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Our lab has seven new publications this semester, thanks to all our collaborators and students for their hard work and contributions! A common theme across these works is human-AI collaboration and visual analytics tools across different contexts, including UX evaluation, sensemaking, software engineering, and presentation authoring.
One full paper that I presented at CHI 2026 in Barcelona:
Two workshop papers at CHI 2026:
- “I’’m Not Reading All of That”: Understanding Software Engineers’’ Level of Cognitive Engagement with Agentic Coding Assistants
- Beyond One User and One Model: Rethinking LLMs as Mediators in Collaborative Sensemaking and Ideation
Two articles in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction:
- Standardizing the Evaluation of Usability Test Results: Criteria Development and Human-AI Collaborative Performance
- MultiUX: A Human-AI Collaborative Tool to Facilitate Multiple Usability Test Video Analyses
Two papers to be presented at DIS 2026 in Singapore:
Our lab has two new publications this semester:
Evaluating Usability Challenges in VR Games for Older Adults: A Comparison With and Without AI Assistance
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Key highlights:
- Older adults encountered several usability problems in VR, including unclear instructions and goals, confusing game mechanics, and difficult-to-navigate menus.
- AI-generated suggestions helped UX evaluators to identify a greater number of usability problems.
LLM-powered assistant with electrotactile feedback to assist blind and low vision people with maps and routes preview
In the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. Key highlights:
- An LLM-powered assistant that supports natural language queries about map elements, route conditions, and trajectories.
- A wearable electrotactile feedback device that conveys map features via haptic signals.
- A user study with blind and low vision participants demonstrating improved efficiency and spatial understanding of route previews.
