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Scaffolding Metacognition with GenAI: Exploring Design Opportunities to Support Task Management for University Students with ADHD

For university students transitioning to an independent and flexible lifestyle, having ADHD poses multiple challenges to their academic task management, which are closely tied to their metacognitive struggles—difficulties in awareness and regulation of one’s own thinking processes. The recently surged Generative AI sh…

Zihao Zhu et al.City University of Hong Kong

Privacy Control in Conversational LLM Platforms: A Walkthrough Study

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into daily life through conversational interfaces, processing user data via natural language inputs and exhibiting advanced reasoning capabilities, which raises new concerns about user control over privacy. While much research has focused on potential privacy ri…

Zhuoyang LI et al.

Eindhoven University of Technology

EmoFlow: From Tracking to Sense-Making of Emotions Through Creative Drawing

While previous research has attempted to link features of individuals' drawings to their emotional states, it often overlooks the deeply personal and context-driven nature of visual expression. To bridge the gap, we conducted a two‑week diary study with 21 participants, who used a custom‑built app to track daily emoti…

Shannon Sie Santosa et al.City University of Hong Kong

Moments That Matter: Co-designing Just-in-Time Support for Disordered Eating Behaviors

Eating disorder (ED) is a psychiatric condition that involves behaviors like binge and restrictive eating with severe health consequences, particularly prevalent among young women. While technology interventions exist, they typically focus on retrospective reflection or general management, missing the time window when…

Minhui Liang et al.City University of Hong Kong

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"Can I Decorate My Teeth With Diamonds?": Exploring Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on Using VR to Reduce Children's Dental Anxiety

Dental anxiety is prevalent among children,often leading to missed treatment and potential negative effects on their mental well-being. While several interventions (e.g., pharmacological and psychotherapeutic techniques) have been introduced for anxiety alleviation, the recently emerged virtual reality (VR) technology…

Yaxuan MAO et al.City University of Hong Kong

Perspectives on VR

SmartEats: Investigating the Effects of Customizable Conversational Agent in Dietary Recommendations

In conversational recommender systems (CRS), the communication characteristics exhibited by the conversational agent (CA) can greatly shape user experience and their perceptions of the recommendation quality. Yet, prior work often adopts a one-size-fits-all approach, leaving the potential benefits of CA customizabilit…

Minhui Liang et al.City University of Hong Kong

Reflecting Upon The Unintended Consequences of Personal Informatics Systems: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies

The HCI community has been actively developing and studying the use of Personal Informatics (PI) systems. While celebrating the headways, researchers have uncovered many unintended consequences of using PI systems, such as data-induced stress and obsessive tracking, but there has been a lack of systematic analysis of…

Yuhan Luo et al.City University of Hong Kong

Customizing Emotional Support: How Do Individuals Construct and Interact With LLM-Powered Chatbots

Personalized support is essential to fulfill individuals’ emotional needs and sustain their mental well-being. Large language models (LLMs), with great customization flexibility, hold promises to enable individuals to create their own emotional support agents. In this work, we developed ChatLab, where users could cons…

Xi Zheng et al.City University of Hong Kong

Signaling Human Intentions to Service Robots: Understanding the Use of Social Cues during In-Person Conversations

As social service robots become commonplace, it is essential for them to effectively interpret human signals, such as verbal, gesture, and eye gaze, when people need to focus on their primary tasks to minimize interruptions and distractions. Toward such a socially acceptable Human-Robot Interaction, we conducted a stu…

Hanfang Lyu et al.Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

StayFocused: Examining the Effects of Reflective Prompts and Chatbot Support on Compulsive Smartphone Use

Amidst the increasingly prevalent smartphone addiction, we introduce StayFocused, a mobile app to help people focus on their tasks at hand by reducing compulsive smartphone use. Besides guiding people to set focus sessions for non-screen time, we incorporated reflective prompts probing individuals' phone-checking inte…

Zhuoyang LI et al.City University of Hong Kong

Emotion Embodied: Unveiling the Expressive Potential of Single-Hand Gestures

Hand gestures are widely used in daily life for expressing emotions, yet gesture input is not part of existing emotion tracking systems. To seek a practical and effortless way of using gestures to inform emotions, we explore the relationships between gestural features and commonly experienced emotions by focusing on s…

