27 papers
From Neglect to Resignation: Understanding the Evolution of Mobile Privacy
Yibo Meng, Ziqi Liu, Lionel Z. Wang +2
This decade-long longitudinal qualitative study follows 31 smartphone users in China across four interview waves (2014-2023) to examine how mobile privacy understanding evolves alo…
"You Already Have Me--Why Do You Still Use Blued?" How Gay Dating Apps Shape Intimate Relationships Among Chinese Gay Men
Yibo Meng, Lyumanshan Ye, Bingyi Liu +3
Gay dating applications such as Blued are widely used for meeting partners, yet their role does not end once an intimate relationship is formed. When these platforms persist within…
Navigating Deception on Gay Dating Apps: A Qualitative Study of Users' Experiences, Verification Strategies, and Community Knowledge in China
Yibo Meng, Lyumanshan Ye, Bingyi Liu +2
Gay dating applications have become essential platforms for sexual minority men to seek relationships, intimacy, and community, yet they also expose users to a range of deceptive i…
From Prefabricated Content to Situated Generation: A Four-Wave Longitudinal Study of AI-Mediated Museum Surfaces and Spaces
Yibo Meng, Xiujun Chen, Bingyi Liu +1
Generative AI changes a basic condition of interactive surfaces and spaces (ISS): visitor-facing content can be produced during interaction rather than fully authored before it. We…
When Data Becomes Judgment: Misaligned Interpretations and Accountability in Food Delivery Platforms
Yibo Meng, Shuoning Shi, Bingyi Liu +1
Food delivery platforms mediate service encounters through real-time tracking data. While presented as objective, such data often obscures the situational constraints shaping deliv…
Where Does the Human End? Creative Agency with Generative AI across Five Years of Chinese Digital Painting
Yibo Meng, Ruiqi Chen, Shuheng Cao +2
As generative AI enters creative work, practitioners must decide where AI assistance ends and human authorship begins. Human-agent interaction (HAI) research has examined AI as a t…
Balancing Safety and Autonomy: Accessibility-Oriented Interventions in Generative AI for Cognitive Impairment
Yibo Meng, Jingruo Chen, Lyumanshan Ye +2
Generative AI systems are increasingly used by older adults with cognitive impairment for everyday tasks such as information seeking, health management, and communication. While th…
Wearing Trust: How Older Adults Calibrate Reliance on Health Wearables Through Bodily Experience and Everyday Use
Yibo Meng, Bingyi Liu, ZhiMing Liu +1
Older adults increasingly use health wearables, yet often cannot inspect the properties that matter for reliance. Through 31 semi-structured interviews in China, we examined how pa…
Living Inside the Black Box: Behavioral Probing and Adaptation in Mandatory Wearable Sensing
Yibo Meng, Bingyi Liu, Ruiqi Chen +2
Wearable sensing systems in high-stakes institutional contexts translate behavioral data into consequential judgments, yet wearers have little access to how those judgments are mad…
Between Knowledge and Care: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Generative AI for T2DM Self-Management from Patient and Physician Perspectives
Ruiqi Chen, Yibo Meng, Huidi Lu +1
Generative AI is increasingly used for everyday health guidance, yet its clinical appropriateness in chronic disease contexts remains poorly understood. This paper presents a two-p…
Reading the Same Data Differently: Interpretive Labor Across System Boundaries in Electronic Monitoring
Yibo Meng, Bingyi Liu, Zhiqi Gao +2
Electronic monitoring (EM) systems are increasingly used in community corrections to enforce spatial, temporal, and behavioral rules through continuous sensing. While prior work ha…
"Everyone Says Them": Deception Typologies, Probabilistic Trust, and Grassroots Safety Knowledge Among Gay Dating App Users in China
Yibo Meng, Lyumanshan Ye, Yingfangzhong Sun +3
Gay dating applications have become critical platforms for sexual minority men to seek relationships and community, yet they also expose users to deceptive interactions that remain…
