July 1, 2020

Congratulations to my PhD student Yue You

for her paper being accepted by AMIA 2020, entitled "Self-Diagnosis through Chatbot-based Symptom Checkers: User Experiences and Design Considerations"!

May 11, 2020

Paper accepted to the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 

Our paper "Managing Healthcare Conflicts When Living With Multiple Chronic Conditions" has been accepted to the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. Many thanks to Clara, Tera, Yunan, and Matt!

March 6, 2020

Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2020.

Our CHI 2020 paper "Getting the Healthcare We Want: the Use of Online 'Ask the Doctor' Platforms in Practice" has received a best paper honorable mention award.

December 9, 2019

Two papers accepted to CHI 2020.

We have two papers accepted to CHI 2020. Many thanks to my awesome collaborators!

September 17, 2019

Paper accepted to JAMIA Open

Our paper "Physician Champions’ Perspectives and Practices on Electronic Health Records Implementation: Challenges and Strategies" has been accepted to JAMIA Open.

August 1, 2019

Two papers accepted to CSCW 2019

We have two papers accepted to CSCW 2019!

May 23, 2019

Passed my dissertation defense today!

I passed my doctoral dissertation defense today!

March 15, 2019

Our CHI 2019 paper has received an Honorable Mention Award

Our CHI 2019 paper (Xinning Gui, Yunan Chen. Making Healthcare Infrastructure Work: Unpacking the Infrastructuring Work of Individuals) has received an Honorable Mention Award.

December 10, 2018

Two papers accepted to CHI 2019

We have two papers accepted to the 2019 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'19):

Xinning Gui, Yunan Chen. 2019. Making Healthcare Infrastructure Work: Unpacking the Infrastructuring Work of Individuals

Yubo Kou, Xinning Gui, Yunan Chen, Bonnie Nardi. 2019. Turn to the Self in Human-Computer Interaction: Care of the Self in Negotiating the Human-Technology Relationship 

November 29, 2018

Proposed workshop accepted to CHI 2019

Our proposed workshop "Unpacking the Infrastructuring Work of Patients and Caregivers around the World " has been selected for inclusion in the CHI 2019 Workshops program (acceptance rate: 31%). More info regarding the workshop is at https://chi2019healthworkshop.weebly.com/.

October 06, 2018

Our CSCW 2018 paper has received an Honorable Mention Award

Our paper (Yubo Kou and Xinning Gui. (2018). Entangled with Numbers: Quantified Self and Others in a Team-Based Online Game. CSCW 2018) has received a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award ( ranked among the top 2.7% of all submissions).

August 08, 2018

Four papers accepted to CSCW 2018

We have four papers accepted to CSCW 2018:​

• Xinning Gui, Yunan Chen, and Kathleen Pine. (2018). Navigating the Healthcare Service “Black Box”: Individual Competence and Fragmented System. CSCW 2018 (to appear).​

• Yao Li, Xinning Gui, Yunan Chen, Heng Xu, and Alfred Kobsa. (2018). When SNS Privacy Settings Become Granular: Investigating Users’ Choices, Rationales and Influences on Their Social Experience. CSCW 2018 (to appear).​

• Xiaojuan Ma, Xinning Gui, Jiayue Fan, Mingqian Zhao, Yunan Chen, and Kai Zheng. (2018). Professional Medical Advice at your Fingertips: An empirical study of an online "Ask the Doctor" Platform. CSCW 2018 (to appear).​

• Yubo Kou and Xinning Gui. (2018). Entangled with Numbers: Quantified Self and Others in a Team-Based Online Game. CSCW 2018 (to appear)

December 11, 2017

Two papers accepted to CHI 2018

We have two papers accepted to the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'18):

• Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou,Kathleen Pine,Elisa Ladaw, Harold Kim,Eli Suzuki-Gill, Yunan Chen. Multidimensional Risk Communication: Public discourse on Risks during an Emerging Epidemic 

• Yubo Kou, Yao Li, Xinning Gui, Eli Suzuki-Gill. Playing with Streakiness in Online Games: How Players Perceive and React to Winning and Losing Streaks in League of Legends 

August 07, 2017

Three papers accepted to CSCW2018 Online First

We have three papers accepted to CSCW 2018 Online First (acceptance rate: 27%):

• Xinning Gui, Yu Chen, Yubo Kou, Kathleen Pine, Yunan Chen. Investigating Support Seeking from Peers for Pregnancy in Online Health Communities

• Yubo Kou, Xinning Gui, Yunan Chen, Kathleen Pine. Conspiracy Talk on Social Media: Collective Sensemaking during a Public Health Crisis

• Yubo Kou, Xinning Gui, Shaozeng Zhang, Bonnie Nardi. Managing Disruptive Behavior through Non-Hierarchical Governance: Working and Negotiating with a Crowdsourcing System

June 14, 2017

Paper accepted to AMIA 2017

Our paper, "Understanding the Patterns of Health Information Dissemination on Social Media during the Zika Outbreak " has been accepted to AMIA'2017, with Yue Wang, Yubo Kou, Tera Leigh Reynolds, Yunan Chen, Qiaozhu Mei, and Kai Zheng.

April 10, 2017

Paper accepted to the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Journal as part of the ECSCW 2017 Special Issue

Our paper, "One Social Movement, Two Social Media Sites: A Comparative Study of Public Discourses", co-authored with Yubo Kou, Yong Ming Kow, and Waikuen Cheng, has been accepted to the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Journal as part of the ECSCW 2017 Special Issue.

March 30, 2017

Paper accepted to INTERACT'2017

Our paper, "Special Digital Monies: The Design of Alipay and WeChat Wallet for Mobile Payment Practices in China", co-authored with Yong Ming Kow and Waikuen Cheng, has been accepted to INTERACT'2017.

February 17, 2017

Our paper has been awarded an Honorable Mention award at CHI 2017

Our paper, “Managing Uncertainty: Using Social Media for Risk Assessment during a Public Health Crisis”, co-authored with Yubo Kou, Katie Pine, and Yunan Chen, has been awarded an Honorable Mention award, which means that it is ranked among the top 5% of all submissions to the SIGCHI 2017 conference.

December 14, 2016

Two papers accepted to CHI 2017

We have two papers accepted to CHI 2017:

“When Fitness Meets Social Networks: Investigating Fitness Tracking and Social Practices on WeRun”, co-authored with Yu Chen, Clara Caldeira, Dan Xiao and Yunan Chen,

​“Managing Uncertainty: Using Social Media for Risk Assessment during a Public Health Crisis”, co-authored with Yubo Kou, Katie Pine, and Yunan Chen, has been accepted to CHI 2017.