Full List of Publications

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Conference & Journal Publications (Peer-reviewed)

2026

1. Qing Xiao, Qing (Diane) Hu, Jingjia Xiao, Hancheng Cao and Hong Shen. 2026.
   Can GenAI move from individual use to collaborative work? Experiences, challenges, and opportunities of coordinating GenAI into collaborative newswork. [Preprint]
   CHI’26.
2. Ruiwei Xiao*, Qing Xiao*, Xinying Hou, Phenyo Phemelo Moletsane, Hanqi Jane Li, Hong Shen, and John Stamper. 2026.
   Do teachers dream of GenAI widening educational (in) equality? Envisioning the future of K-12 GenAI education from global teachers’ perspectives. [Preprint]
   CHI’26. (*Co-First Author)
3. Qing (Diane) Hu, Qing Xiao, Hancheng Cao, and Hong Shen. 2026.
   When your boss is an AI bot: Exploring opportunities and risks of manager clone agents in the future workplace. [Preprint]
   CHI’26.
4. Yike Shi, Qing Xiao, Qing (Diane) Hu, Hong Shen, and Hua Shen. 2026.
   The siren song of LLMs: How users perceive and respond to dark patterns in large language models. [Preprint]
   CHI’26.
5. Lingyun Chen, Qing Xiao, Zitao Zhang, Eli Blevis, and Selma Šabanović. 2026.
   Robots that evolve with us: Modular co-design for personalization, adaptability, and sustainability. [Preprint]
   CHI’26.
6. Shuqin Li, Qing Xiao, Yuqi Liu, and Jingjia Xiao. 2026.
   “The moon in the mountains”: Empowering rural adolescents through feminist pedagogy to challenge misogyny. [Link]
   Gender and Education.
7. Menghan Yin and Qing Xiao. 2026.
   Active and passive social media use and self-stigmatization among Chinese patients with gynecological disorders: The mediating role of social support. [Link]
   Behaviour & Information Technology.

2025

1. Zihe Ran, Xiyu Li, Qing Xiao, Yanyun Wang, Franklin Mingzhe Li and Zhicong Lu. 2025.
   Understanding how visually impaired players socialize in mobile games. [ACM Library] [Preprint]
   ASSETS’25.
2. Lingyun Chen, Qing Xiao, Matyas Istvan Siteri, and Eli Blevis. 2025. 
   3R (Robots, Rooms, Relationships): Speculative homes, sentient machines, and the future of domesticity. [ACM Library]
   Creativity & Cognition 2025.
3. Lingyun Chen, Zitao Zhang, Muwu Shan, Qing Xiao, and Eli Blevis. 2025. 
   Sustainable robot future: A speculative design about humanity, robots, and ecology. [ACM Library]
   Creativity & Cognition 2025.
4. Qing Xiao, Yuhang Zheng, Xianzhe Fan, Bingbing Zhang and Zhicong Lu. 2025. 
   Let’s influence algorithms together: How millions of fans build collective understanding of algorithms and organize coordinated algorithmic actions. [ACM Library] [Preprint]
   CHI’25.
5. Qing Xiao, Xianzhe Fan, Felix M. Simon, Bingbing Zhang and Motahhare Eslami. 2025. 
   “It might be technically impressive, but it’s practically useless to us”: Motivations, practices, challenges, and opportunities for cross-functional collaboration around AI within the news industry. [ACM Library] [Preprint] [Blog Article]
   CHI’25.
6. Xianzhe Fan, Qing Xiao, Xuhui Zhou, Jiaxin Pei, Maarten Sap, Zhicong Lu and Hong Shen. 2025.
   User-driven value alignment: Understanding users’ perceptions and strategies for addressing biased and discriminatory statements in AI companions. [ACM Library] [Preprint] [CMU News]
   CHI’25.
7. Zihe Ran, Xiyu Li, Qing Xiao, Xianzhe Fan, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Yanyun Wang and Zhicong Lu. 2025.
   How users who are blind or low vision play mobile games: Perceptions, challenges, and strategies. [ACM Library] [Preprint]
   🏆 Best academic research at #GAconf’25 (Game Accessibility Conference 2025). 
   CHI’25.
8. Jingjia Xiao, Qing Xiao and Rongyi Chen. 2025.
   Artists and their poor: Economic and symbolic inequality in distorted China’s post-pandemic art subsidy policies. [Link]
   Cultural Trends.
9. Yalong Xiao, Rongyi Chen, Qing Xiao, Chengzhang Zhu, and Jie Feng. 2025.
   Enhancing trust or fostering misjudgment? Assessing the impact of emerging geographic information displays on social media users’ information trust. [Link]
   International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.

