Clark University

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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 '26Generative 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 '26Generative 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 '25Conversational 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 '24Session 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 '24Privacy by Design & User Control +1

The Impact of Risk Appeal Approaches on Users’ Sharing Confidential Information

End-to-end encrypted email can help users prevent unauthorized access of their sensitive information. However, many users struggle to utilize encryption tools due to usability issues and low understanding. Thus, we designed video messaging interventions to persuade users to use email encryption software (Virtru). Our…

CHI '23Live 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 '22Social 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 '22Digital 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 '21Community 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…

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AI & Machine Learning Interaction

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Privacy, Security & Trust

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Digital Art Installations & Interactive Performance