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.
PDF Work during internship @ MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
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.
PDF In collaboration with CityU
Zijian Ding, Michelle Brachman, Joel Chan, Werner Geyer (2025). Structuring GenAI-assisted Hypotheses Exploration with an Interactive Shared Representation. In IUI 2025 Demo.
PDF Work during internship @ MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
Chen Cao, Zijian Ding, Jionghao Lin, Frank Hopfgartner (2024). AI Chatbots as Multi-Role Pedagogical Agents: Transforming Engagement in CS Education. In IJAIED 2024 Abstract.
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Zijian Ding, Joel Chan (2024). Intelligent Canvas: Enabling Design-Like Exploratory Visual Data Analysis through Rapid Prototyping, Iteration and Curation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
PDF Work during internship @ Dataminr
Chen Cao, Zijian Ding, Gyeong-Geon Lee, Jiajun Jiao, Jionghao Lin, Xiaoming Zhai (2023). Elucidating STEM Concepts through Generative AI: A Multi-modal Exploration of Analogical Reasoning. In IJCAI 2023 Symposium.
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