I am a postdoc at the the University of Chicago Data Science Institute, working with Mina Lee. My research interests lie at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing, and AI. I focus on designing AI-infused interactive systems that serve as cognitive scaffolds for humans in various scenarios, including learning and computer-mediated communication. I previously earned a PhD in Computer Science from UC Davis and dual BSc degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

News

[09/2024] ✨ Started my postdoc at UChicago.

[09/2024] Attended IVA 2024 in Glasgow and presented the LLM Wizards paper.

[03/2024] I will attend CHI 2024 and co-organize the Sustaining Scalable Sustainability workshop 🌳

[03/2024] Our paper on educational live streaming supporting system & transcript-based annotation is conditionally accepted to CSCW 2024.

[10/2023] Attended CSCW 2023 and presented a poster How People Initiate and Respond to Discussions Around Online Community Norms: A Preliminary Analysis on Meta Stack Overflow Discussions. Back to Minnesota after 4 years!

[09/2023] Wrapped up my internship at Toyota Research Institute - so grateful for the experience.

[01/2023] Attended GROUP 2023, participated in the Doctoral Consortium, and presented my paper Understanding the Effects of Structured Note-taking Systems for Video-based Learners in Individual and Social Learning Contexts.

Publications

On LLM Wizards: Identifying Large Language Models’ Behaviors for Wizard of Oz Experiments Jingchao Fang, Nikos Arechiga, Keiichi Namaoshi, Nayeli Bravo, Candice Hogan, David A Shamma. 2024. In ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’24). [Paper]

How People Initiate and Respond to Discussions Around Online Community Norms: A Preliminary Analysis on Meta Stack Overflow Discussions Jingchao Fang, Jia-Wei Liang, and Hao-Chuan Wang. 2023. Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ‘23 Companion). [Paper]

Supporting Online Learning and Teaching with Social Annotations Jingchao Fang. 2023. Companion Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP ‘23). [Paper]

Understanding Social Influence in Collective Product Ratings Using Behavioral and Cognitive Metrics. Fu-Yin Cherng, Jingchao Fang, Yinhao Jiang, Xin Chen, Taejun Choi, Hao-Chuan Wang. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022). [Paper]

Understanding the Effects of Structured Note-taking Systems for Video-based Learners in Individual and Social Learning Contexts. Jingchao Fang, Yanhao Wang, Chi-Lan Yang, Ching Liu, Hao-Chuan Wang. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction (PACM HCI) (Oral presentation to appear at GROUP 2022) [Paper]

Social Interactions in Virtual Reality: What Cues Do People Use Most and How. Jingchao Fang, Victoria Chang, Ge Gao, Hao-Chuan Wang. Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2021). [Paper]

NoteCoStruct: Powering Online Learners with Socially Scaffolded Note Taking and Sharing. Jingchao Fang, Yanhao Wang, Chi-Lan Yang, Hao-Chuan Wang. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 2021). [Paper] [Video]

Contact

Email me at jcfang [at] uchicago [dot] edu.

CV

Updated 05/2022. [View PDF]