Ziang Xiao

According to our database, Ziang Xiao authored at least 73 papers between 2017 and 2026.

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2026

Keeping an Eye on AI: A Framework for Effective Human Oversight of AI Systems.

Susanne Gaube, Markus Langer, Tim Miller, Kevin Baum, Raimund Dachselt, Anna Maria Feit, Ujwal Gadiraju, Harmanpreet Kaur, Mark T. Keane, Richard Landers, Johann Laux, Q. Vera Liao, Brian Lim, Linda Onnasch, Tim Schrills, Liz Sonenberg, Chenhao Tan, Nava Tintarev, Ziang Xiao, Hanwei Zhang

CoRR, May, 2026

How to Interpret Agent Behavior.

Jie Gao, Kaiser Sun, Jen-tse Huang, Katherine Van Koevering, Sijie Ji, Heyuan Huang, Weiyan Shi, Zhuoran Lu, Ziang Xiao, Daniel Khashabi, Mark Dredze

CoRR, May, 2026

LoViF 2026 The First Challenge on Holistic Quality Assessment for 4D World Model (PhyScore).

Wei Luo, Yiting Lu, Xin Li, Haoran Li, Fengbin Guan, Chen Gao, Xin Jin, Yong Li, Zhibo Chen, Sijing Wu, Kang Fu, Yunhao Li, Ziang Xiao, Huiyu Duan, Jing Liu, Qiang Hu, Xiongkuo Min, Guangtao Zhai, Manxi Sun, Zixuan Guo, Yun Li, Ziyang Chen, Manabu Tsukada, Zhengyang Li, Zhenglin Du, Yi Wen, Licheng Jiao, Fang Liu, Lingling Li, Yiwen Ren, Zhilong Song, Dubing Chen, Yucheng Zhou, Tianyi Yan, Huan Zheng

CoRR, May, 2026

Synthetic Users, Real Differences: an Evaluation Framework for User Simulation in Multi-Turn Conversations.

Yu Lu Liu, Hyokun Yun, Tanya G. Roosta, Ziang Xiao

CoRR, May, 2026

What Makes a Good Response? An Empirical Analysis of Quality in Qualitative Interviews.

Jonathan Ivey, Anjalie Field, Ziang Xiao

CoRR, April, 2026

Comparing Human Oversight Strategies for Computer-Use Agents.

Chaoran Chen, Zhiping Zhang, Zeya Chen, Eryue Xu, Yinuo Yang, Ibrahim Khalilov, Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Yanfang Ye, Ziang Xiao, Yaxing Yao, Tianshi Li, Toby Jia-Jun Li

CoRR, April, 2026

Position: Science of AI Evaluation Requires Item-level Benchmark Data.

Han Jiang, Susu Zhang, Xiaoyuan Yi, Xing Xie, Ziang Xiao

CoRR, April, 2026

Not My Truce: Personality Differences in AI-Mediated Workplace Negotiation.

Veda Duddu, Jash Rajesh Parekh, Andy Mao, Hanyi Min, Ziang Xiao, Vedant Das Swain, Koustuv Saha

CoRR, April, 2026

Disclose with Care: Designing Privacy Controls in Interview Chatbots.

Ziwen Li, Ziang Xiao, Tianshi Li

CoRR, February, 2026

PriviSense: A Frida-Based Framework for Multi-Sensor Spoofing on Android.

Ibrahim Khalilov, Chaoran Chen, Ziang Xiao, Tianshi Li, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Yaxing Yao

CoRR, January, 2026

Generative Personality Simulation via Theory-Informed Structured Interview.

Pengda Wang, Huiqi Zou, Han Jiang, Hanjie Chen, Tianjun Sun, Xiaoyuan Yi, Ziang Xiao, Frederick L. Oswald

Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026

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

Jingyu Tang, Chaoran Chen, Jiawen Li, Zhiping Zhang, Bingcan Guo, Ibrahim Khalilov, Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Bingsheng Yao, Dakuo Wang, Yanfang Ye, Tianshi Li, Ziang Xiao, Yaxing Yao, Toby Jia-Jun Li

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

Feedback by Design: Understanding and Overcoming User Feedback Barriers in Conversational Agents.

Nikhil Sharma, Zheng Zhang, Daniel Lee, Namita Krishnan, Guang-Jie Ren, Ziang Xiao, Yunyao Li

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

Towards building a research platform to accelerate the science of Conversational AI.

Nikhil Sharma, Ziang Xiao

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

Understanding the Affordances of Control in AI Reasoning for Human-AI Decision-Making.

