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I’m currently a Computational Media Ph.D. student working with Prof. Chia‑Fang…
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Yuling(Ruby) Chou shared thisI'm truly grateful for the opportunity to participate in the 2024 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women in Computing from April 11-14 in Minneapolis. It was a wonderful experience learning a lot from female leaders in computing and also talking with both junior and senior researchers from various research fields within the computing domain. This event helped me make friends and form meaningful connections. Looking forward to seeing you all someday! #CRAWP2024 #CRAGradCohort #WomenInTech
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Yuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisSuper excited to have been featured in GUII Lab's spotlight series! 🤗Yuling(Ruby) Chou liked this🌟 Next up in our researcher spotlight is Nicole Escamilla! 👩💻 Nicole is a second-year HCI Master’s student at UCSC who is bridging the gap between human behavior and emerging AI. From winning "Best Research" at a Google-partnered designathon, to exploring AI ethics and player resilience in games, she is intentionally diving into diverse domains to shape the future of tech. 🔗 Read the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/gdpHs39t
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Yuling(Ruby) Chou liked this“𝚆𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚙, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚋𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚙.” Loved this line from Ben Shneiderman in the CHI 2026 panel on Human-Centred AI or AI-Enabled HCI This feels very close to what I'm exploring in my dissertation: what happens when AI agents enter group settings, how people make sense of them together, and how trust, doubt, blame, and group dynamics get reshaped. I'm also preparing a study in this space and will be looking for participants next week. Happy to connect with anyone interested in human-AI interaction in groups. Stay tuned!
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Yuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisYuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisI got tired of tolerating a tiny workflow problem, so I vibe-coded my way out of it in an hour ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و While drafting papers, I kept copying BibTeX citations from Google Scholar into Overleaf manually. It was such a small task, but every tab switch and copy-paste moment quietly interrupted my writing flow. So I built CiteToBib, a Chrome extension that sends citations from Google Scholar directly to Overleaf with one click. The tool itself is small, but the process felt meaningful to me. It started from a real frustration, became a quick prototype, and reminded me how much I enjoy solving problems by paying attention to the details people usually just tolerate. That is the kind of researcher I want to become: someone who notices the small frictions in people’s lives, asks what they reveal about larger systems, and builds with care. ✨ CiteToBib is now on the Chrome Web Store. Feedback is very welcome, and I’d love to chat with anyone building tiny tools with AI (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧
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Yuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisYuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisToday marks a small but meaningful milestone in my research journey: my work has now been cited 1,000 times. I’m incredibly grateful to my advisors, collaborators, students, reviewers, and the broader research community for the support, feedback, and discussions that have shaped my work over the years. https://lnkd.in/grDbdvND
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Yuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisYuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisGrateful to ACM DIS Conference for giving me unforgettable memories. From joining the DIS community in January as an Associate Chair to wrapping everything up in mid-June, it has been an incredibly rewarding journey. At DIS2026, I experienced many "firsts": 🌿 Of course, first time in Singapore! 🌿 Serving as an Associate Chair for both the Long Papers and Pictorials tracks, reviewing many interesting papers. 🌿 Participating in the Doctoral Consortium, where I met inspiring PhD students from around the world. Despite our different backgrounds, our conversations sparked so many new ideas. 🌿 Leading an Interactivity demo and receiving valuable feedback from everyone who visited. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our demo and shared your time, questions, and encouragement. ❤️ 🌿 Serving as a Session Chair for the More-than-Human session, truly one of the highlights of the conference and a real privilege. DIS has always been a special community for me. It was wonderful to reconnect with familiar faces and meet researchers across different areas of HCI. Looking forward to seeing many of you again at future conferences! Last but not least, huge thanks to my XGL team (Kenath Perera, Maria Fernanda Montoya Vega, Hongyue Wang, Don Samitha Elvitigala, Floyd Mueller, Phoebe Toups Dugas, Pankaja Balasooriya, Rusula Oshadha Pathirana, Rakesh Patibanda) for the honourable mention for our demo in human-plant interactions. Thanks to the Department of Human-Centred Computing - Monash Information Technology for their support. #DIS2026 #HCI #InteractionDesign #MoreThanHuman #ResearchCommunity
