Life update: Thrilled to announce I will join
@EmoryUniversity
@EmoryGoizueta
Information Systems & Operations Management Department as an assistant professor in summer 2025, after a year as a postdoc at Microsoft Office of Applied Research!
I’m on the job market! I’ll earn my PhD in Computer Science (minor: Management Sci & Eng) from
@Stanford
in 2024. I’m a computational social scientist &
#HCI
researcher studying the future of work, and human-AI interaction. I’m open to academic and industry positions. Details:
I’m on the job market! I’ll earn my PhD in Computer Science (minor: Management Sci & Eng) from
@Stanford
in 2024. I’m a computational social scientist &
#HCI
researcher studying the future of work, and human-AI interaction. I’m open to academic and industry positions. Details:
I successfully defended my PhD dissertation today! A big thank you to my advisors and committee members, Prof. Dan McFarland,
@msbernst
,
@jurafsky
,
@james_y_zou
&
@Diyi_Yang
! I also want to thank my mentors, friends, and family for their constant support throughout this journey!
What’s the industrial impact of human-computer interaction (
#HCI
) research? Does HCI research contribute to technological inventions and products? Or are most of its insights ignored by the industry? Our
#CHI2023
paper provides new evidence for these long-standing questions.
🏆🏆🏆 We’ve received best paper award at
#CHI2023
for our work Breaking Out of the Ivory Tower: A Large-scale Analysis of Patent Citations to HCI Research 🥳🥳🥳!!!!! With
@yujielu_10
, Yuting Deng, Dan McFarland and
@msbernst
@StanfordHCI
What’s the industrial impact of human-computer interaction (
#HCI
) research? Does HCI research contribute to technological inventions and products? Or are most of its insights ignored by the industry? Our
#CHI2023
paper provides new evidence for these long-standing questions.
Finding it hard to stay focused during remote meetings and try to get other things done? You are not the only one! In our
#CHI2021
paper "Large Scale Analysis of Multitasking Behavior During Remote Meetings", we present a comprehensive study of such emerging behavior.
What kind of scientific ideas are more likely to spread beyond academia? In our recent
#emnlp2020
findings paper, we carried out a large-scale data analysis to understand the knowledge transfer of scientific concepts across text corpora from research to practice.
#CompSocSci
Finding it hard to stay focused during remote meetings and try to get other things done? You are not the only one! In our
#CHI2021
paper "Large Scale Analysis of Multitasking Behavior During Remote Meetings", we present a comprehensive study of such emerging behavior.
As a CS PhD student, I am so excited to win prize at Stanford department of music annual competition among many other music major students! A really big accomplishment for me (I started
#harpsichord
last Sep)!
#music
#phdlife
Excited to join
@allen_ai
@SemanticScholar
team as a research intern studying science of science the coming summer! Will be in Seattle and hopefully this will be an in-person internship experience (finally!)
Our paper "Breaking Out of the Ivory Tower: A Large-scale Analysis of Patent Citations to HCI Research" which studies HCI technology translation landscape, is accepted to
#CHI2023
- an idea that we formed back in 2020 is finally close to publication! With
@msbernst
, Dan McFarland
Finally back to US after nearly two months! While Mexico is a great country to stay, being put under 'administrative processing' for US student visa renewal (so as to attend conferences abroad/go home), get stuck and having no clue about the length of the process is not so fun 🥲
Excited to start my internship at
@MSFTResearch
computational social science (with
@jakehofman
@dggoldst
) this Monday in
#NYC
. Though still virtual, definitely feel much closer to the team when in the same city! Feel great about my first travel outside CA after so many months🤣
Start my
#CHI2024
experience with a 18,000 feet skydive at Oahu North Shore! Looking forward to reconnecting and meeting friends!! Let's catch up especially if you are into computational social science, social computing, and workplace/future of work!
Seattle week 1: finally got the chance to visit
@Microsoft
campus, worked and had meeting in office, and met mentors/collaborators at
#OAR
in person after two virtual internships! Thanks for hosting!!
I am super honored and excited to be awarded the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF) that will support my research in the following 3 years! Great thanks to my advisors, mentors and collaborators, especially Prof. Dan McFarland and
@msbernst
in this application!
Survived
@StanfordHCI
qual after procrastinating for years! In the past I think of qual only as a hard and time-consuming exam (thus keep delaying..), but through spending a month diving into 30+ HCI classics I realized how thought-provoking a dedicated learning could be!
