Mike Yao

schoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaignbar_chart#4234 Global Rank

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Does Sequencing Matter? Evaluating AI and Human Simulations for High-Stakes Communication Training in Law Enforcement

Training professionals in high-stakes, trauma-informed communication is critical across domains such as law enforcement, healthcare, and counseling. While live role-play with trained actors remains the gold standard, it is resource-intensive and emotionally demanding. We developed an AI-powered sexual assault victim i…

CHI '26CorrespondingExplainable AI (XAI) +2

Rethinking User Empowerment in AI Recommender System: Innovating Transparent and Controllable Interfaces

AI-driven recommender systems are often perceived as personalization black boxes, limiting users’ ability to understand how their data shapes content (information asymmetry) or to influence system behavior meaningfully (power asymmetry). This study explores how design can strengthen user agency by integrating transpar…

CHI '265th+ AuthorVR Medical Training & Rehabilitation +2

Should the AI Speak First? Evaluating Proactive vs. Reactive Facilitation in Mixed-Reality Medical Training

As AI support tools become more common in immersive medical training, designers face a critical interaction-design question: When should an AI facilitator take initiative, and when should it wait for the learner? To investigate this design tension, we compared two versions of an AI facilitator in a mixed-reality (XR)…

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