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Yan Chen @HCI_Prof_YC

#CS Assistant Prof @virginia_tech. #HCI #CSEdu #AIEdu #VIS

Joined November 2017
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Qiao (Georgie) Jin@QiaoJin5
Apr 7
Excited to share our ๐€๐ˆ๐„๐ƒ 2026 ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ: ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ง๐ ๐„๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ-๐†๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐‹๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ฌ: ๐‹๐ข๐ง๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ˆ, ๐‡๐‚๐ˆ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐’๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ June 27, 2026 ๐Ÿ“ Seoul, Republic of Korea ๐Ÿ“ฃ ๐‚๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐š๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž: ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ 1, 2026 Workshop website: extendedhorizon.com/aied2026โ€ฆ This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners interested in AI for Education, learning science, HCI, and next-generation learning experiences. We welcome work on AI-powered learning interfaces, human-AI interaction in education, feedback and scaffolding, multimodal learning experiences, and real-world evaluation. Looking forward to connecting with the community and discussing the future of AI for Education, Learning Sciences, and HCI. Organizers: @Iriskie_Xia (Texas A&M University) @HCI_Prof_YC (Virginia Tech) @QiaoJin5 (North Carolina State University) Yang Shi (Utah State University) Paul Denny (University of Auckland) @DrTiffanyBarnes (North Carolina State University) @qingsongedu (Squirrel AI & University of Oxford) Vincent Aleven (Carnegie Mellon University) #AIED2026 #AIED #AI #Education #AIforEducation #LearningSciences #HCI #EdTech
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Meng XIA@Iriskie_Xia
Apr 8
๐Ÿ“ข Call for Papers! Join our #AIED2026 workshop on Next-Gen Learning Interfaces (AI ร— HCI ร— Learning Sciences) ๐Ÿ“ South Korea ๐Ÿ”— extendedhorizon.com/aied2026โ€ฆ Please share or submit! @HCI_Prof_YC @QiaoJin5 @yshi0526 @pauldenny @DrTiffanyBarnes @qingsongedu @vincentaleven
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jaylin herskovitz@jayhersk
6 Nov 2025
New lab alert โ€ผ๏ธ๐Ÿšจ Iโ€™m looking for PhD students who are passionate about creating assistive technologies and human-centered AI tools to join my research group at Tufts CS!ย I'm starting the Tufts AI, Design, and Accessibility Lab (TADA!) in January 2026 ๐Ÿฅณ (1/4)
Graphic showing research areas for the TADA lab. In the center, a three circle Venn Diagram with the research areas Accessibility, AI, and Creation Tools. Surrounding the Venn Diagram are projects from Jaylin's research, pointing to the research areas. (1) Making Mobile AR Accessible, ASSETS 2020 (Accessibility). (2) CollabAlly: Collaborative Writing Accessibility, CHI 2022 (Accessibility and Creation Tools). (3) XSpace: AR Collaboration Toolkit, ISS 2022 (Creation Tools). (4) Hacking, Switching, Combining, CHI 2023 (Accessibility and AI). (5) ImageExplorer: Verifying Image Captions, CHI 2022 (Accessibility and AI). (6) ProgramAlly: Programming for DIY Assistive AI, UIST 2024 (Accessibility, AI, and Creation Tools). The side of the image lists possible future research directions: "(1) DIY Assistive Software: How to help people create personal assistive tools? (2) Customizing AI: How to customize AI effectively and on-the-fly? (3) Understanding AI Errors: How to use imperfect AI?"

