Bio
Hi, I'm Xinyue Chen. I am currently a forth-year PhD candidate at Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, supervised by Prof. Xu Wang. Previously, I received my B.S. in the Department of Information Management from Peking University , advised by Prof. Pengyi Zhang. I also worked as a research intern at the "Tools for thought" group at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK mentored by Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch, and Payod Panda.
Research Interests
I study how AI can support human sense-making, collaboration, and cognitive engagement. My work bridges AI interaction design and cognitive theory, with the goal of enhancing how individuals and teams build shared understanding, maintain agency, and communicate intentions in complex, dynamic environments.Specifically, I studied:
- Designing AI interactions that support the grounding process in collaborative environments by externalizing cognitive activities, facilitating shared representations, and helping teams build common understanding.
- Exploring the AI assistance dilemma: how to balance human agency and AI support to ensure users stay critically engaged, maintain cognitive ownership, and avoid over-reliance on AI in sense-making activities.
- Understanding the cognitive processes behind collaborative sense-making, especially how individuals surface and align intentions, to guide the design of future AI systems and contribute to theoretical models of human-AI collaboration.
Selected Publications
🏆 "Looking Together ≠ Seeing the Same Thing: Understanding Surgeons' Visual Needs During Intra-operative Coordination and Instruction
Xinyue Chen*, Vitaliy Popov*, Jingying Wang, Michael Kemp, Gurjit Sandhu, Taylor Kantor, Natalie Mateju, Xu Wang (* indicates equal contribution)
CHI2024
Late-Breaking Work/ Posters/ Workshops
Balancing Cognitive Effort and AI Assistance: an AI-assisted Sensemaking Framework for Synchronous Communication
Xinyue Chen, Xu Wang
CHI2024 - Sensemaking Workshop
Updates
- [April 2025] I will present our paper "Are We On Track? AI-Assisted Active and Passive Goal Reflection During Meetings." at CHI 2025, April 29th 9:20 am at the "Meeting and Collaboration" Session. More Info
- [May 2025] I'm going to start an internship at Adobe Research, working with Alexa Siu
- [April 2025] Our paper: "Strengthening the Chain of Intentionality Across Meetings: AI-Assisted Retrospection and Prospection For Knowledge Work." got accepted at DIS 2025.
- [Mar 2025] Our paper: "What Does Success Look Like? Catalyzing Meeting Intentionality with AI-Assisted Prospective Reflection." got accepted at CHIWORK 2025.
- [Feb 2025] Two paper: "Are We On Track? AI-Assisted Active and Passive Goal Reflection During Meetings." and "LADICA: A Large Shared Display Interface for Generative AI Cognitive Assistance in Co-Located Team Collaboration." got accepted at CHI 2025.
- [Oct 2024] Our paper: "MeetMap: Generating Dialogue Maps as Real-Time Cognitive Scaffolds for Online Meetings." got accepted at CSCW 2025.
Experience
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Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Research Intern, June 2024 - Aug 2024
Mentor: Sean Rintel, Lev Tankelevitch, Payod Panda
Topic: AI-assisted during meeting reflection.
LifeLongLearning Lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Research Assistant, June 2020 - Now
Mentor: Xu Wang
Topic: Designing online meeting and learning tools which support better mutual understanding.
SALT Lab, University of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Intern, Feb 2020 - April 2021
Mentor: Yun Huang
Topic: Understanding the new trend and practice in video community in China.
Department of Information Management, Peking University
Undergraduate Student, Sep 2017 - July 2021
Supervior: Pengyi Zhang
Received Bachelor's Degree (with Honors) at PKU.