2024

1. Jingjia Xiao, Qing Xiao, Tianren Luo, and Hua (Sara) Zhong. 2024.
   What happens after “Nora leaves home”? Chinese female rural-to-urban migrants in the sex webcamming industry. [Link]
   Feminist Criminology. 
2. Jingjia Xiao, Qing Xiao, and Tianren Luo. 2024.
   Nowhere men in the China–Myanmar borderlands. [Link] [Ming Pao News: 1, 2, 3] [CUHK News] [hk01 News]
   Global China Pulse. 

2023

1. Qing Xiao and Yuhang Zheng. 2023.
   “Are we friends or opponents?” Chinese idol fans’ relationship changes from online to offline. [Link]
   Transformative Works and Cultures.
2. Yuhang Zheng and Qing Xiao. 2023.
   “Play with me!” Zhan Jie as productive fans in the Chinese idol industry. [Link]
   Transformative Works and Cultures.

Preprint (Not Peer-reviewed)

1. Qing Xiao, Xinlan Emily Hu, Mark E. Whiting, Arvind Karunakaran, Hong Shen, and Hancheng Cao. 2025.
   AI hasn’t fixed teamwork, but it shifted collaborative culture: A longitudinal study in a project-based software development organization (2023–2025). [Link]
2. Qing Xiao, Rongyi Chen, Jingjia Xiao, Tianyang Fu, Alice Qian, Xianzhe Fan, Bingbing Zhang, Zhicong Lu, and Hong Shen. 2026.
   Constructing algorithmic authority: How Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs) govern live-streaming labor in China. [Link]
3. Xianzhe Fan*, Qing Xiao*, Xuhui Zhou, Yuran Su, Zhicong Lu, Maarten Sap, and Hong Shen. 2026.
   Minion: A technology probe to explore how users negotiate harmful value conflicts with AI companions. [Link] (*Co-First Author)
4. Ruiwei Xiao*, Qing Xiao*, Xinying Hou, Hanqi Jane Li, Phenyo Phemelo Moletsane, Hong Shen, and John Stamper. 2025.
   Bridging cultural distance between models default and local classroom demands: How global teachers adopt GenAI to support everyday teaching practices. [Link] (*Co-First Author)
5. Yui Kondo, Kevin Dunnell, Isobel Voysey, Qing Hu, Victoria Paesano, Phi H Nguyen, Qing Xiao, Jun Zhao, and Luc Rocher. 2026.
   Interactive visualizations for adolescents to understand and challenge algorithmic profiling in online platforms. [Link]
6. Rongyi Chen, Ziyan Xin*, Qing Xiao*, Ruiwei Xiao, Jingjia Xiao, Bingbing Zhang, Hong Shen, and Zhicong Lu. 2025.
   The digital landscape of god: Narrative, visuals and viewer engagement of religious videos on YouTube. [Link]
7. Jingjia Xiao, Qing Xiao, and Hong Shen. 2025.
   ” It felt real” Victim perspectives on platform design and longer-running scams. [Link]

Book Chapters (Light Peer-reviewed)

1. Qing Xiao, Zilu Wang and Hong Shen. Under Contract.
   Crafting our own AI companions: When fans blossom into virtual character designers.
   In Naomi Jacobs (Eds.), Bridging Design and Fandom: Fan Studies and Design Research in Conversation. Emerald Publishing.

Workshop Papers & Posters (Light Peer-reviewed)

1. Lingyun Chen, Qing Xiao, Zitao Zhang, Eli Blevis, and Selma Šabanović. 2026.
   Positioning modular co-design in future HRI design research.   [Preprint]
   3rd Workshop on Designerly HRI at HRI’26.
2. Jing Tang, Qing Xiao, Kunxu Du, and Zaiqiao Ye. 2025.
   RoboLinker: A diffusion-model-based matching clothing generator between humans and companion robots. [ACM Library]
   UIST Adjunct ’25. 
3. Qing Xiao, Xianzhe Fan, Felix M. Simon, Bingbing Zhang and Motahhare Eslami. 2025. 
   Collaborative news futures between journalists, AI technologists and workers. [Blog]
   Workshop on News Futures at CHI’25.
4. Yui Kondo, Kevin Dunnell, Qing Xiao, Jun Zhao and Luc Rocher. 2025. 
   Algorithmic mirror: Designing an interactive tool to promote self-reflection for YouTube recommendations. [Preprint]
   Workshop on Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning at CHI’25.
5. Rongyi Chen, Jingjia Xiao, Zilu Wang, Menghan Yin, Xianzhe Fan, Zihe Ran and Qing Xiao. 2024.
   Exploring influencers’ and users’ experiences in Douyin’s virtual reality live-streaming. [ACM Library]
   VRST’25.