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Making Sense of Audience Change: Causal Attribution and Boundary Management on Xiaohongshu
Zhiyi Zhou, Zhiyi, Erin Zhou +2
Recommendation-driven platforms can reshape not only what users see, but also who becomes visible and how community boundaries are negotiated. We examine Xiaohongshu discussions su…
Beyond Perspectives: A Trio-Ethnography of Interpretation Evolution in LLM-Supported Programming Education
Jennie Ren, Jordan H. McDowell, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou
Generative AI is reshaping programming education, yet educators often infer students' AI-supported learning from classroom observations alone. This experience report presents a tri…
User Negotiations of Authenticity, Ownership, and Governance on AI-Generated Video Platforms: Evidence from Sora
Bohui Shen, Shrikar Bhatta, Alex Ireebanije +4
As AI-generated video platforms rapidly advance, ethical challenges such as copyright infringement emerge. This study examines how users make sense of AI-generated videos on OpenAI…
"Everyone Else Does It": The Rise of Preprinting Culture in Computing Disciplines
Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Justin Eric Chen, Xiang Zheng +3
Preprinting has become a norm in fast-paced computing fields such as artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI). In this paper, we conducted semistructured i…
WHEN TO ACT, WHEN TO WAIT: Modeling the Intent-Action Alignment Problem in Dialogue
Yaoyao Qian, Jindan Huang, Yuanli Wang +5
Dialogue systems often fail when user utterances are semantically complete yet lack the clarity and completeness required for appropriate system action. This mismatch arises becaus…
Toward Designing Accessible and Meaningful Software for Cancer Survivors
Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Royta Iftakher, Sean P. Mullen +2
Cancer survivors experience a wide range of impairments arising from cancer or its treatment, such as chemo brain, visual impairments, and physical impairments. These impairments d…
Global Public Sentiment on Decentralized Finance: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Geo-tagged Tweets from 150 Countries
Yuqi Chen, Yifan Li, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou +5
Blockchain technology and decentralized finance (DeFi) are reshaping global financial systems. Despite their impact, the spatial distribution of public sentiment and its economic a…
Accessible Adventures: Teaching Accessibility to High School Students Through Games
Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Chunyu Liu, Jingwen Shan +2
Accessibility education has been rarely incorporated into the high school curricula. This is a missed opportunity to equip next-generation software designers and decision-makers wi…
"Sora is Incredible and Scary": Emerging Governance Challenges of Text-to-Video Generative AI Models
Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Abhinav Choudhry, Ece Gumusel +1
Text-to-video generative AI models such as Sora OpenAI have the potential to disrupt multiple industries. In this paper, we report a qualitative social media analysis aiming to unc…
User Privacy Harms and Risks in Conversational AI: A Proposed Framework
Ece Gumusel, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo
This study presents a unique framework that applies and extends Solove (2006)'s taxonomy to address privacy concerns in interactions with text-based AI chatbots. As chatbot prevale…
Revitalizing Sex Education for Chinese Children: A Formative Study
Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Yilin Zhu, Jingwen Shan +2
Sex education helps children obtain knowledge and awareness of sexuality, and protects them against sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, and sexual abuse. Sex education is not…
"The teachers are confused as well": A Multiple-Stakeholder Ethics Discussion on Large Language Models in Computing Education
Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Zachary Kilhoffer, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo +5
Large Language Models (LLMs) are advancing quickly and impacting people's lives for better or worse. In higher education, concerns have emerged such as students' misuse of LLMs and…
Exploring the Diversity of Music Experiences for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Weirui Peng, Yuhan Liu +1
Sensory substitution or enhancement techniques have been proposed to enable deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) people to listen to and even compose music. However, little is known about…
Understanding the concerns and choices of public when using large language models for healthcare
Yunpeng Xiao, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Yueqing Liang +1
Large language models (LLMs) have shown their potential in biomedical fields. However, how the public uses them for healthcare purposes such as medical Q\&A, self-diagnosis, and da…
"Centralized or Decentralized?": Concerns and Value Judgments of Stakeholders in the Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Market
Yunpeng Xiao, Bufan Deng, Siqi Chen +4
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are decentralized digital tokens to represent the unique ownership of items. Recently, NFTs have been gaining popularity and at the same time bringing up…
How People Perceive The Dynamic Zero-COVID Policy: A Retrospective Analysis From The Perspective of Appraisal Theory
Na Yang, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Yunzhe Li
The Dynamic Zero-COVID Policy in China spanned three years and diverse emotional responses have been observed at different times. In this paper, we retrospectively analyzed public…
How NFT Collectors Experience Online NFT Communities: A Case Study of Bored Ape
Allison Sinnott, Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unique cryptographic assets representing the ownership of digital media. NFTs have soared in popularity and trading prices. However, there exists a l…
Public Perceptions of Gender Bias in Large Language Models: Cases of ChatGPT and Ernie
Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo
Large language models are quickly gaining momentum, yet are found to demonstrate gender bias in their responses. In this paper, we conducted a content analysis of social media disc…
"I'm Not Confident in Debiasing AI Systems Since I Know Too Little": Teaching AI Creators About Gender Bias Through Hands-on Tutorials
Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou, Jiaxun Cao, Xiaowen Yuan +4
Gender bias is rampant in AI systems, causing bad user experience, injustices, and mental harm to women. School curricula fail to educate AI creators on this topic, leaving them un…
Anonymous Expression in an Online Community for Women in China
Zhixuan Zhou, Zixin Wang, Franziska Zimmer
Gender issues faced by women can range from workplace harassment to domestic violence. While publicly disclosing these issues on social media can be hard, some may incline to expre…
AI Ethics Issues in Real World: Evidence from AI Incident Database
Mengyi Wei, Zhixuan Zhou
With the powerful performance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) also comes prevalent ethical issues. Though governments and corporations have curated multiple AI ethics guidelines to…
Exploring Security Practices of Smart Contract Developers
Tanusree Sharma, Zhixuan Zhou, Andrew Miller +1
Smart contracts are self-executing programs that run on blockchains (e.g., Ethereum). 680 million US dollars worth of digital assets controlled by smart contracts have been hacked…
Toward Understanding the Use of Centralized Exchanges for Decentralized Cryptocurrency
Zhixuan Zhou, Bohui Shen
Cryptocurrency has been extensively studied as a decentralized financial technology built on blockchain. However, there is a lack of understanding of user experience with cryptocur…
"It's A Blessing and A Curse": Unpacking Creators' Practices with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Their Communities
Tanusree Sharma, Zhixuan Zhou, Yun Huang +1
NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are blockchain-based cryptographic tokens to represent ownership of unique content such as images, videos, or 3D objects. Despite NFTs' increasing popula…