Yucheng Jin is a Research Assistant Professor affiliated with the HCI-RecSys Group led by Dr. Li Chen at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). He is also a member of PI (Positive Intelligence) Lab. Before joining HKBU, he was a senior UX designer at Lenovo Research. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). During his Ph.D. study, he was a member of the HCI Augment Group, and was supervised by Dr. Katrien Verbert and Dr. Nava Tintarev. He has published more than 20 papers in the leading conferences and journals of Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence (e.g., CHI, CSCW, IUI, RecSys, CIKM, UMUAI) and held more than ten patents. In addition, he regularly serves as the program committee member for ACM RecSys and ACM IUI conferences.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), 2019
M.Sc. in Informatics, Technical University of Munich (TUM), 2013
B.Mgt. in Information Management and Information Systems, Wuhan University, 2010
Research Interests
His research is situated in the long-standing quest to "Augmenting human intellect." He studies how humans interact or collaborate with AI systems in two major application domains: human health & well-being, music recommendation and generation, and augmented creativity.
His research interests include the following topics:
Human-AI Interaction and Collaboration
UX of Recommender Systems (e.g., trust, explanation, personalization, and user control)
Music and Augmented Creativity
Human Health and Well-being
Selected Publications
♱ indicates equal contributions, and * indicates the corresponding author.
Cai, W.♱, Jin, Y.♱, Zhao, X., & Chen, L. (2023). Listen to Music, Listen to Yourself": Design of a Conversational Agent for Supporting Self-Awareness in Music Listening. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23).
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Jin, Y.♱, Cai, W.♱, Chen, L., Dai, Y., & Jiang, T. (2023, Oct.). Understanding Disclosure and Support in Social Music Communities for Youth Mental Health. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW '23).
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Zhao, X., Chen, L., Jin, Y.*, & Zhang, X. (2023, March). Comparing Button-Based Chatbots with Webpages for Presenting Fact-Checking Results: A Case Study of Health Information. In Information Processing & Management (IP&M) (pp. 1-17).
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Cai, W., Jin, Y., & Chen, L. (2022, May). Impacts of Personal Characteristics on User Trust in Conversational Recommender Systems. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22) (pp. 1-14).
PDFDOI[Honorable Mention Award]
Cai, W., Jin, Y., & Chen, L. (2022). Task-Oriented User Evaluation on Critiquing-Based Recommendation Chatbots. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. (pp. 1-13).
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Alvarado Rodriguez, O. L., Htun, N. N., Jin, Y., & Verbert, K. (2022). A Systematic Review of Interaction Design Strategies for Group Recommendation Systems. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW '22). (pp. 1-51)
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Jin, Y., Chen, L., Cai, W., & Pu, P. (2021, November). Key Qualities of Conversational Recommender Systems: From Users’ Perspective. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '21) (pp. 93-102).
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Shen, Z., Wan, X., Jin, Y.*, Gao, G., Wang, Q., & Liu, W. (2021, July). SeatPlus: A Smart Health Chair Supporting Active Sitting Posture Correction. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 531-547). Springer, Cham.
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Cai, W., Jin, Y., & Chen, L. (2021, April). Critiquing for music exploration in conversational recommender systems. In 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '21) (pp. 480-490).
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Jin, Y., Deng, Y., Gong, J., Wan, X., Gao, G., & Wang, Q. (2021, April). OYaYa: A Desktop Robot Enabling Multimodal Interaction with Emotions. In 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces-Companion (IUI companion '21) (pp. 55-57).
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Jin, Y.*, Tintarev, N., Htun, N. N., & Verbert, K. (2020). Effects of personal characteristics in control-oriented user interfaces for music recommender systems. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI), 30(2), 199-249.
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Jin, Y., Cai, W., Chen, L., Htun, N. N., & Verbert, K. (2019, November). MusicBot: Evaluating critiquing-based music recommenders with conversational interaction. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '19) (pp. 951-960).
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Jin, Y., Htun, N. N., Tintarev, N., & Verbert, K. (2019, June). Contextplay: Evaluating user control for context-aware music recommendation. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP '19) (pp. 294-302).
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Jin, Y., Tintarev, N., & Verbert, K. (2018, September). Effects of personal characteristics on music recommender systems with different levels of controllability. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '18) (pp. 13-21).
PDFDOI[Best Paper Nominee]
Millecamp, M., Htun, N. N., Jin, Y., & Verbert, K. (2018, July). Controlling spotify recommendations: effects of personal characteristics on music recommender user interfaces. In Proceedings of the 26th Conference on user modeling, adaptation and personalization (UMAP '18) (pp. 101-109).
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Jin, Y., Tintarev, N., & Verbert, K. (2018, July). Effects of individual traits on diversity-aware music recommender user interfaces. In Proceedings of the 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP '18) (pp. 291-299).
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Jin, Y., Seipp, K., Duval, E., & Verbert, K. (2016, June). Go with the flow: effects of transparency and user control on targeted advertising using flow charts. In Proceedings of the international working conference on advanced visual interfaces (AVI '16) (pp. 68-75).
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Jin, Y., Klerkx, J., & Verbert, K. (2016, June). CircleBuy: a visual search based second screen application of buying products in videos. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS '16) (pp. 287-292).
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Prehofer, C., Wagner, A., & Jin, Y. (2016, October). A model-based approach for multi-device user interactions. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 19th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS '16) (pp. 13-23).
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Bongartz, S., Jin, Y., Paternò, F., Rett, J., Santoro, C., & Spano, L. D. (2012, November). Adaptive user interfaces for smart environments with the support of model-based languages. In International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI '12) (pp. 33-48). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
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Grants
Wofoo Foundation research grant, 1,200,000 HKD, 2022/03-2024/02, Co-PI
HKBU Service learning mini-grant, 30,000 HKD, 2022, PI
HKBU Start-up Grant, 120,000 HKD, 2021, PI
HKBU Service learning mini-grant, 30,000 HKD, 2021, PI
Mainland-Hong Kong University Alliances Fund, 20,000 HKD, 2021, PI
Teaching
Winter semester 22/23
COMP 4045 - Human-Computer Interaction, with Dr. Li Chen
COMP 7990 - Principles and Practices of Data Analytics, with Dr. Lu Zhang and Dr. Kevin Wang
Winter semester 21/22
COMP 4045 - Human-Computer Interaction, with integrating service learing into the course.
COMP 7990 - Principles and Practices of Data Analytics, with Dr. Lu Zhang and Dr. Kevin Wang
Mentoring
MPhil/PhD
Wanling Cai (HKBU, PhD), 10/19 - 09/22, with Dr. Li Chen
Xianglin Zhao (HKBU, MPhil), 10/21 - now, with Dr. Li Chen
Theses
Danqing Liu (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Bachelor thesis), 01/15 - 06/15
Raphael Haase (TUM, Master thesis), 12/14 - 04/15
Internship
Xiaoyu Liu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) 10/22 - now
Minzhu Zhao (HKBU) 12/21 - 06/22
Zhiwei Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology) 03/20 - 03/21, Lenovo Research
Tiffany Ong (Stanford University), 06/19 - 08/19, Lenovo Research
Yiyun Zhai (The University of Melbourne), 01/19 - 03/19, Lenovo Research
Yuchen Jiang (Stanford University), 06/18 - 08/18, Lenovo Research
Christina Gibbs (Stanford University), 06/17 - 08/17, Lenovo Research
Xiaozhong Liu (The University of Melbourne), 01/17 - 03/17, Lenovo Research
