Renwen Alice Zhang
@renwenzhang
Assistant Professor @NUSingapore @CNMnus | PhD @NorthwesternU | technology & wellbeing; interpersonal communication; human-computer interaction | SWEET Lab
Excited to share the preprint of our paper on🚨The Dark Side of AI Companionship🚨, conditionally accepted to CHI’25. We propose a taxonomy of harmful algorithmic behaviors in human-AI relationships. arxiv.org/abs/2410.20130 More details in the thread 🧵(1/7)
This is devastating. The ethical issues with AI companionship are massive, and stricter regulation is urgently needed. Our team’s recent research reveals numerous harms of AI companions—manipulation, abuse, harassment, privacy violation, etc. Preprint coming soon!
"A scoping review of large language models for generative tasks in mental health care" - new from our team in @npjDigitalMed ... results.. 'highlight need for a unified, rigorous framework to assess and validate LLM in mental health systematically.' nature.com/articles/s4174…
So much discussion about LLMs changing software dev - our award winning CHI paper shows how LLMs are transforming the precursor step – software prototyping. LLMs are breaking silos and dramatically reshaping the roles and collaboration of PM, UX, and developers. 1/
Excited to share our #CHI2025 research on combating availability bias in online self-diagnosis! 😇 We developed chatbot-based symptom checkers encouraging evidence-based self-reflection, helping users make more accurate health assessments. arxiv.org/abs/2501.15028 @junti_zhang
🎉Happy to share our work "What Is Stigma Attributed To? A Theory-Grounded, Expert-Annotated Interview Corpus for Demystifying Mental Health Stigma" has been accepted at ACL25 Main Conf! We introduce a novel human-chatbot conversation corpus. 📄Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.12727 🧵👇
Check out Han Meng’s great paper that explores how to use LLMs and causal knowledge graphs for social science research and qualitative data analysis!
😼 Presented my first-authored paper on deconstructing depression stigma using chatbot + LLM + causal knowledge graph! Check out our paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37… Huge thanks to my co-authors: @renwenzhang, Ganyi Wang, @YangYitiane, Peinuan Qin, Jungup Lee, and @EJLEESG !! (2/4)
We’re hiring two postdocs at UC Davis and Cornell for research on collective intelligence and creativity. This project will use large-scale online experiments to study how groups become smarter and more creative through self-governance. ⅓
#CHI2025 I'll be presenting our paper on AI companion harms this afternoon in the "AI Ethics and Concerns". Feel free to drop by if you're interested in this topic and would like to chat more!
Excited to share the preprint of our paper on🚨The Dark Side of AI Companionship🚨, conditionally accepted to CHI’25. We propose a taxonomy of harmful algorithmic behaviors in human-AI relationships. arxiv.org/abs/2410.20130 More details in the thread 🧵(1/7)
📣Calling all #CHI2025 attendees who work with human participants: Join our panel discussion on #LLM, #simulation, #syntheticdata, and the future of human subjects research on Apr 30 (Wed), 2:10 - 3:40 PM (JP Time) Post your questions for panelists here: forms.gle/6DLBC6ARhELFom…
Deadline extended by a week: get your applications in for SICSS-Singapore ASAP!
🚨🚨SICSS Singapore returns for its *FOURTH* edition! We have a stellar lineup of speakers from public health, psychology, communication, computer science, urban mobility, business + more tbc soon. Graduate students, postdocs, early-career faculty apply by 15 April! @nuscticnus
How can generative AI and large language models be used to mitigate medication-related harm? We conducted a review to address this question. nature.com/articles/s4174… #GenAI #AI #LLM #Medication #Drug #Healthcare #Medicine #DukeNUS
Now accepted at #CSCW25 w @quarbby! "Improving User Behavior Prediction: Leveraging Annotator Metadata in Supervised Machine Learning Models" I love it for 2 reasons: 1) I got to fangirl about Kahneman (again), particularly his work on attention and cognitive effort. 🧵 (1/2)
@feedkoko and I got accepted at #CSCW25! How do you calibrate the output from multiple annotators, esp in annotating human behavior from conversational texts? We use annotator metadata to account for speeding and fatigue. (1/2) arxiv.org/abs/2503.21000
Discover how the timing of using LLMs influences writers' creativity and perceptions ✍️. Our #CHI25 study reveals that starting ideation with LLMs may reduce originality and creative self-confidence. arxiv.org/abs/2502.06197
I’m excited to share not one but two research papers, written jointly by researchers from @OpenAI and the @medialab at @MIT. We try to answer the following question: How do interactions with AI chatbots affect people’s social and emotional well-being? openai.com/index/affectiv…
Join our annual Meet the Lab event and learn what HMC scholars are currently working on in the field of HMC/HRI/AI!
👋 HMC IG invites you to join our 3rd annual International Meet the Lab Event! Dr. Selma Šabanović, Dr. Jingwen Zhang, and Dr. Nicole Krämer will introduce us to their labs and current research. March 7th 2pm (GMT) Register here: ufl.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
I am pleased to announce the 11th Annual Conference of The International Journal of Press/Politics will take place at the National University of Singapore, 19-21 Nov. 25! Abstract Deadline: 16 May tinyurl.com/IJPP2025 Acceptance Notification: 5 June Registration: 15 Aug.
Congrats @hanmeng0129 on the great work!
Excited to share our CHI'25 paper🔔Deconstructing Depression Stigma: Integrating AI-driven Data Collection and Analysis with Causal Knowledge Graphs🔔! We presented a novel computational, AI-based method to understand how stigma develops. Read more 🧵(1/7) arxiv.org/abs/2502.06075
New pre-print! 🚨 Relational Norms for Human-AI Cooperation || Proud of collaborative effort between philosophers, psychologists, relationship scientists, AI researchers. How should we interact with AI agents, and they with us with us? Well, it depends on the relationship... 1/
It's out! You can now access The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of #AI: cambridge.org/core/books/the… 20 #openaccess chapters covering topics on AI, ethics, philosophy, legal domains & sectoral applications. Huge thanks to all the authors who made this possible!