How are Emerging Adults Using ChatGPT in the Wild?
Proceedings of the 2026 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2026). Acceptance rate: 21%.
Human-AI Interaction
The User Empowerment Lab studies how AI is changing interpersonal relationships, creative workflows, schoolwork, and emotional development.
Publications
Do Attachment Styles Shape ChatGPT Usage?
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2026).
Risks and Consequences of Children's Use of Social AI
Pediatrics, 180(7):720-721, 2026.
Decoupling of Usefulness and Novelty: Evaluating the Impact of Generative AI on Design Outputs and Designers' Creative Thinking
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026). Acceptance rate: 25%.
SusBench: An Online Benchmark for Evaluating Dark Pattern Susceptibility of Computer-Use Agents
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026). Acceptance rate: 20%.
How College Students Use AI to Navigate Course Readings: Evidence from an Eight-Week Study
Human-Computer Interaction, Special Issue on Generative AI, 2026.
Should ChatGPT Write Your Breakup Text? Exploring the Role of AI in Relationship Dissolution
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 9(7):1-31, 2025.
Understanding Privacy Norms Around LLM-Based Chatbots: A Contextual Integrity Perspective
Proceedings of the 2025 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2025). Acceptance rate: 32%.
Toward Nonviolent Design: Co-Designing a Human-Centered Framework for AI-Mediated Communication
Proceedings of the 2025 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2025). Acceptance rate: 32%.
Representation Bias of Adolescents in AI: A Bilingual, Bicultural Study
Proceedings of the 2024 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2024). Acceptance rate: 38%.
From Text to Self: Users' Perception of AIMC Tools on Interpersonal Communication and Self
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024). Acceptance rate: 26%.
Best paper award (top 1%)
Self-Talk with Superhero Zip: Supporting Children’s Socioemotional Learning with Conversational Agents
In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2023). Acceptance rate: 29%.
Parents' Ontological Beliefs Regarding the Use of Conversational Agents at Home: Resisting the Neoliberal Discourse
Learning, Media and Technology, 49(2):290–305, 2023.
Examining Voice Assistants in the Context of Children’s Speech
International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction (IJCCI), 34(100540), 2022.
Social Emotional Learning with Conversational Agents: Reviewing Current Designs and Probing Parents' Ideas for Future Ones
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 6(2):1-23, 2022.
Can Conversational Agents Change the Way Children Talk to People?
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM conference on interaction design and children (IDC 2021).
Parenting with Alexa: Exploring the Introduction of Smart Speakers on Family Dynamics
Proceedings of the 2020 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2020). Acceptance rate: 24%.
Assumptions Checked: How Families Learn About and Use the Echo Dot
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 4(1):1-23, 2020.
Laughing is Scary, but Farting is Cute: A Conceptual Model of Children’s Perspectives of Creepy Technologies
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI ’19), 73:1-15. Acceptance rate: 23%.
Communication Breakdowns Between Families and Alexa
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2019). Acceptance rate: 23%.