Ge Gao

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As Content and Layout Co-Evolve: TangibleSite for Scaffolding Blind People’s Webpage Design through Multimodal Interaction

Creating webpages requires generating content and arranging layout while iteratively refining both to achieve a coherent design, a process that can be challenging for blind individuals. To understand how blind designers navigate this process, we conducted two rounds of co-design sessions with blind participants, using…

CHI '26CorrespondingConversational Chatbots +2

Are Conversational AI Agents the Way Out? Co-Designing Reader-Oriented News Experiences with Immigrants and Journalists

Recent discussions at the intersection of journalism, HCI, and human-centered computing ask how technologies can help create reader-oriented news experiences. The current paper takes up this initiative by focusing on immigrant readers, a group who reports significant difficulties engaging with mainstream news yet has…

CSCW '25CorrespondingCollaborating in Virtual Environments

Verisimilitude as Boon and Bane: How People Initiate Opportunistic Interactions at Professional Events in Social VR

Opportunistic interactions, the unstructured exchanges that emerge as individuals become aware of each other's presence, are essential for relationship building and information sharing in everyday life. Yet, fostering effective opportunistic interactions has proven challenging, especially at professional events that h…

CHI '25CorrespondingMultilingual & Cross-Cultural Voice Interaction +2

Sustaining Human Agency, Attending to Its Cost: An Investigation into Generative AI Design for Non-Native Speakers' Language Use

AI systems and tools today can generate human-like expressions on behalf of people. It raises the crucial question about how to sustain human agency in AI-mediated communication. We investigated this question in the context of machine translation (MT) assisted conversations. Our participants included 45 dyads. Each dy…

CHI '255th+ AuthorHuman-LLM Collaboration +2

Comparing Native and Non-native English Speakers’ Behaviors in Collaborative Writing through Visual Analytics

Understanding collaborative writing dynamics between native speakers (NS) and non-native speakers (NNS) is critical for enhancing collaboration quality and team inclusivity. In this paper, we partnered with communication researchers to develop visual analytics solutions for comparing NS and NNS behaviors in 162 writin…

CHI '25CorrespondingMultilingual & Cross-Cultural Voice Interaction +1

The News Says, the Bot Says: How Immigrants and Locals Differ in Chatbot-Facilitated News Reading

News reading helps individuals stay informed about events and developments in society. Local residents and new immigrants often approach the same news differently, prompting the question of how technology, such as LLM-powered chatbots, can best enhance a reader-oriented news experience. The current paper presents an e…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 3a: AI in Creative Workflows: Opportunities and Challenges

(Dis)placed Contributions: Uncovering Hidden Hurdles to Collaborative Writing Involving Non-Native Speakers, Native Speakers, and AI-Powered Editing Tools

Content creation today often takes place via collaborative writing. A longstanding interest of CSCW research lies in understanding and promoting the coordination between co-writers. However, little attention has been paid to individuals who write in their non-native language and to co-writer groups involving them. We…

CHI '24CorrespondingVisualization Perception & Cognition +1

Fragmented Moments, Balanced Choices: How Do People Make Use of Their Waiting Time?

Everyone spends some time waiting every day. HCI research has developed tools for boosting productivity while waiting. However, little is known about how people naturally spend their waiting time. We conducted an experience sampling study with 21 working adults who used a mobile app to report their daily waiting time…

UIST '235th+ AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +1

Use of an AI-powered Rewriting Support Software in Context with Other Tools: A Study of Non-Native English Speakers

Academic writing in English can be challenging for non-native English speakers (NNESs). AI-powered rewriting tools can potentially improve NNESs' writing outcomes at a low cost. However, whether and how NNESs make valid assessments of the revisions provided by these algorithmic recommendations remains unclear. We repo…

CHI '233rd AuthorHonorable MentionOnline Learning & MOOC Platforms +2

Understanding Personal Data Tracking and Sensemaking Practices for Self-Directed Learning in Non-classroom and Non-computer-based Contexts

Self-directed learning is becoming a significant skill for learners. However, learners may suffer from difficulties such as distractions, a lack of motivation, and so on. While self-tracking technologies have the potential to address these challenges, existing tools and systems mainly focused on tracking computer-base…

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