Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal

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CSCW '25Communicating With/Through AI

Interrogating AI: Characterizing Emergent Playful Interactions with ChatGPT

In an era of AI's growing capabilities and influences, recent advancements are reshaping HCI and CSCW's view of AI. Playful interactions emerged as an important way for users to make sense of the ever-changing AI technologies, yet remained underexamined. We target this gap by investigating playful interactions exhibit…

CSCW '25Team Work Makes the Dream Work

Who is to Blame: A Comprehensive Review of Challenges and Opportunities in Designer-Developer Collaboration

Software development relies on effective collaboration between Software Development Engineers (SDEs) and User eXperience Designers (UXDs) to create software products of high quality and usability. While this collaboration issue has been explored over the past decades, anecdotal evidence continues to indicate the exist…

CSCW '25Open Source Communities

"Ohhh, he's the boss!": Unpacking Power Dynamics Among Developers, Designers, and End-Users in FLOSS Usability

Addressing usability in free, libre, and open-source software (FLOSS) is a challenging issue, particularly due to a long-existing ``by developer, for developer'' mentality. Engaging designers and end-users to work with developers can help improve its usability, but unequal power dynamics among those stakeholder roles…

UIST '25Human-LLM Collaboration +2

Semantic Commit: Helping Users Update Intent Specifications for AI Memory at Scale

As AI agents increasingly rely on memory systems to align with user intent, updating these memories presents challenges of semantic conflict and ambiguity. Inspired by impact analysis in software engineering, we introduce SemanticCommit, a mixed-initiative interface to help users integrate new intent into intent speci…

CHI '25360° Video & Panoramic Content +2

Dancing With Chains: Ideating Under Constraints With UIDEC in UI/UX Design

UI/UX designers often work under constraints like brand identity, design norms, and industry guidelines. How these constraints impact designers' ideation and exploration processes should be addressed in creativity-support tools for design. Through an exploratory interview study, we identified three designer personas w…

CHI '25360° Video & Panoramic Content +1

Beyond Automation: How Designers Perceive AI as a Creative Partner in the Divergent Thinking Stages of UI/UX Design

Divergent thinking activities, like research and ideation, are key drivers of innovation in UI/UX design. Existing research has explored AI's role in automating design tasks, but leaves a critical gap in understanding how AI specifically influences divergent thinking. To address this, we conducted interviews with 19 p…

CSCW '24Session 3a: Unpacking User Interpretation and System Design

Characterizing Usability Issue Discussions in Open Source Software Projects

Usability is a crucial factor but one of the most neglected concerns in open source software (OSS). While far from an ideal approach, a common practice that OSS communities adopt to collaboratively address usability is through discussions on issue tracking systems (ITSs). However, there is little knowledge about the e…

DIS '24Privacy by Design & User Control +1

Motivating Users to Attend to Privacy: A Theory-Driven Design Study

In modern technology environments, raising users' privacy awareness is crucial. Existing efforts largely focused on privacy policy presentation and failed to systematically address a radical challenge of user motivation for initiating privacy awareness. Leveraging the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), we proposed de…

CHI '24Mental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +1

"It's Sink or Swim": Exploring Patients' Challenges and Tool Needs for Self-Management of Postoperative Acute Pain

Poorly managed postoperative acute pain can have long-lasting negative impacts and pose a major healthcare issue. There is limited investigation to understand and address the unique needs of patients experiencing acute pain. In this paper, we tackle this gap through an interview study with 14 patients who recently und…

CSCW '23Best PaperCollaboration I

SUMMIT: Scaffolding Open Source Software Issue Discussion through Summarization

Issue Tracking Systems (ITS) often support commenting on software issues, which create a space for discussions centered around bug fixes and improvements to the software. For Open Source Software (OSS) projects, issue discussions serve as a crucial collaboration mechanism for diverse stakeholders. However, issue discu…

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