Jiwon Moon, Chien-Ming Huang, Ziang Xiao

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

Results-Actionability Gap: Understanding How Practitioners Evaluate LLM Products in the Wild.

Willem van der Maden, Malak Sadek, Ziang Xiao, Aske Mottelson, Q. Vera Liao, Jichen Zhu

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

Third Workshop on Human-Centered Evaluation and Auditing of Language Models: AI Agents-in-the-Loop.

Willem van der Maden, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Yu Lu Liu, Han Jiang, Valerie Chen, Haotian Li, Juho Kim, Q. Vera Liao, Wei Xu, Motahhare Eslami, Ziang Xiao

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

Disclose with Care: AI Scaffolds for Privacy in Chatbot Interviews.

Ziwen Li, Ziang Xiao, Tianshi Li

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

2025

Introduction to the Special Issue on Human-Centric Generative AI.

Yunyao Li, Mary Lou Maher, Ziang Xiao

ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst., December, 2025

Beyond Permissions: Investigating Mobile Personalization with Simulated Personas.

Ibrahim Khalilov, Chaoran Chen, Ziang Xiao, Tianshi Li, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Yaxing Yao

CoRR, November, 2025

ByteSized32Refactored: Towards an Extensible Interactive Text Games Corpus for LLM World Modeling and Evaluation.

Haonan Wang, Junfeng Sun, Xingdi Yuan, Ruoyao Wang, Ziang Xiao

CoRR, September, 2025

Does AI Coaching Prepare us for Workplace Negotiations?

Veda Duddu, Jash Rajesh Parekh, Andy Mao, Hanyi Min, Ziang Xiao, Vedant Das Swain, Koustuv Saha

CoRR, September, 2025

Population-Aligned Persona Generation for LLM-based Social Simulation.

Zhengyu Hu, Zheyuan Xiao, Max Xiong, Yuxuan Lei, Tianfu Wang, Jianxun Lian, Kaize Ding, Ziang Xiao, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Xing Xie

CoRR, September, 2025

The Incomplete Bridge: How AI Research (Mis)Engages with Psychology.

Han Jiang, Pengda Wang, Xiaoyuan Yi, Xing Xie, Ziang Xiao

CoRR, July, 2025

PICACO: Pluralistic In-Context Value Alignment of LLMs via Total Correlation Optimization.

Han Jiang, Dongyao Zhu, Zhihua Wei, Xiaoyuan Yi, Ziang Xiao, Xing Xie

CoRR, July, 2025

From Queries to Criteria: Understanding How Astronomers Evaluate LLMs.

Alina Hyk, Kiera McCormick, Mian Zhong, Ioana Ciuca, Sanjib Sharma, John F. Wu, Joshua E. G. Peek, Kartheik Iyer, Ziang Xiao, Anjalie Field

CoRR, July, 2025

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

Chaoran Chen, Zhiping Zhang, Ibrahim Khalilov, Bingcan Guo, Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Yanfang Ye, Ziang Xiao, Yaxing Yao, Tianshi Li, Toby Jia-Jun Li

CoRR, April, 2025

TALES: Text Adventure Learning Environment Suite.

Christopher Zhang Cui, Xingdi Yuan, Ziang Xiao, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Marc-Alexandre Côté

CoRR, April, 2025

The Obvious Invisible Threat: LLM-Powered GUI Agents' Vulnerability to Fine-Print Injections.

Chaoran Chen, Zhiping Zhang, Bingcan Guo, Shang Ma, Ibrahim Khalilov, Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Yanfang Ye, Ziang Xiao, Yaxing Yao, Tianshi Li, Toby Jia-Jun Li

CoRR, April, 2025

Personality Structured Interview for Large Language Model Simulation in Personality Research.

Pengda Wang, Huiqi Zou, Hanjie Chen, Tianjun Sun, Ziang Xiao, Frederick L. Oswald

CoRR, February, 2025

Interruption Handling for Conversational Robots.

Shiye Cao, Jiwon Moon, Amama Mahmood, Victor Nikhil Antony, Ziang Xiao, Anqi Liu, Chien-Ming Huang

CoRR, January, 2025

Faux Polyglot: A Study on Information Disparity in Multilingual Large Language Models.

Nikhil Sharma, Kenton Murray, Ziang Xiao

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2025

Raising the Bar: Investigating the Values of Large Language Models via Generative Evolving Testing.

Han Jiang, Xiaoyuan Yi, Zhihua Wei, Ziang Xiao, Shu Wang, Xing Xie

Proceedings of the Forty-second International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025

Assistance or Disruption? Exploring and Evaluating the Design and Trade-offs of Proactive AI Programming Support.

