Zixin (or Nicole, she/her)
@zixinnic
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PhD student @UofT 🇨🇦 | HCI 👩🏻💻Vis 📊 NLP 💬 | I look at how people speak, read, and write :)
Toronto, Canada
Joined August 2020
We conducted a week long study with writers here in the Toronto area and found that Nabokov's Cards.👉Fostered creativity through improvisation and play.👉Encouraged modular and reflective thinking.👉Made limitations of LLMs a creative asset.
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Just presented a fun fun work (Nabokov's Cards) that I did with @dashiel_carrera at C&C 2025👾. People THINK they write using a top down method but usually good ideas emerges from bottom up creativity . So we looked at how LLMs could be used to help writers from the bottoms up
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RT @rohanpaul_ai: It’s a hefty 206-page research paper, and the findings are concerning. "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural,….
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Happening today at 12:20 PM in room G416+417 🤗 #CHI2025.
Are you making the “write” connections? #CHI2025. AI writing tools are everywhere–especially in research. But are the tools researchers make actually meeting writers’ real needs? Are commercial tools actually meeting writer’s needs? What ARE writers’ needs? .#HCI #AI .🧵(1/3)
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Interesting work looking at the importance of how we should be presenting information from LLMs.
Thrilled to share that our paper "To Rely or Not to Rely? Evaluating Interventions for Appropriate Reliance on Large Language Models" received an Honorable Mention at #CHI2025! 🔥. preprint >> video >>
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All in collaboration with @damienhci, @fanny_uoft, @YounghoHCI, and Gerald Penn!😊 . I’m presenting this work at #CHI2025 on Tues April 29 at 12:20 PM (during "Writing Support and Content Moderation"). Super happy to chat both online and in-person in Yokohama 🗻🌸(3/3).
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We conducted an empirical analysis of writers' opinions online and surveyed literature to find what needs aren’t being met. 📝Paper: 🎥Video: 🖥️Website: (2/3).
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RT @dashiel_carrera: Thrilled to announce my paper with @zixinnic "Nabokov’s Cards" has been conditionally accepted to Creativity and Cogni….
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RT @damienhci: Photoshop for text. In our #CHI2025 paper “Textoshop”, we explore how interactions inspired by drawing software can help edi….
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(Plz RT) Are you (aspiring) #writers with fiction writing experience? If so, please check our research survey regarding your writing process and digital tools! It will take 15-30 mins and 10 CAD will be paid. @fanny_uoft @dgpToronto @NAVER_AI_Lab.
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RT @YounghoHCI: (Plz RT) Are you (aspiring) #writers with fiction writing experience? If so, please check our research survey regarding you….
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📚 Calling all #Authors and #Writers in the #WritingCommunity!. We are looking for #writers to participate in an online survey on their writing process! The survey will take 15-30 minutes. Interested individuals can access the survey here:
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RT @ChrisNF: Several students, both grad and undergrad, from my lab at @OntarioTechCS attended the important Annual Canadian Celebration of….
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RT @cityoftoronto: 💫Voting locations are now open until 8 p.m. today! 💫.Learn more about where to vote, candidates & more for Toronto’s mun….
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