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most citedUXAgent: An LLM Agent-Based Usability Testing Framework for Web Design

22 citations · 24 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.AI2026

Humans' ALMANAC: A Human Collaboration Dataset of Action-Level Mental Model Annotations for Agent Collaboration

Jiaju Chen, Yuxuan Lu, Jiayi Su +10

Recent advances in LLM agents have enabled complex cognitive capabilities, such as multi-step reasoning, planning, and tool use, that increasingly position these agents as human co…

cs.CL2026

NARRA-Gym for Evaluating Interactive Narrative Agents

Yue Huang, Yuchen Ma, Jiayi Ye +14

Interactive narrative tasks require LLMs to sustain a coherent, evolving story while adapting to a user over multiple turns. However, suitable benchmarks for this setting are limit…

cs.HC2026

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…

cs.SE2026

How Coding Agents Fail Their Users: A Large-Scale Analysis of Developer-Agent Misalignment in 20,574 Real-World Sessions

Ningzhi Tang, Chaoran Chen, Gelei Xu +5

AI coding agents increasingly act directly within software environments, yet existing analyses of their failures rely on benchmark trajectories that miss how developers actually ex…

cs.HC2026

Comparing Human Oversight Strategies for Computer-Use Agents

Chaoran Chen, Zhiping Zhang, Zeya Chen +9

LLM-powered computer-use agents (CUAs) shift users from direct manipulation to supervising an unfolding action sequence, yet existing oversight research mostly evaluates static dec…

cs.SE2026

Programming by Chat: A Large-Scale Behavioral Analysis of 11,579 Real-World AI-Assisted IDE Sessions

Ningzhi Tang, Chaoran Chen, Zihan Fang +6

IDE-integrated AI coding assistants, which operate conversationally within developers' working codebases with access to project context and multi-file editing, are rapidly reshapin…

cs.HC2026

From Human-Human Collaboration to Human-Agent Collaboration: A Vision, Design Philosophy, and an Empirical Framework for Achieving Successful Partnerships Between Humans and LLM Agents

Bingsheng Yao, Chaoran Chen, April Yi Wang +3

The emergence of Large Language Model (LLM) agents enables us to build agent-based intelligent systems that move beyond the role of a "tool" to become genuine collaborators with hu…

cs.HC2026

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…

cs.CR2025

PrivacyMotiv: Vulnerability-Centered Persona Journeys for Empathic Privacy Reviews in UX Design

Zeya Chen, Jianing Wen, Yaxing Yao +2

UX professionals routinely conduct design reviews, yet privacy concerns are often overlooked, not only due to limited tools, but more fundamentally from low intrinsic motivation, d…

cs.HC2025

Dark Patterns Meet GUI Agents: LLM Agent Susceptibility to Manipulative Interfaces and the Role of Human Oversight

Jingyu Tang, Chaoran Chen, Jiawen Li +11

The dark patterns, deceptive interface designs manipulating user behaviors, have been extensively studied for their effects on human decision-making and autonomy. Yet, with the ris…

cs.HC2025

My Favorite Streamer is an LLM: Discovering, Bonding, and Co-Creating in AI VTuber Fandom

Jiayi Ye, Chaoran Chen, Yue Huang +3

AI VTubers, where the performer is not human but algorithmically generated, introduce a new context for fandom. While human VTubers have been substantially studied for their cultur…

cs.HC2025

Through the Lens of Human-Human Collaboration: A Configurable Research Platform for Exploring Human-Agent Collaboration

Bingsheng Yao, Jiaju Chen, Chaoran Chen +3

Intelligent systems have traditionally been designed as tools rather than collaborators, often lacking critical characteristics that collaboration partnerships require. Recent adva…

cs.CL2025

OPeRA: A Dataset of Observation, Persona, Rationale, and Action for Evaluating LLMs on Human Online Shopping Behavior Simulation

Ziyi Wang, Yuxuan Lu, Wenbo Li +13

Can large language models (LLMs) accurately simulate the next web action of a specific user? While LLMs have shown promising capabilities in generating ``believable'' human behavio…

cs.HC2025★ 1 cited

Toward a Human-Centered Evaluation Framework for Trustworthy LLM-Powered GUI Agents

Chaoran Chen, Zhiping Zhang, Ibrahim Khalilov +7

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized Graphical User Interface (GUI) automation through LLM-powered GUI agents, yet their ability to process sensitive data wi…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

UXAgent: A System for Simulating Usability Testing of Web Design with LLM Agents

Yuxuan Lu, Bingsheng Yao, Hansu Gu +7

Usability testing is a fundamental research method that user experience (UX) researchers use to evaluate and iterate their new designs. But what about evaluating and iterating the…

cs.HC2025

Towards a Design Guideline for RPA Evaluation: A Survey of Large Language Model-Based Role-Playing Agents

Chaoran Chen, Bingsheng Yao, Ruishi Zou +5

Role-Playing Agent (RPA) is an increasingly popular type of LLM Agent that simulates human-like behaviors in a variety of tasks. However, evaluating RPAs is challenging due to dive…

cs.HC2025★ 22 cited

UXAgent: An LLM Agent-Based Usability Testing Framework for Web Design

Yuxuan Lu, Bingsheng Yao, Hansu Gu +7

Usability testing is a fundamental yet challenging (e.g., inflexible to iterate the study design flaws and hard to recruit study participants) research method for user experience (…

cs.HC2024

CLEAR: Towards Contextual LLM-Empowered Privacy Policy Analysis and Risk Generation for Large Language Model Applications

Chaoran Chen, Daodao Zhou, Yanfang Ye +2

The rise of end-user applications powered by large language models (LLMs), including both conversational interfaces and add-ons to existing graphical user interfaces (GUIs), introd…

cs.CR2024

Careful About What App Promotion Ads Recommend! Detecting and Explaining Malware Promotion via App Promotion Graph

Shang Ma, Chaoran Chen, Shao Yang +5

In Android apps, their developers frequently place app promotion ads, namely advertisements to promote other apps. Unfortunately, the inadequate vetting of ad content allows malici…