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CHI '24Generative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

PromptCharm: Text-to-Image Generation through Multi-modal Prompting and Refinement

The recent advancements in Generative AI have significantly advanced the field of text-to-image generation. The state-of-the-art text-to-image model, Stable Diffusion, is now capable of synthesizing high-quality images with a strong sense of aesthetics. Crafting text prompts that align with the model's interpretation…

CHI '24Cognitive Impairment & Neurodiversity (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia) +2

Toward Supporting Adaptation: Exploring Affect’s Role in Cognitive Load when Using a Literacy Game

Educational technologies have been argued to enhance specific aspects of affect, such as motivation, and through that learner experiences and outcomes. Until recently, affect has been considered separately from cognition. In this study, we investigated how learner affect (valence and activation) was tied to learner co…

UBICOMP '23Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Support (Captions, Sign Language, Vibration) +1

“It’s Not an Issue of Malice, but of Ignorance”: Towards Inclusive Video Conferencing for Presenters Who are d/Deaf or Hard of Hearing

"As video conferencing (VC) has become necessary for many professional, educational, and social tasks, people who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) face distinct accessibility barriers. We conducted studies to understand the challenges faced by DHH people during VCs and found that they struggled to easily present o…

CSCW '23Collaboration II

Exploring Collaborative Culture Sharing Dynamics in Immigrant Families through Digital Crafting and Storytelling

Families strengthen bonds by collectively constructing social identity through sharing stories, language, and culture. For immigrant families, language and culture barriers disrupt the mechanisms for maintaining intergenerational connection. Immigrant grandparents and grandchildren are particularly at risk of disconne…

CHI '23Explainable AI (XAI) +1

DeepSeer: Interactive RNN Explanation and Debugging via State Abstraction

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been widely used in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks given its superior performance on processing sequential data. However, it is challenging to interpret and debug RNNs due to the inherent complexity and the lack of transparency of RNNs. While many explainable AI (XAI) tec…

CHI '23Eye Tracking & Gaze Interaction +1

Dynamics of eye-hand coordination are flexibly preserved in eye-cursor coordination during an online, digital, object interaction task

Do patterns of eye-hand coordination observed during real-world object interactions apply to digital, screen-based object interactions? We adapted a real-world object interaction task (physically transferring cups in sequence about a tabletop) into a two-dimensional screen-based task (dragging-and-dropping circles in…

CHI '23AI-Assisted Creative Writing +1

Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: Evaluation By Industry Professionals

Language models are increasingly attracting interest from writers. However, such models lack long-range semantic coherence, limiting their usefulness for longform creative writing. We address this limitation by applying language models hierarchically, in a system we call Dramatron. By building structural context via p…

CHI '23Explainable AI (XAI) +2

DeepLens: Interactive Out-of-distribution Data Detection in NLP Models

Machine Learning (ML) has been widely used in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. A fundamental assumption in ML is that training data and real-world data should follow a similar distribution. However, a deployed ML model may suffer from out-of-distribution (OOD) issues due to distribution shifts in the re…

CHI '21Social & Collaborative VR +2

Tele-Immersive Improv: Effects of Immersive Visualisations on Rehearsing and Performing Theatre Online

Performers acutely need but lack tools to remotely rehearse and create live theatre, particularly due to global restrictions on social interactions during the Covid-19 pandemic. No studies, however, have heretofore examined how remote video-collaboration affects performance. This paper presents the findings of a field…

IUI '18Voice Accessibility +2

Touch-Supported Voice Recording to Facilitate Forced Alignment of Text and Speech in an E-Reading Interface

Reading a book together with a family member who has impaired vision or other difficulties reading is an important social bonding activity. However, for the person being read to, there is little support in making these experiences repeatable. While audio can easily be recorded, synchronizing it with the text for later…

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