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Zhicong Lu

49 papers at tracked venues · 32 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

Venues

Frequent coauthors

Siying Hu
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Yu Zhang
×6
Piaohong Wang
×6
Nayu Liu
×5
Li Jin
×5
Qian Wan
×5
Changyuan Tian
×4
Huanchen Wang
×4
Qing Xiao
×4
Kaiwen Wei
×3
Sirui Wang
×3
Yaxing Yao
×3

Papers

  1. 'I Will Dream Sweet Dreams': Understanding Remote Companionship Volunteer Activities for Factual Orphans in Rural China
    CHI 2026 ·
    Jingjing Zhang
    ,
    Yuanrong Tang
    ,
    Yueqing Hu
    ,
    Tianhong Wang
    ,
    Hanchao Song
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Jiangtao Gong
  2. Cultures as Catalysts: Nurturing HCI Communities Across Regions
    CHI 2026 ·
    Maristella Matera
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Gustavo López
    ,
    Houda Elmimouni
    ,
    Susan Dray
  3. HyCoRA: Hyper-Contrastive Role-Adaptive Learning for Role-Playing
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Shihao Yang
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Yong Yang
    ,
    Bo Lv
    ,
    Yang Shen
    ,
    Nayu Liu
  4. InterFlow: Designing Unobtrusive AI to Empower Interviewers in Semi-Structured Interviews
    CHI 2026 ·
    Yi Wen
    ,
    Yu Zhang
    ,
    Sriram Suresh
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Can Liu
    ,
    Meng Xia
  5. Multi-Agent Comedy Club: Investigating Community Discussion Effects on LLM Humor Generation
    ACL 2026 ·
    Shiwei Hong
    ,
    Lingyao Li
    ,
    Ethan Z. Rong
    ,
    Chenxinran Shen
    , Zhicong Lu
  6. Orthogonal Representation Editing: Decoupling Semantic Entanglement in Batch Knowledge Editing of LLMs
    ACL 2026 ·
    Wenhao Yu
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Bo Lv
    ,
    Fangyin Ma
    ,
    Kaiwen Wei
    ,
    Shihao Yang
    ,
    Nayu Liu
  7. PuppetChat: Fostering Intimate Communication through Bidirectional Actions and Micronarratives
    CHI 2026 ·
    Emma Jiren Wang
    ,
    Siying Hu
    , Zhicong Lu
  8. Rectify Evaluation Preference: Improving LLMs' Critique on Math Reasoning via Perplexity-aware Reinforcement Learning
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Changyuan Tian
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Shuang Qian
    ,
    Nayu Liu
    ,
    Peiguang Li
    ,
    Li Jin
    ,
    Leiyi Hu
    ,
    Zhizhao Zeng
    ,
    Sirui Wang
    ,
    Ke Zeng
    ,
    Guozhi Cas
  9. Sportoonizer: Augmenting Sports Highlights' Narratives via AI-Generated Manga B-Roll
    CHI 2026 ·
    Siying Hu
    ,
    Jiajun Wang
    ,
    Xiangzhe Yuan
    ,
    Jian Ma
    ,
    Zhiyang Wu
    , Zhicong Lu
  10. "Can't believe I'm crying over an anime girl": Public Parasocial Grieving and Coping Towards VTuber Graduation and Termination
    CHI 2025 ·
    Ken Jen Lee
    ,
    Piaohong Wang
    , Zhicong Lu
  11. "Here Comes the Makeup Tutorial You Asked For!": Exploring Communication Strategies and Viewer Engagement in Beauty Videos on Rednote
    CSCW 2025 ·
    Xueer Lin
    ,
    Chenyu Li
    ,
    Yuhan Lyu
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Zhenhui Peng
  12. 'Douyin is My Nourishment of the Mind': Exploring the Infrastructuralization Process of Short Video Sharing Platforms From Rural People's Perspective
    CHI 2025 ·
    Yuling Sun
    ,
    Minglong Tang
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Liang He
  13. Behind the Same Mask: Understanding the Practice of Spontaneous Collective Anonymity on Chinese Social Platforms
    CSCW 2025 ·
    Suqi Lou
    ,
    Weijun Li
    ,
    Chao Zhang
    ,
    Shi Chen
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Yaxing Yao
  14. Bridging Gaps in HCI: Advancing Education, Research, and Careers in Asia
    CHI 2025 ·
    Dilrukshi Gamage
    ,
    Shiwei Cheng
    ,
    Preeti Mudliar
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Shengdong Zhao
    ,
    Nova Ahmed
    ,
    Xiaojuan Ma
    ,
    Uichin Lee
    ,
    Ding Wang
