Ying Xu

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Characterizing LLM-Empowered Personalized Story Reading and Interaction for Children: Insights From Multi-Stakeholders' Perspective

Personalized interaction is highly valued by parents in their story-reading activities with children. While AI-empowered story-reading tools have been increasingly used, their abilities to support personalized interaction with children are still limited. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) show promise in…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 2a: Designing Technology for Parenting and Child Development

Exploring Parent’s Needs for Children-Centered AI to Support Preschoolers’ Storytelling and Reading Activities

Interactive storytelling is vital for preschooler development. While children's interactive partners have traditionally been their parents and teachers, recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have sparked a surge of AI-based storytelling technologies. As these technologies become increasingly ubiquitous in p…

CHI '24CorrespondingHuman-LLM Collaboration +2

Mathemyths: Leveraging Large Language Models to Teach Mathematical Language through Child-AI Co-Creative Storytelling

Mathematical language is a cornerstone of a child's mathematical development, and children can effectively acquire this language through storytelling with a knowledgeable and engaging partner. In this study, we leverage the recent advances in large language models to conduct free-form, creative conversations with chil…

CHI '212nd AuthorK-12 Digital Education Tools +1

The Ecological Context of Preschool-Aged Children’s Selection of Media Content

Today, preschool-aged children have an abundance of digital content to choose from, with some more desirable than others from a developmental perspective. We aim to describe and better understand the interplay of factors that influence children’s selection of media content using a year-long, multi-case ethnography of…

CHI '211st AuthorVoice User Interface (VUI) Design +2

Are Current Voice Interfaces Designed to Support Children's Language Development?

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, voice user interfaces (VUIs) capable of speech-based interaction are poised to support children's language development by serving as their language partners. This paper reports an analytic evaluation of the currently available voice-based apps targeting young chil…

CHI '201st AuthorIntelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +2

What Are You Talking To? Understanding Children's Perceptions of Conversational Agents

Conversational agents (CAs) available in smart phones or smart speakers play an increasingly important role in young children's technological landscapes and life worlds. While a handful of studies have documented children's natural interactions with CAs, little is known about children's perceptions of CAs. To fill thi…

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