Xiaojuan Ma, Curriculum Vitae

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Clear Water Bay
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Email: mxj(at)cse(dot)ust(dot)hk
Homepage: http://home.cse.ust.hk/~mxj/
Tel: (852) 2358 6991
Fax: (852) 2358 1477
Education
2010
Ph.D.: Human-Computer Interaction,  Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
2007
M.A.: Human-Computer Interaction,  Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
2005
B.Sc.: Computer Science,  Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China
2005
Minor: English,  Tsinghua University, China
Employment
2021-Present
Associate Professor,  Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
2015-2021
Assistant Professor,  Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
2012-2015
Researcher,  Noah's Ark Lab, Hong Kong
2011-2012
Postdoctoral Scholar,  Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Awardee of Computing Innovation Fellow by Computing Research Association (CRA) and National Science Foundation (NSF)
2010-2011
Research Fellow,  Information Systems, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2005-2010
Graduate Research Assistant,  Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
2007
Research Intern,  Psychology and Computer Science, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
2006-2007
User Experience Intern,  Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, USA
Funded Projects
RGC-GRF
16207923: Socially Acceptable Robot Interactions with Objects in Human Environments
PI       HKD 1,228,619       1/1/2024 - 31/12/2026
RGC-GRF
16203421: Teaching Robots Functional Affordance via Knowledge Grounding and Demonstration
PI       HKD 838,393       1/1/2022 - 31/12/2024
RGC-GRF
16204420: Scaling Up Robot Skill Acquisition When Learning from Human Demonstration
PI       HKD 845,055       1/1/2021 - 31/12/2023
(UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant IRS21EG23: HKD 50,000)
RGC-GRF
16204819: Transparency in Robot Learning from Demonstration
PI       HKD 518,999       1/1/2020 - 31/12/2022
(UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant IRS20EG25: HKD 30,000)
RGC-CRF
C6044-23G: Transfer Learning for Smooth Worker-Robot Collaboration in Dynamic and Uncertain Workplaces
Co-PI       HKD 5,071,230       30/6/2024 - 29/6/2027
(UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant VPRDO24EG17: HKD TBD)
RGC-CRF
C6030-18G: A Human-Powered Machine Learning System
Co-PI       HKD 3,716,381       29/6/2019 - 28/6/2022
(UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant VPRDO19EG05: HKD 494,900)
RGC-Theme_based
T45-407/19N-2: Research and Development of Artificial Intelligence in Extraction and Identification of Spoken Language Biomarkers for Screening and Monitoring of Neurocognitive Disorders
PI (sub-contract)       HKD 236,000 (Total Amount HKD 50,000,000 as Co-I)       1/1/2020 - 31/12/2024
(UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant VPRDO20EG03: HKD 52,000)
RGC-Theme_based
T44-707/16N: Learning and Assessment for Digital Citizenship
Co-I       HKD 3,919,000       1/11/2016 - 31/10/2021
(UGC - Research Infrastructure Grant VPRGO17EG03: HKD 549,800)
Internal: 30 for 30
3030_003: A Human-AI Collaboration System for Synthetic Organic Chemistry Research
PI       HKD 500,000       01/03/2023 - 31/03/2025
Internal: Aging Center
VPRDO22EG05PG: Humanoid Robotic Healthcare Assistant
Co-PI       HKD 972,000       01/06/2022 - 31/05/2024
CORE Project
QNLM20SC01-M: Interactive Visual Analytics of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in the South China Sea
PI       HKD 300,000       01/06/2023 - 31/05/2024
ITF-Platform
ITS/353/19FP: A Multi-Modal, Multi-Task Smart In-Car Assistant for 5G Connected Cars
Co-PI       HKD 2,945,000       01/9/2020 - 31/8/2022
ITF-Platform
ITS/319/16FP: Multichannel Emotion and Intent Inference and Expression for Human- Robot Interactions
Co-I       HKD 8,595,928       1/6/2017 - 30/11/2019
HKUST-HKPC
HKPC22EG01-A: Robot Task Learning through Virtual Human Demonstration
PI       HKD 417,391.300       01/08/2022 - 31/12/2023
HKUST-WeBank
WEB19EG01-D: Innovative, Interactive, and Collaborative Online Advertising
Co-I       HKD 418,091       01/09/2019 - 14/04/2022
ASPIRE League Partnership Seed Fund
ASPIRE2021#3: Mitigating Filter Bubbles in Social Media Consumption with AI
co-PI       HKD 50,000       01/09/2021 - 31/08/2023
HKUST-SJTU
SJTU20EG02: Technology-Supported Psychological Wellbeing: Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19
PI       HKD 50,000       1/9/2020 - 31/8/2021
RDC
19201890HWLB15M013: Evaluation Model of Critical Dimensions for Brand Differentiation
PI       HKD 437,450       23/6/2020 - 31/12/2020
RDC
1817169-0, 1718170-0, 1718171-0: Network Embedding on Financial Data
PI       HKD 568,856       1/5/2018 - 30/9/2019
WHAT Lab
1617170-0: Pose-based Human Emotion Inference
PI       HKD 188,400       1/2/2017 - 13/1/2018
WHAT Lab
1516144-0: Multimodality Footing in Human-Robot Conversations
PI       HKD 162,000       15/2/2016 - 14/2/2017
Initiation Grant
IGN15EG02: Developing a sensible model of engagement in multi-party interactions in human-robot team
PI       HKD 172,900       1/1/2016 - 31/12/2017
REC
REC15EG04: Research Equipment Competition
PI       HKD 520,560       14/12/2015 - 10/6/2016
Publications (Typographic Conventions: graduate advisees are in underlined italic, other research mentees e.g., postdocs, ras, interns, fyp/fyt/urop/independent work students are in underlined)
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Books or Book Chapters
Chinese Encyclopedia
Xiaojuan Ma
Online, in Chinese. (last updated, 2022).
Human Factor Usability Testing, Learnability, Satisfaction, Interaction Efficiency, Interaction Channel Capacity, Memorability, Interface Consistency, Error Rate
Co-design of an Interactive Analytics System for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Game Occurrences
Quan Li, Ziming Wu, Huamin Qu, and Xiaojuan Ma
Wallner, G. (Ed.) Data Analytics Applications in Gaming and Entertainment. (July, 2019). (in press, read more)
Cuteness Engineering: Designing Adorable Products and Services
Aaron Marcus, Masaaki Kurosu, Xiaojuan Ma, Ayako Hashizume
Springer Series on Cultural Computing. (2017). Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61961-3. read more
Refereed Journal Papers
DesignQuizzer: A Community-Powered Conversational Agent for Learning Visual Design
Zhenhui Peng, Qiaoyi Chen, Zhiyu Shen, Xiaojuan Ma, and Antti Oulasvirta
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8, CSCW1, Article 44 (April 2024), 40 pages. html, pdf, citation
Designing the Conversational Agent: Asking Follow-up Questions for Information Elicitation
Jiaxiong Hu, Jingya Guo, Ningjing Tang, Xiaojuan Ma, Yuan Yao, Changyuan Yang, Yingqing Xu
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8, CSCW1, Article 43 (April 2024), 30 pages. html, pdf, citation
From reader to experiencer: Design and evaluation of a VR data story for promoting the situation awareness of public health threats
Qian Zhu, Linping Yuan, Zian Xu, Leni Yang, Zhuo Wang, Hai-Ning Liang, and Xiaojuan Ma
International Journal of Human - Computer Studies (IJHCS). Vol. 181. (2024). html, pdf, citation
NL2Color: Refining Color Palettes for Charts with Natural Language
Chuhan Shi, Weiwei Cui, Chengzhong Liu, Chengbo Zheng, Haidong Zhang, Qiong Luo, and Xiaojuan Ma.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 814-824. (2024) html, pdf, citation
Amplifying the music listening experience through song comments on music streaming platforms
Longfei, Qianyu Liu, Chenyang Zhang, Yangkun Huang, Zhenhui Peng, Haipeng Zeng, Zhida Sun, Xiaojuan Ma, and Quan Li
Journal of Visualization html, pdf, citation
Exploring the Effects of Event-induced Sudden Influx of Newcomers to Online Pop Music Fandom Communities: Content, Interaction, and Engagement
Qingyu Guo, Chuhan Shi, Zhuohao Yin, Chengzhong Liu, and Xiaojuan Ma
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW2. , Article 272, 24 pages. (2023). html, pdf, citation
Care Workers’ Wellbeing in Data-Driven Healthcare Workplace: Identity, Agency, and Social Justice
Yuling Sun, Xiaojuan Ma, Silvia Lindtner, and Liang He
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW2. , Article 329, 29 pages. (2023). (Recognition for Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion Award)html, pdf, citation
Data Work of Frontline Care Workers: Practices, Problems, and Opportunities in the Context of Data-Driven Long-Term Care
Yuling Sun, Xiaojuan Ma, Silvia Lindtner, and Liang He
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW1. , Article 42, 28 pages. (2023). (Impact Recognition Award)html, pdf, citation
Balancing Accuracy and Speed in Gaze-Touch Grid Menu Selection in AR via Mapping Sub-Menus to a Hand-Held Device
Yang Tian, Yulin Zheng, Shengdong Zhao, Xiaojuan Ma, and Yunhai Wang
Sensors html, pdf, citation
Modeling Adaptive Expression of Robot Learning Engagement and Exploring its Effects on Human Teachers
Shuai Ma, Mingfei Sun, and Xiaojuan Ma
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). (2022, accepted). , html, pdf, citation
Metaphoraction: Support Gesture-based Interaction Design with Metaphorical Meanings
Zhida Sun, Sitong Wang, Chengzhong Liu, and Xiaojuan Ma
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). (2022). project, html, pdf, citation
CReBot: Exploring interactive question prompts for critical paper reading
Zhenhui Peng, Yuzhi Liu, Hanqi Zhou, Zuyu Xu, and Xiaojuan Ma
International Journal of Human - Computer Studies (IJHCS). (2022, accepted). , html, , citation
Mobilizing Instrumental Childcare Support for Postpartum Mothers: Needs for and Barriers to Infant-centric Family Informatics Practices in Hong Kong
Man Ching Ko and Xiaojuan Ma
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2. , Article 359, 40 pages. (2022). (Featured by ACM Showcase on Kudos: read more) html, pdf, citation
Bias-Aware Design for Informed Decisions: Raising Awareness of Self-Selection Bias in User Ratings and Reviews
Qian Zhu, Leo Yu-Ho Lo, Meng Xia, Zixin Chen, and Xiaojuan Ma
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2. , Article 496, 31 pages. (2022). html, pdf, citation
Persua: A Visual Interactive System to Enhance the Persuasiveness of Arguments in Online Discussion
Meng Xia, Qian Zhu, Xingbo Wang, Fei Nie, Huamin Qu, and Xiaojuan Ma
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2. , Article 319, 30 pages. (2022). html, pdf, citation
PlanHelper: Supporting Activity Plan Construction with Answer Posts in Community-based QA Platforms
Chengzhong Liu, Zeyu Huang, Dingdong Liu, Shixu Zhou, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2. , Article 454, 26 pages. (2022). html, pdf, citation
What Do Users Think of Promotional Gamification Schemes? A Qualitative Case Study in a Question Answering Website
Reza Hadi Mogavi, Yuanhao Zhang, Ehsan-Ul Haq, Yongjin Wu, Pan Hui, and Xiaojuan Ma
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2. , Article 399, 34 pages. (2022). Method Recognition Award html, pdf, citation
More Gamification Is Not Always Better: A Case Study of Promotional Gamification in a Question Answering Website
Reza Hadi Mogavi, Ehsan-Ul Haq, Sujit Gujar, Pan Hui, and Xiaojuan Ma
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2. , Article 452, 32 pages. (2022). html, pdf, citation
MedChemLens: An Interactive Visual Tool to Support Direction Selection in Interdisciplinary Experimental Research of Medicinal Chemistry
Chuhan Shi, Fei Nie, Yicheng Hu, Yige Xu, Lei Chen, Xiaojuan Ma, and Qiong Luo
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). (2022). project, html, pdf, citation
RankAxis: Towards a Systematic Combination of Projection and Ranking in Multi-Attribute Data Exploration
Qiangqiang Liu, Yukun Ren, Zhihua Zhu, Dai Li, Xiaojuan Ma, and Quan Li
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). (2022). html, pdf, citation
PromotionLens: Inspecting Promotion Strategies of Online E-commerce via Visual Analytics
Chenyang Zhang, Xiyuan Wang, Chuyi Zhao, Yijing Ren, Tianyu Zhang, Zhenhui Peng, Xiaomeng Fan, Xiaojuan Ma, and Quan Li
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). (2022). html, pdf, citation
Characterizing and Forecasting Urban Vibrancy Evolution: A Multi-View Graph Mining Perspective
Hao Liu, Qingyu Guo, Hengshu Zhu, Yanjie Fu, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xiaojuan Ma, and Hui Xiong
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data (TKDD). (2022, accepted). html, pdf, citation
Investigating Crowdworkers' Identify, Perception and Practices in Micro-Task Crowdsourcing
Yuling Sun, Xiaojuan Ma, Kai Ye, and Liang He
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, GROUP, Article 35, 20 pages. (2022). html, pdf, citation
Understanding Drivers' Visual and Comprehension Loads in Traffic Violation Hotspots Leveraging Crowd-Based Driving Simulation
Zhihan Jiang, Xin He, Chenhui Lu, Binbin Zhou, Xiaoliang Fan, Cheng Wang, Xiaojuan Ma, Edith C.H. Ngai, and Longbiao Chen
