| 2025 | IUI | Words as Bridges: Exploring Computational Support for Cross-Disciplinary Translation Work. | Calvin Bao, Yow-Ting Shiue, Marine Carpuat, Joel Chan |
| 2025 | IUI | Structuring GenAI-assisted Hypotheses Exploration with an Interactive Shared Representation. | Zijian Ding, Michelle Brachman, Joel Chan, Werner Geyer |
| 2025 | SIGCSE | Quack! Configuring Large Language Models to Serve as Rubber Duck Coding Assistants. | Elias Gonzalez, Joel Chan, David Weintrop |
| 2025 | UIST | Towards Direct Intent Manipulation: Drag-Based Research Ideation, Evaluation and Evolution. | Zijian Ding, Fenghai Li, Haofei Yu, Joel Chan |
| 2024 | AAAI | Imitation of Life: A Search Engine for Biologically Inspired Design. | Hen Emuna, Nadav Borenstein, Xin Qian, Hyeonsu B. Kang, Joel Chan, Aniket Kittur, Dafna Shahaf |
| 2024 | CHI | Formulating or Fixating: Effects of Examples on Problem Solving Vary as a Function of Example Presentation Interface Design. | Joel Chan, Zijian Ding, Eesh Kamrah, Mark D. Fuge |
| 2024 | UIST | Patterns of Hypertext-Augmented Sensemaking. | Siyi Zhu, Robert Haisfield, Brendan Langen, Joel Chan |
| 2023 | CSCW | Personal Objects as Design Materials: A Case Study of Co-Designing Safe Spaces With Young Adults. | Salma Elsayed-Ali, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Joel Chan |
| 2023 | CSCW | Exploring Distributed Synthesis: In-Progress Findings from Guided Tours of Scholarly Knowledge Synthesis Work Practices with A Distributed Lens. | Siyi Zhu, Joel Chan |
| 2022 | CHI | Scaling Creative Inspiration with Fine-Grained Functional Aspects of Ideas. | Tom Hope, Ronen Tamari, Daniel Hershcovich, Hyeonsu B. Kang, Joel Chan, Aniket Kittur, Dafna Shahaf |
| 2022 | CSCW | Growing New Scholarly Communication Infrastructures for Sharing, Reusing, and Synthesizing Knowledge. | Joel Chan, Wayne G. Lutters, Jodi Schneider, Karola Kirsanow, Slvia Bessa, Jonny L. Saunders |
| 2021 | KDD | Learning to Recommend Visualizations from Data. | Xin Qian, Ryan A. Rossi, Fan Du, Sungchul Kim, Eunyee Koh, Sana Malik, Tak Yeon Lee, Joel Chan |
| 2021 | WWW | Generating Accurate Caption Units for Figure Captioning. | Xin Qian, Eunyee Koh, Fan Du, Sungchul Kim, Joel Chan, Ryan A. Rossi, Sana Malik, Tak Yeon Lee |
| 2020 | CHI | Understanding Older Adults' Participation in Design Workshops. | Alisha Pradhan, Ben Jelen, Katie A. Siek, Joel Chan, Amanda Lazar |
| 2020 | CHI | A Formative Study on Designing Accurate and Natural Figure Captioning Systems. | Xin Qian, Eunyee Koh, Fan Du, Sungchul Kim, Joel Chan |
| 2019 | CSCW | Beyond iTunes for Papers: Redefining the Unit of Interaction in Literature Review Tools. | Xin Qian, Matt J. Erhart, Aniket Kittur, Wayne G. Lutters, Joel Chan |
| 2018 | CHI | Analogy Mining for Specific Design Needs. | Karni Gilon, Joel Chan, Felicia Y. Ng, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Aniket Kittur, Dafna Shahaf |
| 2018 | IJCAI | Accelerating Innovation Through Analogy Mining. | Tom Hope, Joel Chan, Aniket Kittur, Dafna Shahaf |
| 2017 | KDD | Accelerating Innovation Through Analogy Mining. | Tom Hope, Joel Chan, Aniket Kittur, Dafna Shahaf |
| 2016 | CHI | Comparing Different Sensemaking Approaches for Large-Scale Ideation. | Joel Chan, Steven Dang, Steven P. Dow |
| 2016 | CSCW | Improving Crowd Innovation with Expert Facilitation. | Joel Chan, Steven Dang, Steven P. Dow |
| 2016 | CSCW | IdeaGens: Enabling Expert Facilitation of Crowd Brainstorming. | Joel Chan, Steven Dang, Steven P. Dow |
| 2016 | CSCW | IdeaHound: Self-sustainable Idea Generation in Creative Online Communities. | Pao Siangliulue, Joel Chan, Bernd Huber, Steven Dow, Krzysztof Z. Gajos |
| 2016 | ICCBR | Scaling up Analogy with Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning. | Joel Chan, Tom Hope, Dafna Shahaf, Aniket Kittur |
| 2016 | UIST | IdeaHound: Improving Large-scale Collaborative Ideation with Crowd-Powered Real-time Semantic Modeling. | Pao Siangliulue, Joel Chan, Steven P. Dow, Krzysztof Z. Gajos |
| 2014 | CogSci | The impact of physical spaces on divergent and convergent problem-solving performance. | Joel Chan, Timothy J. Nokes-Malach |
| 2014 | CogSci | Overreliance on conceptually far sources decreases the creativity of ideas. | Joel Chan, Christian D. Schunn, Steven Dow |
| 2014 | CSCW | Conceptual distance matters when building on others' ideas in crowd-collaborative innovation platforms. | Joel Chan, Steven Dow, Christian D. Schunn |
| 2014 | HCOMP | IdeaGens: A Social Ideation System for Guided Crowd Brainstorming. | Joel Chan, Steven Dang, Pter Krmer, Lucy Guo, Steven Dow |
| 2013 | NAACL | Reducing Annotation Effort on Unbalanced Corpus based on Cost Matrix. | Wencan Luo, Diane J. Litman, Joel Chan |