Chao Zhang

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Interactive Explainable Ranking

We propose an interactive decision-making tool for discovering and exploring explainable rankings for a given set of choices (e.g., job offers, vacation destinations, award candidates). We define an explainable ranking as an ordering of choices based on some consistent weighting of measured criteria. Our tool is desig…

CHI '261st AuthorAI-Assisted Creative Writing +2

Narrix: Remixing Narrative Strategies from Examples for Story Writing

Experienced storytellers decompose stories into local narrative strategies and how these strategies shape higher-level arcs. This decomposition helps writers recognize patterns in others' work and adapt those patterns to tell new stories. Novices, however, struggle to identify these strategies or to reuse them effecti…

CHI '261st AuthorHuman-LLM Collaboration +3

EvaluAId: Human-AI Collaborative Evaluation of Open-Ended Student Essays

Open-ended writing assignments are central to higher education, yet heterogeneous submissions and scale make evaluation difficult. Automated writing evaluation (AWE) promises speed but often trades away transparency and sidelines human judgment. This paper repositions AI as an on-demand collaborator that can provide s…

CSCW '253rd AuthorDesigning for Privacy

Behind the Same Mask: Understanding the Practice of Spontaneous Collective Anonymity on Chinese Social Platforms

Anonymity plays a crucial role in social interactions online. Recently, a new phenomenon has emerged on Chinese social platforms where users collectively adopt a uniform avatar and nickname "momo", thereby achieving anonymity. However, understanding such spontaneous collective anonymity within Chinese cultural and con…

UIST '251st AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +3

Synthia: Visually Interpreting and Synthesizing Feedback for Writing Revision

While recent advances in HCI and generative AI have improved authors' access to feedback on their work, the abundance of critiques can overwhelm writers and obscure actionable insights. We introduce Synthia, a system that visually scaffolds feedback-based writing revision with LLM-powered synthesis. Synthia helps auth…

CUI '251st AuthorHuman-LLM Collaboration +2

Navigating the Fog: How University Students Recalibrate Sensemaking Practices to Address Plausible Falsehoods in LLM Outputs

LLM interfaces, such as ChatGPT, are widely used by students in higher education. However, their reliability is compromised by the tendency to generate plausible yet factually inaccurate content. This issue is particularly critical as the HCI community shows growing interest in designing LLM-based educational technolo…

CHI '255th+ AuthorHonorable MentionCognitive Impairment & Neurodiversity (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia) +2

"I Need Your Help!" : Facilitating Psychological Communication Between Left-Behind Children and Their Parents with an AI-Powered Sandbox

In impoverished regions, limited resources, economic constraints, and low psychological health literacy among guardians often prevent timely support for children's mental health. The absence of migrant worker parents further exacerbates these issues, as they remain unaware of their children's psychological states. Exi…

CHI '255th+ AuthorCollaborative Learning & Peer Teaching +1

CharacterCritique: Supporting Children's Development of Critical Thinking through Multi-Agent Interaction in Story Reading

Critical thinking plays a crucial role in children's education for fostering cognitive development, cultivating independent thinking habits, and enhancing their ability to problem-solving. However, the current educational model places greater emphasis on children's understanding of factual knowledge, with relatively l…

CHI '255th+ AuthorHonorable MentionHead-Up Display (HUD) & Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) +3

BrickSmart: Leveraging Generative AI to Support Children's Spatial Language Learning in Family Block Play

Block-building activities are crucial for developing children's spatial reasoning and mathematical skills, yet parents often lack the expertise to guide these activities effectively. BrickSmart, a pioneering system, addresses this gap by providing spatial language guidance through a structured three-step process: Disc…

CHI '251st AuthorHuman-LLM Collaboration +1

Friction: Deciphering Writing Feedback into Writing Revisions through LLM-Assisted Reflection

This paper introduces Friction, a novel interface designed to scaffold novice writers in reflective feedback-driven revisions. Effective revision requires mindful reflection upon feedback, but the scale and variability of feedback can make it challenging for novice writers to decipher it into actionable, meaningful ch…

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