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CoBranchMR: Supporting Parallel Design and Conflict Resolution in Mixed Reality
Niloofar Sayadi, Kaiyuan Tang, Yunhao Xing +3
We present CoBranchMR, a mixed reality (MR) system that enables distributed collaborators to work in parallel from different locations on the same digital representation of a physi…
Report of the 2026 Workshop on Next-Generation Ecosystems for Scientific Computing: Harnessing Community, Software, and AI for Cross-Disciplinary Team Science
Lois Curfman McInnes, Dorian Arnold, Prasanna Balaprakash +45
Scientific computing is undergoing rapid transformation as advances in artificial intelligence, heterogeneous computing, automation, and data-intensive research reshape not only co…
Framing War Across Languages: Power, Agency, and Sentiment in Wikipedia's Multilingual War Narratives
Jiarui Xia, Diego Gomez-Zara
While Wikipedia promotes a neutral point of view on historical conflicts, its language editions are written by editors from distinct linguistic and cultural communities. In this st…
Stayin' Aligned Over Time: Towards Longitudinal Human-LLM Alignment via Contextual Reflection and Privacy-Preserving Behavioral Data
Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Allison E Sproul, Yinuo Yang +3
Current human-AI alignment and evaluation methods for large language models (LLMs) often rely on preference signals collected immediately after an interaction. This practice implic…
MultEval: Supporting Collaborative Alignment for LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation Criteria
Charles Chiang, Simret Gebreegziabher, Annalisa Szymanski +6
LLM-as-a-judge approaches have emerged as a scalable solution for evaluating model behaviors, yet they rely on evaluation criteria often created by a single individual, embedding t…
Revisiting Framing Codebooks with AI: Employing Large Language Models as Analytical Collaborators in Deductive Content Analysis
Diego Gomez-Zara, Hernán Valdivieso, Jorge Pérez +2
Codebooks are central to framing research, providing theoretically grounded criteria for analyzing news content. While traditionally codebooks are built from theoretical frameworks…
ViT-Explainer: An Interactive Walkthrough of the Vision Transformer Pipeline
Juan Manuel Hernandez, Mariana Fernandez-Espinosa, Denis Parra +1
Transformer-based architectures have become the shared backbone of natural language processing and computer vision. However, understanding how these models operate remains challeng…
The Behavioral Fabric of LLM-Powered GUI Agents: Human Values and Interaction Outcomes
Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Yukun Yang, Charles Chiang +7
Large Language Model (LLM)-powered web GUI agents are increasingly automating everyday online tasks. Despite their popularity, little is known about how users' preferences and valu…
Simulating Teams with LLM Agents: Interactive 2D Environments for Studying Human-AI Dynamics
Mohammed Almutairi, Charles Chiang, Haoze Guo +9
Enabling users to create their own simulations offers a powerful way to study team dynamics and performance. We introduce VirTLab, a system that allows researchers and practitioner…
Practicing a Second Language Without Fear: Mixed Reality Agents for Interactive Group Conversation
Mariana Fernandez-Espinosa, Kai Zhang, Jad Bendarkawi +8
Developing speaking proficiency in a second language can be cognitively demanding and emotionally taxing, often triggering fear of making mistakes or being excluded from larger gro…
Report of the 2025 Workshop on Next-Generation Ecosystems for Scientific Computing: Harnessing Community, Software, and AI for Cross-Disciplinary Team Science
Lois Curfman McInnes, Dorian Arnold, Prasanna Balaprakash +40
This report summarizes insights from the 2025 Workshop on Next-Generation Ecosystems for Scientific Computing: Harnessing Community, Software, and AI for Cross-Disciplinary Team Sc…
VirtLab: An AI-Powered System for Flexible, Customizable, and Large-scale Team Simulations
Mohammed Almutairi, Charles Chiang, Haoze Guo +9