Beyond Usability: A UX Case Study on Using "Withdrawal Design" to Challenge Engagement Metrics in Social Robotics
Yibo Meng, Qiuyu Long, Richard Chen +2
Social robots for children with autism are often evaluated through engagement and interaction quality, assuming the robot acts as a social scaffold. We report a mixed-methods "with…
NüshuVoice: Reviving the Voice of Endangered Nüshu with Pitch-Aware Text-to-Speech
Hongkun Yang, Xinhui Yi, Xiyan Zhao +13
Nüshu is an endangered phonetic script historically used by women in Jiangyong County, southern Hunan, China. While existing computational studies of Nüshu mainly focus on textual…
TibetCPR: A Multimodal Tactile Feedback System to Enhance Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training in High-Altitude Regions of Tibet
Yibo Meng, Ruiqi Chen, Zhiming Liu +1
High-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) requires stable control of compression rhythm and depth, yet most training systems presuppose instructor mediation, repeated practi…
"Not Just Me and My To-Do List": Understanding Challenges of Task Management for Adults with ADHD and the Need for AI-Augmented Social Scaffolds
Jingruo Chen, Yibo Meng, Kexin Nie
Adults with ADHD often face challenges with task management, not due to a lack of willpower, but because of emotional and relational misalignments between cognitive needs and norma…
Engagement Is Not Transfer: A Withdrawal Study of a Consumer Social Robot with Autistic Children at Home
Yibo Meng, Guangrui Fan, Bingyi Liu +3
This study examines whether engagement with social robots translates into improved human-directed social abilities in autistic children. We conducted an 8-week home-based randomize…
In the Middle, Not on Top: AI-Mediated Communication for Patient-Provider Care Relationships
Ut Gong, Yibo Meng, Qihan Zhang +2
Relationship-centered care relies on trust and meaningful connection. As AI enters clinical settings, we must ask not just what it can do, but how it should be positioned to suppor…
Misty Forest VR: Turning Real ADHD Attention Patterns into Shared Momentum for Youth Collaboration
Yibo Meng, Bingyi Liu, Ruiqi Chen +1
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) remains highly stigmatized in many cultural contexts, particularly in China, where ADHD-related behaviors are often moralized rather…
52-Hz Whale Song: An Embodied VR Experience for Exploring Misunderstanding and Empathy
Yibo Meng, Bingyi Liu, Ruiqi Chen +2
Experiences of being misunderstood often stem not from a lack of voice, but from mismatches between how individuals express themselves and how others listen. Such communicative mis…
Prompting Destiny: Negotiating Socialization and Growth in an LLM-Mediated Speculative Gameworld
Mandi Yang, Zhiqi Gao, Yibo Meng +1
We present an LLM-mediated role-playing game that supports reflection on socialization, moral responsibility, and educational role positioning. Grounded in socialization theory, th…
A Longitudinal Study on the Attitudes of Gay Men in Beijing Towards Gay Social Media Platforms: Lonely Souls in the Digital Concrete Jungle
Yibo Meng, Xiaolan Ding, Lyumanshan Ye +2
Over the past decade, specialized social networking applications have become a cornerstone of life for many gay men in China. This paper employs a longitudinal mixed-methods approa…
Can Intelligent User Interfaces Engage in Philosophical Discussions? A Longitudinal Study of Philosophers' Evolving Perceptions
Yibo Meng, Lyumanshan Ye, Eve He +5
This study investigates the evolving attitudes of philosophy scholars towards the participation of generative AI based Intelligent User Interfaces (IUIs) in philosophical discourse…
Final Happiness: What Intelligent User Interfaces Can Do for The Lonely Dying
Yibo Meng, Rong Fu, Lyumanshan Ye +4
This study explores the design of Intelligent User Interfaces (IUIs) to address the profound existential loneliness of terminally ill individuals. While Human-Computer Interaction…