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS). (2022). html, pdf, citation
CrowdPatrol: A Mobile Crowdsensing Framework for Traffic Violation Hotspot Patrolling
Zhihan Jiang, Longbiao Chen, Binbin Zhou, Xiaojuan Ma, Mingfei Sun, Xiaoliang Fan, and Cheng Wang
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). (2021). html, pdf, citation
Inspecting the Running Process of Horizontal Federated Learning via Visual Analytics
Quan Li, Xiguang Wei, Huanbin Lin, Yang Liu, Tianjian Chen, and Xiaojuan Ma
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). (2021, early access). html, pdf, citation
Investigating the Effects of Robot Engagement Communication on Learning from Demonstration
Mingfei Sun, Zhenhui Peng, Meng Xia, and Xiaojuan Ma
International Journal of Social Robotics. (2021, early access). html, pdf, citation
Characterizing Student Engagement Moods for Dropout Prediction in Question Pool Websites
Reza Hadi Mogavi, Xiaojuan Ma, and Pan Hui
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW. Article 12, 22 pages. (2021). html, pdf, citation
CASS: Towards Building a Social-Support Chatbot for Online Health Community
Liuping Wang, Dakuo Wang, Feng Tian, Zhenhui Peng, Xiangmin Fan, Zhan Zhang, Shuai Ma, Mo Yu, Xiaojuan Ma, and Hongan Wang
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW. Article 9, 31 pages (2021). html, pdf, citation
Designing an Artificial Agent for Cognitive Apprenticeship Learning of Elevator Pitch in Virtual Reality
Zhenjie Zhao and Xiaojuan Ma
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS). (2021, early access). html, pdf
QLens: Visual Analytics of Multi-step Problem-solving Behaviors for Improving Question Design
Meng Xia, Palaniyappan Velumani, Panpan Xu, Yong Wang, Huamin Qu, Xiaojuan Ma
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (2020, early access). pdf
Fostering Engagement in Technology-Mediated Stress Management: A Comparative Study of Biofeedback Designs
Zhida Sun, Manuele Reani, Quan Li, Xiaojuan Ma
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) (2020), 102430. html, citation
Sparse Mobile Crowdsensing With Differential and Distortion Location Privacy
Leye Wang, Daqing Zhang, Dingqi Yang, Brian Y. Lim, Xiao Han, Xiaojuan Ma
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. vol. 15, (2020): 2735-2749. html
WeSeer: Visual Analysis for Better Information Cascade Prediction of WeChat Articles
Quan Li, Ziming Wu, Lingling Yi, Kristanto Sean Njotoprawiro, Huamin Qu, and Xiaojuan Ma
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). (2020). vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 1399-1412. pdf
SeqDynamics: Visual Analytics for Evaluating Online Problem-solving Dynamics
Meng Xia, Min Xu, Ta Ying Cheng, Chuan-en Lin, Huamin Qu, and Xiaojuan Ma
Computer Graphics Forum. vol. 39, no. 3, (2020). pp. 511-522. pdf
Ridesharing car detection by transfer learning
Leye Wang, Xu Geng, Xiaojuan Ma, Daqing Zhang, and Qiang Yang
Artificial Intelligence. (2019). 273: 1-18. html
DataShot: Automatic Generation of Fact Sheet from Tabular Data
Yun Wang*, Zhida Sun*, Haidong Zhang, Weiwei Cui, Ke Xu, Xiaojuan Ma, and Dongmei Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). (2019). 26(1): 895-905. (* Equal Contributions) pdf
Love in Lyrics: An Exploration of Supporting Textual Manifestation of Affection in Social Messaging
Taewook Kim, Jungsoo Lee, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 3, CSCW. (2019). pdf, citation
ShadowPlay2.5D: A 360-Degree Video Authoring Tool for Immersive Appreciation of Classical Chinese Poetry
Zhenjie Zhao and Xiaojuan Ma
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH). Article No.: 5. 20 pages. (2019). html
Gender Profiling from a Single Snapshot of Apps Installed on a Smartphone: An Empirical Study
Sha Zhao, Yizhi Xu, Xiaojuan Ma, Ziwen Jiang, Zhiling Luo, Shijian Li, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Anind Dey, and Gang Pan
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 16(2), 1330-1342. (2019). pdf
Mobile Crowdsourcing Task Allocation with Differential-and-Distortion Geo-Obfuscation
Leye Wang, Dingqi Yang, Xiao Han, Daqing Zhang, and Xiaojuan Ma
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 18(2), 967-981 (published 2020, early access 2019). pdf, citation
Exploring how software developers work with mention bot in GitHub
Zhenhui Peng and Xiaojuan Ma
CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction. 1: 190–203. (2019). html
A survey on construction and enhancement methods in service chatbots design
Zhenhui Peng and Xiaojuan Ma
CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction. 1: 204-223. (2019). html
Professional Medical Advice at your Fingertips: An empirical study of an online “Ask the Doctor” Platform
Xiaojuan Ma, Xinning Gui, Jiayue Fan, Mingqian Zhao, Yunan Chen, and Kai Zheng
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 2, no. CSCW (2018): 116. html, pdf, citation
Mediating Color Filter Exploration with Color Theme Semantics Derived from Social Curation Data
Ziming Wu, Zhida Sun, Taewook Kim, Manuele Reani, Caroline Jay, and Xiaojuan Ma
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 2, no. CSCW (2018): 187. pdf, citation
Storytelling and visualization: An extended survey
Chao Tong, Richard Roberts, Rita Borgo, Sean Walton, Robert Laramee, Kodzo Wegba, Aidong Lu, Yun Wang, Huamin Qu, Qiong Luo, Xiaojuan Ma
Information. 9, no. 3 (2018): 65. html
Data-driven approach to human-engaged computing
Xiaojuan Ma
International series on information systems and management in creative eMedia (CreMedia). 2017, no. 2 (2018): pp. 43-47. pdf
A Visual Analytics Approach for Understanding Reasons behind Snowballing and Comeback in MOBA Games
Quan Li, Peng Xu, Yeuk Yin Chan, Yun Wang, Zhipeng Wang, Huamin Qu, and Xiaojuan Ma
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). 23, no. 1 (2017): 211-220. pdf
Tripartite Effects: Exploring Users’ Mental Model of Mobile Gestures under the Influence of Operation, Handheld Posture, and Interaction Space
Kening Zhu, Xiaojuan Ma, Haoyuan Chen, and Miaoyin Liang
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (IJHCI). 33, no. 6 (2017): 443-459. html
Crowddeliver: planning city-wide package delivery paths leveraging the crowd of taxis
Chao Chen, Daqing Zhang, Xiaojuan Ma, Bin Guo, Leye Wang, Yasha Wang, and Edwin Sha
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 18, no. 6 (2017): 1478-1496. (Featured by IEEE Spectrum: read more)
A generic framework for constraint-driven data selection in mobile crowd photographing
Huihui Chen, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu, Liming Chen, and Xiaojuan Ma
IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 4, no. 1 (2017): 284-296. pdf
Understanding bike trip patterns leveraging bike sharing system open data
Longbiao Chen, Xiaojuan Ma, Gang Pan, and Jérémie Jakubowicz
Frontiers of computer science. 11, no. 1 (2017): 38-48. pdf
MA-SSR: A Memetic Algorithm for Skyline Scenic Routes Planning Leveraging Heterogeneous User-generated Digital Footprints
Chao Chen, Xia Chen, Leye Wang, Xiaojuan Ma, Zhu Wang, Kai Liu, Bin Guo, and Zhen Zhou
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 66, no. 7 (2017): 5723 – 5736. pdf
Container port performance measurement and comparison leveraging ship GPS traces and maritime open data
Longbiao Chen, Daqing Zhang, Xiaojuan Ma, Leye Wang, Shijian Li, Zhaohui Wu, and Gang Pan
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 17, no. 5 (2016): 1227-1242. pdf
MobiGroup: Enabling lifecycle support to social activity organization and suggestion with mobile crowd sensing
Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu, Liming Chen, Xingshe Zhou, and Xiaojuan Ma
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. 46, no. 3 (2016): 390-402. pdf
Developing Design Guidelines for a Visual Vocabulary of Electronic Medical Information to Improve Health Literacy
Xiaojuan Ma
Interacting with Computers (IwC). 28, no. 2 (2015): 151-169. (Best Paper Award at the International Symposium of Interaction Design and Human Factors - IDHF2014 ) html, citation
Data-driven techniques to assist design of perceptually effective visual displays
Xiaojuan Ma
Information Design Journal (IDJ). 21, no. 3 (2014). (Cover article)html, citation
TripPlanner: Personalized trip planning leveraging heterogeneous crowdsourced digital footprints
Chao Chen, Daqing Zhang, Bin Guo, Xiaojuan Ma, Gang Pan, and Zhaohui Wu
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 16, no. 3 (2015): 1259-1273. pdf
Evocation: analyzing and propagating a semantic link based on free word association
Xiaojuan Ma
Language Resources and Evaluation. 47, no. 3 (2013): 819-837. html
Semantic labeling of nonspeech audio clips
Xiaojuan Ma, Christiane Fellbaum, and Perry Cook
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing. 2010, no. 1 (2010): 404860. pdf
Refereed Conference Papers
Designing Scaffolding Strategies for Conversational Agents in Dialog Task of Neurocognitive Disorders Screening
Jiaxiong Hu, Junze Li, Yuhang Zeng, Dongjie Yang, Danxuan Liang, Helen Meng, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2024) html, pdf, citation
Sharing Frissons among Online Video Viewers: Exploring the Design of Affective Communication for Aesthetic Chills
Zeyu Huang, Xinyi Cao, Yuanhao Zhang, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2024) html, pdf, citation
"Are You Really Sure?'' Understanding the Effects of Human Self-Confidence Calibration in AI-Assisted Decision Making
Shuai Ma, Xinru Wang, Ying Lei, Chuhan Shi, Ming Yin, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2024) (Best Paper Award at the GBA HCI Forum Pre-CHI 2024 ) html, pdf, citation
DiaryHelper: Exploring the Use of an Automatic Contextual Information Recording Agent for Elicitation Diary Study
Junze Li, Changyang He, Jiaxiong Hu, Boyang Jia, Alon Halevy, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2024) html, pdf, citation
Charting the Future of AI in Project-Based Learning: A Co-Design Exploration with Students
Chengbo Zheng, Kangyu Yuan, Bingcan Guo, Reza Hadi Mogavi, Zhenhui Peng, Shuai Ma, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2024) html, pdf, citation
Make Interaction Situated: Designing User Acceptable Interaction for Situated Visualization in Public Environments
Qian Zhu, Zhuo Wang, Wei Zeng, Wai Tong, Weiyue Lin, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2024) html, pdf, citation
Technology-Mediated Non-pharmacological Interventions for Dementia: Needs for and Challenges in Professional, Personalized and Multi-Stakeholder Collaborative Interventions
Yuling Sun, Zhennan Yi, Xiaojuan Ma, Junyan Mao, and Xin Tong
In Proc. ACM CHI2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2024) (Best Paper Award at CHI2024) html, pdf, citation
“It is hard to remove from my eye”: Design Makeup Residue Visualization System for Chinese Traditional Opera (Xiqu) Performers
Zeyu Xiong, Shihan Fu, Yanying Zhu, Chenqing Zhu, Xiaojuan Ma, and Mingming Fan
In Proc. ACM CHI2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2024) (Honorable Mention Award at CHI2024) html, pdf, citation
TypeDance: Creating Semantic Typographic Logos from Image through Personalized Generation
Shishi Xiao, Liangwei Wang, Xiaojuan Ma, and Wei Zeng
In Proc. ACM CHI2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2024) html, pdf, citation
Towards Feature Engineering with Human and AI’s Knowledge: Understanding Data Workers’ Perceptions in Human&AI-Assisted Feature Engineering Design
Qian Zhu, Dakuo Wang, Shuai Ma, April Yi Wang, Zixin Chen, Udayan Khurana, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM DIS2024 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. (2024). html, html, pdf, citation
RetAssist: Facilitating Vocabulary Learners with Generative Images in Story Retelling Practices
Qiaoyi Chen, Siyu Liu, Kaihui Huang, Xingbo Wang, Xiaojuan Ma, Junkai Zhu, and Zhenhui Peng
In Proc. ACM DIS2024 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. (2024). html, pdf, citation
FARPLS: A Feature-Augmented Robot Trajectory Preference Labeling System to Assist Human Labelers’ Preference Elicitation
Hanfang Lyu, Yuanchen Bai, Xin Liang, Ujaan Das, Chuhan Shi, Leiliang Gong, Yingchi Li, Mingfei Sun, Ming Ge, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). (2024) pp. 344-369.html, pdf, citation
A Dialogue System Architecture for Humanoid Robots Targeting Patinet Interview Tasks
Yifan Shen, Dingdong Liu, Yejin Bang, Ho Shu Chan, Rita Frieske, Hoo Choun Chung, Jay Patrick Monton Nieles, Tianjia Zhang, Trung Kien Pham, Wai Yi Rosita Cheng, Yini Fang, Qifeng Chen, Pascale Fung, Xiaojuan Ma, Bertram Emil Shi
In Proc. the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). (2024) (Best Industry Application Award - Bronze at RO-MAN 2024) . html, pdf, citation
CriTrainer: An Adaptive Training Tool for Critical Paper Reading
Kangyu Yuan, Hehai Lin, Shilei Cao, Zhenhui Peng, Qingyu Guo, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'23). (2023). html, pdf, citation