Simulating how team members collaborate within complex environments using Agentic AI is a promising approach to explore hypotheses grounded in social science theories and study tea…
Towards Effective Multidisciplinary Health and HCI Teams based on AI Framework
Mohammed Almutairi, Diego Gómez-Zará
As a Ph.D. student with a diverse background in both public and private sectors, I have encountered numerous challenges in cross-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder team projects. M…
tAIfa: Enhancing Team Effectiveness and Cohesion with AI-Generated Automated Feedback
Mohammed Almutairi, Charles Chiang, Yuxin Bai +1
Providing timely and actionable feedback is crucial for effective collaboration, learning, and coordination within teams. However, many teams face challenges in receiving feedback…
When Technologies Are Not Enough: Understanding How Domestic Workers Employ (and Avoid) Online Technologies in Their Work Practices
Mariana Fernandez-Espinosa, Mariana Gonzalez-Bejar, Jacobo Wiesner +1
Although domestic work is often viewed as manual labor, it involves significant interaction with online technologies. However, the detailed exploration of how domestic workers use…
Augmenting Teamwork through AI Agents as Spatial Collaborators
Mariana Fernandez-Espinosa, Diego Gomez-Zara
As Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) continue to converge, new opportunities emerge for AI agents to actively support human collaboration in immersive environ…
The Role of Organizations in Networked Mobilization: Examining the 2011 Chilean Student Movement Through The Logic of Connective Action
Diego Gomez-Zara, Carolina Perez-Arredondo, Denis Parra
This study examines the communication mechanisms that shape the formation of digitally-enabled mobilization networks. Informed by the logic of connective action, we postulate that…
Breaking the Familiarity Bias: Employing Virtual Reality Environments to Enhance Team Formation and Inclusion
Mariana Fernandez-Espinosa, Kara Clouse, Dylan Sellars +6
Team closeness provides the foundations of trust and communication, contributing to teams' success and viability. However, newcomers often struggle to be included in a team since i…
"Feeling that I was Collaborating with Them:" A 20-year Scoping Review of Social Virtual Reality Leveraging Collaboration
Niloofar Sayadi, Sadie Co, Diego Gomez-Zara
As more people meet, interact, and socialize online, Social Virtual Reality (VR) emerges as a technology that bridges the gap between traditional face-to-face and online communicat…
sMoRe: Enhancing Object Manipulation and Organization in Mixed Reality Spaces with LLMs and Generative AI
Yunhao Xing, Que Liu, Jingwu Wang +1
In mixed reality (MR) environments, understanding space and creating virtual objects is crucial to providing an intuitive and rich user experience. This paper introduces sMoRe (Spa…
Shaping Collaborations with Algorithms: How Agency and Heterogeneity Criteria Influence Team Formation and Outcomes
Diego Gomez-Zara, Victoria Kam, Charles Chiang +4
Across professional, scientific, entrepreneurial, and workplace collaboration platforms, algorithms increasingly shape how individuals find and connect with collaborators. These sy…
The Evolution of Emojis for Sharing Emotions: A Systematic Review of the HCI Literature
Charles Chiang, Diego Gomez-Zara
With the prevalence of instant messaging and social media platforms, emojis have become important artifacts for expressing emotions and feelings in our daily lives. We ask how HCI…
Immersed in my Ideas: Using Virtual Reality and Multimodal Interactions to Visualize Users' Ideas and Thoughts
Yunhao Xing, Jerrick Ban, Timothy D. Hubbard +2
This paper introduces VIVRA (Voice Interactive Virtual Reality Annotation), a VR application combining multimodal interaction with large language models (LLMs) to transform users'…
Fostering Inclusive Virtual Reality Environments: Discussing Strategies for Promoting Group Dynamics and Mitigating Harassment
Niloofar Sayadi, Diego Gómez-Zará
The rapid evolution of social Virtual Reality (VR) platforms has significantly enhanced the way users interact and socialize in digital spaces, offering immersive experiences that…