Publications

Peer-reviewed papers, journal articles, and workshop publications.

2025

EvAlignUX: Advancing UX Research through LLM-Supported Exploration of Evaluation Metrics

CHI

Qingxiao Zheng, Minrui Chen, Pranav Sharma, Yiliu Tang, Mehul Oswal, Yiren Liu, Yun Huang

CHI 2025 • Conference

HCILLMUX

arXiv ACM/DOI

Improving Emotional Support Delivery in Text-Based Community Safety Reporting Using Large Language Models

CSCW

Yiren Liu, Yerong Li, Ryan Mayfield, Yun Huang

PACM HCI (CSCW 2025) • Journal

LLMpublic-safetyHCI

arXiv ACM/DOI

PersonaFlow: Boosting research ideation with LLM-simulated expert personas

DIS

Yiren Liu, Pranav Sharma, Mehul Jitendra Oswal, Haijun Xia, Yun Huang

ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2025) • Conference

LLMHCIresearch-ideation

arXiv ACM/DOI Code

Perspectra: Choosing Your Experts Enhances Critical Thinking in Multi-Agent Research Ideation

🏆 Best Paper Honorable Mention

Yiren Liu, Viraj Shah, Sangho Suh, Pao Siangliulue, Tal August, Yun Huang

CHI 2026 • Full Paper

LLMHCImulti-agent

arXiv

Youth-Centered GAI Risks (YAIR): A Taxonomy of Generative AI Risks from Empirical Data

SOUPS

Yaman Yu, Yiren Liu, Jacky Zhang, Yun Huang, Yang Wang

USENIX SOUPS 2025 • Conference

LLM-safetyyouthrisk-taxonomy

arXiv Website

YouthSafe: A Youth-Centric Safety Benchmark and Safeguard Model for Large Language Models

CCS

Yaman Yu, Yiren Liu, Jacky Zhang, Yun Huang, Yang Wang

ACM CCS 2025 • Conference

LLM-safetyyouthbenchmark

arXiv Website

2024

CoQuest: Exploring Research Question Co-Creation with an LLM-based Agent

CHI

Yiren Liu, Si Chen, Haocong Cheng, Mengxia Yu, Xiao Ran, Andrew Mo, Yiliu Tang, Yun Huang

CHI 2024 • Conference

HCILLMresearch-ideation

arXiv ACM/DOI Code

2023

Commonsense-Aware Prompting for Controllable Empathetic Dialogue Generation

Yiren Liu, Halil Kilicoglu

AAAI 2023 Workshop on Knowledge Augmented Methods for NLP • Workshop

NLPempathetic-dialogue

arXiv

Discovering the Hidden Facts of User-Dispatcher Interactions via Text-based Reporting Systems for Community Safety

CSCW

Yiren Liu, Ryan Mayfield, Yun Huang

PACM HCI (CSCW 2023) • Journal

HCIpublic-safety

arXiv ACM/DOI

2022

UX research on conversational human-AI interaction: A literature review of the ACM digital library

CHI

Qingxiao Zheng, Yiliu Tang, Yiren Liu, Weizi Liu, Yun Huang

CHI 2022 • Conference

HCIliterature-review

arXiv ACM/DOI