Storyfier: Exploring Vocabulary Learning Support with Text Generation Models
Zhenhui Peng, Xingbo Wang, Qiushi Han, Junkai Zhu, Xiaojuan Ma, and Huamin Qu
In Proc. the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'23). (2023). html, pdf, citation
Who Should I Trust: AI or Myself? Leveraging Human and AI Correctness Likelihood to Promote Appropriate Trust in AI-Assisted Decision-Making
Shuai Ma, Ying Lei, Xinru Wang, Chengbo Zheng, Chuhan Shi, Ming Yin, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2023). html, pdf, citation
Competent but Rigid: Identifying the Gap in Empowering AI to Participate Equally in Group Decision-Making
Chengbo Zheng, Yuheng Wu, Chuhan Shi, Shuai Ma, Jiehui Luo, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2023). html, pdf, citation, press release read more
CoArgue: Fostering Lurkers’ Contribution to Collective Arguments in Community-based QA Platforms
Chengzhong Liu, Shixu Zhou, Dingdong Liu, Junze Li, Zeyu Huang, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2023). html, pdf, citation
What Makes Creators Engage with Online Critiques? Understanding the Role of Artifacts’ Creation Stage, Characteristics of Community Comments, and their Interactions
Qingyu Guo, Chao Zhang, Hanfang Lyu, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2023). html, pdf, citation
RetroLens: A Human-AI Collaborative System for Multi-step Retrosynthetic Route Planning
Chuhan Shi, Yicheng Hu, Shenan Wang, Shuai Ma, Chengbo Zheng, Xiaojuan Ma, and Qiong Luo
In Proc. ACM CHI2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2023). html, pdf, citation
PopBlends: Strategies for Conceptual Blending with Large Language Models
Sitong Wang, Savvas Petridis, Taeahn Kwon, Xiaojuan Ma, and Lydia Chilton
In Proc. ACM CHI2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2023). html, pdf, citation
IntimaSea: Exploring Shared Stress Display in Close Relationships
Yanqi Jiang, Xianghua Ding, Xiaojuan Ma, Zhida Sun, and Ning Gu
In Proc. ACM CHI2023 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2023). html, pdf, citation
Understanding and Modeling Viewers’ First Impressions with Images in Online Medical Crowdfunding Campaigns
Qingyu Guo, Siyuan Zhou, Yifeng Wu, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2022). html, pdf, citation
Glancee: An Adaptable System for Instructors to Grasp Student Learning Status in Synchronous Online Classes
Shuai Ma, Taichang Zhou, Fei Nie, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2022). html, pdf, citation
How to Save Lives with Microblogs? Lessons From the Usage of Weibo for Requests for Medical Assistance During COVID-19
Wenjie Yang, Zhiyang Wu, Nga Yiu Mok, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2022). html, pdf, citation
A Personalized Visual Aid for Selections of Appearance Building Products with Long-term Effects
Chuhan Shi, Zhihan Jiang, Xiaojuan Ma, and Qiong Luo
In Proc. ACM CHI2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2022). html, pdf, citation
Telling Stories from Computational Notebooks: AI-Assisted Presentation Slides Creation for Presenting Data Science Work
Chengbo Zheng, Dakuo Wang, April Yi Wang, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2022). html, pdf, citation
TalkTive: A Conversational Agent Using Backchannels to Engage Older Adults in Neurocognitive Disorders Screening
Zijian Ding, Jiawen Kang, Tinky Oi Ting HO, Ka Ho Wong, Helene H Fung, Helen Meng, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2022). html, pdf, citation
RoleSeer: Understanding Informal Social Role Changes in MMORPGs via Visual Analytics
Laixin Xie, Ziming Wu, Peng Xu, Wei Li, Xiaojuan Ma, and Quan Li
In Proc. ACM CHI2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2022). html, pdf, citation
Educational Question Generation of Children Storybooks via Question Type Distribution Learning and Event-centric Summarization
Zhenjie Zhao, Yufang Hou, Dakuo Wang, Mo Yu, Chengzhong Liu, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACL22. (2022). html, pdf, citation
Fantastic Questions and Where to Find Them: FairytaleQA -- An Authentic Dataset for Narrative Comprehension
Ying Xu, Dakuo Wang, Mo Yu, Daniel Ritchie, Bingsheng Yao, Tongshuang Wu, Zheng Zhang, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Nora Bradford, Branda Sun, Tran Bao Hoang, Yisi Sang, Yufang Hou, Xiaojuan Ma, Diyi Yang, Nanyun Peng, Zhou Yu, Mark Warschauer
In Proc. ACL22. (2022). html, pdf, citation
Know it to Defeat it: Exploring Health Rumor Characteristics and Debunking Efforts on Chinese Social Media during COVID-19 Crisis
Wenjie Yang, Sitong Wang, Zhenhui Peng, Chuhan Shi, Xiaojuan Ma, and Diyi Yang
In Proc. AAAI ICWSM22. (2022). html, pdf1, pdf2, citation
Exploring the Effects of Self-Mockery to Improve Task-Oriented Chatbot’s Social Intelligence
Chengzhong Liu, Shixu Zhou, Yuanhao Zhang, Dingdong Liu, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM DIS22. (2022). (accepted). html, pdf, citation
The Crafts+Fabrication Workshop: Engaging Students with Intangible Cultural Heritage-Oriented Creative Design
Zhicong Lu, Peng Tan, Yi Ji, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM DIS22. (2022). (accepted). html, pdf, citation
Evaluating the Effect of Enhanced Text-Visualization Integration on Combating Misinformation in Data Story
Chengbo Zheng and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. IEEE PacificVis22. (2022). (accepted). video, pdf, citation
Building Knowledge Graphs of Experientially Related Concepts
Wenjie Yang and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. Automated Knowledge Base Construction Conference (AKBC). (2022). html, pdf1, pdf2, citation
Automatic Speech Recognition Datasets in Cantonese: A Survey and New Dataset
Tiezheng Yu, Rita Frieske, Peng Xu, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Cheuk Tung Yiu, Holy Lovenia, Wenliang Dai, Elham J. Barezi, Qifeng Chen, Xiaojuan Ma, Bert Shi, and Pascale Fung
In Proc. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). (2022). html, pdf, citation
CI-AVSR: A Cantonese Audio-Visual Speech Dataset for In-car Command Recognition
Wenliang Dai, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Tiezheng Yu, Elham J. Barezi, Peng Xu, Cheuk Tung Yiu, Rita Frieske, Holy Lovenia, Genta Winata, Qifeng Chen, Xiaojuan Ma, Bert Shi, and Pascale Fung
In Proc. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). (2022). html, pdf, citation
ASCEND: A Spontaneous Chinese-English Dataset for Code-switching in Multi-turn Conversation
Holy Lovenia, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Genta Winata, Peng Xu, Xu Yan, Zihan Liu, Rita Frieske, Tiezheng Yu, Dai Wenliang, Elham J. Barezi, Qifeng Chen, Xiaojuan Ma, Bert Shi, and Pascale Fung
In Proc. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). (2022). html, pdf, citation
When Gamification Spoils Your Learning: A Qualitative Case Study of Gamification Misuse in a Language-Learning App
Reza Hadi Mogavi, Bingcan Guo, Yuanhao Zhang, Ehsan Ul Haq, Pan Hui, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. Learning at Scale (L@Scale). (2022). (Honorable Mention Award at L@Scale2022) html, pdf, citation
VFLens: Co-design the Modeling Process for Efficient Vertical Federated Learning via Visualization
Yun Tian, He Wang, Laixin Xie, Xiaojuan Ma, and Quan Li
In Proc. Chinese CHI22. (2022). html
Effects of Support-Seekers’ Community Knowledge on Their Expressed Satisfaction with the Received Comments in Mental Health Communities
Zhenhui Peng, Xiaojuan Ma, Diyi Yang, Ka Wing Tsang, and Qingyu Guo
In Proc. ACM CHI2021 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2021). 18 pages. html, pdf, citation
MetaMap: Supporting Visual Metaphor Ideation through Multi-dimensional Example-based Exploration
Youwen Kang*, Zhida Sun*, Sitong Wang, Zeyu Huang, Ziming Wu, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2021 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2021). 22 pages. (*Equal contributions) html, pdf, project, citation
Hybrid Paper-Digital Interfaces: A Systematic Literature Review
Feng Han*, Yifei Cheng*, Megan Strachan, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS). (2021). (*equal contribution) html, pdf, citation
Exploring Designers’ Practice of Online Example Management for Supporting Mobile UI Design
Ziming Wu*, Qianyao Xu*, Yiding Liu*, Zhenhui Peng, Yingqing Xu, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI). (2021). (*equal contribution)html, pdf, citation
Student Barriers to Active Learning in Synchronous Online Classes: Characterization, Reflections, and Suggestions
Reza Hadi Mogavi, Yankun Zhao, Ehsan Ul Haq, Pan Hui, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. Learning at Scale (L@Scale). (2021). html, pdf, citation
CovidPass: A Contactless Check-In System for Keeping Social Distance in Public Health Crisis
Xin He, Hong Hong, Yanwen Liu, Yongchuan Li, Zhihan Jiang, Xiaojuan Ma, Longbiao Chen, and Cheng Wang
In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC). (2021). html
Inspecting the Process of Bank Credit Rating via Visual Analytics
Qiangqiang Liu, Quan Li, Zhihua Zhu, Tangzhi Ye, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS). (2021). html, pdf, citation
Understanding Players' Interaction Patterns with Mobile Game App UI via Visualizations
Quan Li, Haipeng Zeng, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. Chinese CHI21. (2021). (Best Paper Award). pdf
Exploring the Effects of Technological Writing Assistance for Support Providers in Online Mental Health Community
Zhenhui Peng, Qingyu Guo, Ka Wing Tsang, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2020). pp. 1-15. html, pdf, citation
Predicting and Diagnosing User Engagement with Mobile UI Animation via a Data-Driven Approach
Ziming Wu, Yulun Jiang, Yiding Liu, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2020). pp. 1-13. html, pdf, citation
ARchitect: Building Interactive Virtual Experiences from Physical Affordances by Bringing Human-in-the-Loop
Chuan-en Lin*, Ta Ying Cheng*, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2020). pp. 1-13. (* Equal Contributions) html, pdf, citation
VoiceCoach: Interactive Evidence-based Training for Voice Modulation Skills in Public Speaking
Xingbo Wang, Haipeng Zeng, Yong Wang, Aoyu Wu, Zhida Sun, Xiaojuan Ma, and Huamin Qu
In Proc. ACM CHI2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2020). pp. 1-12. html, pdf, citation
RestoreVR: Generating Embodied Knowledge and Situated Experience of Dunhuang Mural Conservation via Interactive Virtual Reality
Xinyi Fu, Yaxin Zhu, Zhijing Xiao, Yingqing Xu, and Xiaojuan Ma*
In Proc. ACM CHI2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2020). pp. 1-13. (* Corresponding Author) html, pdf, citation
MaraVis: Representation and Coordinated Intervention of Medical Encounters in Urban Marathon
Quan Li, Huabin Lin, Xiguang Wei, Kangkun Huang, Lixin Fan, Jian Du, Xiaojuan Ma, and Tianjian Chen
In Proc. ACM CHI2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2020). pp. 1-12. html, pdf, citation
Getting the Healthcare We Want: the Use of Online "Ask the Doctor" Platforms in Practice
Xianghua Ding, Xinning Gui, Xiaojuan Ma, Zhaofei Ding, and Yunan Chen
In Proc. ACM CHI2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2020). pp. 1-13. (Honorable Mention Award at CHI2020) html, pdf, citation
EmoG: Supporting the Sketching of Emotional Expressions for Storyboarding
Yang Shi, Nan Cao, Xiaojuan Ma, Siji Chen, and Pei Liu
In Proc. ACM CHI2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2020). pp. 1-12. (Featured by Japanese Media ITmedia NEWS) html, pdf, citation
"A Postcard from Your Food Journey in the Past": Promoting Self-Reflection on Social Food Posting
Zhida Sun, Sitong Wang, Wenjie Yang, Onur Yürüten, Chuhan Shi, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS). (2020). pp. 1819-1832. html, pdf, citation
Learning Physical Common Sense as Knowledge Graph Completion via BERT Data Augmentation and Constrained Tucker Factorization
Zhenjie Zhao, Evangelos Papalexakis, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). (2020). pp. 3293-3298. pdf, html, citation
Using Information Visualization to Promote Students' Reflection on "Gaming the system"
Meng Xia, Yuya Asano, Joseph Jay Williams, Huamin Qu, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. the Seventh ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S). (2020). pp. 37-49. html, pdf, citation
A Visual Analytics Approach to Scheduling Customized Shuttle Buses via Perceiving Passengers' Travel Demands
Qiangqiang Liu, Quan Li, Chunfeng Tang, Huanbin Lin, Xiaojuan Ma, and Tianjian Chen
In Proc. IEEE VIS 2020 Short Paper. (2020). html, pdf, citation
Friend Network as Gatekeeper: A Study of WeChat Users' Consumption of Friend-Curated Contents
Quan Li, Zhenhui Peng, Haipeng Zeng, Qiaoan Chen, Lingling Yi, Ziming Wu, Xiaojuan Ma, and Tianjian Chen
In Proc. Chinese CHI 2020. (2020). html, pdf, citation
Adversarial Imitation Learning from Incomplete Demonstrations
