  Human-centered computing research has been increasingly applied to address
important challenges in the health domain. Conducting research in
cross-disciplinary teams can come with a lot of challenges in integrating
knowledge across fields. Yet, we do not know what challenges HCI researchers
encounter in building collaborations with health researchers, and how these
researchers negotiate challenges while balancing their professional goals. We
interviewed 17 early- and mid-career HCI faculty working in the United States
who conducted research in collaboration with health researchers. Drawing from a
Team Science framework, we share participants' lived experiences and identify
major challenges that HCI researchers encounter when finding, collaborating
with, and negotiating with health collaborators when building technologies. We
propose ways to better support research collaboration aimed at designing
technologies using human-centered computing approaches. This includes
strategies to support HCI researchers at individual, institutional, research
community, and funding agencies levels through tools to translate disciplinary
approaches. We suggest institutional policies to support HCI researchers
through training, networking, and promotion.
