Selected Publications

Shaoyue Wen, Songming Ping, Zijian Ding, Wenxuan Xu, Liyun Ma, Yukang Yan, Hai-Ning Liang (2026). AdaptiveAudience: Bridging the Human-Agent Emotional Gap via RL-Driven Behavioral Adaptation.
Zijian Ding, Fenghai Li, Haofei Yu, Joel Chan (2025). Towards Direct Intent Manipulation: Drag-Based Research Ideation, Evaluation and Evolution. In UIST 2025 Poster.
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Zijian Ding, Qinshi Zhang, Mohan Chi, Ziyi Wang (2025). Frontend Diffusion: Empowering Self-Representation of Junior Researchers and Designers with Multi-agent System. In VL/HCC 2025.
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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 Patent 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.
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Zijian Ding, Michelle Brachman, Joel Chan, Werner Geyer (2025). Structuring GenAI-assisted Hypotheses Exploration with an Interactive Shared Representation. In IUI 2025 Demo.
PDF Patent 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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