About Me
Hi! My name is Ziqi Yang 杨子祺. I am a Master’s student at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor majoring in User Experience and Human-Computer Interaction.
I will be graduating in December 2023 and I am actively looking for research opportunities and applying for 24Fall PhD programs in HCI.
I gradutated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2022. I also took electives in Industrial Design and social sciences from SJTU School of Design and University of California, Berkeley.
My research interests lie broadly in HCI, involving human-AI collaboration, social computing and accessibility for health and well-being, computer supported collaborative work, and education practices.
See more in my most recent CV and Portfolio
Research Highlights
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Ziqi Yang, Jiachen Li, Bingsheng Yao, Xuhai Xu, Nawar Shara, Guodong Gao, Dakuo Wang. 2023. Communication Challenges for Cancer Care and LLM Opportunities. (Work in Progress for CSCW’24)
- Advisor: Professor Dakuo Wang, Northeastern University
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Ziqi Yang, Xuhai Xu, Bingsheng Yao, Shao Zhang, Ethan Rogers, Stephen Intille, Nawar Shara, Guodong (Gordon) Gao, and Dakuo Wang. 2023. Talk2Care: Facilitating Asynchronous Patient- Provider Communication with Large-Language-Model. 1, 1 (October 2023), 32 pages. (Under Review) [PDF] [Video]
- Advisor: Professor Dakuo Wang, Northeastern University
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A Pre-study of The Effects of Empathy and Personality of Chatbots on Increasing The Intention of Chatbot Continuance [PDF]
- Advisor: Professor Mark Newman, Professor Pedja Klasnja, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Working with PhD student Yuxuan Li at UMSI