Ziang Xiao

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Let Me Ask You This: How Can a Voice Assistant Elicit Explicit User Feedback?

Voice assistants offer users access to an increasing variety of personalized functionalities. The researchers and engineers who build these experiences rely on various signals from users to create the machine learning models powering them. One type of signal is explicit in situ feedback. While collecting explicit in s…

CSCW '212nd AuthorContent Moderation

Contestability For Content Moderation

Content moderation systems for social media have had numerous issues of bias, in terms of race, gender, and ability among many others. One proposal for addressing such issues in automated decision making is by designing for contestability, whereby users can shape and influence how decisions are made. In this study, we…

CHI '201st AuthorConversational Chatbots +1

If I Hear You Correctly: Building and Evaluating Interview Chatbots with Active Listening Skills

Interview chatbots engage users in a text-based conversation to draw out their views and opinions. It is, however, challenging to build effective interview chatbots that can handle user free-text responses to open-ended questions and deliver engaging user experience. As the first step, we are investigating the feasibi…

IUI '191st AuthorConversational Chatbots +1

Who Should Be My Teammates: Using A Conversational Agent to Understand Individual Differences and Help Teaming

We are building an intelligent agent to help teaming efforts. In this paper, we investigate the real-world use of such an agent to understand students deeply and help student team formation in a large university class involving about 200 students and 40 teams. Specifically, the agent interacted with each student in a…

CSCW '191st AuthorPersuasion and Charity

Should We Use an Abstract Comic Form to Persuade? Experiments with Online Charitable Donation

This paper examines the use of the abstract comic form for persuading online charitable donations. Persuading individuals to contribute to charitable causes online is hard and responses to appeals are typically low; charitable donations share the structure of public goods dilemmas where the rewards are distant and non…

CSCW '182nd AuthorCredibility and Misinformation

To Label or Not to Label: The Effect of Stance and Credibility Labels on Readers' Selection and Perception of News Articles

Social media sites use different labels to help users find and select news feeds. For example, Blue Feed, Red Feed, a news feed created by the Wall Street Journal, use stance labels to separate news articles with opposing political ideologies to help people explore diverse opinions. To combat the spread of fake news,…

IUI '181st AuthorSerious & Functional Games +2

Cubicle: An Adaptive Educational Gaming Platform for Training Spatial Visualization Skills

Research has demonstrated that spatial visualization skills are crucial for success in STEM disciplines. With an increasing number of students entering STEM disciplines, the question of how to effectively train students' spatial visualization skills has become very important. While a scalable existing solution is to i…

IUI '183rd AuthorFull-Body Interaction & Embodied Input +1

Supporting Spatial Skill Learning with Gesture-Based Embodied Design

Prior research has shown that spatial abilities are crucial for STEM achievement and attainment. The connection between the digital and physical worlds provided by embodied interaction has been shown to enhance performance and engagement in educational contexts. Spatial reasoning is a domain that lends itself naturall…

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