Xi Lu

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Foody Talk: Exploring Opportunities for Conversational Food Journaling

Digital food journaling can help support reflection and improvement of wellbeing relating to eating habits. However, it is often viewed as burdensome, and abandoned before gaining benefits. Advances in conversational user interfaces (CUIs) have the potential to support people journaling in a natural and interactive ma…

CHI '254th AuthorCollaborative Learning & Peer Teaching +2

Peerspective: A Study on Reciprocal Tracking for Self-awareness and Relational Insight

Personal informatics helps individuals understand themselves, but it often struggles to capture non-conscious behaviors such as stress responses, habitual actions, and communication styles. Incorporating social aspects into PI systems offers new perspectives on self-understanding, yet prior research has largely focuse…

CHI '252nd AuthorSocial & Collaborative VR +2

Meditating Together: Practices, Benefits and Challenges of Meditation on Social Virtual Reality

Meditation and mind-body practices offer many benefits for both mental and physical well-being. Recently, social virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a promising platform to support well-being activities. While Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research has explored technologies for meditation, little is known about how…

CHI '25CorrespondingBest PaperChronic Disease Self-Management (Diabetes, Hypertension, etc.) +1

Towards Hormone Health: An Autoethnography of Long-Term Holistic Tracking to Manage PCOS

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common hormonal disorder affecting 11-13% of women of reproductive age, characterized by a wide range of symptoms (e.g., menstrual irregularity, acne, and obesity) that varies among individuals. While self-tracking tools help PCOS patients to monitor their symptoms and find person…

CSCW '241st AuthorSession 2b: Exploring Race, Gender, and Identity in Digital Platforms

Examining the Social Aspects of Pregnancy Tracking Applications

Pregnancy is a significant but stressful life transition, requiring effort from multiple stakeholders including expectant parents, family members, and friends to navigate. Existing work has primarily focused on understanding and supporting the technology use of pregnant people, neglecting other stakeholders' needs and…

CHI '242nd AuthorHuman-LLM Collaboration +1

Learning Agent-based Modeling with LLM Companions: Experiences of Novices and Experts Using ChatGPT & NetLogo Chat

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to fundamentally change the way people engage in computer programming. Agent-based modeling (ABM) has become ubiquitous in natural and social sciences and education, yet no prior studies have explored the potential of LLMs to assist it. We designed NetLogo Chat to suppor…

CHI '241st AuthorReproductive & Women's Health +1

Unpacking the Lived Experience of Collaborative Pregnancy Tracking

Pregnancy brings physical, emotional, and economic challenges for expectant parent(s), close relatives, and friends. Existing technology support, including tracking technology, largely targets pregnant people and ignores other stakeholders. We therefore lack an understanding of how to approach designing collaborative…

CSCW '221st AuthorData and Privacy; Data and Privacy

Understanding Cultural Influence on Perspectives Around Contact Tracing Strategies

Contact tracing, a major way to curb COVID-19, has been employed worldwide, with human interviewing and proximity tracing technology as two major approaches. While previous research has contributed some understanding of people's perspectives on contact tracing technology, much of this is based in single countries or r…

CSCW '211st AuthorOnline Health Communities

A Model of Socially Sustained Self-Tracking for Food and Diet

Studies of personal informatics systems primarily examine people’s use or non-use, but people often leverage other technology towards their long-term behavior change processes such as social platforms. We explore how tracking technologies and social platforms together help people build healthy eating behaviors by inte…

DIS '211st AuthorMultilingual & Cross-Cultural Voice Interaction +2

How Cultural Norms Influence Persuasive Design: A Study on Chinese Food Journaling Apps

Persuasive features are often used in food journaling apps to help people reach various personal goals. Our understanding of persuasive design in food journaling apps has primarily been built from studying and designing apps in Western contexts. However, varied cultural perceptions around journaling goals, such as hea…

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