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20222025
most citedChatScratch: An AI-Augmented System Toward Autonomous Visual Programming Learning for Children Aged 6-12

53 citations · 101 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.HC2025

SpecifyUI: Supporting Iterative UI Design Intent Expression through Structured Specifications and Generative AI

Yunnong Chen, Chengwei Shi, Liuqing Chen

Large language models (LLMs) promise to accelerate UI design, yet current tools struggle with two fundamentals: externalizing designers' intent and controlling iterative change. We…

cs.HC2025

SCENIC: A Location-based System to Foster Cognitive Development in Children During Car Rides

Liuqing Chen, Yaxuan Song, Ke Lyu +3

Car-riding is common for children in modern life. Given the repetitive nature of daily commutes, they often feel bored and turn to electronic devices for entertainment. Meanwhile,…

cs.SE2025

DesignCoder: Hierarchy-Aware and Self-Correcting UI Code Generation with Large Language Models

Yunnong Chen, Shixian Ding, YingYing Zhang +4

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have streamlined front-end interface development by automating code generation. However, these models also introduce challenges in ensuring…

cs.CV2025★ 3 cited

Integrating Sequence and Image Modeling in Irregular Medical Time Series Through Self-Supervised Learning

Liuqing Chen, Shuhong Xiao, Shixian Ding +2

Medical time series are often irregular and face significant missingness, posing challenges for data analysis and clinical decision-making. Existing methods typically adopt a singl…

cs.HC2025★ 2 cited

Understanding Design Fixation in Generative AI

Liuqing Chen, Yaxuan Song, Chunyuan Zheng +3

Generative AI (GenAI) provides new opportunities for creativity support, but the phenomenon of GenAI design fixation remains underexplored. While human design fixation typically co…

cs.HC2025★ 3 cited

How Generative AI supports human in conceptual design

Liuging Chen, Yaxuan Song, Jia Guo +3

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative AI) is a collection of AI technologies that can generate new information such as texts and images. With its strong capabilities, Gene…

cs.HC2024★ 1 cited

MindScratch: A Visual Programming Support Tool for Classroom Learning Based on Multimodal Generative AI

Yunnong Chen, Shuhong Xiao, Yaxuan Song +3

Programming has become an essential component of K-12 education and serves as a pathway for developing computational thinking skills. Given the complexity of programming and the ad…

cs.HC2024★ 3 cited

CoRemix: Supporting Informal Learning in Scratch Community With Visual Graph and Generative AI

Yunnong Chen, Yishu Shen, Ruiyi Liu +3

Online programming communities provide a space for novices to engage with computing concepts, allowing them to learn and develop computing skills using user-generated projects. How…

cs.SE2024

Fragmented Layer Grouping in GUI Designs Through Graph Learning Based on Multimodal Information

Yunnong Chen, Shuhong Xiao, Jiazhi Li +5

Automatically constructing GUI groups of different granularities constitutes a critical intelligent step towards automating GUI design and implementation tasks. Specifically, in th…

cs.HC2024★ 1 cited

TRIZ-GPT: An LLM-augmented method for problem-solving

Liuqing Chen, Yaxuan Song, Shixian Ding +3

TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, is derived from a comprehensive analysis of patents across various domains, offering a framework and practical tools for problem-solv…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

An Artificial Intelligence Approach for Interpreting Creative Combinational Designs

Liuqing Chen, Shuhong Xiao, Yunnong Chen +3

Combinational creativity, a form of creativity involving the blending of familiar ideas, is pivotal in design innovation. While most research focuses on how combinational creativit…

cs.SE2024★ 3 cited

Prototype2Code: End-to-end Front-end Code Generation from UI Design Prototypes

Shuhong Xiao, Yunnong Chen, Jiazhi Li +3

UI-to-code technology has streamlined the front-end development process, reducing repetitive tasks for engineers. prior research mainly use design prototypes as inputs, with the ef…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

UI Semantic Group Detection: Grouping UI Elements with Similar Semantics in Mobile Graphical User Interface

Shuhong Xiao, Yunnong Chen, Yaxuan Song +4

Texts, widgets, and images on a UI page do not work separately. Instead, they are partitioned into groups to achieve certain interaction functions or visual information. Existing s…

cs.HC2024★ 53 cited

ChatScratch: An AI-Augmented System Toward Autonomous Visual Programming Learning for Children Aged 6-12

Liuqing Chen, Shuhong Xiao, Yunnong Chen +3

As Computational Thinking (CT) continues to permeate younger age groups in K-12 education, established CT platforms such as Scratch face challenges in catering to these younger lea…

cs.SE2023★ 7 cited

EGFE: End-to-end Grouping of Fragmented Elements in UI Designs with Multimodal Learning

Liuqing Chen, Yunnong Chen, Shuhong Xiao +5

When translating UI design prototypes to code in industry, automatically generating code from design prototypes can expedite the development of applications and GUI iterations. How…

cs.CV2022

UI Layers Group Detector: Grouping UI Layers via Text Fusion and Box Attention

Shuhong Xiao, Tingting Zhou, Yunnong Chen +4

Graphic User Interface (GUI) is facing great demand with the popularization and prosperity of mobile apps. Automatic UI code generation from UI design draft dramatically simplifies…

cs.CL2022★ 19 cited

WikiLink: an encyclopedia-based semantic network for design innovation

Haoyu Zuo, Qianzhi Jing, Tianqi Song +4

Data-driven design and innovation is a process to reuse and provide valuable and useful information. However, existing semantic networks for design innovation is built on data sour…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

ULDGNN: A Fragmented UI Layer Detector Based on Graph Neural Networks

Jiazhi Li, Tingting Zhou, Yunnong Chen +4

While some work attempt to generate front-end code intelligently from UI screenshots, it may be more convenient to utilize UI design drafts in Sketch which is a popular UI design s…

cs.CV2022

UI Layers Merger: Merging UI layers via Visual Learning and Boundary Prior

Yun-nong Chen, Yan-kun Zhen, Chu-ning Shi +6

With the fast-growing GUI development workload in the Internet industry, some work on intelligent methods attempted to generate maintainable front-end code from UI screenshots. It…