd-Graber

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• Quynh C. Nguyen, Elizabeth M. Aparicio, Michelle Jasczynski, Amara Channell Doig, Xiaohe Yue, Heran Mane, Neha Punklik Srikanth, Francia Ximena Marin Gutierrez, Nataly Delcid, Xin He, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. Randomized Pilot of Rosie, a Health Education Question-and-Answer Chatbot for New Mothers. Journal of Medical Internet Research: Journal of Formative Research, 2024. [Bibtex]
  
  

  @article{Nguyen:Aparicio:Jasczynski:Doig:Yue:Mane:Srikanth:Gutierrez:Delcid:He:Boyd-Graber-2024,
  	Title = {Randomized Pilot of Rosie, a Health Education Question-and-Answer Chatbot for New Mothers},
  	Author = {Quynh C. Nguyen and  Elizabeth M. Aparicio and  Michelle Jasczynski and  Amara Channell Doig and  Xiaohe Yue and  Heran Mane and Neha Srikanth and Francia Ximena Marin Gutierrez and Nataly Delcid and  Xin He and Jordan Boyd-Graber},
  	Journal = {Journal of Medical Internet Research: Journal of Formative Research},
  	Year = {2024},
  	Url = {https://formative.jmir.org/2024/1/e51361},
  }
  

• Mane, Heran Y., Channell Doig, Amara, Marin Gutierrez, Francia Ximena, Jasczynski, Michelle, Yue, Xiaohe, Neha Punklik Srikanth, Mane, Sourabh, Sun, Abby, Moats, Rachel Ann, Patel, Pragat, He, Xin, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Aparicio, Elizabeth M., and Nguyen, Quynh C.. Practical Guidance for the Development of Rosie, a Health Education Question-and-Answer Chatbot for New Mothers. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2023. [Bibtex]
  
  

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  	Title = {Practical Guidance for the Development of Rosie, a Health Education Question-and-Answer Chatbot for New Mothers},
  	Author = {Mane, Heran Y. and Channell Doig, Amara and Marin Gutierrez, Francia Ximena and Jasczynski, Michelle and Yue, Xiaohe and Neha Srikanth and Mane, Sourabh and Sun, Abby and Moats, Rachel Ann and Patel, Pragat and He, Xin and Jordan Boyd-Graber and Aparicio, Elizabeth M. and Nguyen, Quynh C.},
  	Journal = {Journal of Public Health Management and Practice},
  	Year = {2023},
  	Url = {https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/fulltext/2023/09000/practical_guidance_for_the_development_of_rosie,_a.9.aspx},
  }
  

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