Eight papers accepted to ACM CHI 2025. Congrats to my students/interns and co-authors!

January 19, 2025

2025

In 2024, I have mentored or co-authored 8 papers that have been accepted to CHI 2025.

  • “Can’t believe I’m crying over an anime girl”: Public Parasocial Grieving and Coping Towards VTuber Graduation and Termination by Ken Jen Lee, Piaohong Wang, and Zhicong Lu

  • How Users Who are Blind or Low Vision Play Mobile Games: Perceptions, Challenges, and Strategies by Zihe Ran, Xiyu Li, Qing Xiao, Xianzhe Fan, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Yanyun Wang, and Zhicong Lu

  • Let’s Influence Algorithms Together: How Millions of Fans Build Collective Understanding of Algorithms and Organize Coordinated Algorithmic Actions by Qing Xiao, Yuhang Zheng, Xianzhe Fan, Bingbing Zhang, and Zhicong Lu

  • HarmonyCut: Supporting Creative Chinese Paper-cutting Design with Form and Connotation Harmony by Huanchen Wang, Tianrun Qiu, Jiaping Li, Zhicong Lu, and Yuxin Ma

  • “Douyin is My Nourishment of the Mind”: Exploring the Infrastructuralization Process of Short Video Sharing Platforms in Rural China by Yuling Sun, Minglong Tang, Zhicong Lu, and Liang He

  • User-Driven Value Alignment: Understanding Users’ Perceptions and Strategies for Addressing Biased and Discriminatory Statements in AI Companions by Xianzhe Fan, Qing Xiao, Xuhai Zhou, Jiaxin Pei, Maarten Sap, Zhicong Lu, and Hong Shen

  • The Odyssey Journey: Top-Tier Medical Resource Seeking for Specialized Disorder in China by Ka I Chan, Siying Hu, Yuntao Wang, Xuhai “Orson” Xu, Zhicong Lu, and Yuanchun Shi

  • ProductMeta: An Interactive System for Metaphorical Product Design Ideation with Multimodal Large Language Models by Qingyi Zhou, Jie Deng, Yu Liu, Yun Wang, Yan Xia, Yang Ou, Zhicong Lu, Sai Ma, Scarlett Li, and Yingqing Xu

I sincerely thank all the students, interns, and collaborators of these projects for their commitment to advancing HCI research!