Shuo Niu

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Negotiating Digital Identities with AI Companions: Motivations, Strategies, and Emotional Outcomes

AI companions enable deep emotional relationships by engaging a user's sense of identity, but they also pose risks like unhealthy emotional dependence. Mitigating these risks requires first understanding the underlying process of identity construction and negotiation with AI companions. Focusing on Character.AI (C.AI)…

CHI '261st AuthorGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

Creating Disability Story Videos with Generative AI: Motivation, Expression, and Sharing

Generative AI (GenAI) is both promising and challenging in supporting people with disabilities (PwDs) in creating stories about disability. GenAI can reduce barriers to media production and inspire the creativity of PwDs, but it may also introduce biases and imperfections that hinder its adoption for personal expressi…

CHI '26CorrespondingGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +3

When Generative AI Is Intimate, Sexy, and Violent: Examining Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) Chatbots on FlowGPT

User-created chatbots powered by generative AI offer new ways to share and interact with Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) content. However, little is known about the characteristics of these GenAI-based chatbots and their user interactions. Drawing on the functional theory of NSFW on social media, this study analyzes 376 NSFW…

CUI '251st AuthorConversational Chatbots +2

Chat with the 'For You' Algorithm: An LLM-Enhanced Chatbot for Controlling Video Recommendation Flow

The rise of short-form video platforms like TikTok, driven by algorithmic recommendations, fosters immersive flow experiences. While users value personalization and engagement, they also seek greater agency over their For You recommendations. This paper designs, prototypes, and evaluates TKGPT, an LLM-enhanced convers…

CSCW '241st AuthorSession 2c: Blind Users and Collaborative Sensing

Please Understand My Disability: An Analysis of YouTubers’ Discourse on Disability Challenges

Video-sharing platforms offer a unique avenue for people with disabilities (PWDs) to highlight their experiences, including the challenges and accessibility barriers they face. While creators with disabilities effectively use these platforms to share their life struggles and advocate for societal changes, the scope of…

CHI '23CorrespondingLive Streaming & Spectating Experience +1

A Literature Review of Video-Sharing Platform Research in HCI

Video-sharing platforms (VSPs) such as YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch have grown rapidly in recent years and attracted millions of users. Research topics such as online communities, video interactions, and recommendation algorithms have drawn increasing attention. Group and community dynamics were also examined with live…

CSCW '221st AuthorSocial Media; Social Media

Education, Personal Experiences, and Advocacy: Examining Drug-Addiction Videos on YouTube

Drug addiction has become one of the most severe worldwide social problems. Recent research has examined utilizing social media to support addiction recovery and the problematic use of social media for selling drugs and glamorizing drug use. Prior studies have focused on textual and networking-based social media such…

CHI '221st AuthorDigital Art Installations & Interactive Performance +1

Close-up and Whispering: An Understanding of Multimodal and Parasocial Interactions in YouTube ASMR videos

ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) has grown to immense popularity on YouTube and drawn HCI designers' attention to its effects and applications in design. YouTube ASMR creators incorporate visual elements, sounds, motifs of touching and tasting, and other scenarios in multisensory video interactions to deliv…

CSCW '211st AuthorCommunity Reflections

#TeamTrees: Investigating How YouTubers Participate in a Social Media Campaign

YouTube is not only a platform for content creators to share videos but also a virtual venue for hosting community activities, such as social media campaigns (SMCs). SMCs for public awareness is a growing and reoccurring phenomenon on YouTube, during which content creators make videos to engage their audience and rais…

CHI '211st AuthorMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +1

#StayHome #WithMe: How Do YouTubers Help With COVID-19 Loneliness?

Loneliness threatens public mental wellbeing during COVID-19. In response, YouTube creators participated in the #StayHome #WithMe movement (SHWM) and made myriad videos for people experiencing loneliness or boredom at home. User-shared videos generate parasocial attachment and virtual connectedness. However, there is…

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