Reassurance Robots: OCD in the Age of Generative AI
Grace Barkhuff · 2026 · Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)
This CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts paper by Grace Barkhuff (Georgia Tech) is an exploratory qualitative study of how generative AI tools, particularly ChatGPT, are reshaping the lived experience of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). OCD is a mental health disorder characterized…
OCD · Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder · generative AI · ChatGPT · mental health