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Jichen Zhu

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

54

Venues

14

Active years

2005–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

54 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026CHIResults-Actionability Gap: Understanding How Practitioners Evaluate LLM Products in the Wild.Willem van der Maden, Malak Sadek, Ziang Xiao, Aske Mottelson, Q. Vera Liao, Jichen Zhu
2026SIGCSEParallel X: Redesigning of a Parallel Programming Educational Game with Semantic Foundations and Transfer Learning.Devon McKee, Zhiyu Lin, Boyd Fox, Jiahong Li, Jichen Zhu, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Tyler Sorensen
2025CHIThe Centers and Margins of Modeling Humans in Well-being Technologies.Jichen Zhu, Pedro Sanches, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Willem van der Maden, Irene Kaklopoulou
2025HCIAlgorithmic Creativity: How Visual and AI Literacy Impact the Use of Text-to-Image Tools in Design Tasks.Alessandro Canossa, Lisa Toender Berger, Lucas Fellner, Willem van der Maden, Jesper Juul, Jichen Zhu
2024CHICountry as a proxy for culture? An exploratory study of players in an Online Multiplayer Game.Alessandro Canossa, Ahmad Azadvar, Jichen Zhu, Casper Harteveld, Johanna Pirker
2024CHI"Ah! I see" - Facilitating Process Reflection in Gameplay through a Novel Spatio-Temporal Visualization System.Sai Siddartha Maram, Erica Kleinman, Jennifer Villareale, Jichen Zhu, Magy Seif El-Nasr
2024CHIMachine Learning Processes As Sources of Ambiguity: Insights from AI Art.Christian Sivertsen, Guido Salimbeni, Anders Sundnes Lvlie, Steven David Benford, Jichen Zhu
2024DIGRACan Games Be AI Explanations? An Exploratory Study ofSimulation Games.Jennifer Villareale, Thomas B. Fox, Jichen Zhu
2024FDGThe Eyes, the Hands and the Brain: What can Text-to-Image Models Offer for Game Design and Visual Creativity?Hongwei Zhou, Jichen Zhu, Michael Mateas, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
2024NordiCHISlide to Explore 'What If': An Analysis of Explainable Interfaces.Louie Ss Meyer, Jichen Zhu
2024SACOpen Player Modeling - Using AI to help Reflection and Learning in Serious Games.Sai Siddartha Maram, Jennifer Villareale, Jichen Zhu, Magy Seif El-Nasr
2023CHI"What else can I do?" Examining the Impact of Community Data on Adaptation and Quality of Reflection in an Educational Game.Erica Kleinman, Jennifer Villareale, Murtuza N. Shergadwala, Zhaoqing Teng, Andy Bryant, Jichen Zhu, Magy Seif El-Nasr
2023FDGRe-trainable Procedural Level Generation via Machine Learning (RT-PLGML) as Game Mechanic.Seth Cooper, Emily Halina, Jichen Zhu, Matthew Guzdial
2023FDGDesigning for Playfulness in Human-AI Authoring Tools.Antonios Liapis, Christian Guckelsberger, Jichen Zhu, Casper Harteveld, Simone Kriglstein, Alena Denisova, Jeremy Gow, Mike Preuss
2023FDGIntegrating Players' Perspectives in AI-Based Games: Case Studies of Player-AI Interaction Design.Jennifer Villareale, Sai Siddartha Maram, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Jichen Zhu
2023IUIImproving Fairness in Adaptive Social Exergames via Shapley Bandits.Robert C. Gray, Jennifer Villareale, Thomas Boyd Fox, Diane H. Dallal, Santiago Ontan, Danielle Arigo, Shahin Jabbari, Jichen Zhu
2022IUITowards a Framework for Human-AI Interaction Patterns in Co-Creative GAN Applications 92-102.Imke Grabe, Miguel Gonzlez Duque, Sebastian Risi, Jichen Zhu
2021CHIPlayer-AI Interaction: What Neural Network Games Reveal About AI as Play.Jichen Zhu, Jennifer Villareale, Nithesh Javvaji, Sebastian Risi, Mathias Lwe, Rush Weigelt, Casper Harteveld
2021FDGDealing with Adversarial Player Strategies in the Neural Network Game iNNk through Ensemble Learning.Mathias Lwe, Jennifer Villareale, Evan Freed, Aleksanteri Sladek, Jichen Zhu, Sebastian Risi
2021IUIThe Personalization Paradox: the Conflict between Accurate User Models and Personalized Adaptive Systems.Santiago Ontan, Jichen Zhu
2020FDGPlayer Modeling via Multi-Armed Bandits.Robert C. Gray, Jichen Zhu, Danielle Arigo, Evan M. Forman, Santiago Ontan
2020FDGReflection in Game-Based Learning: A Survey of Programming Games.Jennifer Villareale, Colan F. Biemer, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Jichen Zhu
2020FDGPlayer-Centered AI for Automatic Game Personalization: Open Problems.Jichen Zhu, Santiago Ontan
2019CHIThe Impact of User Characteristics and Preferences on Performance with an Unfamiliar Voice User Interface.Chelsea M. Myers, Anushay Furqan, Jichen Zhu