Kevin Pu, Daniel Lazaro, Ian Arawjo, Haijun Xia, Ziang Xiao, Tovi Grossman, Yan Chen

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

Understanding the LLM-ification of CHI: Unpacking the Impact of LLMs at CHI through a Systematic Literature Review.

Rock Yuren Pang, Hope Schroeder, Kynnedy Simone Smith, Solon Barocas, Ziang Xiao, Emily Tseng, Danielle Bragg

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

Human-Centered Evaluation and Auditing of Language Models.

Yu Lu Liu, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Michelle S. Lam, Motahhare Eslami, Juho Kim, Q. Vera Liao, Wei Xu, Jekaterina Novikova, Ziang Xiao

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

From Text to Trust: Empowering AI-assisted Decision Making with Adaptive LLM-powered Analysis.

Zhuoyan Li, Hangxiao Zhu, Zhuoran Lu, Ziang Xiao, Ming Yin

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

Human Subjects Research in the Age of Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges of Applying LLM-Simulated Data to HCI Studies.

Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Michael S. Bernstein, S. Shyam Sundar, Renwen Zhang, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Yingdan Lu, Serina Chang, Tongshuang Wu, Aimei Yang, Dmitri Williams, Joon Sung Park, Katherine Ognyanova, Ziang Xiao, Aaron Shaw, David A. Shamma

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

Canvil: Designerly Adaptation for LLM-Powered User Experiences.

K. J. Kevin Feng, Q. Vera Liao, Ziang Xiao, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Amy X. Zhang, David W. McDonald

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

2024

Can LLM "Self-report"?: Evaluating the Validity of Self-report Scales in Measuring Personality Design in LLM-based Chatbots.

Huiqi Zou, Pengda Wang, Zihan Yan, Tianjun Sun, Ziang Xiao

CoRR, 2024

Generative Echo Chamber? Effects of LLM-Powered Search Systems on Diverse Information Seeking.

Nikhil Sharma, Q. Vera Liao, Ziang Xiao

CoRR, 2024

Improving Context-Aware Preference Modeling for Language Models.

Silviu Pitis, Ziang Xiao, Nicolas Le Roux, Alessandro Sordoni

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

Human-Centered Evaluation of Language Technologies.

Su Lin Blodgett, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Vera Liao, Ziang Xiao

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2024, 2024

Human-Centered Evaluation and Auditing of Language Models.

Ziang Xiao, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Michelle S. Lam, Motahhare Eslami, Juho Kim, Mina Lee, Q. Vera Liao

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

Generative Echo Chamber? Effect of LLM-Powered Search Systems on Diverse Information Seeking.

Nikhil Sharma, Q. Vera Liao, Ziang Xiao

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

Can Language Models Serve as Text-Based World Simulators?

Ruoyao Wang, Graham Todd, Ziang Xiao, Xingdi Yuan, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Peter Clark, Peter A. Jansen

Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), 2024

ECBD: Evidence-Centered Benchmark Design for NLP.

Yu Lu Liu, Su Lin Blodgett, Jackie C. K. Cheung, Vera Liao, Alexandra Olteanu, Ziang Xiao

Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

2023

Deep Language Networks: Joint Prompt Training of Stacked LLMs using Variational Inference.

Alessandro Sordoni, Xingdi Yuan, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Matheus Pereira, Adam Trischler, Ziang Xiao, Arian Hosseini, Friederike Niedtner, Nicolas Le Roux

CoRR, 2023

Rethinking Model Evaluation as Narrowing the Socio-Technical Gap.

Q. Vera Liao, Ziang Xiao

CoRR, 2023

Evaluating NLG Evaluation Metrics: A Measurement Theory Perspective.

Ziang Xiao, Susu Zhang, Vivian Lai, Q. Vera Liao

CoRR, 2023

ByteSized32: A Corpus and Challenge Task for Generating Task-Specific World Models Expressed as Text Games.

Ruoyao Wang, Graham Todd, Eric Yuan, Ziang Xiao, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Peter Jansen

CoRR, 2023

What should I Ask: A Knowledge-driven Approach for Follow-up Questions Generation in Conversational Surveys.

Yubin Ge, Ziang Xiao, Jana Diesner, Heng Ji, Karrie Karahalios, Hari Sundaram

Proceedings of the 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, 2023

Joint Prompt Optimization of Stacked LLMs using Variational Inference.

