Co-designing MESA-Bot: Enhancing Accessibility, Privacy, Security, and Trust in a Mental Health Chatbot for Older Adults
Aishwarya Umeshkumar Surani, Sanchari Das · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
Surani and Das address the gap between accessibility design and privacy-and-security engineering in mental health chatbots for older adults, a population nearly a billion strong worldwide for whom cost, stigma, wait times, and digital-literacy barriers limit access to…
older adults · mental health · chatbot · co-design · privacy