Mingfei Sun and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). (2019). pp. 3513-3519. pdf, citation
Cross-City Transfer Learning for Deep Spatio-Temporal Prediction
Leye Wang, Xu Geng, Xiaojuan Ma, Feng Liu, and Qiang Yang
In Proc. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). (2019). pp. 1893-1899. html, pdf, citation
Design and Evaluation of Service Robot’s Proactivity in Decision-Making Support Process
Zhenhui Peng, Yunhwan Kwon, Jiaan Lu, Ziming Wu, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2019 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2019). pp. 1-13. html, pdf, citation
Understanding and Modeling User-Perceived Brand Personality from Mobile Application UIs
Ziming Wu, Taewook Kim, Quan Li, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM CHI2019 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2019). pp. 1-12. html, pdf, citation
PeerLens: Peer-inspired Interactive Learning Path Planning in Online Question Pool
Meng Xia, Mingfei Sun, Huan Wei, Qing Chen, Yong Wang, Lei Shi, Huamin Qu, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc ACM CHI2019 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2019). pp. 1-12. html, pdf, citation
Rating Worker Skills and Task Strains in Collaborative Crowd Computing: A Competitive Perspective
George Trimponias*, Xiaojuan Ma*, and Qiang Yang
In Proc. ACM The World Wide Web Conference (WWW). (2019). pp. 1853-1863. (* Equal Contributions) html, pdf, citation
Exploring Perceived Emotional Intelligence of Personality-Driven Virtual Agents in Handling User Challenges
Xiaojuan Ma*, Emily Yang*, Pascale Fung
In Proc. ACM The World Wide Web Conference (WWW). (2019). pp. 1222-1233. (* Equal Contributions) html, pdf, citation
Text Emotion Distribution Learning from Small Sample: A Meta-Learning Approach
Zhenjie Zhao, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). (2019). pp. 3948-3958. pdf, citation
Embedding Lexical Features via Tensor Decomposition for Small Sample Humor Recognition
Zhenjie Zhao*, Andrew Cattle*, Evangelos Papalexakis, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). (2019). pp. 6377-6382. (* Equal Contributions) html, pdf, citation
An AR Benchmark System for Indoor Planar Object Tracking
Ziming Wu*, Jiabin Guo*, Shuangli Zhang, Chen Zhao and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME). (2019). pp. 302-307. (* Equal Contributions) pdf
The Acoustic Features and Their Relationship to the Emotional Characteristics of Rain Sound Effects
Wing Lam Sin, Bing Yen Chang, Xiaojuan Ma, and Andrew Horner
In Proc. International Computer Music Conference (ICMC). (2019). pdf
HRCR: Hidden Markov-based Reinforcement to Reduce Churn in Question Answering Forums
Reza Hadi Mogavi, Sujit Gujar, Xiaojuan Ma, and Pan Hui
In Proc. Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI). (2019). pp. 364-376. html
Effects of Ego Networks and Communities on Self-Disclosure in an Online Social Network
Young D. Kwon, Reza Hadi Mogavi, Ehsan Ul Haq, Youngjin Kwon, Xiaojuan Ma, and Pan Hui
In Proc. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM). (2019). pp. 17-24. pdf
A Live Storytelling Virtual Reality System with Programmable Cartoon-style Emotion Embodiment
Zhenjie Zhao, Feng Han, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. the Second IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR). 8942322, (2019). pp. 102-109. pdf
Towards Understanding the Adoption and Social Experience of Digital Wallet Systems
Shiliang Tang, Ziming Wu, Xinyi Zhang, Gang Wang, Xiaojuan Ma, Haitao Zheng, and Ben Zhao
In Proc. the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). (2019). pp. 5093-5102. pdf
VirtualGrasp: Leveraging Experience of Interacting with Physical Objects to Facilitate Digital Object Retrieval
Yukang Yan, Chun Yu, Xiaojuan Ma, Xin Yi, Ke Sun, and Yuanchun Shi
In Proc. ACM CHI 2018 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2018). pp. 1-13. pdf
Eyes-Free Target Acquisition in Interaction Space around the Body for Virtual Reality
Yukang Yan, Chun Yu, Xiaojuan Ma, Shuai Huang, Hasan Iqbal, and Yuanchun Shi
In Proc. ACM CHI 2018 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2018). pp. 1-13. pdf
Geographic differential privacy for mobile crowd coverage maximization
Leye Wang, Gehua Qin, Dingqi Yang, Xiao Han, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). (2018). pp. 200-207. pdf
EmbeddingVis: A Visual Analytics Approach to Comparative Network Embedding Inspection
Quan Li, Kristanto Sean Njotoprawiro, Hammad Haleem, Qiaoan Chen, Chris Yi, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST). (2018). pp. 48-59. pdf
Coloring with Words: Guiding Image Colorization Through Text-based Palette Generation
Hyojin Bahng, Seungjoo Yoo, Wonwoong Cho, David Keetae Park, Ziming Wu, Xiaojuan Ma, and Jaegul Choo
In Proc. the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). (2018). pp. 431-447. read more
The Emotional Characteristics of Rain Sound Effects
Wing Lam Sin, Xiaojuan Ma, and Andrew Horner
In Proc. International Computer Music Conference (ICMC). (2018), pp. 344-349. pdf
A Multi-Phased Co-design of an Interactive Analytics System for MOBA Game Occurrences
Quan Li, Ziming Wu, Peng Xu, Huamin Qu, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS). (2018). pp. 1321-1332. pdf
Recognizing humour using word associations and humour anchor extraction
Andrew Cattle and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). (2018). pp. 1849-1858. pdf
Towards human-engaged AI
Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). (2018). pp. 5682-5686. pdf
Estimating Emotional Intensity from Body Poses for Human-Robot Interaction
Mingfei Sun, Yiqing Mou, Hongwen Xie, Meng Xia, Michelle Wong, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). (2018). pp. 1-6. pdf
A Compensation Method of Two-Stage Image Generation for Human-AI Collaborated In-Situ Fashion Design in Augmented Reality Environment
Zhenjie Zhao and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR). (2018). pp. 76-83. pdf
A neural-network-based investigation of eye-related movements for accurate drowsiness estimation
Mingfei Sun, Masanori Tsujikawa, Yoshifumi Onishi, Xiaojuan Ma, Atsushi Nishino, and Satoshi Hashimoto
In Proc. the 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). (2018). pp. 5207-5210. pdf
Sensing and Handling Engagement Dynamics in Human-Robot Interaction Involving Peripheral Computing Devices
Mingfei Sun, Zhenjie Zhao, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. The 2017 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2017). pp. 556-567. pdf
ViVo: Video-Augmented Dictionary for Vocabulary Learning
Yeshuang Zhu, Yuntao Wang, Chun Yu, Shaoyun Shi, Yankai Zhang, Shuang He, Peijun Zhao, Xiaojuan Ma, and Yuanchun Shi
In Proc. The 2017 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2017). pp. 5568-5579. pdf
Video-based Evanescent, Anonymous, Asynchronous Social Interaction: Motivation and Adaption to Medium
Xiaojuan Ma and Nan Cao
In Proc. the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). (2017). pp. 770-782. pdf, citation
Predicting Word Association Strengths
Andrew Cattle and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). (2017). pp. 1283-1288. pdf
Location Privacy-Preserving Task Allocation for Mobile Crowdsensing with Differential Geo-Obfuscation
Leye Wang, Dingqi Yang, Xiao Han, Tianben Wang, Daqing Zhang, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. the 26th ACM International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW). (2017). pp. 627-636. pdf, citation
A Visual Analytics Approach for Understanding Egocentric Intimacy Network Evolution and Impact Propagation in MMORPGs
Quan Li, Qiaomu Shen, Yao Ming, Peng Xu, Yun Wang, Xiaojuan Ma, and Huamin Qu
In Proc. IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis). (2017). pp. 31-40. pdf
Unpacking Happiness: Lessons from Smartphone Photography among College Students
Yu Chen, Gloria Mark, Sanna Ali, and Xiaojuan Ma
In The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI). (2017). pp. 429-438. pdf
Influence of Content Layout and Motivation on Users' Herd Behavior in Social Discovery
Yanzhen Yue, Xiaojuan Ma, and Zhenhui Jiang
In Proc. the 2016 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2016). pp. 5715-5719. pdf
Dynamic cluster-based over-demand prediction in bike sharing systems
Longbiao Chen, Daqing Zhang, Leye Wang, Dingqi Yang, Xiaojuan Ma, Shijian Li, Zhaohui Wu, Gang Pan, Thi-Mai-Trang Nguyen, and Jérémie Jakubowicz
In Proc. the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). (2016). pp. 841-852. (Honorable Mention Award at Ubicomp2016) pdf
Differential location privacy for sparse mobile crowdsensing
Leye Wang, Daqing Zhang, Dingqi Yang, Brian Y. Lim, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). (2016). pp. 1257-1262. pdf
VideoForest: interactive visual summarization of video streams based on danmu data
Zhida Sun, Mingfei Sun, Nan Cao, and Xiaojuan Ma
In ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Symposium on Visualization. (2016). pp. 1-8. pdf
Animated narrative visualization for video clickstream data
Yun Wang, Zhutian Chen, Xiaojuan Ma, Qiong Luo, and Huamin Qu
In ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Symposium on Visualization. (2016). pp. 1-8. pdf
Blossom: Design of a Tangible Interface for Improving Intergenerational Communication for the Elderly
Mingqian Zhao, Zhutian Chen, Ke Lu, Chaoran Li, Huamin Qu, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. the ACM International Symposium on Interactive Technology and Ageing Populations. (2016). pp. 87-98. pdf
From Breakage to Icebreaker: Inspiration for Designing Technological Support for Human-Human Interaction
Xiaojuan Ma, Ke Fang, and Fengyuan Zhu
In Proc. the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS). (2016). pp. 403-414. pdf
Developing a comprehensive engagement framework of gamification for reflective learning
Chaklam Silpasuwanchai, Xiaojuan Ma, Hiroaki Shigemasu, and Xiangshi Ren
In Proc. the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS). (2016). pp. 459-472. pdf
How Different Input and Output Modalities Support Coding as a Problem-Solving Process for Children
Kening Zhu, Xiaojuan Ma, Gary Ka Wai Wong, and John Man Ho Huen
In Proc. the 15th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC). (2016). pp. 238-245. pdf
From Internet Memes to Emoticon Engineering: Insights from the Baozou Comic Phenomenon in China
Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing. (2016). pp. 15-27. html
Cuteness Design in the UX: An Initial Analysis
Aaron Marcus and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. International Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing. (2016). pp. 46-56. html
Making telecommunications services accessible to people with severe communication disabilities
Rosanna Yuen-Yan Chan, Junnan Ding, Lam Wang Kong, Gladys Yan, Xue Bai, Xiaojuan Ma, Soby So, Xiangjie Wang, and Jessica Tsz Ching Chow
In Proc. IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC). (2016), pp. 105-112. pdf
Bike sharing station placement leveraging heterogeneous urban open data
Longbiao Chen, Daqing Zhang, Gang Pan, Xiaojuan Ma, Dingqi Yang, Kostadin Kushlev, Wangsheng Zhang, and Shijian Li
In Proc. the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). (2015). pp. 571-575. pdf
Exiting the Design Studio: Leveraging Online Participants for Early-Stage Design Feedback
Xiaojuan Ma, Li Yu, Jodi L. Forlizzi, and Steven P. Dow
In Proc. the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW). (2015). pp. 676-685.pdf
Social Eye Tracking: Gaze Recall with Online Crowds
Shiwei Cheng, Zhiqiang Sun, Xiaojuan Ma, Jodi L. Forlizzi, Scott E. Hudson, and Anind Dey
In Proc. the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW). (2015). pp. 454-463. (Honorable Mention Award at CSCW2015) pdf
Bringing Chinese Aesthetics into Designing the Experience of Personal Informatics for Wellbeing
Tina Bin Zhu, Yanqing Zhang, Xiaojuan Ma, and Haibo Li
In Proc. Design and semantics of form and movement (DeSForM). 289 (2015). pdf
Share your view: impact of co-navigation support and status composition in collaborative online shopping
Yanzhen Yue*, Xiaojuan Ma*, and Zhenhui Jiang*
In Proc. the 32nd annual ACM CHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. (2014). pp. 3299-3308. (* equal contribution) pdf
Food messaging: using edible medium for social messaging
Jun Wei, Xiaojuan Ma, and Shengdong Zhao
In Proc. the 32nd annual ACM CHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. (2014). pp. 2873-2882. pdf
Container throughput estimation leveraging ship GPS traces and open data
Longbiao Chen, Daqing Zhang, Gang Pan, Leye Wang, Xiaojuan Ma, Chao Chen, and Shijian Li
In Proc. the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). (2014). pp. 847-851. pdf
TaxiExp: A Novel Framework for Inner-City Package Express via Taxi CrowdSourcing
Chao Chen, Daqing Zhang, Leye Wang, Xiaojuan Ma, Xiao Han, and Edwin Sha
In Proc. 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC). (2014).