Excited about my upcoming (virtual) summer internship at
@MSFTResearch
NYC computational social science group working with
@jakehofman
@dggoldst
and others!! May seize the opportunity and spend some time in NYC actually - haven't been to the East Coast for quite a while:)
When you found your research unexpectedly tweeted and discussed by so many people on Twitter after a morning meeting:) Thanks so much for sharing our work!!!
@AdamMGrant
P.S. Full paper available here:
People multitask in over 30% of virtual meetings.
If you want their undivided attention, move meetings to the afternoon—and keep them small and short.
Our best analytical and creative thinking often happens before lunch (or after dinner). Protect mornings to focus on deep work.
Excited to join
@allen_ai
@SemanticScholar
team as a research intern studying science of science the coming summer! Will be in Seattle and hopefully this will be an in-person internship experience (finally!)
I was on a panel at PhD Admit Weekend this morning. It started to become kind of emotional as I realized how familiar the questions from admits are. It was me sitting in the audience wondering about the same things 4 years ago. How time flies...
#admissions
#phdchat
Seems many will be in person at
#CHI2022
! I will be there in person too (my first in person
#CHI
!) - Looking forward to catching up and meeting people outside my laptop screen!
I will be going to
#CHI2023
in person and looking forward to
#reCHInnecting
!! We will present our work on large-scale analysis of patent citations to HCI research Monday 16:35 at 'UX methods and practices' session (Hall G1)! Come say Hi😀
🏆🏆🏆 We’ve received best paper award at
#CHI2023
for our work Breaking Out of the Ivory Tower: A Large-scale Analysis of Patent Citations to HCI Research 🥳🥳🥳!!!!! With
@yujielu_10
, Yuting Deng, Dan McFarland and
@msbernst
@StanfordHCI
Our latest work on
#socialcommerce
has been (conditionally) accepted to
#CHI2022
, our 4th paper in the series😃 Here we contribute to the
#HCI4D
#ICT4D
literature with an analysis of the platform's `counterintuitive' popularity/heavy use among traditionally underserved community
Glad this paper is finally out
@ASR_Journal
!!! Congrats team, especially
@MengjjeCheng
!!! It’s my first experience with social science journal and I learnt a lot (so different from CS venues!)
I am attending
@hcomp_conf
in Delft these few days! My original flight got cancelled the day before departure because of the weather, and I thought I would not be able to come… I was able to book a last minute alternative flight and I feel so so lucky!
I was reading Wikipedia page for
#CSCW
@ACM_CSCW
() then really surprised to see my own research there😂 Wow thanks the writer to notice our
#cscw2021
paper!
Flying to Chicago today for
#IC2S2
! My collaborators and I will be presenting one oral and one poster
@IC2S2
. Looking forward to meeting friends old and new - this is my third time attending
#IC2S2
but first time in person!!
How do students/teachers feel towards their online education experience during the
#pandemic
? What's the role of technology in this
#education
paradigm shift? In our
#CHI2021
paper, we present a large scale analysis of such experience.
#zoomschool
#distancelearning
"Comparing scalable strategies for generating numerical perspectives" Numerical perspectives help people understand extreme and unfamiliar numbers. This paper automates large-scale perspective generation using
@Wikidata
/
@Wikipedia
data.
(Cao et al, 2023)
We observe that 20.1% of papers from these venues, including 60–80% of papers at UIST and 13% of papers in a broader dataset of
@sigchi
sponsored venues overall, are cited by patents—far greater than premier venues in science overall (9.7%) and NLP (11%).
Finding it hard to stay focused during remote meetings and try to get other things done? You are not the only one! In our
#CHI2021
paper "Large Scale Analysis of Multitasking Behavior During Remote Meetings", we present a comprehensive study of such emerging behavior.
Beyond Virtual Bazaar: How Social Commerce Promotes Inclusivity for the Traditionally Underserved Community in Chinese Developing Regions w/ Zhilong Chen,
@CaoHancheng
, Xiaochong Lan. & Prof. Yong Li, which extends our understanding of social commerce to underserved community 2/3
We will be presenting our recent progress using text mining/network analysis to understand and predict knowledge transfer from research to practice
@IC2S2
. Join us tomorrow (7/19) 11:30am EST! Joint work with
@MengjjeCheng
Zhepeng Cen,
@xiangrenNLP
, and Dan McFarland.
