11 papers
AI-Wrapped: Participatory, Privacy-Preserving Measurement of Longitudinal LLM Use In-the-Wild
Cathy Mengying Fang, Sheer Karny, Chayapatr Archiwaranguprok +3
Alignment research on large language models (LLMs) increasingly depends on understanding how these systems are used in everyday contexts. Yet naturalistic interaction data is diffi…
How AI and Human Behaviors Shape Psychosocial Effects of Extended Chatbot Use: A Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Study
Cathy Mengying Fang, Auren R. Liu, Valdemar Danry +8
As people increasingly seek emotional support and companionship from AI chatbots, understanding how such interactions impact mental well-being becomes critical. We conducted a four…
EmoSign: A Multimodal Dataset for Understanding Emotions in American Sign Language
Phoebe Chua, Cathy Mengying Fang, Takehiko Ohkawa +3
Unlike spoken languages where the use of prosodic features to convey emotion is well studied, indicators of emotion in sign language remain poorly understood, creating communicatio…
Perspectives on Capturing Emotional Expressiveness in Sign Language
Phoebe Chua, Cathy Mengying Fang, Yasith Samaradivakara +2
Significant advances have been made in our ability to understand and generate emotionally expressive content such as text and speech, yet comparable progress in sign language techn…
The Goldilocks Time Window for Proactive Interventions in Wearable AI Systems
Cathy Mengying Fang, Wazeer Zulfikar, Yasith Samaradivakara +2
As AI systems become increasingly integrated into our daily lives and into wearable form factors, there's a fundamental tension between their potential to proactively assist us and…
Leveraging AI-Generated Emotional Self-Voice to Nudge People towards their Ideal Selves
Cathy Mengying Fang, Phoebe Chua, Samantha Chan +3
Emotions, shaped by past experiences, significantly influence decision-making and goal pursuit. Traditional cognitive-behavioral techniques for personal development rely on mental…