PAPERS

Investigating the Effects of AI Use on Critical Thinking Under Time Constraints: AI Access Timing and Time Availability

Jiayin Zhi, Harsh Kumar, Mina Lee.

CHI 2026

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What Does AI Do for Cultural Interpretation? A Randomized Experiment on Close Reading Poems with Exposure to AI Interpretation

Jiayin Zhi, Hoyt Long, Richard Jean So, Mina Lee.

CHI 2026

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Combining Structured Tasks and Behavioral Logs for Measuring AI’s Impact on Cognition

Jiayin Zhi, Mina Lee.

CHI 2026 Workshop on Tools for Thought

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Content Creation with Generative AI: How Do Content Creators Responsibly Use Generative AI Tools?

Jini Kim, Manqing Yu, Jiayin Zhi, Stephanie Milani, Jingwen Cheng, Xianzhe Fan, Hong Shen, Jodi Forlizzi.

CSCW 2026

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PATIENT-Ψ: Using Large Language Models to Simulate Patients for Training Mental Health Professionals

Ruiyi Wang*, Stephanie Milani*, Jamie C. Chiu, Jiayin Zhi, Shaun M. Eack, Travis Labrum, Samuel M. Murphy, Nev Jones, Kate Hardy, Hong Shen, Fei Fang, Zhiyu Zoey Chen.

EMNLP 2024

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Investigating What Factors Influence Users’ Rating of Harmful Algorithmic Bias and Discrimination

Sara Kingsley*, Jiayin Zhi*, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Jaimie Lee, Sizhe Zhang, Motahhare Eslami†, Ken Holstein†, Jason I. Hong†, Tianshi Li†, Hong Shen†. (* equal contribution, † equal contribution)

HCOMP 2024 Best Paper Award 🏆

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“You’re in a Ferrari. I’m Waiting for the Bus”: Confronting Tensions in Community-University Partnerships for Publicly Deployed Technologies

Cella M Sum, Jiayin Zhi, Amil N.T. Cook, Patrick James Cooper, Arturo Lozano, TJ Johnson, Jason Perez, Rayid Ghani, Michael Skirpan, Motahhare Eslami, Hong Shen, Sarah E Fox.

CSCW 2025

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AI Failure Cards: Understanding and Supporting Grassroots Efforts to Mitigate AI Failures in Homeless Services

Ningjing Tang, Jiayin Zhi, Tzu-Sheng Kuo, Calla Kainaroi, Jeremy J Northup, Kenneth Holstein, Haiyi Zhu, Hoda Heidari, Hong Shen.

FAccT 2024

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Predicting and Presenting Task Difficulty for Crowdsourcing Food Rescue Platforms

Zheyuan Ryan Shi, Jiayin Zhi, Siqi Zeng, Zhicheng Zhang, Ameesh Kapoor, Sean Hudson, Hong Shen, Fei Fang.

WWW 2024

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“Your Duties Are To Sweep A Floor Remotely”: Low Information Quality in Job Advertisements is a Barrier to Low-Income Job-Seekers’ Successful Use of Digital Platforms

Sara Kingsley, M. Six Silberman, Clara Wang, Robert Lambeth, Jiayin Zhi, Motahhare Eslami, Beibei Li, Jeffrey P. Bigham.

CHIWORK 2024

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Broader Impacts of GenAI in Communication: Building Agendas for Research, Design, and Policymaking

Jiayin Zhi, Lan Gao, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Jessica He, Alexis Hiniker, Munmun De Choudhury, Mina Lee, Marshini Chetty.

CSCW 2026

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The Work of AI Red Teaming: Automation and the Human Infrastructure

Alice Qian Zhang, Jiayin Zhi, Srravya Chandhiramowuli, Hong Shen, Laura Dabbish, Theodora Skeadas, Sarah Amos, Jina Suh.

CSCW 2025

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