Publications

Topic
Year
CHI 2026

Does Sequencing Matter? Evaluating AI and Human Simulations for High-Stakes Communication Training in Law Enforcement.

Duo Wang, Kyrian Liang, Qingxiao Zheng, Wenxuan Song, Jen Whiting, Mike Yao, Caroline G. L. Cao

CHI 2026

Should the AI Speak First? Evaluating Proactive vs. Reactive Facilitation in Mixed-Reality Medical Training.

Duo Wang, Wenxuan Song, Jianwei Ni, Qingxiao Zheng, Mike Yao, Caroline G. L. Cao

CHI 2026

A Meat-Summer Night's Dream: A Tangible Design Fiction Exploration of Eating Biohybrid Flying Robots.

Zimin Wang, Qingxiao Zheng, Shihan Zhang, Ned Barker, Morten Fjeld

IUI 2026

From Visual to Multimodal Programming: Designing an Interface to Externalize Decomposition Thinking for Novice Learners

Changjae Lee, Qingxiao Zheng, Jinjun Xiong

In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 1202-1217).

IEEE AIxVR 2026 (to appear)
🏆 Best Paper Award

EmSim: An AI-Driven VR Simulation for Scenario-Based De-Escalation Training in Law Enforcement.

Duo Wang, Kyrian Liang, Wenxuan Song, Qingxiao Zheng, Zyra Sheikh, Jen Whiting, Victor Lu, Mike Yao, Caroline Cao

In Proceedings of IEEE conference on AI and Extended and Virtual Reality.

Journal

Exploring a Conversational AI System in Supporting Children's Literacy Learning at Home.

Shuang Quan, Xintian Tu-Shea, Yi Ding, Yao Du, Qingxiao Zheng, Laney Gerdich

Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence (2026): 100549.

Journal

A Citizen Science Approach Towards Parents-Administered Remote Language Assessment for Bilingual Mandarin-English Children: An Evaluation of In-Person and Telehealth Settings.

Yao Du, Yueyan Tang, Ka Kei Fong, Yusa Liu, Danyang Wang, Xintian Tu-Shea, Yilan Liu, Qingxiao Zheng, Shuang Quan, Jinjun Xiong, Li Sheng

Frontiers in Education (Vol. 10, p. 1696031).

AIED 2025

AI-Enhanced Speech-Language Intervention Documentation: Opportunities and Design Goals.

Qingxiao Zheng, Abhinav Choudhry, Zihan Liu, Parisa Rabbani, Yuting Hu, Abbie Olszewski, Yun Huang, Jinjun Xiong

In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 132-140). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

AIED 2025

ASD-HI: A New Parent-child Interaction Dataset for Automated Assessment of an ASD Home-based Intervention.

Zhaohui Li, Yusuf Akemoglu, Jincheng Lyu, Qingxiao Zheng, Jinjun Xiong

In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 285-292). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

AIED 2025

Empowering Personalized Learning for Children through Teacher-Guided Multimodal Story Generation.

Zhaohui Li, Feiwen Xiao, Jiaju Lin, Xiaohan Zou, Qingxiao Zheng, Jinjun Xiong

In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 285-292). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

CHI 2025

EvAlignUX: Advancing UX Evaluation through LLM-Supported Metrics Exploration.

Qingxiao Zheng, Minrui Chen, Pranav Sharma, Yiliu Tang, Mehul Oswal, Yiren Liu, Yun Huang

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

CHI 2025

Evaluating Non-AI Experts’ Interaction with AI: A Case Study In Library Context.

Qingxiao Zheng, Minrui Chen, Hyanghee Park, Zhongwei Xu, Yun Huang

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

ICML 2025

Sub-Sequential Physics-Informed Learning with State Space Model.

Chenhui Xu, Dancheng Liu, Yuting Hu, Jiajie Li, Ruiyang Qin, Qingxiao Zheng, Jinjun Xiong

International Conference on Machine Learning.

IJCAI 2025

Automating Intervention Discovery from Scientific Literature: A Progressive Ontology Prompting and Dual-LLM Framework.

Yuting Hu, Dancheng Liu, Qingyun Wang, Charles Yu, Chenhui Xu, Qingxiao Zheng, Heng Ji, Jinjun Xiong

Proceedings of the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Journal

Learning Through AI-Clones: Enhancing Self-Perception and Presentation Performance.

Qingxiao Zheng, Joy Chen, Yun Huang

Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 3, 100117, 2025.

CSCW 2024

SOAP.AI: A Collaborative Tool for Documenting Human Behavior in Videos through Multimodal Generative AI.

Qingxiao Zheng, Parisa Rabbani, Daan Mansour, Yu-Rou Lin, Yun Huang

In Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.

CSCW 2024

Towards Responsible Use of Large Multi-Modal AI to Analyze Human Social Behaviors.

Qingxiao Zheng, Xi Lu, Qiao Jin, Jitesh Jain, Hedda Meadan-Kaplansky, Humphrey Shi, Jinjun Xiong, Yun Huang

In Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.

CSCW 2023

Understanding Safety Risks and Safety Design in Social VR Environments.

Qingxiao Zheng, Shengyang Xu, Lingqing Wang, Yiliu Tang, Rohan C. Salvi, Guo Freeman, Yun Huang

Proceedings of ACM Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 7, CSCW1, Article 154, 37 pages.

CHI 2023

“Begin With the End in Mind": Incorporating UX Evaluation Metrics into Design Materials of Participatory Design.

Qingxiao Zheng, Yun Huang

In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-7).

CHI 2022

UX Research on Conversational Human-AI Interaction: A Literature Review of the ACM Digital Library.

Qingxiao Zheng, Yiliu Tang, Yiren Liu, Weizi Liu, Yun Huang

In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, NY, USA, Article 570, 1–24.

CSCW 2021

“PocketBot Is Like a Knock-On-theDoor!": Designing a Chatbot to Support Long-Distance Relationships.

Qingxiao Zheng, Daniela M. Markazi, Yiliu Tang, Yun Huang

Proceedings of ACM Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 5, CSCW2, Article 445, 28 pages.

AHFE 2020

Investigating the Differences in Privacy News Based on Grounded Theory.

Qingxiao Zheng, Masooda Bashir

Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational Ergonomics, Intelligent.

HCII 2020

How Interaction Paradigms Affect User Experience and Perceived Interactivity in Virtual Reality Environment.

Duo Wang, Xiwei Wang, Qingxiao Zheng, Bingxin Tao, Guomeng Zheng

The 22nd Human-Computer Interaction International Conference, Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality.

Journal

Public opinion information dissemination in mobile social networks – Taking Sina Weibo as an example.

Xiwei Wang, Yunfei Xing, Yanan Wei, Qingxiao Zheng, Guochun Xing

Journal of Information Discovery and Delivery, Vol. 48 No. 4, pp. 213-224, 2020.

Journal

Information interaction between user and enterprise in the online brand community: A study of virtual reality industry.

Xiwei Wang, Duo Wang, Qingxiao Zheng, Yanan Wei

Journal of Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery 3, No.3, 83-94, 2020.

Journal

Ecological Evaluation and Empirical Study of Public Opinion in Social Network Driven by Big Data.

Duo Wang, Xiwei Wang, Ruonan Jia, Qingxiao Zheng

Journal of Information and Documentation Services, Volume 41, Number 2, pp. 56-63, 2020.