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The Addictive Intimacy of AI: Understanding User Disengagement from AI Companions and Why Some Relationships with AI Become Difficult to Leave
Qing Xiao, Ziyue Feng, Ziyu Deng +2
AI chatbots are increasingly used as sources of emotional support, on dedicated companion apps and general-purpose assistants alike, yet little is known about what happens when use…
Exploring K-12 Teachers' Perceptions of Students' Relationships with AI Companions: Boundaries, Intervention Strategies, and Design Implications
Qing Xiao, Wenhan Xie, Ziyu Deng +7
K-12 students increasingly form relationships with AI companions. Schools face growing expectations to teach AI literacy, yet existing frameworks treat AI as a tool rather than a r…
Design Principles for Human-Agent Interaction
Haiyi Zhu, Canwen Wang, Qing Xiao +1
AI agents are rapidly evolving into autonomous systems capable of sustained interaction, tool use, and long-term collaboration. Yet their real-world adoption remains limited, sugge…
"It Felt Real" Victim Perspectives on Platform Design and Longer-Running Scams
Jingjia Xiao, Qing Xiao, Hong Shen
Longer-running scams, such as romance fraud and "pig-butchering" scams, exploit not only victims' emotions but also the design of digital platforms. Scammers commonly leverage feat…
Beyond the Personal Assistant: How Expectations for Enterprise AI in Teamwork Diverged as Generative AI Took Shape, 2023-2025
Qing Xiao, Xinlan Emily Hu, Mark E. Whiting +3
HCI often draws on users' articulated needs and expectations to explore design opportunities for emerging technologies. Yet, these accounts are shaped by how technologies take form…
How K-12 Teachers Adapt Generative AI to Local Classroom Demands: Cultural Distance Between GenAI Defaults and Everyday Teaching Practices
Ruiwei Xiao, Qing Xiao, Xinying Hou +4
Generative AI (GenAI) is entering K-12 classrooms, but its default culture does not always fit local teaching. Existing accounts either treat this misfit as macro-level structural…
When Your Boss Is an AI Bot: Exploring Opportunities and Risks of Manager Clone Agents in the Future Workplace
Qing Hu, Qing Xiao, Hancheng Cao +1
As Generative AI (GenAI) becomes increasingly embedded in the workplace, managers are beginning to create Manager Clone Agents -- AI-powered digital surrogates trained on their wor…
The Digital Landscape of God: Narrative, Visuals and Viewer Engagement of Religious Videos on YouTube
Rongyi Chen, Ziyan Xin, Qing Xiao +5
The digital transformation of religious practice has reshaped how billions of people engage with spiritual content, with video-sharing platforms becoming central to contemporary re…
Can GenAI Move from Individual Use to Collaborative Work? Experiences, Challenges, and Opportunities of Coordinating GenAI into Collaborative Newswork
Qing Xiao, Qing Hu, Jingjia Xiao +2
Generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping work, but adoption remains largely individual and experimental rather than coordinated into collaborative work. Whether GenAI can move from indiv…
The Siren Song of LLMs: How Users Perceive and Respond to Dark Patterns in Large Language Models
Yike Shi, Qing Xiao, Qing Hu +2
Large language models can influence users through conversation, creating new forms of dark patterns that differ from traditional UX dark patterns. We define LLM dark patterns as ma…
Do Teachers Dream of GenAI Widening Educational (In)equality? Envisioning the Future of K-12 GenAI Education from Global Teachers' Perspectives
Ruiwei Xiao, Qing Xiao, Xinying Hou +4
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly entering K-12 classrooms worldwide, initiating urgent debates about its potential to either reduce or exacerbate educational i…
Constructing Algorithmic Authority: How Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs) Govern Live-Streaming Labor in China
Qing Xiao, Rongyi Chen, Jingjia Xiao +6
This study examines the discursive construction of algorithms and its role in labor management in Chinese live-streaming industry by focusing on how intermediary organizations (Mul…
Rethinking Theory of Mind Benchmarks for LLMs: Towards A User-Centered Perspective
Qiaosi Wang, Xuhui Zhou, Maarten Sap +2
The last couple of years have witnessed emerging research that appropriates Theory-of-Mind (ToM) tasks designed for humans to benchmark LLM's ToM capabilities as an indication of L…
How Do Users Negotiate Harmful Value Conflicts with AI Companions? A Study with Minion, a Technology Probe for In-Situ Human-AI Conflict Response
Xianzhe Fan, Qing Xiao, Xuhui Zhou +4
AI companions increasingly sustain long-term, emotionally engaging relationships but can also make discriminatory remarks or exert control, leaving users to manage harmful conflict…
User-Driven Value Alignment: Understanding Users' Perceptions and Strategies for Addressing Biased and Discriminatory Statements in AI Companions
Xianzhe Fan, Qing Xiao, Xuhui Zhou +4
Large language model-based AI companions are increasingly viewed by users as friends or romantic partners, leading to deep emotional bonds. However, they can generate biased, discr…