Publications

Hi! I am Qing Xiao, a Ph.D. student at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. This page is a record of my publications; for selected papers organized by research theme, please see the home page, and an up-to-date citation record is on Google Scholar.

* equal contribution † corresponding author dotted underline student mentored by me, sometimes jointly with other faculty
2026
Crafting our own AI companions: When fans blossom into virtual character designers
Qing Xiao, Zilu Wang and Hong Shen.
In “Bridging Design and Fandom: Fan Studies and Design Research in Conversation“. Edited by Naomi Jacobs. Emerald Publishing. 2026.
Minion: A technology probe to explore how users negotiate harmful value conflicts with AI companions
Qing Xiao*, Xianzhe Fan*, Xuhui Zhou, Yuran Su, Zhicong Lu, Maarten Sap, and Hong Shen.
EMNLP 2026 Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms
When social media memes become mean to peers: Discrimination recognition and group norms in adolescent bullying
Rongyi Chen, Qing Xiao, Shike Lin, Jingjia Xiao, Menghan Yin, Yucong Ma, Bingbing Zhang, and Hua Zhong.
Computers in Human Behavior. 2026.
🏅 2nd Place Top Faculty Paper Award at AEJMC’25 (Mass Communication & Society Division)
‘The Moon in the Mountains’: Empowering rural adolescents through feminist pedagogy to challenge social media misogyny
Shuqin Li, Qing Xiao, Yuqi Liu, and Jingjia Xiao.
Gender and Education. 2026.
The Digital Landscape of God: Narrative, visuals and viewer engagement of religious videos on YouTube
Rongyi Chen, Qing Xiao*†, Ziyan Xin*, Ruiwei Xiao, Jingjia Xiao, Bingbing Zhang, Hong Shen, and Zhicong Lu. (Corresponding Author)
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM’26). 2026.
Can GenAI move from individual use to collaborative work? Experiences, challenges, and opportunities of coordinating GenAI into collaborative newswork
Qing Xiao, Qing (Diane) Hu, Jingjia Xiao, Hancheng Cao, and Hong Shen.
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’26). 2026.
Do teachers dream of GenAI widening educational (in)equality? Envisioning the future of K-12 GenAI education from global teachers’ perspectives
Qing Xiao*, Ruiwei Xiao*, Xinying Hou, Phenyo Phemelo Moletsane, Hanqi Jane Li, Hong Shen, and John Stamper.
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’26). 2026.
When your boss is an AI bot: Exploring opportunities and risks of manager clone agents in the future workplace
Qing (Diane) Hu, Qing Xiao, Hancheng Cao, and Hong Shen.
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’26). 2026.
The siren song of LLMs: How users perceive and respond to dark patterns in large language models
Yike Shi, Qing Xiao, Qing (Diane) Hu, Hong Shen, and Hua Shen.
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’26). 2026.
🏅 Best Paper Honourable Mention at CHI’26 (Top 5% of submissions)
Robots that evolve with us: Modular co-design for personalization, adaptability, and sustainability
Lingyun Chen, Qing Xiao, Zitao Zhang, Eli Blevis, and Selma Šabanović.
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’26). 2026.
Constructing algorithmic authority: How Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs) govern live-streaming labor in China
Qing Xiao, Rongyi Chen, Jingjia Xiao, Tianyang Fu, Alice Qian Zhang, Xianzhe Fan, Bingbing Zhang, Zhicong Lu, and Hong Shen.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (CSCW’26). 2026.
🏅 Best Paper Honourable Mention at CSCW’26 (Top 3% of submissions)
“Law at your fingertips”: Understanding legal information seeking on video-sharing platforms in China
Zhiyang Wu, Junliang Chen, Qian Wan, Qing Xiao, Piaohong Wang, Ge Gao, and Zhicong Lu.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (CSCW’26). 2026.
“Your first colleague might be an AI”: Bridging functional value and affective trust for theorizing AI avatars in new-employee organizational socialization
Wenhan Xie and Qing Xiao†. (Corresponding Author)
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 2026.
Adoption of AI technology among journalists: Exploring the impact of perceived usefulness, subjective norm, and attitudes
Bingbing Zhang, Li Gao, and Qing Xiao.
Emerging Media. 2026.
Design principles for human-agent interaction
Haiyi Zhu, Canwen Wang, Qing Xiao, and Hong Shen.
Arxiv. 2026.
From production to discernment: Evaluation-centered organization design under AI-enabled production abundance
Hancheng Cao, Ruihao Zhu, Hong Shen, and Qing Xiao.
Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST’26). 2026.
🏅 Finalist (Top 5 of 216 Teams), AI for Organizations Grand Challenge (Stanford HAI and Google DeepMind)
2025
AI hasn’t fixed teamwork, but it shifted collaborative culture: A longitudinal study in a project-based software development organization (2023–2025)
Qing Xiao, Xinlan Emily Hu, Mark E. Whiting, Arvind Karunakaran, Hong Shen, and Hancheng Cao.
Arxiv. 2025.
Let’s influence algorithms together: How millions of fans build collective understanding of algorithms and organize coordinated algorithmic actions
Qing Xiao, Yuhang Zheng, Xianzhe Fan, Bingbing Zhang, and Zhicong Lu.
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25). 2025.
🏅 3rd Place Top Student Paper Award at AEJMC’24 (Communication Technology Division)
“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
Qing Xiao, Xianzhe Fan, Felix M. Simon, Bingbing Zhang, and Motahhare Eslami.
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25). 2025.
🏅 2026 Natali Helberger Award
User-driven value alignment: Understanding users’ perceptions and strategies for addressing biased and discriminatory statements in AI companions
Xianzhe Fan, Qing Xiao, Xuhui Zhou, Jiaxin Pei, Maarten Sap, Zhicong Lu, and Hong Shen.
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25). 2025.
How users who are blind or low vision play mobile games: Perceptions, challenges, and strategies
Zihe Ran, Xiyu Li, Qing Xiao, Xianzhe Fan, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Yanyun Wang, and Zhicong Lu.
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25). 2025.
🏅 Best Academic Research Award at #GAconf’25
Understanding how visually impaired players socialize in mobile games
Zihe Ran, Xiyu Li, Qing Xiao†, Yanyun Wang, Franklin Mingzhe Li, and Zhicong Lu. (Corresponding Author)
Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS’25). 2025.
Active and passive social media use and self-stigmatization among Chinese patients with gynecological disorders: The mediating role of social support
Menghan Yin and Qing Xiao†. (Corresponding Author)
Behaviour & Information Technology. 2025.
🏅 2nd Place Top Student Paper Award at AEJMC’24 (ComSHER Division)
Enhancing trust or fostering misjudgment? Assessing the impact of emerging geographic information displays on social media users’ information trust
Yalong Xiao, Rongyi Chen, Qing Xiao, Chengzhang Zhu, and Jie Feng.
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 2025.
Artists and their poor: Economic and symbolic inequality in distorted China’s post-pandemic art subsidy policies
Jingjia Xiao, Qing Xiao, and Rongyi Chen.
Cultural Trends. 2025.
2024
What happens after “Nora leaves home”? Chinese female rural-to-urban migrants in the sex webcamming industry
Jingjia Xiao, Qing Xiao, Tianren Luo, and Hua (Sara) Zhong.
Feminist Criminology. 2024.
Nowhere men in the China–Myanmar borderlands
Jingjia Xiao, Qing Xiao†, and Tianren Luo. (Corresponding Author)
Global China Pulse. 2024.