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Yuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisYuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisAfter 5 years, I will stepping down as the inaugural Vice Chair of the UC Santa Cruz Human Computer Interaction MS Program at University of California, Santa Cruz. We grew from a scrappy cohort of 11 students to nearly 30. Building this program wasn't always easy, but I am proud of the foundation we established: 💪 We formed a vision around social justice. Our logo alludes to a warning sign and signifies our commitment to inquiry and critique. 🤝 We recognized the need to balance the strengths of faculty and industry. We developed a mentor coalition to provide students 1:1 mentorship from ~40 experienced UX professionals and recruited an amazing set of capstone industry sponsors. Working with our students has always been a blast - it is bittersweet to see their immense growth over 4 quarters, only to have them graduate! I've appreciated working with our fabulous, conscientious team (both past and present) - Yassi Moghaddam, Fisher Dietz, Zian Xie, Monique Z., Lisa Schaffer, Emily Jackson, Ashley E., Niko Sanchez, Ramon Rubio, Colin Wheelock, Crystal Navarro, Theo-Alyce Gordon (and many more!) I’m not one for the mawkish, but I will relate one story. When I first started, I was worried: Why would busy, experienced UX folks want to sacrifice their time for students? (They certainly wouldn’t get a promotion from it.) As I reached out, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that many were *very* eager to give back and uplift the next generation; I'd like to think there is some correlation here to being trained in human-centeredness. Chia-Fang(Christina) Chung will be taking over, and I'm so excited to see what new directions she will take the program. I won't be going anywhere and look forward to continue supporting our students and the Computational Media department! Baskin Engineering at UCSC
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Yuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisYuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisHello from Singapore! 🇸🇬 I'm at ACM DIS 2026 this week, where our paper "Navigating Rigid Social Structures: Interaction Modes and Power Dynamics in Extrafamilial Intergenerational Co-Design" was presented, and it's a special one for me: the first project I really got to help lead. It started as a small idea in our lab (older adults and teenagers designing together) and somehow grew into a study full of hand-built VR, flyers handed out at a middle school gate, and a lot of bus rides between Taipei and Hsinchu. So grateful to the people who made it happen. Ching-Yang (Roger) Lin built and debugged the VR system with me, and co-hosted every single workshop by my side. Running those sessions together is where I learned how to step out of the "researcher" role and close the distance with the people we were working with. Min-Hsien Weng and Kuan-Lun Ho kept showing up to lend an extra pair of hands. And Yu-Rou Lin and Kuan-Lun Ho picked the project back up after it paused and lifted the data to a whole new level, and Yu-Rou brought it all home with a wonderful talk on stage today. And to professor Ying-Yu Chen, thank you for taking a chance on someone with no research experience, and for teaching me how to do research from the ground up. Beyond presenting, I'm here to learn as much as I can and to meet people thinking hard about design, AI, and intergenerational interaction. If you're at DIS too, I'd love to connect! 🙌 #ACMDIS2026 #HCI #CoDesign #DesignResearch