Augmenting text with multiple pictures can facilitate online information processing across language barriers
Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. the Second ACM International Symposium of Chinese CHI. (2014). pp. 80-86. (Best Paper Award) pdf
Empatheticons: Designing emotion awareness tools for group recommenders
Yu Chen, Xiaojuan Ma, Alfredo Cerezo, and Pearl Pu
In Proc. the XV ACM International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (Interacción). (2014). pp. 1-8. pdf
Guidelines for depicting emotions in storyboard scenarios
Xiaojuan Ma, Jodi Forlizzi, and Steven Dow
In Proc. 8th International Design and Emotion Conference (D&E). (2012). pp. 1-12. pdf
Rethinking WordNet's Domains
Xiaojuan Ma, and Christiane Fellbaum
In Proc. The 6th International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC). (2012), pp. 173-180. pdf
Uncovering visualization properties that confuse
Kyong Eun Oh, Karen Bemis, Xiaojuan Ma, Marilyn Tremaine, and Deborah Silver
In Proc. the Association for Information Science and Technology. 49, no. 1 (2012): 1-4. html
Farmer's tale: a facebook game to promote volunteerism
Don Sim Jianqiang, Xiaojuan Ma, Shengdong Zhao, Jing Ting Khoo, Swee Ling Bay, and Zhenhui Jiang
In Proc. the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2011). pp. 581-584. pdf
Environmental sounds as concept carriers for communication
Xiaojuan Ma, Christiane Fellbaum, and Perry R. Cook
In Proc. the 16th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD). (2010). pp. 353-360. pdf
SoundNet: investigating a language composed of environmental sounds
Xiaojuan Ma, Christiane Fellbaum, and Perry R. Cook
In Proc. the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2010). pp. 1945-1954. (Honorable Mention Award at CHI2010) pdf
Vocabulary navigation made easier
Sonya Nikolova, Xiaojuan Ma, Marilyn Tremaine, and Perry Cook
In Proc. the 15th ACM international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (IUI). (2010). pp. 361-364. pdf
Speaking through pictures: images vs. icons
Xiaojuan Ma, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Sonya Nikolova, and Perry R. Cook
In Proc. the 11th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (ASSETS). (2009). pp. 163-170. pdf
W2ANE: when words are not enough: online multimedia language assistant for people with aphasia
Xiaojuan Ma, Sonya Nikolova, and Perry R. Cook
In Proc. the 17th ACM international conference on Multimedia (MM). (2009). pp. 749-752. pdf
How well do visual verbs work in daily communication for young and old adults?
Xiaojuan Ma and Perry R. Cook
In Proc. the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2009). pp. 361-364. pdf
Refereed Magazine Articles
Broadening artificial intelligence education in K-12: where to start?
Gary KW Wong, Xiaojuan Ma, Pierre Dillenbourg, and John Huen
ACM Inroads. (2020). 11(1), pp.20-29. html
When schools meet artificial intelligence in Hong Kong
Gary KW Wong, Xiaojuan Ma, and John Huen
ACM Inroads. (2019). 10(4), pp.43-46. html
Posters, Demos, or Workshop Papers
Exploring Scaffolding Techniques for Agent-Administered Brief Cognitive Screening in Hospital Settings
Dingdong Liu, Sensen Gao, Zixin Chen, Yifan Shen, Chuhan Shi, Bertram E. Shi, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Provocation and Works-in-Progress of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS). (2024). pp. html
Exploring the Evolvement of Artwork Descriptions in Online Creative Community under the Surge of Generative AI: A Case Study of DeviantArt
Qingyu Guo, Kangyu Yuan, Changyang He, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2024). pp. html
Facilitating Continuous Text Messaging in Romantic Encounters Online by Expanded Keywords Enumeration
Taewook Kim, Qingyu Guo, Hyeonjae Kim, Wenjie Yang, Meiziniu Li and Xiaojuan Ma
In Conference Companion Publication of the 2022 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). (2022)
Improving Readers’ Awareness of Divergent Viewpoints by Displaying Agendas of Comments in Online News Discussions
Taewook Kim, Hyunwoo Kim, Juho Kim, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Conference Companion Publication of the 2022 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). (2021)
Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Mastering Multiple Skills and Generalizing across Environments in Text-based Games
Zhenjie Zhao, Mingfei Sun, and Xiaojuan Ma
ACL Workshop on Meta Learning for NLP (MetaNLP). (2021) pdf
Meta-learning for Task-oriented Household Text Games
Zhenjie Zhao, and Xiaojuan Ma
ACL Workshop on Meta Learning for NLP (MetaNLP). (2021) html
Quality of Experience (QoE) Evaluation of Locomotion Methods on Desktop Virtual Reality: Comfort, Effort and Enjoyment
Zhenjie Zhao, Feng Han, and Xiaojuan Ma
Second CHI Social VR workshop. (2021) html
Exploring the "Double-Edged Sword" Effect of Auto-Insight Recommendation in Exploratory Data Analysis
Quan Li, Huanbin Lin, Chunfeng Tang, Xiguang Wei, Zhenhui Peng, Xiaojuan Ma, and Tianjian Chen
Fourth Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA). (2021) html
Exploring User Experience and Design Opportunities of Desktop Social Virtual Reality for Group Learning Activities
Zhenhui Peng, Chuhan Shi, and Xiaojuan Ma
Chinese CHI21. (2021)
Situated Learning of Soft Skills with an Interactive Agent in Virtual Reality via Multimodal Feedback
Zhenjie Zhao and Xiaojuan Ma
Extended Abstract of the 2020 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST). (2020) pdf
Understanding User Perceptions of Robot's Delay, Voice Quality-Speed Trade-off and GUI during Conversation
Zhenhui Peng, Kaixiang Mo, Xiaogang Zhu, Junlin Chen, Zhijun Chen, Qian Xu, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI2020 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2020). pp. 1-8. pdf
GremoBot: Exploring Emotion Regulation in Group Chat
Zhenhui Peng, Taewook Kim, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). (2019). pp. 335-340. pdf
Community-Sourced Itinerary for HPV Vaccine: A Case Study of the Use of WeChat Group to Reconstruct Healthcare Solution
Xiaojuan Ma
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Workshop on Unpacking the Infrastructuring Work of Patients and Caregivers around the World. (2019). pdf
Exploring the Effects of Scale in Augmented Reality-Empowered Visual Analytics
Zhida Sun, Feng Han, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. p. LBW012. (2018). pp. 1-6. pdf
Designing emotional expressions of conversational states for voice assistants: Modality and engagement
Yang Shi, Xin Yan, Xiaojuan Ma, Yongqi Lou, and Nan Cao
In Extended Abstracts of the ACM 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. p. LBW557. (2018). pp. 1-6. pdf
Exploring how software developers work with mention bot in github
Zhenhui Peng, Jeehoon Yoo, Meng Xia, Sunghun Kim, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. the Sixth ACM International Symposium of Chinese CHI. (2018). pp. 152-155. pdf
Money as a Social Currency to Manage Group Dynamics: Red Packet Gifting in Chinese Online Communities
Ziming Wu and Xiaojuan Ma
In Extended Abstracts of the 2017 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2017). pp. 2240-2247. pdf
Attention, Comprehension, Execution: Effects of Different Designs of Biofeedback Display
Zhida Sun, Nan Cao, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Extended Abstracts of the 2017 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2017). pp. 2132-2139. pdf
Perceived Emotional Intelligence in Virtual Agents
Yang Yang, Xiaojuan Ma, and Pascale Fung
In Extended Abstracts of the 2017 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2017). pp. 2255-2262. pdf
Exploring the Effects of Strategy and Arousal of Cueing in Computer-Human Persuasion
Fengyuan Zhu, Ke Fang, and Xiaojuan Ma
In Extended Abstracts of the 2017 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2017). pp. 2276-2283. pdf
SRHR at SemEval-2017 Task 6: Word Associations for Humour Recognition
Andrew Cattle and Xiaojuan Ma
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). (2017), p. 401-406. pdf
Data Edibilization: Representing Data with Food
Yun Wang, Xiaojuan Ma, Qiong Luo, and Huamin Qu
In Extended Abstracts of the 2016 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2016). pp. 409-422. pdf
Effects of Semantic Relatedness between Setups and Punchlines in Twitter Hashtag Games
Andrew Cattle and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. the Workshop on Computational Modeling of People’s Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media (PEOPLES). (2016). pp. 70-79. pdf
The Art of Engagement: from Calligraphy to Interaction Design
Xiaojuan Ma and Bin Zhu
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Workshop on Leveraging and Integrating Eastern and Western Insights into Human Engagement Studies in HCI. (2015).
Appreciation of Living: Bringing Chinese Aesthetics into Personal Informatics Design
Bin Zhu, Xiaojuan Ma, and Yanqing Zhang
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Workshop on Beyond Personal Informatics. (2015).
CaneFitter: investigation on appropriate cane selection and proper cane use for the elderly
Meiyu Huang, Yiqiang Chen, Wen Ji, Xiaojuan Ma, Jing Zhang, Yuguang Fan, and Lianjun Dai
In Proc. the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp): Adjunct Publication. (2015). pp. 217-220. pdf
ContextSense: unobtrusive discovery of incremental social context using dynamic bluetooth data
Zhenyu Chen, Yiqiang Chen, Lisha Hu, Shuangquan Wang, Xinlong Jiang, Xiaojuan Ma, Nicholas D. Lane, and Andrew T. Campbell
In Proc. the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp): Adjunct Publication. (2014). pp. 23-26. pdf
A multimodal vocabulary for augmentative and alternative communication from sound/image label datasets
Xiaojuan Ma, Christiane Fellbaum, and Perry R. Cook
In Proc. the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT). (2010). pp. 62-70 pdf
Creating and evaluating a video vocabulary for communicating verbs for different age groups
Xiaojuan Ma and Perry R. Cook
In Proc. the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (ASSETS). (2018). pp. 253-254. pdf
Mobile Communication Support for People with Speech and Language Disabilities
Sonya Nikolova and Xiaojuan Ma
In Proc. ACL2008 Mobile Language Processing Workshop. (2008).
