Zixin (or Nicole, she/her)
@zixinnic
PhD student @UofT 🇨🇦 | HCI 👩🏻💻Vis 📊 NLP 💬 | I look at how people speak, read, and write :)
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)
Thrilled to announce my paper with @zixinnic "Nabokov’s Cards" has been conditionally accepted to Creativity and Cognition 2025! Thanks so much to @cassidymcfadz , @jeanmarcahsen , @fandangowu and the Toronto lit scene for helping realize this work
It’s a hefty 206-page research paper, and the findings are concerning. "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels" This study finds LLM dependence weakens the writer’s own neural and linguistic fingerprints. 🤔🤔 Relying only on EEG,…
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)
Hi Yokohama! Excited to be at my first CHI #CHI2025 Excited to chat about writing tools to support creative writing :)
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 >> arxiv.org/pdf/2412.15584 video >> youtu.be/DR0UwF8A-ko
Photoshop for text. In our #CHI2025 paper “Textoshop”, we explore how interactions inspired by drawing software can help edit text. We consider words as pixels, sentences as regions, and tones as colours. #HCI #NLProc #LLMs #AI Thread 🧵 (1/10)
Calling all #Authors and #Writers in the #WritingCommunity! 📚✍️
(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 rotman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bp…
(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 rotman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bp…
📚 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: rotman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bp…
💡 Excited to share IncrementalXAI, to appear at #CHI2024! We design an explainable AI method to deliver information incrementally, leading to better understanding and memorability. Thanks to the team - Pan Hao and Brian Lim at @NUSingapore 📖➡️ arxiv.org/pdf/2404.06733…
Several students, both grad and undergrad, from my lab at @OntarioTechCS attended the important Annual Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing Conference @cancwic including a presentation on gaze-driven language learning by @zixinnic.
💫Voting locations are now open until 8 p.m. today! 💫 Learn more about where to vote, candidates & more for Toronto’s municipal election: toronto.ca/elections/myvo… #TOVotes22 #TOVotesOct24
It was great reuniting with @zixinnic at CAN-CWIC! #cancwic2022