Ryan Louie

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MentalImager: Exploring Generative Images for Assisting Support-Seekers’ Self-Disclosure in Online Mental Health Communities

Support-seekers’ self-disclosure of their suffering experiences, thoughts, and feelings in the post can help them get needed peer support in online mental health communities (OMHCs). However, such mental health self-disclosure could be challenging. Images can facilitate the manifestation of relevant experiences and fe…

IUI '221st AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +1

Expressive Communication: Evaluating Developments in Generative Models and Steering Interfaces for Music Creation

There is an increasing interest from ML and HCI communities in empowering creators with better generative models and more intuitive interfaces with which to control them. In music, ML researchers have focused on training models capable of generating pieces with increasing long-range structure and musical coherence, w…

CHI '221st AuthorContext-Aware Computing +1

Affinder: Expressing Concepts of Situations that Afford Activities using Context-Detectors

Context-aware applications have the potential to act opportunistically to facilitate human experiences and activities, from reminding us of places to perform personal activities, to identifying coincidental moments to engage in digitally-mediated shared experiences. However, despite the availability of context-detecto…

CSCW '201st AuthorCoordination and Collaboration

Opportunistic Collective Experiences: Identifying Shared Situations and Structuring Shared Activities at Distance

Despite many available social technologies for connecting at a distance, we don’t always find opportunities to actively engage with friends and loved ones, even though this kind of interaction is associated with reduced loneliness and increased social closeness. To meet our need for active engagement and to fit desire…

CHI '201st AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

Novice-AI Music Co-Creation via AI-Steering Tools for Deep Generative Models

While generative deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated their capacity for creating novel musical compositions, less attention has been paid to the challenges and potential of co-creating with these musical AIs, especially for novices. In a needfinding study with a widely used, interactive musical AI, we found…

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