2019CHIInteractive Visualizer to Facilitate Game Designers in Understanding Machine Learning.Jiachi Xie, Chelsea M. Myers, Jichen Zhu
2019FDGEnhancing social exergames through idle game design.Jennifer Villareale, Robert C. Gray, Anushay Furqan, Thomas B. Fox, Jichen Zhu
2019FDGProgramming in game space: how to represent parallel programming concepts in an educational game.Jichen Zhu, Katelyn Alderfer, Anushay Furqan, Jessica Nebolsky, Bruce W. Char, Brian K. Smith, Jennifer Villareale, Santiago Ontan
2018CHIPatterns for How Users Overcome Obstacles in Voice User Interfaces.Chelsea Myers, Anushay Furqan, Jessica Nebolsky, Karina Caro, Jichen Zhu
2018CHIAdaptable Utterances in Voice User Interfaces to Increase Learnability.Chelsea Myers, Anushay Furqan, Jichen Zhu
2018CSCWTowards Extending Social Exergame Engagement with Agents.Jichen Zhu, Yuanyuan Feng, Anushay Furqan, Robert C. Gray, Timothy Day, Jessica Nebolsky, Karina Caro
2018SIGCSELessons Learned From an Interactive Educational Computer Game About Concurrent Programming: (Abstract Only).Katelyn Bright Alderfer, Brian K. Smith, Santiago Ontan, Bruce W. Char, Jessica Nebolsky, Jichen Zhu, Anushay Furqan, Evan Freed, Justin H. Patterson, Josep Valls-Vargas
2017AAAIBridging the Gap Between Computational Narrative and Natural Language Processing.Santiago Ontan, Josep Valls-Vargas, Jichen Zhu
2017AAAITowards Automatically Extracting Story Graphs from Natural Language Stories.Josep Valls-Vargas, Jichen Zhu, Santiago Ontan
2017CHILearnability through Adaptive Discovery Tools in Voice User Interfaces.Anushay Furqan, Chelsea Myers, Jichen Zhu
2017CHIDesigning Visual Metaphors for an Educational Game for Parallel Programming.Santiago Ontan, Jichen Zhu, Brian K. Smith, Bruce W. Char, Evan Freed, Anushay Furqan, Michael Howard, Anna Nguyen, Justin H. Patterson, Josep Valls-Vargas
2017FDGAgency informing techniques: communicating player agency in interactive narratives.Timothy Day, Jichen Zhu
2017FDGDesign patterns for silent player characters in narrative-driven games.Bria Mears, Jichen Zhu
2017FDGGraph grammar-based controllable generation of puzzles for a learning game about parallel programming.Josep Valls-Vargas, Jichen Zhu, Santiago Ontan
2017FDGFrom computational narrative analysis to generation: a preliminary review.Josep Valls-Vargas, Jichen Zhu, Santiago Ontan
2016DIGRACombining Speech Intervention and Cooperative Game Design for Children with ASD.Natalie Lyon, David I. Leitman, Jichen Zhu
2016DIGRAUsing Interactive Social Story Games to Teach Social Skills to Children with Autism.Jichen Zhu, Connor Kerns, James E. Connell, Natalie Lyon
2016ICIDSRough Draft: Towards a Framework for Metagaming Mechanics of Rewinding in Interactive Storytelling.Erica Kleinman, Valerie Fox, Jichen Zhu
2015ICCBRArgument-Based Case Revision in CBR for Story Generation.Santiago Ontan, Enric Plaza, Jichen Zhu
2015IJCAINarrative Hermeneutic Circle: Improving Character Role Identification from Natural Language Text via Feedback Loops.Josep Valls-Vargas, Jichen Zhu, Santiago Ontan
2014FDGGuiding players through structural composition patterns in 3D adventure games.Glenn Joseph Winters, Jichen Zhu
2013ICIDSStoryJam: Supporting Collective Storytelling with Game Mechanics.Yujie Zhu, Jichen Zhu
2013SIGGRAPHAttention guiding principles in 3D adventure games.Glenn Joseph Winters, Jichen Zhu
2012ICIDSDesigning an Interdisciplinary User Evaluation for the Riu Computational Narrative System.Jichen Zhu
2011FDGRepresenting game characters' inner worlds through narrative perspectives.Jichen Zhu, Santiago Ontan, Brad Lewter
2011HCIWhy Can't a Virtual Character Be More Like a Human: A Mixed-Initiative Approach to Believable Agents.Jichen Zhu, J. Michael Moshell, Santiago Ontan, Elena Erbiceanu, Charles E. Hughes
2011ICIDSInteractive Non-Fiction: Towards a New Approach for Storytelling in Digital Journalism.J. Hunter Sizemore, Jichen Zhu
2011ICIDSBack-Leading through Character Status in Interactive Storytelling.Jichen Zhu, Kenneth E. Ingraham, J. Michael Moshell
2011IJCAIOn the Role of Domain Knowledge in Analogy-Based Story Generation.Santiago Ontan, Jichen Zhu
2005SIGGRAPHInterbots initiative: an extensible platform for interactive social experiences with an animatronic character.William Bosley, David Culyba, Brenda Harger, Sabrina A. Haskell, Andrew Hosmer, T. J. Jackson, Seema Patel, Christine Skarulis, Peter Stepniewicz, Jim Valenti, Salim Zayat, Eugenia Leu, Jichen Zhu