@inproceedings{quan2026multicolleagues,title={Towards AI as Colleagues: Multi-Agent System Improves Structured Ideation Processes},author={Quan, Kexin and Albassam, Dina and Wu, Mengke and Ding, Zijian and Chin, Jessie},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},year={2026},publisher={ACM},}
Conversational Decision Support for Information Search Under Uncertainty: Effects of Gist and Verbatim Feedback
Kexin Quan and Jessie Chin
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2026
@article{quan2026sera,title={Conversational Decision Support for Information Search Under Uncertainty: Effects of Gist and Verbatim Feedback},author={Quan, Kexin and Chin, Jessie},journal={International Journal of Human-Computer Studies},year={2026},note={Under Review},}
"Pragmatic Tools or Empowering Friends?" Discovering and Co-Designing Personality-Aligned AI Writing Companions
Mengke Wu, Kexin Quan, Weizi Liu, and 2 more authors
In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2026
@inproceedings{wu2026personality,title={"Pragmatic Tools or Empowering Friends?" Discovering and Co-Designing Personality-Aligned AI Writing Companions},author={Wu, Mengke and Quan, Kexin and Liu, Weizi and Yao, Mike and Chin, Jessie},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition},year={2026},publisher={ACM},address={London, UK},note={In Submission},}
2025
Can Conversational AI Counsel for Change? A Theory-Driven Approach to Supporting Dietary Intentions in Ambivalent Individuals
Chaewon Bak, Kexin Quan, Tre Tomaszewski, and 1 more author
@article{bak2025counsel,title={Can Conversational AI Counsel for Change? A Theory-Driven Approach to Supporting Dietary Intentions in Ambivalent Individuals},author={Bak, Chaewon and Quan, Kexin and Tomaszewski, Tre and Chin, Jessie},journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.02428},year={2025},}
Can AI Take a Joke—Or Make One? A Study of Humor Generation and Recognition in LLMs
Kexin Quan, Pavithra Ramakrishnan, and Jessie Chin
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2025
@inproceedings{quan2025humor,title={Can AI Take a Joke---Or Make One? A Study of Humor Generation and Recognition in LLMs},author={Quan, Kexin and Ramakrishnan, Pavithra and Chin, Jessie},booktitle={Adjunct Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition},year={2025},publisher={ACM},doi={10.1145/3698061.3734388},}
Incorporating Personality into AI Writing Companions: Mapping the Design Space
Mengke Wu, Kexin Quan, Weizi Liu, and 2 more authors
In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025
@inproceedings{wu2025personality_chi,title={Incorporating Personality into AI Writing Companions: Mapping the Design Space},author={Wu, Mengke and Quan, Kexin and Liu, Weizi and Yao, Mike and Chin, Jessie},booktitle={Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},year={2025},publisher={ACM},note={Late-Breaking Work},doi={10.1145/3706599.3720185},}
2023
CausalMapper: Challenging Designers to Think in Systems with Causal Maps and Large Language Model
Ziheng Huang, Kexin Quan, Joel Chan, and 1 more author
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2023
@inproceedings{huang2023causalmapper,title={CausalMapper: Challenging Designers to Think in Systems with Causal Maps and Large Language Model},author={Huang, Ziheng and Quan, Kexin and Chan, Joel and MacNeil, Stephen},booktitle={Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition},year={2023},publisher={ACM},doi={10.1145/3591196.3596818},}
Harnessing Biomedical Literature to Calibrate Clinicians’ Trust in AI Decision Support Systems
Qian Yang, Yuexing Hao, Kexin Quan, and 4 more authors
In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023
@inproceedings{yang2023calibrate,title={Harnessing Biomedical Literature to Calibrate Clinicians' Trust in AI Decision Support Systems},author={Yang, Qian and Hao, Yuexing and Quan, Kexin and Yang, Stephen and Zhao, Yiran and Kuleshov, Volodymyr and Wang, Fei},booktitle={Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},year={2023},publisher={ACM},doi={10.1145/3544548.3581393},}
2021
Creative Work: Helping Novices Frame Better Problems through Interactive Scaffolding
Stephen MacNeil, Zijian Ding, Kexin Quan, and 3 more authors
In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2021
@inproceedings{macneil2021problib,title={Creative Work: Helping Novices Frame Better Problems through Interactive Scaffolding},author={MacNeil, Stephen and Ding, Zijian and Quan, Kexin and Parashos, Thomas J. and Sun, Yajie and Dow, Steven P.},booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition},year={2021},publisher={ACM},doi={10.1145/3450741.3465261},}
ProbMap: Automatically Constructing Design Galleries through Feature Extraction and Semantic Clustering
Stephen MacNeil, Zijian Ding, Kexin Quan, and 3 more authors
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2021
@inproceedings{macneil2021probmap,title={ProbMap: Automatically Constructing Design Galleries through Feature Extraction and Semantic Clustering},author={MacNeil, Stephen and Ding, Zijian and Quan, Kexin and Huang, Ziheng and Chen, Kenneth and Dow, Steven P.},booktitle={Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology},year={2021},publisher={ACM},note={Demo},doi={10.1145/3474349.3480203},}