Patents
Problem-solving Analysis Test System, Test Method and Test Software
Meng Xia, Reshika PALANIYAPPAN VELUMANI, Yong Wang, Huamin Qu, and Xiaojuan MA
ZL202110676638.7. (filed: 2021/6/18; granted: 2024/01/09). html
Air navigation aid and navigation equipment
Jianmin Wang, Fang You, Chingman Au Yeung, Xiaojuan MA, and Xiuqiang He
CN104807470B. (2019, granted). html
Touch-control method, related apparatus, and terminal device
Xiaojuan Ma and Wenyuan Dai
US9519424B2, CN104750401B. (2016, 2018, granted). pdf
Mobile Terminal Alarm Method and Apparatus
Ching Man Au Yeung, Xiaojuan Ma, and Wing Ki Leung
US10043375B2, CN104933825B. (2018, granted). pdf
Optimization operation method and apparatus for terminal interface
Xiaojuan Ma, Yuan Fang, and Wenyuan Dai
CN104750400B. (2017, granted). pdf
A kind of eye-tracking method and device
Xiaojuan Ma, Wing Ki Leung, and Ching Man Au Yeung
CN104750232B. (2017, granted). html
Dissertation and Doctoral Consortium
[PhD Thesis] Communication beyond words: Multimedia approaches to bridging language disabilities and barriers
Xiaojuan Ma
Advisor: Prof. Perry R. Cook. Committee: Dr. Christiane Fellbaum and Dr. Marilyn Tremaine. pdf
[Doctoral Colloquia] An online multimedia language assistant for people with aphasia and other language barriers
Xiaojuan Ma
ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing (ASSETS). 96 (2010): 46-49. pdf
Teaching
Courses
COMP3711: (UG) Design and Analysis of Algorithms  (Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
COMP4462: (UG) Data Visualization  (Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023)
COMP4461: (UG) Human-Computer Interaction  (Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
COMP4901G: (UG) Hot Topics in Human-Computer Interaction  (Spring 2016, Fall 2016)
COMP6613A: (PG) Hot Topics in Human-Computer Interaction  (Fall 2015, Spring 2017)
CSIT6000N: (MSc IT) Advanced Topics in HCI  (Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
IELM4320: (PG&UG) Design Thinking  (Summer 2016)
Other Teaching Experiences
Guest Lecturer, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2024
Guest Lecturer, Foundations of Computational Media and Arts, HKUST(GZ) Computational Media and Arts (CMA) thrust area, Spring 2021
Mentor and Career Development Panelist, CSCW Winter School, Taipei, Taiwan, Winter 2020
Guest Lecturer, AI for Arts Series, The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Spring 2021
Guest Lecturer, Data Visualization in Data Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Spring 2015-2021
Guest Lecturer, Ecological HCI, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Spring 2013
Instructor, Visualization Summer Camp, Peking University, China, Summer 2018, 2019
Instructor, HCI Summer Camp, Nanjing University, China, Summer 2016
Guest Lecturer, Persuasive Technology in Intelligent Information Systems, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Spring 2013
Lecturer, Advanced Disciplines Lectures on Visual and Auditory Communication, China Computer Federation, Beijing, China, Spring 2013
Instructor, Independent Study on Designing and Executing a Research Study, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Spring 2012
Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2007-2010
Guest Lecturer, Human-Computer Interface Technology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Fall 2007
Advising
Graduated RPg Students
Mingfei Sun personal page
Degree: PhD (June 2020), SENG Top RPg award recipient
Research Area: Robot Learning from Demonstration (RLfD) & Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Placement: Lecturer at University of Manchester (previously postdoc at Oxford University and Microsoft Research Cambridge)
Quan Li personal page
Degree: PhD (November 2019), SENG Top RPg award recipient, Prof. Huamin Qu as secondary advisor
Research Area: Visualization, visual analytics, explainable machine learning, human-computer interaction and data science
Placement: Assistant Professor at ShanghaiTech University (previously leading researcher at Webank AI Lab)
Andrew Cattle Linkedin
Degree: PhD (November 2019), Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) recipient
Research Area: Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), specializing in Computational Humour
Placement: faculty at Northeastern University; previously Language Engineer at Amazon
Emily Yang Yang Linkedin
Degree: MPhil [TLE] (July 2017), Prof. Pascale Fung as secondary advisor
Research Area: User experience, intelligent agent
Placement: UX Researcher at Meta (previously at Mach49)
Ziming Wu personal page
Degree: PhD (November 2020)
Research Area: Intersection between human-computer interaction and computer vision, computational design in particular
Placement: Researcher at Tencent
Zhenjie Zhao personal page
Degree: PhD (November 2020)
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), natural language processing (NLP)
Placement: Faculty at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Zhida Sun personal page
Degree: PhD (November 2020)
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction, in particular visualization and visual storytelling for positive computing
Placement: Assistant Professor at Shenzhen University ;previously Researcher at HW HMI Lab
Meng Xia personal page
Degree: PhD (November 2020), Prof. Huamin Qu as primary supervisor, SENG Top RPg award recipient
Research Area: Visual analytics, educational data mining, and machine learning for e-learning
Placement: Postdoc at CMU and previously at KAIST
Zhenhui Peng personal page
Degree: PhD (March 2021), SENG Top RPg award recipient
Research Area: Intelligent and Interactive Agent & Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Placement: Assistant Professor at Sun Yat-sen University
Taewook Kim (Tommy) personal page
Degree: MPhil (November 2020)
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction with a focus on Social Computing, Communication, and Conversational Behavior
Placement: PhD student at Northwestern University
Man Ching Ko (Juliana)
Degree: TLE MPhil (January 2021)
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction with a focus on family informatics
Feng Han
Degree: PhD (February 2022), Prof. Jiheng Zhang as primary supervisor
Research Area: FinTech, Extended Reality
Placement: Analyst at CICC
Wenjie (Chris) Yang personal page
Degree: MPhil (June 2022)
Research Area: Social Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Placement: research associate at Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), Carnegie Mellon University
Reza Hadi Mogavi personal page
Degree: PhD (Jan 2023), Prof. Pan Hui as primary supervisor, recipient of the Professor Samuel Chanson Teaching Assistant Award at HKUST
Research Area: E-learning and gamification
Placement: Postdoc at University of Waterloo
Chuhan Shi personal page
Degree: PhD (Aug 2023), Prof. Qiong Luo as primary supervisor
Research Area: Human-AI Collaboration (for Science)
Placement: Associate Professor at Southeastern University
Chengzhong Liu
Degree: PhD (Jun 2024)
Research Area: Knowledge Sharing and Policy Making
Placement: Postdoc at HKUST
Jiehui Luo
Degree: MPhil (Aug 2024), Asian Future Leaders Scholarship (AFLSP) recipient
Research Area: Social Good
Placement: PhD at University of Notre Dame
Chengbo Zheng personal page
Degree: PhD (Aug 2024)
Research Area: Human-AI Collaboration, Information Synthesis
Placement: Postdoc (to start) at Queensland University
Qingyu Guo personal page
Degree: PhD (Aug 2024), HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students in 2022 & 2023
Research Area: Social Computing, Ecological Temporality
Placement:
Shuai Ma personal page
Degree: PhD (Aug 2024), HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students in 2024
Research Area: Human-AI Collaboration, AI-Assisted Decision-Making
Placement: Postdoc (to start) at Aalto University
Qian Zhu personal page
Degree: PhD (Aug 2024)
Research Area: Immersive Visualization and Visual Analytics, Extended Reality
Placement:
Graduate Advisees
Assem Zhunis (PhD student, HKPFS recipient, since Fall 2020) personal page
Kangyu Yuan (PhD student, Redbird New Student Scholarship recipient, since Fall 2024)
Qiaoyi Chen (PhD student, HKPFS recipient, since Fall 2024)
Xuanhui Yang (PhD student, Redbird New Student Scholarship recipient, since Fall 2024)
Shixu Zhou (PhD student, since Fall 2024)
Yuying Tang (PhD student, IIP, Prof. Huamin Qu as primary supervisor, HKPFS recipient, since Fall 2024) personal page
Runhua Zhang (PhD student, IIP, Prof. Huamin Qu as primary supervisor, since Fall 2024) personal page
Zeyu Huang (PhD student, since Fall 2021)
Junze Li (PhD student, Redbird New Student Scholarship recipient, since Fall 2022)
Dingdong Liu (PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Fugee Tsung, since Fall 2022), HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students in 2024 personal page
Hanfang Lyu (PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Fugee Tsung, since Fall 2022)
Ziqi Pan (PhD student, HKPFS recipient, since Fall 2023)
Zuyu Xu (PhD student, HKPFS recipient, since Fall 2023)
Yuanhao Zhang (PhD student, HKPFS recipient, since Fall 2023)
Postdoctoral Scholars and Other RPg Advisees
Jiaxiong Hu personal page
Post-doctoral Scholar, (Fall 2022 - )
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction, Affective Computing Based Interaction
Leye Wang personal page
Post-doctoral Scholar, co-mentored with Prof. Qiang Yang, (Fall 2016 - Fall 2018)
Research Area: Mobile Crowd Sensing, Online Social Network, Intelligent Transportation System
Placement: Assistant Professor at Peking University
Zeyu Xiong
Degree: MPhil (Aug 2024), HKUST GZ RBM, Prof. Mingming Fan as primary supervisor
Research Area: Accessibility and Culture
Placement: PhD at ETH
Shixu Zhou
Degree: MPhil (Aug 2024), HKUST GZ RBM, Prof. Mingming Fan as primary supervisor
Research Area: Accessibility
Placement: PhD at HKUST
Wenyuan Dai Linkedin
Degree: PhD (fall 2019), Prof. Qiang Yang as primary supervisor
Research Area: Artificial Intelligence
Placement: Founder & CEO at 4Paradigm Co., Ltd.