#ic2s2
I’m on the job market! I’ll earn my PhD in Computer Science (minor: Management Sci & Eng) from
@Stanford
in 2024. I’m a computational social scientist &
#HCI
researcher studying the future of work, and human-AI interaction. I’m open to academic and industry positions. Details:
This Wednesday (4/17), the SONIC Lab hosted Stanford University P.h.D. candidate
@CaoHancheng
to give a talk on his current network research. Hancheng’s work focuses on evaluating and designing computing systems for the future of work. The presentation included analysis of ...
#cscw2023
has been great in-person experience. Unfortunately I tested positive for COVID today:( If you have any symptom/we have chatted during CSCW, maybe it's worth getting tested. Hope everyone is well!
⁉️ Could we identify disastrous team dynamics before they spiral out of control? 🌀 Our new
@ACM_CSCW
(
#cscw2020
) paper classifies team viability from collaboration transcripts — — and we are elated it received Best Paper Honorable Mention 🏅🧵
On my way to Chicago to attend
@ICSSIConference
where I will present a talk and a poster! Looking forward to my first ICSSI experience, and meeting friends old and new!!
#ICSSI
#ICSSI2023
Totally agree.
#HCI
and
#CSS
sometimes overlook non-western scenarios which can be equally interesting (if not more with some really novel cases!) as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. simply due to lack of context and understanding. This is one barrier towards
#academicinclusivity
Working on a
#cscw2021
submission and again realized how WEIRD is
#HCI
. In our paper, there are many socially & culturally specific concepts in non-Western platforms and we have a hard time describing clearly every concept, which may not be a challenge for Western researchers
How well can
#GPT4
provide scientific feedback on research papers? We study this Q in our new work
We created a pipeline using GPT4 to read 1000s papers (from
#Nature
,
#ICLR
, etc.) and generate feedback (eg suggestions for improvement). Then we compare
Unfortunately this is a common issue for STEM Chinese grad students in US, and many would encounter it multiple times as visa validity period is often 1 year instead of 5. While we can legally be in US, we can't travel abroad unless we go through the process again... this is hard
Yeah heard many friends at
#CHI2022
get COVID positive (CHIVID?) today and yesterday:(
Probably it's the social events where people were drinking/eating/talking without masks on...
How were the COVID situations with other in person conferences?
Stay safe and keep testing!
Hi
#chi2022
people - lots of reports of positive COVID tests coming out of the conference. Hope it’s not a broad problem, but keep testing, check for symptoms, and be well.
However, the time lag between a patent and its paper citations is long (10.5 years) and getting longer, and that HCI research seems to have moved on by the time a paper receives patent attention, suggesting HCI research and practice may not be efficiently connected.
First time attending
@Networks2021
. Presented our preliminary work on knowledge transfer published in Findings of EMNLP 2020 at the lightning talk session:)
What kind of scientific ideas are more likely to spread beyond academia? In our recent
#emnlp2020
findings paper, we carried out a large-scale data analysis to understand the knowledge transfer of scientific concepts across text corpora from research to practice.
#CompSocSci
The conference is small and fun! As the only computer science person in the group though😅, I hope there will be more cross-disciplinary conversation on
#remotework
in the future here or elsewhere!
Good morning! In the "UX methods and practices" session, we have
@CaoHancheng
's (Best Paper!) "Breaking Out of the Ivory Tower: A Large-scale Analysis of Patent Citations to HCI Research". Join us in Hall G1 today at 4:35pm!
We will present our work 'You Recommend, I Buy: How and Why People Engage in Instant Messaging Based Social Commerce' () at
#CSCW2021
Computer-Supported Conversation and Communication tomorrow 10am EST.
Our recently accepted
#CSCW
paper, reveals and identifies sources of value tensions between
#practitioners
and
#users
in industrial recommender system through a value-sensitive design approach. Here's the preprint!
#recsys
#design
#practice
Work led by Zhilong/Jinghua.
@luzc08
@xemilyhu
and I will be presenting our latest progress on data-driven understanding and prediction of team outcomes at
#IC2S2
2E: Teams and Work morning THU 7/21, which follows our earlier
#CSCW
award paper . Come and join our discussion!!
