Selected Publications

Zijian Ding, Michelle Brachman, Joel Chan, Werner Geyer (2025). The Diagram is like Guardrails: Structuring GenAI-assisted Hypotheses Exploration with an Interactive Shared Representation. In C&C 2025.

Qinshi Zhang, Ruoyu Wen, Latisha Besariani Hendra, Zijian Ding^*, Ray LC (2025). Can AI Prompt Humans? Multimodal Agents Prompt Players' Game Design Ideas. In CHI 2025.

Zijian Ding, Michelle Brachman, Joel Chan, Werner Geyer (2025). Structuring GenAI-assisted Hypotheses Exploration with an Interactive Shared Representation. In IUI 2025 Demo.

Zijian Ding, Joel Chan (2024). Intelligent Canvas: Enabling Design-Like Exploratory Visual Data Analysis through Rapid Prototyping, Iteration and Curation.

Joel Chan, Zijian Ding, Eesh Kamrah, Mark Fuge (2024). Formulating or Fixating: Effects of Examples on Problem Solving Vary as a Function of Example Presentation Interface Design. In CHI 2024.

Zijian Ding (2024). Advancing GUI for Generative AI: Charting the Design Space of Human-AI Interactions through Task Creativity and Complexity. In IUI 2024 Doctoral Consortium.

Eesh Kamrah, Seyede Fatemeh Ghoreishi, Zijian Ding, Joel Chan, Mark Fuge (2023). How Diverse Initial Samples Help and Hurt Bayesian Optimizers. In ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.

Zijian Ding, Alison Smith-Renner, Wenjuan Zhang, Joel R. Tetreault, Alejandro Jaimes (2023). Harnessing the Power of LLMs: Evaluating Human-AI Interaction through the Lens of News Headline Generation. In EMNLP 2023 Findings.

Zijian Ding, Arvind Srinivasan, Stephen MacNeil, Joel Chan (2023). Fluid Transformers and Creative Analogies: Exploring Large Language Models' Capacity for Augmenting Cross-Domain Analogical Creativity. In C&C 2023.

Zijian Ding, Joel Chan (2023). Mapping the Design Space of Interactions in Human-AI Text Co-creation Tasks. In CHI 2023 Workshop.