  15. DanModCap: Designing a Danmaku Moderation Tool for Video-Sharing Platforms that Leverages Impact Captions with Large Language Models
    CSCW 2025 ·
    Siying Hu
    ,
    Huanchen Wang
    ,
    Yu Zhang
    ,
    Piaohong Wang
    , Zhicong Lu
  16. Douyin as a Memorial Gathering for CoCo: Algorithmic Experiences of Online Collective Mourning
    CSCW 2025 ·
    Luoying Lin
    , Zhicong Lu
  17. HarmonyCut: Supporting Creative Chinese Paper-cutting Design with Form and Connotation Harmony
    CHI 2025 ·
    Huanchen Wang
    ,
    Tianrun Qiu
    ,
    Jiaping Li
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Yuxin Ma
  18. How Social Media Plays A Role in Stay-At-Home-Moms' Transition: A Case Study in China
    CSCW 2025 ·
    Xinyi Zhang
    ,
    Minzhu Zhao
    ,
    Yaxing Yao
    , Zhicong Lu
  19. How Users Who are Blind or Low Vision Play Mobile Games: Perceptions, Challenges, and Strategies
    CHI 2025 ·
    Zihe Ran
    ,
    Xiyu Li
    ,
    Qing Xiao
    ,
    Xianzhe Fan
    ,
    Franklin Mingzhe Li
    ,
    Yanyun Wang
    , Zhicong Lu
  20. HyperMixer: Specializable Hypergraph Channel Mixing for Long-term Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Changyuan Tian
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Zequn Zhang
    ,
    Heming Yang
    ,
    Wei Cao
    ,
    Zhi Guo
    ,
    Xian Sun
    ,
    Li Jin
  21. Let's Influence Algorithms Together: How Millions of Fans Build Collective Understanding of Algorithms and Organize Coordinated Algorithmic Actions
    CHI 2025 ·
    Qing Xiao
    ,
    Yuhang Zheng
    ,
    Xianzhe Fan
    ,
    Bingbing Zhang
    , Zhicong Lu
  22. Live, Learn, and Connect: Unpacking Live-Streaming-Based Silver Classroom in China
    CSCW 2025 ·
    Ethan Z. Rong
    ,
    Jifan Shen
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Yuling Sun
  23. Online Game Players on Peer-to-Peer Trading Platform: An Infrastructure Perspective
    CSCW 2025 ·
    Piaohong Wang
    ,
    Yao Lyu
    , Zhicong Lu
  24. PIPER: Benchmarking and Prompting Event Reasoning Boundary of LLMs via Debiasing-Distillation Enhanced Tuning
    ACL 2025 · Zhicong Lu,
    Changyuan Tian
    ,
    PeiguangLi PeiguangLi
    ,
    Li Jin
    ,
    Sirui Wang
    ,
    Wei Jia
    ,
    Ying Shen
    ,
    Guangluan Xu
  25. Polymind: Parallel Visual Diagramming with Large Language Models to Support Prewriting Through Microtasks
    CSCW 2025 ·
    Qian Wan
    ,
    Jiannan Li
    ,
    Huanchen Wang
    , Zhicong Lu
  26. ProductMeta: An Interactive System for Metaphorical Product Design Ideation with Multimodal Large Language Models
    CHI 2025 ·
    Qinyi Zhou
    ,
    Jie Deng
    ,
    Yu Liu
    ,
    Yun Wang
    ,
    Yan Xia
    ,
    Yang Ou
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Sai Ma
    ,
    Scarlett Li
    ,
    Yingqing Xu
  27. RevTogether: Supporting Science Story Revision with Multiple AI Agents
    CHI 2025 ·
    Yu Zhang
    ,
    Kexue Fu
    , Zhicong Lu
  28. SARA: Salience-Aware Reinforced Adaptive Decoding for Large Language Models in Abstractive Summarization
    ACL 2025 ·
    Nayu Liu
    ,
    Junnan Zhu
    ,
    Yiming Ma
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Wenlei Xu
    ,
    Yong Yang
    ,
    Jiang Zhong
    ,
    Kaiwen Wei
  29. SpeechCap: Leveraging Playful Impact Captions to Facilitate Interpersonal Communication in Social Virtual Reality
    CSCW 2025 ·
    Yu Zhang
    ,
    Yi Wen
    ,
    Siying Hu
    , Zhicong Lu
  30. The Odyssey Journey: Top-Tier Medical Resource Seeking for Specialized Disorder in China
    CHI 2025 ·
    Ka I Chan
    ,
    Siying Hu
    ,
    Yuntao Wang
    ,
    Xuhai Xu
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Yuanchun Shi
  31. ThingMoji: User-Captured Cut-Outs For In-Stream Visual Communication
    CSCW 2025 ·
    Erzhen Hu
    ,
    Qian Wan
    ,
    Changkong Zhou
    ,
    Md. Aashikur Rahman Azim
    ,
    Piaohong Wang
    ,
    Xingyi Hu
    ,
    Yuhan Zeng
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Seongkook Heo
  32. U-MERE: Unconstrained Multimodal Entity and Relation Extraction with Collaborative Modeling and Order-Sensitive Optimization