Really appreciate all the great questions and comments (quite a lot!) at the
#CHI2021
'Combining Digital and Analogue Presence in Online Work' sessions on our
#multitasking
paper. Our presentation video is available here:
hmm this is kind of abrupt... maybe it would be best to make the announcements weeks ahead of the last quarterly deadline so that authors could adjust their plans accordingly.
📢📢
#CSCW2021
#CSCW2022
Important updates to the paper submission timeline starting the July 15, 2021 cycle. TLDR; We'll be adopting a half-yearly submission model. Read the details here:
Check out this fantastic synthesis of research into how work has evolved during the pandemic, which features my internship project (to appear in
#CHI2021
) on large scale analysis of remote meeting multitasking behavior (details coming up soon with a separate thread)!
You’re not alone if you’ve struggled to adapt your
#work
practices in light of
#COVID19
. Announcing the world’s largest synthesis of research into how work has evolved during the pandemic so you can base your decisions on the best data currently available.
It was at today's panel when I realized more than ever how important advisors, mentors, family and friends have been in helping me through my journey as so many questions and concerns have been resolved. A big belated thank you!
Our study implies some remote meeting best practice, e.g., Avoid important meetings in the morning. Reduce the number of unnecessary meetings. Shorten meeting duration and insert breaks. Encourage active contribution. Allow space for positive multitasking.
I will be continuing my work in computational social science, HCI and the future of work, and try my best to bridge approaches and insights from social science and computation! I am very excited about the upcoming new life journey!
Will authors receive reviews for
#ic2s2
extended abstract submission this year? We received decisions yesterday without reviews, but I seem to recall last year there were feedbacks🤔?
@IC2S2
We are thrilled to announce that James Zou has been promoted to DBDS Associate Professor with tenure. A hearty congratulations and thanks to his endless hard work, revolutionary research and constant contributions to our department.
This last year, remote meetings have enabled many to stay connected to the office, but how we interact in them might leave much to be desired compared with in-person meetings. Microsoft researchers aim to change this with future features & tools:
#CHI2021
Secondly, we show both intrinsic meeting characteristics and external factors are correlated with remote meeting multitasking. More multitasking happen in large, long, morning, and recurring meetings, as well as meetings with lower relevance/engagement.
Yeah heard many friends at
#CHI2022
get COVID positive (CHIVID?) today and yesterday:(
Probably it's the social events where people were drinking/eating/talking without masks on...
How were the COVID situations with other in person conferences?
Stay safe and keep testing!
Finding it hard to stay focused during remote meetings and try to get other things done? You are not the only one! In our
#CHI2021
paper "Large Scale Analysis of Multitasking Behavior During Remote Meetings", we present a comprehensive study of such emerging behavior.
Would love to chat about computational social science, human-centered AI, workplace technology, productivity, future of work, technology transfer or anything else!
🚨Internship Alert🚨 We are hiring PhD research interns for summer 2022. If you are in CSS, ML/AI, NLP, Recsys, Responsible AI, HCI, apply (feel free to reach out if you have any questions)! Profs, your recommendations are greatly appreciated
Firstly, we find that ~30% remote meetings involve email multitasking, ~25% remote meetings involve file multitasking. More multitasking may be a possible result of work rhythm adaptation. And the ease of turning off video and audio may encourage more multitasking.
While it is impossible to track all research impact pathways, the growing
#innovation
literature on translational research impact measurement offers patent citations as one valuable measure of how industry recognizes and draws on research in its inventions.
Our study also points to concrete design implications for video conferencing tools, including supporting 'focus mode', supporting various types of engagement during meetings, and help people decide which meetings/which part of meetings to attend.
⁉️ Could we identify disastrous team dynamics before they spiral out of control? 🌀 Our new
@ACM_CSCW
(
#cscw2020
) paper classifies team viability from collaboration transcripts — — and we are elated it received Best Paper Honorable Mention 🏅🧵
Finally, although multitasking is typically associated with negative outcomes, our study shows that both positive (boost productivity) and negative aspects (loss of attention, mental fatigue, disrespectful) exist.
⁉️ Could we identify disastrous team dynamics before they spiral out of control? 🌀 Our new
@ACM_CSCW
(
#cscw2020
) paper classifies team viability from collaboration transcripts — — and we are elated it received Best Paper Honorable Mention 🏅🧵
Extrinsic factors that lead to remote meeting multitasking includes temptation to catch up work, external distraction (from both software interface design and home working environment), and anxiety relief.