Yuhan Luo et al.City University of Hong Kong

Paper Title	Authors	Research Topics
Scaffolding Metacognition with GenAI: Exploring Design Opportunities to Support Task Management for University Students with ADHD For university students transitioning to an independent and flexible lifestyle, having ADHD poses multiple challenges to their academic task management, which are closely tied to their metacognitive struggles—difficulties in awareness and regulation of one’s own thinking processes. The recently surged Generative AI sh…	ZZ Zihao Zhu et al.City University of Hong Kong
Privacy Control in Conversational LLM Platforms: A Walkthrough Study Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into daily life through conversational interfaces, processing user data via natural language inputs and exhibiting advanced reasoning capabilities, which raises new concerns about user control over privacy. While much research has focused on potential privacy ri…	ZL Zhuoyang LI et al.Eindhoven University of Technology
emoji_events EmoFlow: From Tracking to Sense-Making of Emotions Through Creative Drawing While previous research has attempted to link features of individuals' drawings to their emotional states, it often overlooks the deeply personal and context-driven nature of visual expression. To bridge the gap, we conducted a two‑week diary study with 21 participants, who used a custom‑built app to track daily emoti…	SS Shannon Sie Santosa et al.City University of Hong Kong
Moments That Matter: Co-designing Just-in-Time Support for Disordered Eating Behaviors Eating disorder (ED) is a psychiatric condition that involves behaviors like binge and restrictive eating with severe health consequences, particularly prevalent among young women. While technology interventions exist, they typically focus on retrospective reflection or general management, missing the time window when…	ML Minhui Liang et al.City University of Hong Kong
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"Can I Decorate My Teeth With Diamonds?": Exploring Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on Using VR to Reduce Children's Dental Anxiety Dental anxiety is prevalent among children,often leading to missed treatment and potential negative effects on their mental well-being. While several interventions (e.g., pharmacological and psychotherapeutic techniques) have been introduced for anxiety alleviation, the recently emerged virtual reality (VR) technology…	YM Yaxuan MAO et al.City University of Hong Kong	Perspectives on VR
SmartEats: Investigating the Effects of Customizable Conversational Agent in Dietary Recommendations In conversational recommender systems (CRS), the communication characteristics exhibited by the conversational agent (CA) can greatly shape user experience and their perceptions of the recommendation quality. Yet, prior work often adopts a one-size-fits-all approach, leaving the potential benefits of CA customizabilit…	ML Minhui Liang et al.City University of Hong Kong
Reflecting Upon The Unintended Consequences of Personal Informatics Systems: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies The HCI community has been actively developing and studying the use of Personal Informatics (PI) systems. While celebrating the headways, researchers have uncovered many unintended consequences of using PI systems, such as data-induced stress and obsessive tracking, but there has been a lack of systematic analysis of…	YL Yuhan Luo et al.City University of Hong Kong
Customizing Emotional Support: How Do Individuals Construct and Interact With LLM-Powered Chatbots Personalized support is essential to fulfill individuals’ emotional needs and sustain their mental well-being. Large language models (LLMs), with great customization flexibility, hold promises to enable individuals to create their own emotional support agents. In this work, we developed ChatLab, where users could cons…	XZ Xi Zheng et al.City University of Hong Kong
emoji_events Signaling Human Intentions to Service Robots: Understanding the Use of Social Cues during In-Person Conversations As social service robots become commonplace, it is essential for them to effectively interpret human signals, such as verbal, gesture, and eye gaze, when people need to focus on their primary tasks to minimize interruptions and distractions. Toward such a socially acceptable Human-Robot Interaction, we conducted a stu…	HL Hanfang Lyu et al.Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
StayFocused: Examining the Effects of Reflective Prompts and Chatbot Support on Compulsive Smartphone Use Amidst the increasingly prevalent smartphone addiction, we introduce StayFocused, a mobile app to help people focus on their tasks at hand by reducing compulsive smartphone use. Besides guiding people to set focus sessions for non-screen time, we incorporated reflective prompts probing individuals' phone-checking inte…	ZL Zhuoyang LI et al.City University of Hong Kong
emoji_events Emotion Embodied: Unveiling the Expressive Potential of Single-Hand Gestures Hand gestures are widely used in daily life for expressing emotions, yet gesture input is not part of existing emotion tracking systems. To seek a practical and effortless way of using gestures to inform emotions, we explore the relationships between gestural features and commonly experienced emotions by focusing on s…	YL Yuhan Luo et al.City University of Hong Kong