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Yuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisYuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisLast week was a dominos of unexpected surprises. I participated and presented our project "Body Through Time" in the Student Design Competition at the ACM DIS Conference 2026 in Singapore. We came back as the 1st runner up🙌🏅 Together with Liz-Anne Schmaal, Dominika Crasto and Ana Nišević, this project saw a light that Day 1 us are extremely proud of. I was overwhelmed and extremely grateful to receive a positive and supportive response to our work. Body Through Time, our design research project investigated the change in people's self- perception after a process of transforming their scars to an artistic symbol. Does viewing a body feature that is usually associated with pain as an artistic symbol promote self-acceptance? I wouldn't have imagined that my first trip to Singapore 🇸🇬 would be due to a thought-provoking design conference. I was blown away and immensely inspired by the creativity and research presented. To all the students and competitors I have met, it was lovely to learn how distinct our journeys are. Yet, we share one love to create designs that bring a positive social change. I will remember our conversations and hope our paths cross again. Our project coach, Bruna Goveia da Rocha, thank you for your guidance and for the meaningful, insightful feedback you provided throughout this project. We are also grateful to the other coaches of the Crafting Wearables Squad who supported us during the development process, and to the workshop participants for their valuable contributions. A special shout-out to Oscar Tomico for inspiring and motivating us to apply for this competition. Thank you Industrial Design TU/e , Eindhoven University of Technology and UF/e for this opportunity. National University of Singapore and ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, I had a great time! #ACMDIS2026 #BodyThroughTime #DIS2026 #teamwork #arttherapy #EindhovenUniversityofTechnology #designresearch #HCI
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Yuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisYuling(Ruby) Chou liked thisThe best question I got at ACM DIS Conference 2026 had no easy answer. I was in Singapore presenting together with Jianing Wen about our paper, "PrivacyMotiv: Vulnerability-Centered Persona Journeys for Empathic Privacy Reviews in UX Design." It asks why skilled UX practitioners so often miss privacy problems, and offers an LLM-powered system that builds vulnerable personas and walks them through concrete journey stories. With 16 professional practitioners, it surfaced 59% more privacy issues and 70% more redesign solutions. Deep thanks to Toby Jia-Jun Li and Yaxing Yao for their mentorship, and especially to Tianshi Li, who gave me the opportunity to research at PEACH Lab, invaluable guidance, and her support for this trip. Then someone raised the messy reality: real privacy incidents rarely involve one person. Beyond the primary user, bystanders and secondary users get harmed too. Does PrivacyMotiv account for them? On the spot I said "not yet," but that was incomplete. It is the question the whole system was built around. Holding that layered reality is exactly why we put one persona inside a contextualized scenario and tell a journey story rather than list isolated risks, so harm that is multi-party and unfolds over time stays visible. And it points to where we are thinking of going next: a "perspective switch" that moves between primary and secondary users, even between the violator and the affected, to reveal how careless design can lead to privacy harms users cause without ever meaning to. That is why we need privacy-aware UX. Whoever asked: thank you. It is the kind of question that makes the work better. #DIS #DIS2026 #PrivacyByDesign #DesignResearch #UXDesign
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Procrastino Go (Video game design)
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Procrastination is a pervasive problem for university students. One commonly adopted way to tackle procrastination in interventions is raising people’s awareness. 🧚♀️ ✌🏻
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ProcrastinoGo…Procrastination is a pervasive problem for university students. One commonly adopted way to tackle procrastination in interventions is raising people’s awareness. 🧚♀️ ✌🏻
While a gamification mechanism🕹️👾 has been used widely in such interventions, we propose a game with a purpose (GWAP) called "ProcrastinoGo" that helps students📚✏️ be aware of the characteristics and causes of procrastination and practice time-management⏱ strategies to ensure task completion.
ProcrastinoGo is a turn-based, multiplayer👨🏻🦲👩🏼🦰👧🏻🧑🏾🦱 game intended to give players realistic experiences with procrastination. Throughout the game, players’ objective is to gain as many task points as possible. In each turn/day, players strategically plan their daily activities that cost their physical💪🏻 and mental❤️ energy and encounter random and unexpected incidents⁉️ 🤡 likely to affect their energy as well as their schedule in the game.
Through experiencing these elements, players can relate their daily life to the game and be aware of how their behaviors in the game resemble those in their real life🤯, and therefore learn to be prepared for unexpected events, as well as strategically plan ahead their daily activities.📅Other creators -
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