Yi Wen

‼️Position: AI coding agent research needs recalibration. We've heavily optimized for solo autonomy, and far less for designing agents that empower the humans using them. It’s time to build human-centered coding agents. 🧵

Hello, we are a research team at Northeastern University conducting a paid remote study on human–AI collaboration in coding workflows. We are currently looking for developers to participate in testing these workflows. Eligibility: Software engineering experience in software or website development Familiar with AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) Proficient with GitHub/GitLab, VS Code, and code review workflows Study Details: Collaborate with an AI agent to develop and review code (~4 hours in total) Compensation ($25/hr) via digital gift cards Participation is entirely voluntary. Interested? Sign up here: forms.gle/sUuFbyn5KnGZVd… Contact me if you have any questions!

@tao_yujie Such a creative idea! Love it😻

In this all-too-distracting digital world, how can technology reconnect users with everyday interactions? In a new paper, we introduce a wearable that amplifies sounds produced by ongoing manual actions (e.g., cooking, writing), fostering attention and curiosity toward sensory details that are often overlooked. IMWUT paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37… (audio on👇) @ubicomp

🎓 PhD Recruitment | Texas A&M CS I am seeking 1–2 PhD students for Fall 2026 in Human–AI Interaction, with a focus on AI for education. ✅ Motivated and responsible ✅ CS background ✅ Full-stack development or LLM fine-tuning experience is a plus 📅 Deadline: Dec 15, 2025

@ryosuzk @heyyoungsoul @CUBoulder @CUEngineering @AndreaHCI Congrats Ryo and @heyyoungsoul !

🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to Hye-Young Jo (@heyyoungsoul), my first PhD student at @CUBoulder @CUEngineering and previously an MS student at KAIST with @AndreaHCI, for winning the prestigious Google PhD Fellowship in the Human-Computer Interaction category! research.google/programs-and-e…

@XinyueChenn Great work! Congrats Xinyue!!

Ever wondered if more AI help actually makes us learn or think less? I’ll be talking about this at #CSCW2025 — AI & Writing Session🗓️ Tue, Oct 21 | 11:00 AM Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

I rushed to move to the US on Saturday, so it is a pity that I cannot attend either UIST or Ubicomp this year. Hope to meet HCI people in some future conferences! Feel free to help me spread the word that I am looking for new PhD students to start my lab at Utah! #UIST #Ubicomp

@sangho_suh @allen_ai Exciting!! Congrats Sangho!

🎉 Excited to share that I’ll be joining the Allen Institute for AI (@allen_ai) as a 🔬 Research Scientist this 🗓️ September ! 🙏 Many thanks to my mentors, collaborators, and friends for their support and 👋 looking forward to meeting old and new friends in ⛰️ Seattle!

@adigunturu @BenThePearman @bryanhaoenwang @rubaiat @ryosuzk So cool🤩

What if you could bring maps to life by telling a story? At #UIST2025, we will present MapStory🗺️, an animation prototyping tool that lets you create story-driven, editable map animations with LLM agents. With @BenThePearman, Keiichi, Morteza, @bryanhaoenwang, @rubaiat, @ryosuzk

@KeqiangY @Princeton Congrats!!

I am pleased to share that I will be joining CS @Princeton University as a Postdoctoral researcher. Look forward to working on foundational problems at the intersection of AI, LLMs, and science.

@adigunturu @viv_lavida 😅😅

@viv_lavida Generative existential crisis

I asked Gemini for a user interface feature but I got back an identity matrix

@EmilyKuang8 @kristenshino @mingming_fan @jeffjianzhao @nlprit @GarrethTigwell @YorkUniversity Congrats Emily!

I’ve successfully defended my PhD dissertation! 🎓Huge thanks to my amazing committee: @kristenshino, @mingming_fan, @jeffjianzhao, Cecilia Alm @nlprit, and @GarrethTigwell, and collaborators for your guidance and support! This fall, I will join @YorkUniversity as an AP in EECS!

@YueJiang_nj @UUtah Congrats again!

I am excited to join the University of Utah as an Assistant Professor this Fall. I will be hiring 2 Ph.D. students starting in Spring/Fall 2026. I will continue to work on UI optimization/generation and eye tracking-related research. I’d love suggestions for a lab name! @UUtah

@nandizhang_ Looking forward to the presentation😍

I’m presenting it on Tuesday 11:58 am-12:10 pm in the XR Experience session. Let’s chat about overreliance on AI and what kind of digital reality we want to build for humans!

#CHI2025 We will present "From Following to Understanding: Investigating the Role of Reflective Prompts in AR-Guided Tasks to Promote User Understanding" led by @nandizhang_ and @YukangYan PDF: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37… Video: youtu.be/QH7lpkRQcs0 Talk: 4/29 (Tue) 11:10-12:40

@Stefania_druga @tknearem Would love to join!😍

Who is coming to #chi2025 ? Would love to catch-up. Together with @tknearem we made a WhatsApp group with other grad students, researchers and faculty to share scoops on gatherings/events taking place during the conference ping us if you want to join 🌸

@FariaHuqOaishi That’s interesting work! Congrats Faria!

[1]💡Can AI-assisted notetaking enhance efficiency while preserving personalization and user agency? We present NoTeeline ✒️, conditionally accepted to IUI ‘25, a system that achieves both. 📄arxiv.org/abs/2409.16493 💻github.com/oaishi/NoTeeli… 🤗huggingface.co/papers/2409.16…

@chuanenlin That’s super cool !!

🤏 Semantic pinching What if you can pinch your screen to transform an article 📝 into an emoji 💪 and reverse! Here is a simple prototype that uses LLM + gestures to transform text between different levels of abstractions: emoji ↔ word ↔ sentence ↔ paragraph ↔ article 🌐 semanticpinching.vercel.app

@KenPfeuffer @csaudk Congrats!!

Announcement: I levelled up from Assistant 🧑‍🔬to Associate Professor 👨‍🏫! Not possible without the amazing support of Aarhus University @csaudk. Looking forward to more amazing collaborations and research in future!

If you’re thinking about doing a PhD at the intersection of #design and #technology, this is the time — I’m hiring! In the Interactive 3D Design Lab, we’ll explore emerging interactive 3D design technologies such as real-time 3D, generative 3D, and spatial computing.