Alessandro Sordoni, Eric Yuan, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Matheus Pereira, Adam Trischler, Ziang Xiao, Arian Hosseini, Friederike Niedtner, Nicolas Le Roux

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Supporting Qualitative Analysis with Large Language Models: Combining Codebook with GPT-3 for Deductive Coding.

Ziang Xiao, Xingdi Yuan, Q. Vera Liao, Rania Abdelghani, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2023

Powering an AI Chatbot with Expert Sourcing to Support Credible Health Information Access.

Ziang Xiao, Q. Vera Liao, Michelle X. Zhou, Tyrone Grandison, Yunyao Li

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2023

Evaluating Evaluation Metrics: A Framework for Analyzing NLG Evaluation Metrics using Measurement Theory.

Ziang Xiao, Susu Zhang, Vivian Lai, Q. Vera Liao

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

ByteSized32: A Corpus and Challenge Task for Generating Task-Specific World Models Expressed as Text Games.

Ruoyao Wang, Graham Todd, Xingdi Yuan, Ziang Xiao, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Peter A. Jansen

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

Inform the Uninformed: Improving Online Informed Consent Reading with an AI-Powered Chatbot.

Ziang Xiao, Tiffany Wenting Li, Karrie Karahalios, Hari Sundaram

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

2021

Let Me Ask You This: How Can a Voice Assistant Elicit Explicit User Feedback?

Ziang Xiao, Sarah Mennicken, Bernd Huber, Adam Shonkoff, Jennifer Thom

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2021

Contestability For Content Moderation.

Kristen Vaccaro, Ziang Xiao, Kevin Hamilton, Karrie Karahalios

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2021

2020

Tell Me About Yourself: Using an AI-Powered Chatbot to Conduct Conversational Surveys with Open-ended Questions.

Ziang Xiao, Michelle X. Zhou, Q. Vera Liao, Gloria Mark, Chang Yan Chi, Wenxi Chen, Huahai Yang

ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2020

A Data-Driven, Player-Centric Approach to Evaluating Spatial Skill Training Games.

Helen Wauck, Brian S. Woodard, Ziang Xiao, Tiffany Wenting Li, Brian P. Bailey

Proceedings of the CHI PLAY '20: The Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2020

If I Hear You Correctly: Building and Evaluating Interview Chatbots with Active Listening Skills.

Ziang Xiao, Michelle X. Zhou, Wenxi Chen, Huahai Yang, Chang Yan Chi

Proceedings of the CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

2019

Should We Use an Abstract Comic Form to Persuade?: Experiments with Online Charitable Donation.

Ziang Xiao, Po-Shiun Ho, Xinran Wang, Karrie Karahalios, Hari Sundaram

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2019

Tell Me About Yourself: Using an AI-Powered Chatbot to Conduct Conversational Surveys.

Ziang Xiao, Michelle X. Zhou, Q. Vera Liao, Gloria Mark, Chang Yan Chi, Wenxi Chen, Huahai Yang

CoRR, 2019

Getting virtually personal: chatbots who actively listen to you and infer your personality.

Michelle X. Zhou, Wenxi Chen, Ziang Xiao, Huahai Yang, Tracy Chi, Ransom Williams

Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces: Companion, 2019

Who should be my teammates: using a conversational agent to understand individuals and help teaming.

Ziang Xiao, Michelle X. Zhou, Wai-Tat Fu

Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2019

2018

To Label or Not to Label: The Effect of Stance and Credibility Labels on Readers' Selection and Perception of News Articles.

Mingkun Gao, Ziang Xiao, Karrie Karahalios, Wai-Tat Fu

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2018

A Human-Tracking Robot Using Ultra Wideband Technology.

Tao Feng, Yao Yu, Lin Wu, Yanru Bai, Ziang Xiao, Zhen Lu

IEEE Access, 2018

An Intelligent Educational Platform for Training Spatial Visualization Skills.

Ziang Xiao, Yuqi Yao, Wai-Tat Fu

Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion, 2018

Cubicle: An Adaptive Educational Gaming Platform for Training Spatial Visualization Skills.

Ziang Xiao, Helen Wauck, Zeya Peng, Hanfei Ren, Lei Zhang, Shiliang Zuo, Yuqi Yao, Wai-Tat Fu

Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2018

Supporting Spatial Skill Learning with Gesture-Based Embodied Design.

Po-Tsung Chiu, Helen Wauck, Ziang Xiao, Yuqi Yao, Wai-Tat Fu

Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2018

2017

Untangling the Relationship Between Spatial Skills, Game Features, and Gender in a Video Game.

Helen Wauck, Ziang Xiao, Po-Tsung Chiu, Wai-Tat Fu

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2017