    ACM MM 2025 ·
    Wei Jia
    ,
    Li Jin
    ,
    Kaiwen Wei
    ,
    Yuying Shang
    ,
    Nayu Liu
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Qing Liu
    ,
    Linhao Zhang
    ,
    Jiang Zhong
    ,
    Yanfeng Hu
  33. Understanding How Visually Impaired Players Socialize in Mobile Games
    ASSETS 2025 ·
    Zihe Ran
    ,
    Xiyu Li
    ,
    Qing Xiao
    ,
    Yanyun Wang
    ,
    Franklin Mingzhe Li
    , Zhicong Lu
  34. User-Driven Value Alignment: Understanding Users' Perceptions and Strategies for Addressing Biased and Discriminatory Statements in AI Companions
    CHI 2025 ·
    Xianzhe Fan
    ,
    Qing Xiao
    ,
    Xuhui Zhou
    ,
    Jiaxin Pei
    ,
    Maarten Sap
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Hong Shen
  35. "It Felt Like Having a Second Mind": Investigating Human-AI Co-creativity in Prewriting with Large Language Models
    CSCW 2024 ·
    Qian Wan
    ,
    Siying Hu
    ,
    Yu Zhang
    ,
    Piaohong Wang
    ,
    Bo Wen
    , Zhicong Lu
  36. "There is a Job Prepared for Me Here": Understanding How Short Video and Live-streaming Platforms Empower Ageing Job Seekers in China
    CHI 2024 ·
    Piaohong Wang
    ,
    Siying Hu
    ,
    Bo Wen
    , Zhicong Lu
  37. #PoetsOfInstagram: Navigating The Practices And Challenges Of Novice Poets On Instagram
    CHI 2024 ·
    Ankolika De
    , Zhicong Lu
  38. A SIG on Understanding and Overcoming Barriers in Establishing HCI Degree Programs in Asia
    CHI 2024 · Zhicong Lu,
    Ian Oakley
    ,
    Chat Wacharamanotham
  39. CoPrompt: Supporting Prompt Sharing and Referring in Collaborative Natural Language Programming
    CHI 2024 ·
    Li Feng
    ,
    Ryan Yen
    ,
    Yuzhe You
    ,
    Mingming Fan
    ,
    Jian Zhao
    , Zhicong Lu
  40. Critical Heritage Studies as a Lens to Understand Short Video Sharing of Intangible Cultural Heritage on Douyin
    CHI 2024 ·
    Huanchen Wang
    ,
    Minzhu Zhao
    ,
    Wanyang Hu
    ,
    Yuxin Ma
    , Zhicong Lu
  41. Dismantling Gender Blindness in Online Discussion of a Crime/Gender Dichotomy
    CSCW 2024 ·
    Yigang Qin
    ,
    Weilun Duan
    ,
    Qunfang Wu
    , Zhicong Lu
  42. Engage Wider Audience or Facilitate Quality Answers? a Mixed-methods Analysis of Questioning Strategies for Research Sensemaking on a Community Q&A Site
    CSCW 2024 ·
    Changyang He
    ,
    Yue Deng
    ,
    Lu He
    ,
    Qingyu Guo
    ,
    Yu Zhang
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Bo Li
  43. Investigating VTubing as a Reconstruction of Streamer Self-Presentation: Identity, Performance, and Gender
    CSCW 2024 ·
    Qian Wan
    , Zhicong Lu
  44. Metamorpheus: Interactive, Affective, and Creative Dream Narration Through Metaphorical Visual Storytelling
    CHI 2024 ·
    Qian Wan
    ,
    Xin Feng
    ,
    Yining Bei
    ,
    Zhiqi Gao
    , Zhicong Lu
  45. Persuasion or Insulting? Unpacking Discursive Strategies of Gender Debate in Everyday Feminism in China
    CHI 2024 ·
    Yue Deng
    ,
    Zheng Chen
    ,
    Changyang He
    , Zhicong Lu,
    Bo Li
  46. Rethinking the Reversal Curse of LLMs: a Prescription from Human Knowledge Reversal
    EMNLP 2024 · Zhicong Lu,
    Li Jin
    ,
    Peiguang Li
    ,
    Yu Tian
    ,
    Linhao Zhang
    ,
    Sirui Wang
    ,
    Guangluan Xu
    ,
    Changyuan Tian
    ,
    Xunliang Cai
  47. Seeking Soulmate via Voice: Understanding Promises and Challenges of Online Synchronized Voice-Based Mobile Dating
    CHI 2024 ·
    Chenxinran Shen
    ,
    Yan Xu
    ,
    Ray LC
    , Zhicong Lu
  48. Understanding Chinese Internet Users' Perceptions of, and Online Platforms' Compliance with, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL)
    CSCW 2024 ·
    Morgana Mo Zhou
    ,
    Zhiyan Qu
    ,
    Jinhan Wan
    ,
    Bo Wen
    ,
    Yaxing Yao
    , Zhicong Lu
  49. Wrist-bound Guanxi, Jiazu, and Kuolie: Unpacking Chinese Adolescent Smartwatch-Mediated Socialization
    CHI 2024 ·
    Lanjing Liu
    ,
    Chao Zhang
    , Zhicong Lu