Publications

Dark Patterns Meet GUI Agents: LLM Agent Susceptibility to Manipulative Interfaces and the Role of Human Oversight

Jingyu Tang, Chaoran Chen, Jiawen Li, Zhiping Zhang, Bingcan Guo, Ibrahim Khalilov, Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Bingsheng Yao, Dakuo Wang, Yanfang Ye, Tianshi Li, Ziang Xiao, Yaxing Yao, Toby Jia-Jun Li
In the Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)

Through the Lens of Human-Human Collaboration: A Configurable Research Platform for Exploring Human-Agent Collaboration

Bingsheng Yao, Jiaju Chen, Chaoran Chen, April Wang, Toby Jia-jun Li, Dakuo Wang
In the Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)

My Favorite Streamer is an LLM: Discovering, Bonding, and Co-Creating in AI VTuber Fandom

Jiayi Ye, Chaoran Chen, Yue Huang, Yanfang Ye, Yaxing Yao, Toby Jia-Jun Li
In the Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026)

The Behavioral Fabric of LLM-Powered GUI Agents: Human Values and Interaction Outcomes

Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Yukun Yang, Charles Chiang, Hojun Yoo, Chaoran Chen, Hyo Jin Do, Zahra Ashktorab, Werner Geyer, Diego Gómez-Zará, Toby Jia-Jun Li
In the Proceedings of the 31th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026)

Why am I seeing this: Democratizing End User Auditing for Online Content Recommendations

Chaoran Chen, Leyang Li, Luke Cao, Yanfang Ye, Tianshi Li, Yaxing Yao, Toby Jia-jun Li
In the Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2025)

Towards a Design Guideline for RPA Evaluation: A Survey of Large Language Model-Based Role-Playing Agents

Chaoran Chen, Bingsheng Yao, Ruishi Zou, Wenyue Hua, Weimin Lyu, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Dakuo Wang
Findings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Findings 2025)

CLEAR: Towards Contextual LLM-Empowered Privacy Policy Analysis and Risk Generation for Large Language Model Applications

Chaoran Chen, Daodao Zhou, Yanfang Ye, Toby Jia-jun Li, Yaxing Yao
Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2025)

Careful About What App Promotion Ads Recommend! Detecting and Explaining Malware Promotion via App Promotion Graph

Shang Ma, Chaoran Chen, Shao Yang, Shifu Hou, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Xusheng Xiao, Tao Xie, Yanfang Ye
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium ((NDSS 2025)

An Empathy-Based Sandbox Approach to Bridge Attitudes, Goals, Knowledge, and Behaviors in the Privacy Paradox

Chaoran Chen, Weijun Li, Wenxin Song, Yaxing Yao, Yanfang Ye, Toby Jia-jun Li
In the Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024)

Symbolic Prompt Tuning Completes the App Promotion Graph

Zhongyu Ouyang, Chunhui Zhang, Shifu Hou, Shang Ma, Chaoran Chen, Chunhui Zhang, Toby Li, Xusheng Xiao, Chuxu Zhang, Yanfang Ye
Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2024)

ARDW: An Augmented Reality Workbench for Printed Circuit Board Debugging

Ishan Chatterjee, Tadeusz Pforte, Aspen Tng, Farshid Salemi Parizi, Chaoran Chen, Shwetak Patel
In the Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2022)[video]

Patterns for representing knowledge graphs to communicate situational knowledge of service robots

Shengchen Zhang, Zixuan Wang, Chaoran Chen, Yi Dai, Lyumanshan Ye, Xiaohua Sun
In the Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021)[video]

AI-Sketcher: A Deep Generative Model for Producing High-Quality Sketches

Nan Cao, Xin Yan, Yang Shi, Chaoran Chen
The thirty-third AAAI conference on artificial intelligence (AAAI 2019)