ALT Graphic showing research areas for the TADA lab. In the center, a three circle Venn Diagram with the research areas Accessibility, AI, and Creation Tools. Surrounding the Venn Diagram are projects from Jaylin's research, pointing to the research areas. (1) Making Mobile AR Accessible, ASSETS 2020 (Accessibility). (2) CollabAlly: Collaborative Writing Accessibility, CHI 2022 (Accessibility and Creation Tools). (3) XSpace: AR Collaboration Toolkit, ISS 2022 (Creation Tools). (4) Hacking, Switching, Combining, CHI 2023 (Accessibility and AI). (5) ImageExplorer: Verifying Image Captions, CHI 2022 (Accessibility and AI). (6) ProgramAlly: Programming for DIY Assistive AI, UIST 2024 (Accessibility, AI, and Creation Tools). The side of the image lists possible future research directions: "(1) DIY Assistive Software: How to help people create personal assistive tools? (2) Customizing AI: How to customize AI effectively and on-the-fly? (3) Understanding AI Errors: How to use imperfect AI?"

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Kevin Pu@kevpjk
15 Oct 2025
Weโ€™re studying how people build or run multi-agent AI workflows โ€” from LangGraph to n8n to running multiple ChatGPT tabs in parallel. 30-min Zoom interview ยท ๐Ÿ’ฐ$50 CAD or equivalent If youโ€™ve built multi-agent /run multiple AI tools in parallel, sign up: forms.gle/qsjtN8reUopsMar98

Multi-Agent Study Intake Survey

We are conducting research interviews on how people create and manage multi-agent AI workflows or run multiple AI tools in parallel. In this survey, โ€œAI workflowโ€ refers to either a connected system...

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Ashley Ge Zhang ๅผ ๆญŒ@gezhang001
10 Oct 2025
We got Honorable Mention Award at VL/HCC! Check out SPARK, an interactive system for monitoring students' coding progress in multi-faceted, non-linear programming problems.
Yinuo Yang@yino_yang
10 Oct 2025
My undergraduate thesis paper SPARK just got the Honorable Mention Award in #vlhcc25! ๐Ÿฅณ Thanks for my supervisors @gezhang001, @AprilWang95 and Steve! If you are interested in it, check it here inonnno.github.io/Academic-pโ€ฆ! ๐Ÿ‘ˆ
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Should programming students take notes/just watch/type along during live coding lectures? Danny Manesh (tinyurl.com/hkjpymxp) will present his ICER paper on Monday at 915am (EST) to showcase a new live-coding note-taking system that reduces studentsโ€™ mental load while still enabling them to interact with and explore the instructorโ€™s code. Congrats to the lead PI @snaglee2401 and amazing student co-author @tongw_wu p: tinyurl.com/msdw57ek
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Sang Won Lee@snaglee2401
25 Jul 2025
CHOIR = Chat-based Helper for Organizational Intelligence Repository It answers students' questions based on your lab handbook and updates the doc by learning from your conversations. See CHOIR in action: youtu.be/gPdVIjzLKd4 CHOIR is developed by @leesang627. (2/3)

CHOIR Demo Video

CHOIR Demo Video for onboarding sessions

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Eugenia Rho@eugeniarho
1 May 2025
CHI2025 just wrapped! So proud of my amazing PhD student @buse_carik for presenting her first CHI paper. Big thanks to everyone we got to meetโ€”your ideas, insights, and hallway chats made Yokohama unforgettable. Until next time. ๐Ÿ“#CHI2025 #Yokohama @acm_chi
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Yan Chen@HCI_Prof_YC
30 Apr 2025
Wrapped up #CHI2025 on a high note with two amazing students, @kevpjk and @XiaohangTang , presenting the results of their years-long efforts. So proud of their hard work and growth. Already looking forward to CHI next year! #ProudAdvisor
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Sang Won Lee@snaglee2401
26 Apr 2025
Should you look at the camera to fake eye contact in job interviews? Our #CHI2025 paper says you don't have to. We found no evidence that looking at the camera helps perform better in job interviews. Jelson (@jelson9854) will present the paper tomorrow! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37065โ€ฆ
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Ian Arawjo@IanArawjo
23 Apr 2025
What's so amazing about this workโ€”knowing the inside storyโ€”is that it was stuck in the resubmission process for ~2yrs. The fact that it is even more relevant now is incredible. Kevin was *so* prescient. Go attend his talk at #CHI2025, and see the future!
Austin Henley
@AustinZHenley
23 Apr 2025
The paper you should be reading right now.
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Ziang Xiao@ZiangXiao
23 Apr 2025
Glad to see this work coming out at #CHI25! Come to our session and chat with @kevpjk ๐Ÿฅณ
Kevin Pu@kevpjk
2 Mar 2025
๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿ’ปProactive AI tools like @GitHubCopilot @cursor_ai @allhands_ai promise to assist developers by anticipating their needs and automating engineering processesโ€”but do they truly help? We evaluated three design probes to explore the trade-offs of proactive AI programming support
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Sang Won Lee@snaglee2401
21 Apr 2025
Are you a *senior* professor who has graduated more than 2 Ph.D. students? Weโ€™re studying how labs manage organizational memoryโ€”students' roles, mentoring, documentation, etc.โ€”and would love you to participate in a one-hour interview ($50). Plz, sign up forms.gle/K35nEK5A2cndCPDM9