Jinliang Deng
Degree: MPhil (fall 2019), Prof. Qiang Yang as primary supervisor
Research Area: Artificial Intelligence
Placement: PhD student at the University of Technology, Sydney
Xiang Zhang
Degree: MPhil (fall 2019), Prof. Qiang Yang as primary supervisor
Research Area: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Placement: Machine Learning Engineer @ Tencent
Undergraduate Advisees
FYP-MXJ1: SHI Bingyi, LAM Yeung Kong Sunny, YUE Ho Tin, LO Wang Ip (4 student) 2024-2025
FYP-MXJ1: ZHAO Bolin, ZHANG Lveyang (2 student) 2024-2025
FYT-MXJ3: YANG Dongjie (1 student) 2024-2025
FYT-MXJ1: GUO Bingcan (Master@UW) (1 student) 2023-2024
FYP-MXJ2: CHEN Shihao, TAN Weile, ZHAO Puxuan (3 students) 2023-2024
FYP-MXJ3: TSE Hoi Chun, WONG Hei Tung, TANG Tsz Ying (3 students) 2023-2024
FYP-MXJ1: ZHANG Yuanhao, LI Wenbo (Master@USC) (2 students) 2022-2023
FYT-MXJ2: WU Zhiyang (1 student) 2022-2023
FYP-MXJ3: WU Tai Ling, LEE Hao-yu (2 students) 2022-2023
FYP-MXJ4: LAU Tsz Ping, WONG Yuk Kit, CHOI Man Lik, TSANG Sze Lim (4 students, CPEG FYP Award 2nd Runner-Up) 2022-2023
FYP-MXJ1: ZHANG Nandi (Master@UCalgary, ZHONG Dingyan (Master@Duke) (2 students) 2021-2022
FYP-MXJ2: LIU Dingdong, ZHOU Shixu, LYU Hanfang (3 students) 2021-2022
FYP-MXJ3: HO Chi Hong, LOK Tsun Man, CHAN Ching Yiu (3 students) 2021-2022
FYP-MXJ1: SONG Renhe, ZHUANG Xiang, ZHOU Zhuorui, HUANG Zeyu (3 students) 2020-2021
FYP-MXJ2: TSE Ming Kei, HO Chun To, WONG Yik Cheung, LI Wang Hon (4 students) 2020-2021
FYT-MXJ3: LEE Ting Ting (1 students) 2020-2021
FYP-MXJ4 (Co-Op): HUANG Yi-feng (1 students) 2020-2021
FYT-MXJ5: Amanda Alodia GUITO (1 students) 2020-2021
FYP-MXJ1: KANG Youwen, LIU Chengzhong (2 students) 2019-2020
FYT-MXJ2: LIN Shuya (1 students) 2019-2020
FYT-MXJ3: LIN Chuan-en (1 students) 2019-2020
FYP-MXJ1: CHANG Hiu Tung, HUANG Zhengyuan, LIU Yan Ho, NG Mai Nguyen Thao (4 students) 2018-2019
FYP-MXJ2: CHONG Wai Yeung, FONG Yik Yeung, HO Wing Chun, LO Ki Lok (4 students) 2018-2019
FYP-MXJ3: KOO Tin Lok, OR Ka Po (2 students) 2018-2019
FYP-MXJ1: FUNG Yuk Cheung, TAM Chak Kuen (2 students) 2017-2018
FYP-MXJ2: CHIU Ho Yeung, WONG Man Nok, WONG Tsz Ching, WU Wang Hin (4 students) 2017-2018
FYP-MXJ3: CHEN Yuan, HU Zeou, LIANG Zhibo, ZHANG Ziyao (4 students) 2017-2018
FYP-MXJ5: WONG Chak Ho (1 students) 2017-2018
FYP-MXJ1: AHMAD Suhaib, BHATTI Hamza Irfan (2 students) 2016-2017
FYP-MXJ2: LO Ho Kai (1 students) 2016-2017
UROP: LO Wang Ip, LAM Yeung Kong Sunny (1 project, 2 student) Summer 2023-2024
UROP: LIANG Danxuan, ZENG Yuhang, HE Jinwen, ZHENG Fanshi, CHEN Yi-long (3 project, 5 student) Spring 2023-2024
UROP: ZHAO Bolin (1 project, 1 student) Fall 2023-2024
UROP: GUO Meichen, LIANG Danxuan, ZENG Yuhang, YANG Dongjie (2 projects, 4 students) Summer 2022-2023
UROP: ZHAO Yubo, ZHANG Lveyang, YUNG Ka Shing, LIANG Danxuan, ZENG Yuhang, YANG Dongjie (3 projects, 6 students) Spring 2022-2023
UROP: DOU Peihao, YAO Chongchong, BAI Yihan, XU Minrui, KIM Justin Juho, JIA Feiyue (3 projects, 6 students) Fall 2022-2023
UROP: XU Zian, YAO Chongchong, DOU Peihao, JIA Feiyu, KIM Justin Juho (3 projects, 5 students) Summer 2021-2022
UROP: MOK Nga Yiu, WU Zhiyang, CHEN Zixin, ZHOU Siyuan, WU Yifeng, XU Boran, LIU Yuzhi, ZHOU Taichang, ZHANG Yuanhao (5 projects, 9 students) Summer 2020-2021
UROP: CHEN Zixin, GUO Bingcan, LIU Dingdong, LIU Yuzhi, NAN Xi, XU Mingshi, YIN Zhuohao, YU Yiduo (Master@CMU), ZHANG Yuanhao, ZHOU Taichang (5 projects, 10 students) Spring 2020-2021
UROP: GUO Bingcan, ZHOU Yuran, CHAO Chung-chi, TSANG Cheuk Nam, ZHANG Yuanhao (3 projects, 5 students) Fall 2020-2021
UROP: NIE Fei, ZHAO Yankun, ZHOU Yuran (1 project, 3 students) Summer 2019-2020
UROP: ZHAO Yankun, WU Yongjin, XU Muyu, JIANG Taoxi (Master@CMU) (2 projects, 4 students) Spring 2019-2020
UROP: PUYANG Huancheng, WU Bohuai, XIA Zihan, DING Shanhe (2 projects, 4 students) Fall 2019-2020
UROP: SEKHON Sanbir Singh, WU Bohuai (2 projects, 2 students) Summer 2018-2019
UROP: YU Yuelin, ZHA Dongkai, LIANG Yuyi, GOEL Tanmay (2 projects, 4 students) Spring 2018-2019
UROP: RASTOGI Tanya (1 project, 1 students) Fall 2018-2019
UROP: CHEN Yuan, LIANG Zhibo (1 project, 2 students) Fall 2017-2018
UROP: WU Tan Tania, CHANG Yingshan, PRATAMA Kevin, FENG Zihan, LI Xiang, XU Muyu, FAN Ziqian, DAS Prasenjit, CHEN Yuan, LIANG Zhibo (3 projects, 10 students) Summer 2016-2017
IIM: Ngai Yan CHEUNG (1 students) Since 2020
IIM: Wai Lun WONG (1 students) Since 2019
IIM: Ming Yin CHAN (1 students) 2015-2019
Independent Project: WANG Xiaoyu (MSc BDT) 2024-2025 Fall
Independent Work: (a total of 31 students) 2016-2021
Other mentees
Xiaoyu Wang (Research intern, graduate student from HKUST, Summer 2024)
Yumeng Wang (Research intern, undergraduate from HKUST, Summer 2024)
Bolin Zhao (Research intern, undergraduate from HKUST, Summer 2024)
Lveyang Zhang (Research intern, undergraduate from HKUST, Summer 2024)
Yue Zhang (Visiting intern, undergraduate from Shenzhen University, Summer 2024)
Cassie Lee Dai (Visiting intern, graduate student from Harvard University, Summer 2024)
Qiuxin Du (Visiting intern, graduate student from Beijing Institute of Technology, Summer 2024)
Yujing Zhang (Visiting intern, graduate student from KTH, Summer 2024)
Xiyuan Wang (Visiting student, graduate student from ShanghaiTech University, Fall 2023-Spring 2024)
Laixin Xie (Visiting student, graduate student from ShanghaiTech University, Fall 2023-Spring 2024)
Sensen Gao (Remote intern student, undergraduate from Nankai University, Summer 2023)
Chao Zhang (Remote intern student, graduate student from Zhejiang University, Summer 2022, PhD@Cornell)
Yuheng Wu (Remote intern student, graduate student from CUHK (SZ), Summer 2022)
Qinyi Zhao (Remote intern student, undergraduate from Fudan University, Summer 2022, HCDE@UW)
Ying Lei (Remote intern student, undergraduate from East China Normal University, Summer 2022)
Fei Nie (Remote intern student, undergraduate from HKUST, Summer 2020, 2021, Master@CMU)
Hanqi Zhou (Remote intern student, undergraduate from Ulm University, Germany, Summer 2020)
Siyuan Chen (Remote intern student, undergraduate from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Summer 2020)
Zhihan Jiang (Remote intern student, graduate student from Xiamen University, Summer 2020, PhD@HKU)
Yue Yu (Remote intern student, undergraduate from City University, Summer 2020)
Muyu Xu (Remote intern student, undergraduate from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Summer 2020)
Tim Ta Ying Cheng (Research intern, undergraduate from HKUST, Summer 2019, DPhil@Oxford)
David Chuan-en Lin (Research intern, undergraduate from HKUST, Summer 2019, PhD@CMU)
Sitong Wang (Visiting student, undergraduate from Chongqing University, Summer 2019-2020, Master@Columbia)
Yiding Liu (Visiting student, undergraduate from Hong Kong University, Summer 2019, Master@UW)
Yulun Jiang (Visiting student, undergraduate from Wuhan University, Summer 2019, Master@EPFL)
Qingyu Guo (Intern student, graduate student from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Summer 2019, PhD@HKUST)
Wenjie Yang (Visiting student, undergraduate from Beijing Forestry University, Summer 2019, Master@HKUST)
Meiziniu Li (Visiting student, undergraduate from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Summer 2019, PhD@HKUST)
Yifei Cheng (Visiting student, undergraduate from Swarthmore College, USA, Summer 2019, PhD@CMU)
Yuji Zhang (Visiting student, undergraduate from Southeast University, Summer 2019)
Jungsoo Lee (Exchange student, undergraduate from Korea University, Spring 2019, Master@KAIST)
Hyeonjae Kim (Intern student, undergraduate from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Summer 2019)
Ziming Chen (Visiting intern, undergraduate from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Summer 2018, Master@JHU)
Yunhwan Kwon (Visiting student, undergraduate from Dongguk University, Korea, Summer 2018)
Manuele Reani (Visiting Ph.D., from University of Manchester, Spring 2018, Assistant Professor@CUHK Shenzhen)
Michelle Wong (Exchange student, undergraduate from Smith College, USA, Spring 2018)
Jiaan Lu (Exchange, undergraduate from SJTU, Spring 2018, Master@CMU)
Minxuan Gao (Exchange, undergraduate from Tsinghua University, Spring 2018, Master@Columbia)
Meng Meng Yan (Visiting student, MPhil from KIT, Germany, Summer 2017)
Yiqing Mou (Intern, undergraduate from Hong Kong University, Summer 2017)
Jiayue Fan (Visiting intern, undergraduate from Tsinghua University, Summer 2017, Master@Tsinghua)
Mingjie Ye (Visiting intern, undergraduate from Zhejiang University, Summer 2017)
Taewook Kim (Visiting student, undergraduate from Hanyang University, Korea, Summer 2017, Master@HKUST)
Gehua Qin (Visiting intern, undergraduate from SJTU, China, Summer 2017, Master@UCSD)
Isabella Flack (Exchange, undergraduate from University of Warwick, UK, Fall 2016)
Hong Peng (Intern, undergraduate from Hong Kong University, Fall 2016, Master@CMU)
Feng Han (Visiting intern, undergraduate from Jilin University, Spring 2017, PhD@HKUST)
Yuruten Onur (Visiting Ph.D., from EPFL, Fall 2016)
Zhehao Zhu (Exchange, undergraduate from Tsinghua University, Fall 2016)
Wenchang Yang (Visiting intern, undergraduate from Jilin University, Fall 2016, Master@Cornell)
Julien Bonnet (Visiting intern, Engineering student from École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC) France, Summer 2016)
Xinyi Fu (Visiting intern, PhD student from Tsinghua University, Spring 2016, postdoc@Tsinghua)
Other Advising Experiences
External Supervisor, Final Year Project, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2014-2015
Assistant supervisor, for graduate studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Student supervisor, Undergraduate Senior Independent Work, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2008-2010
Student supervisor, Freshmen Summer Programming Experience Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Professional Activities and External Services
Organizing Committee
Paper Co-Chair: ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW2025) 2024 -
Steering Committee Member: ACM Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI) 2023 -
Committee Member: ACM CSCW 2023 Lasting Impact Award committee 2023
General Co-Chair: ACM Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI) 2022
Virtual Conference Co-Chair: The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2022
SIG Co-Chair: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2021
Program Co-Chair: International Workshop on Human-Engaged Computing (IWHEC) 2021
Workshop Co-Organizer: AI for Adaptive User Interface (AI4AUI) workshop in ACM IUI 2019
Tutorial Co-Chair: International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction 2019
Workshop Co-Organizer: Healthcare workshop in ACM CHI 2019
Demo Co-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality 2018
Technical Co-Chair, Video Contest Co-Chair: Chinese CHI 2017
Workshop Co-Organizer: AIVR workshop in SIGGRAPH Asia 2017
Publicity Chairs: International Symposium on Interactive Technology and Ageing Populations 2016
Demo/Poster Co-Chair: IEEE CPSCOM2016 2016
Panel & Tutorial Chair: IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing (UIC) 2015
Co-Organizer: Designing Tools for Crafting Interactive Artifacts Workshop, SIGGRAPH Asia 2014
Industrial Panel Chair: Chinese CHI2014 2014
Planning Committee: New Jersey World Usability Day, NJ 2008
Program Committee
Paper Subcommittee Co-Chair: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2025
Associate Chair: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2024
Area Chair / Action Editor: North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2024
Courses Committee: SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
Paper Subcommittee Co-Chair: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2022-2023
Senior Program Committee: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2022
Associate Chair: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2017-2021
Associate Chair: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2021
Program Committee: ACM The Web Conference (WWW) 2020-2021
Program Committee: IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI) 2019
Program Committee: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2018
Program Committee: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2017
Associate Chair: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2016 - 2017
Program Committee: Chinese CHI 2015, 2018
Program Committee: IEEE CBDCom 2016 Big Data Visualization Track 2016
Program Committee: International Workshop on Managing and Mining Heterogeneous Big Mobile Data from Smart Devices (BigMobile) 2017
Associate Chair: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Work-in-Progress Track 2012 - 2015
Program Committee: Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (APCHI 2013) 2013
Program Committee: CTS (Collaboration Technologies and Systems) International Workshop on Collaborative Robots and Human Robot Interaction (CR-HRI) 2012 - 2013
