Publications (13)
Exploring Parent's Needs for Children-Centered AI to Support Preschoolers' Interactive Storytelling and Reading Activities
Yuling Sun, Jiaju Chen, Bingsheng Yao +6
Interactive storytelling is vital for preschooler development. While children's interactive partners have traditionally been their parents and teachers, recent advances in artifici…
LLaVA-RadZ: Can Multimodal Large Language Models Effectively Tackle Zero-shot Radiology Recognition?
Bangyan Li, Wenxuan Huang, Zhenkun Gao +8
Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in visual understanding and reasoning across various vision-language tasks. However, w…
"It Felt Like I Was Left in the Dark": Exploring Information Needs and Design Opportunities for Family Caregivers of Older Adult Patients in Critical Care Settings
Shihan Fu, Bingsheng Yao, Smit Desai +6
Older adult patients constitute a rapidly growing subgroup of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients. In these situations, their family caregivers are expected to represent the unconsc…
Characterizing LLM-Empowered Personalized Story-Reading and Interaction for Children: Insights from Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives
Jiaju Chen, Minglong Tang, Yuxuan Lu +7
Personalized interaction is highly valued by parents in their story-reading activities with children. While AI-empowered story-reading tools have been increasingly used, their abil…
StorySparkQA: Expert-Annotated QA Pairs with Real-World Knowledge for Children's Story-Based Learning
Jiaju Chen, Yuxuan Lu, Shao Zhang +7
Interactive story reading is a common parent-child activity, where parents expect to teach both language skills and real-world knowledge beyond the story. While increasing storytel…
An Information Minimization Based Contrastive Learning Model for Unsupervised Sentence Embeddings Learning
Shaobin Chen, Jie Zhou, Yuling Sun +1
Unsupervised sentence embeddings learning has been recently dominated by contrastive learning methods (e.g., SimCSE), which keep positive pairs similar and push negative pairs apar…