Interview Sign-up Form

Thank you for participating in our study! Echolab at Virginia Tech is seeking participants for an interview study on how university research labs manage their organizational memoryโ€”i.e., the collec...

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Sang Won Lee@snaglee2401
31 Mar 2025
Are you a professor who leads (or has led) a research lab? Weโ€™re studying how labs manage organizational memoryโ€”shared knowledge, mentoring, documentation, etc.โ€”and would love you to participate in a 45-minute interview ($30 compensation). Please sign up forms.gle/XBCCzJ73MwZ3K73J7

Interview Sign-up Form

Thank you for participating in our study! Echolab at Virginia Tech is seeking participants for an interview study on how university research labs manage their organizational memoryโ€”i.e., the collec...

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Ashley Ge Zhang ๅผ ๆญŒ@gezhang001
7 Mar 2025
Are you a programming instructor? We want to hear how AI is shaping your courses! Take this quick 5-minute survey: forms.gle/tuN8jeiLw978KtRn6 #EdTech

AI usage in programming courses

We are researchers from [...], studying programming instructors' views on the use of AI in programming education. We aim to explore current policies regarding students' use of AI tools and to...

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Big Congrats @karthikm0 !
Tovi Grossman
@ToviGrossman
7 Mar 2025
Congrats to @karthikm0 (and amazing co-authors!) on the Best Paper Award at #HRI2025 for "ImageInThat: Manipulating Images to Convey User Instructions to Robots." The paper proposes direct manipulation of images as a new paradigm to instruct robots. ๐Ÿ”— karthikmahadevan.ca/files/hrโ€ฆ
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#CHI2025 Coding Partner or Intruder? We designed, tested Codellaborator, a proactive AI assistant that initiates coding help. Compared to Copilot, we found: - Faster coding, but workflow disruptions - AI presence & local context eased confusion - Felt more like collaborating than just using a tool - Some feared loss of control & code ownership Congrats to @kevpjk and co-authors Daniel Lazaro, @IanArawjo @HaijunXia @ZiangXiao @ToviGrossman
Kevin Pu@kevpjk
2 Mar 2025
A great line of research works! Feel free to check out my two #CHI2025 papers: IdeaSynth: Iterative Research Idea Development arxiv.org/abs/2410.04025 Assistance or Disruption? Evaluating Designs of Proactive AI Programming arxiv.org/abs/2502.18658 More details on this one soon!๐Ÿ˜‰
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Tovi Grossman
@ToviGrossman
27 Feb 2025
๐Ÿ“ข New Research Alert! Just posted initial details of our latest papers across #CHI2025, #IUI20205, and #HRI2025! All work led by incredibly talented graduate students. Human-Centric AI, Programming Tools, Mixed-Reality, Robotics, and more! ๐Ÿ”— tovigrossman.com (1/13)

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Kevin Pu@kevpjk
31 Jan 2025
๐Ÿ”ฌResearch ideation is hard: After the spark of a brilliant initial idea, much work is still needed to further develop it into a well-thoughtout project by iteratively expanding and refining the initial idea and grounding it to relevant literature. How can we better support this?
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