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† indicates equal first authorship; Underline indicates that I contributed as a PhD student advisor, sometimes collaborating with other faculty in supervising this project
Hi! I’m Qing Xiao, a PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. I aim to understand, design, and develop AI systems for future work and organizations, with particular interests in human–AI relationships. [Google Scholar] [About Me]
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). arXiv. [Link]
Qing Xiao, Qing (Diane) Hu, Jingjia Xiao, Hancheng Cao and Hong Shen. 2025. Can GenAI move from individual use to collaborative work? Experiences, challenges, and opportunities of integrating GenAI into collaborative newsroom routines. arXiv. [Link]
Qing (Diane) Hu, Qing Xiao, Hancheng Cao, Hong Shen. 2025. When your boss is an AI bot: Exploring opportunities and risks of manager clone agents in the future workplace. arXiv. [Link]
Lingyun Chen, Qing Xiao, Zitao Zhang, Eli Blevis, and Selma Šabanović. 2025. Robots that evolve with us: Modular co-design for personalization, adaptability, and sustainability. arXiv. [Link]
Yike Shi, Qing Xiao, Qing (Diane) Hu, Hong Shen, Hua Shen. 2025. The siren song of LLMs: How users perceive and respond to dark patterns in large language models. arXiv. [Link]
Ruiwei Xiao, Qing Xiao, Xinying Hou, Phenyo Phemelo Moletsane, Hanqi Jane Li, Hong Shen, and John Stamper. 2025. Do teachers dream of GenAI widening educational (in) equality? Envisioning the future of K-12 GenAI education from global teachers’ perspectives. arXiv. [Link]
Qing Xiao, Rongyi Chen, Jingjia Xiao, Tianyang Fu, Alice Qian Zhang, Xianzhe Fan, Bingbing Zhang, Zhicong Lu, and Hong Shen. 2025. Institutionalizing folk theories of algorithms: How Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs) govern algorithmic labor in Chinese live-streaming industry. arXiv. [Link]
Xianzhe Fan†, Qing Xiao†, Xuhui Zhou, Yuran Su, Zhicong Lu, Maarten Sap, and Hong Shen. 2024. Minion: A technology probe for resolving value conflicts through expert-driven and user-driven strategies in AI companion applications. arXiv. [Link]
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. Behaviour & Information Technology.
Shuqin Li, Qing Xiao, Yuqi Liu, and Jingjia Xiao. 2026. “The moon in the mountains”: Empowering rural adolescents through feminist pedagogy to challenge misogyny. Gender and Education.
Zihe Ran, Xiyu Li, Qing Xiao, Yanyun Wang, Franklin Mingzhe Li and Zhicong Lu. 2025. Understanding how visually impaired players socialize in mobile games. The 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS’25). [ACM Library] [Preprint]
Lingyun Chen, Qing Xiao, Matyas Istvan Siteri, Eli Blevis. 2025. 3R (Robots, Rooms, Relationships): Speculative homes, sentient machines, and the future of domesticity. 2025 ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference (C&C’25). [ACM Library]
Lingyun Chen, Zitao Zhang, Muwu Shan, Qing Xiao, Eli Blevis. 2025. Sustainable robot future: A speculative design about humanity, robots, and ecology. 2025 ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference (C&C’25). [ACM Library]
Qing Xiao, Yuhang Zheng, Xianzhe Fan, Bingbing Zhang and Zhcong Lu. 2025. Let’s influence algorithms together: How millions of fans build collective understanding of algorithms and organize coordinated algorithmic actions. 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25). [ACM Library] [Preprint]
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. 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25). [ACM Library] [Preprint] [Blog Article]
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. 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25). [ACM Library] [Preprint] [CMU News]
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. 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25). [ACM Library] [Preprint]
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. Cultural Trends. [Link]
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. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. [Link]
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. Feminist Criminology. [Link]
Jingjia Xiao, Qing Xiao, and Tianren Luo. 2024. Nowhere men in the China–Myanmar borderlands. Global China Pulse. [Link] [Ming Pao News: 1, 2, 3] [CUHK News] [hk01 News]
Qing Xiao and Yuhang Zheng. 2023. “Are we friends or opponents?” Chinese idol fans’ relationship changes from online to offline. Transformative Works and Cultures. [Link]
Yuhang Zheng and Qing Xiao. 2023. “Play with me!” Zhan Jie as productive fans in the Chinese idol industry.Transformative Works and Cultures. [Link]
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.
Jingjia Xiao and Qing Xiao. Forthcoming. Between trauma of socialism and myth of post-socialism: “Jijia” in northeastern China. In Zoë. A. Eddy (Eds.), Diaspora, Food, and Memory. Lever Press.
Jing Tang, Qing Xiao, Kunxu Du, and Zaiqiao Ye. 2025. RoboLinker: A diffusion-model-based matching clothing generator between humans and companion robots. The 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct ’25). [ACM Library] [Preprint]
Qing Xiao, Xianzhe Fan, Felix M. Simon, Bingbing Zhang and Motahhare Eslami. 2025. Collaborative news futures between journalists, AI technologists and workers. Workshop on News Futures: (Re-)Designing Socio-technical Systems for News and Journalism. The 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25). [Blog]
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. Workshop on Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning. The 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25). [Preprint]
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. The 2025 ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2024 (VRST’25). [ACM Library]
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