Journal Editorship
Co-Editor: Proceedings of the ACM (PACM) CSCW Issue 2023, 2024
Special Issue Co-Editor: Special Issue for ACM Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (TOCHI): Computational Approaches in Human-Computer Interaction 2021
Special Issue Co-Editor: CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction 2019
Grant Review
External Reviewer: University of Macau Multi-Year Research Grant 2020
Paper Review
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2015-
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer Support Coooperative Work (CSCW), 2017-2018,2020-
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), 2020
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI Journal), 2019
Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PWC Journal), 2019-2020
IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), 2019
IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR), 2017
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2017-2018
ACM the Web Conference (WWW), 2020
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2017
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2017
Interacting with Computers (IwC Journal), 2017
SIGGRAPH Asia, 2016
Membership
Senior Member: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE), 2022 -
Senior Member: The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022 -
Board Member, Exective Vice President, (previously) Secretary General: Interactional Chinese Association of Computer-Human Interaction (ICACHI), 2012 -
Internal Services
University and School Services
Center for Ocean Research in Hong Kong and Macau (CORE) Research Leadership Committee: reviewing proposals and reports of CORE projects, 2024 -
Human and Artefacts Research Ethics Committee: reviewing research proposals involving human subjects and/or artefacts, 2021 - 2023
Member of the Search Committee for the Director of the Big Data Institute (BDI): making a recommendation on the appointment of the Director of BDI, 2023 - 2024
Member of the Selection Panel for the HKUST Sports Science and Technology Research Grant: reviewing the applications and making recommendations on the funded applications, 2023
Member of the Search Committee for the Director of the Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute (RI): making a recommendation on the appointment of the Director of RI, 2021 - 2022
Member of the Search Committee for the department head of CSE: making a recommendation on the appointment of the head of CSE, 2021 - 2022
SENG First Year Faculty Advisor: advising first-year SENG UG students, 2017 - 2020
IIM Faculty Advisor: advising Individualized Interdisciplinary Major students, 2015 -
Academic Judging Committee Member: HKUST One-Million Competition, 2019, 2020
JUPAS Interviewer: 2018, 2020, 2023
SENG Information Day: Pepper robot demonstration, 2017 - 2018
University WISE Camp Co-organizer: for Highschool female students, 2016
Departmental Services
Research Committee: chair (and member of Executive Committee), 2024 -
Final Year Project / Final Year Thesis Committee: chair, 2024 -
UG Committee: member, 2024 -
MSc IT Committee: member, 2022 -
Associate Department Head: Research and Knowledge Transfer (and member of Executive Committee), 2022 - 2024
PG Committee: coordinator (and member of Executive Committee), 2021 - 2023
Research Committee: member, 2022 - 2024
Search and Appointments Committee: member, 2023 - 2024
Research Lab Space Committee: member, 2023 - 2024
Merit Research Committee: member, 2021
CPEG Committee: student liason, advising CPEG students and FYPs, facilitating recruitment events, 2018 - 2021
Facility Committee: 2019 - 2021
Curriculum and Teaching Innovation Committee (CaTIC): 2018 - 2019
RPg Recruitment: Early admission interview and lab visit demonstration, 2015 - 2019
Awards
2024
Best Paper Award: ACM CHI 2024, Hawaii, USA (Top 1% of submissions)
2024
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award: ACM CHI 2024, Hawaii, USA (Top 5% of submissions)
2024
Best Industry Application Award - Bronze: RO-MAN 2024, Pasadena, California, USA
2023
Impact Recognition Award: ACM CSCW 2023
2023
Recognition for Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion Award: ACM CSCW 2023
2022
Methods Recognition Award: ACM CSCW 2022
2022
Best Paper Honorable Mention: ACM L@S 2022, New York City, NY, USA (Top 5% of submissions)
2022
Senior Member: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2022
Senior Member: The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2021
Best Paper Award: Chinese CHI 2021, Virtual Conference (single paper)
2020
Best Paper Honorable Mention: ACM CHI 2020, Hawaii, USA (Top 5% of submissions)
2020
Publishing Award: Book "Cuteness Engineering" awarded by Japan Society of Kansei Engineering (JSKE)
2020
Service Award: International Chinese Association of Computer Human Interaction
2017
Best Video Award: Chinese CHI 2017 (Top 3 submissions)
2016
Outstanding (Chinese) Young Leaders in HCI: International Chinese Association of Computer Human Interaction
2016
Best Paper Honorable Mention: ACM Ubicomp 2016, Japan (Top 5% of submissions)
2015
Best Paper Honorable Mention: ACM CSCW 2015, Canada (Top 5% of submissions)
2014
Excellent Innovator Award: Noah's Ark Lab, Hong Kong
2014
Star of 2012 Labs: Noah's Ark Lab, Hong Kong
2014
Best Paper Award: Chinese CHI 2014, Germany (single paper)
2014
Best Paper Award: IDHF 2014, Japan (single paper)
2010-2011
Computing Innovation Fellows: Computing Research Association, USA (supported by NSF)
2010
Best Paper Honorable Mention: ACM CHI 2010, Atlanta, USA (Top 5% of submissions)
2005
Outstanding Graduates of the Year in Tsinghua University: Tsinghua University, China
2005
Outstanding Graduates of the Year in Beijing: Tsinghua University, China
Invited Talks
2024
International Congress on Educational Futures (ICEF) Keynote Speaker @ Doctoral Student Consortium: "Charting the Future of AI in Project-Based Learning", EdUHK Festival 2024
2023
Hong Kong International Computer Conference (HKICC): "Collaborative AI for Science: Supporting Stochastic Multi-criteria Decision Making in Scientific Research", Hong Kong Computer Society
2023
Tongji iDVX Seminar Series Invited Speaker: "Data-Driven Approach to Creativity with Human-Engaged Computing: From Big Data to Big Idea", College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
2023
ShanghaiTech SIST Distinguished Seminar Series Invited Speaker: "Data-Driven Approach to Creativity with Human-Engaged Computing: From Big Data to Big Idea", School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University
2023
KAIST GSDS Seminar Series Invited Speaker: "Empowering and Cultivating Users’ Higher-Order Thinking Skills with Human-Engaged AI", KAIST Graduate School of Data Science
2023
Symposium on Computational Thinking and Coding Education for Future Teachers, Invited Panelist: Panel Discussion "Going Beyond Computational Thinking and Coding Skills", University of Hong Kong and MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node
2022
HBJRI Frontier Technologies Seminars 2022 (February sessions) Invited Talk: "Towards a Future of Human-Engaged AI: Social Manifestation of Human-Robot Interaction", HKUST-Bright Dream Robotics Joint Research Institute (HBJRI)
2021
SIGKDD Applied Data Science (ADS) Invited Talk: "Data-Driven Approach to Creativity in Design with Human-Engaged AI: Scalable, Transferable, Explainable", ACM SIGKDD 2021
2021
Invited Speaker: "Exploring Interaction Space of Data Displays", China Vis 2021
2021
Invited Speaker and Panelist: "Virtual Reality as a Situated Learning Tool", China VR 2021 International Education Forum
2021
GAMES Webinar: "When VIS Meets HCI: A Life Cycle of User-Centric Visualization Design", GAMES: Graphics And Mixed Environment Seminar
2021
Invited HCI Speaker Series: "Empowering and Nurturing Users’ Higher-Order Thinking Skills with Human-Engaged AI", College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University
2020
Invited Speaker: "Manifesting AI Engagement in Human-Engaged Computing", ICACHI Online Forum
2020
Invited Speaker: "Transfering and Repurposing Data and Knowledge in Smart City Solutions", Logistics Technology Forum, Cainiao Smart Logistics Network Limited
2020
Invited Speaker: "Edge Computing-Enabled Doctor-Patient Co-Decision: Opportunities and Challenges", CCF YOCSEF Xiamen Forum
2020
Invited Speaker: "Manifesting AI Engagement in Human-Engaged Computing", IWHEC 2020, Kochi, Japan
2019
Keynote Speaker: "Computational Design: A Data-Driven Approach", User Experience Conference (UEC) 2019, Shenzhen, China
2019
Invited Speaker: "Manifesting Emotional Intelligence in Social and Service Robot", Chinese CHI 2019, Xiamen, China
2019
Panelist: "AI-Human Interactions and Interfaces", Finland-Hong Kong Summit on AI and 5G, Hong Kong
2019
Invited Speaker: "Harmonization, Cultivation, and Interaction: Promoting HCI Community in Greater China", CHI 2019 Workshop on HCI in China, Glasgow, UK
2018
Invited Speaker: "Towards Human-Engaged AI", Early Career Spotlight, IJCAI-EJCAI, Stockholm, Sweden
2018
Panelist: "Human-Centered AI Design", Chinese CHI 2018, Montréal, Canada
2017
Seminar Speaker: "Human-Computer Interaction Initiative @ HKUST", Seoul National University, Korea
2017
Seminar Speaker: "Designing Emotional Intelligence: an Experience-oriented, Data-driven Approach to Multimodal Affective Computing", Cambridge University, UK
2016
Invited Speaker and Panelist: "Engagement in VR/AR-Empowered Education", Educational Symposium, SIGGRAPH ASIA, Macau
2016
Keynote Speaker: "Embodied Immersion: Multimodal Interaction in Virtual Reality", Clear Water Bay Entrepreneurship Forum, Hong Kong
2016
Invited Speaker and Panelist: "From Constructive Education to Destructive Innovation", Symposium on Minecraft Education, Hong Kong
2015
Invited Speaker: "Investigating Approach and Herd Behaviors in Social Commerce", Workshop on Mining Social Networks, NYU Shanghai, China
2015
Invited Speaker and Panelist: "Research in Human-Computer Interaction", HHME, Huludao, China
2014
Invited Speaker: "The Art of Persuasion in Information, Interaction, and Service Design", Information and Interaction Design Submit, Beijing, China
2014
Keynote Speaker: "From Broken to Breaking: Recycle, Reuse, and Repurpose Design", Interaction and UX Design Forum, Tongji Design Week, Shanghai, China
2014
Keynote Speaker: "How Computer Computes and Persuade your Emotion: The Story of Danmu", Huxiu.com Innovation Festival, Shenzhen, China
2013-2014
Seminar Speaker: "Leveraging Crowds to Design Multimedia-Mediated Communication Support", HKU, HKUST, CUHK, PolyU, CityU, Hong Kong
2012
Seminar Speaker: "When Words are not Enough: How Multimedia can Bridge Communication Breakdowns", Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
2012
Seminar Speaker: "When Words are not Enough: How Multimedia can Bridge Communication Breakdowns", Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2011
Seminar Speaker: "Communication across Barriers", Disney Research, Pittsburgh, PA
2010
Seminar Speaker: "What is Worth a Thousand Words?", Information Systems, NUS, Singapore
2010
Seminar Speaker: "SoundNet: An Environmental Sound Augmented Online Language Assistant Bridging Communication Barriers", A*STAR, Singapore
2010
Invited Speaker: "A Multimodal Vocabulary for Augmentative and Alternative Communication", at AT&T Research Lab Talk Series, AT&T Research, NJ
2010
Seminar Speaker: "An Online Multimedia Augmented Language Assistant for People with Aphasia and Other Language Barriers", Rutgers University, NJ
2009
Seminar Speaker: "When Words are not Enough: Online Multimedia Language Assistant for People with Aphasia", University College of London, London, UK
Selected Press
2023
EurekAlert!: featuring our "Competent but Rigid: Identifying the Gap in Empowering AI to Participate Equally in Group Decision-Making" CHI 2023 paper (Read more)
2023
University News (by University of Glasgow): featuring our co-authored "IntimaSea: Exploring Shared Stress Display in Close Relationships" CHI 2023 paper with University of Glasgow (Read more)
2022
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Showcase on Kudos: featuring our "Infant-centric Family Informatics Practices in Hong Kong" CSCW 2022 paper
2020
Japanese Media ITmedia NEWS (Japan): featuring our co-authored "EmoG: Supporting the Sketching of Emotional Expressions for Storyboarding" CHI2020 paper with Tongji University
2019
The Standard (Hong Kong): column article (interview with me) on "Let's play it smart on computer interfaces"
2017
Ta Kung Pao and Hong Kong Commercial Daily: news report on my talk on Clear Water Bay Entrepreneurship Forum
2016
IEEE Spectrum: "New Taxi Hitchhiker: The Package", featuring our co-authored paper "Crowddeliver: planning city-wide package delivery paths leveraging the crowd of taxis"
2016
Hong Kong Economic Times: news report (interview with me) on "Pokémon Go"
2016
CIPD Asia: column article (interview with me) on "The debate: is social media a distraction from work?"