Recent Projects
Improving Communication During Conflict Resolution with Immersive Retrospective Perspective-taking
Supervised by Lana Yarosh and Evan Suma Rosenberg
Communication behavior during interpersonal conflict is crucial for maintaining functional relationships, yet HCI approaches to conflict resolution have focused more on mitigating conflict in-the-moment rather than improving these skills. Inspired by the bodies of work in VR for empathic perspective-taking and the use of video-recall for counseling psychology, we design and evaluate a system which stimulates intersubjective reflection by enabling a user to retrospectively take the perspective of their conversation partner.
Linguistically-Stylized Generative AI to Support Joint Reflection on Communication Failure
Supervised by Shigeo Yoshida, Chi-Lan Yang, Atsushi Hashimoto and Hideaki Kuzuoka
Generative AI can provide valuable support to challenging interpersonal interactions as third parties, but ethical issues such as overreliance threaten individuals' sense of relationship authenticity, which heavily impacts personally significant relationships such as friendship. We design and evaluate open-ended linguistic stylizations of AI generated conversation summaries (e.g., as poems) to encourage critical discourse during difficult conversations.
Publications
A Change of Scenery: Transformative Insights from Retrospective VR Embodied Perspective-Taking of Conflict With a Close Other
Seraphina Yong, Leo Cui, Svetlana Yarosh, Evan Suma Rosenberg.
In Proceedings of CHI 2024 [Paper]
Understanding (Non-)Visual Needs for the Design of Laser-Cut Models
Seraphina Yong*, Ruei-Che Chang*, Fang-Ying Liao, Chih-An Tsao, Bing-Yu Chen.
Both authors contributed equally to this work
In Proceedings of CHI 2023 [Paper]
Mind and Body: The Complex Role of Social Resources in Understanding and Managing Depression in Older Adults
Seraphina Yong, Min-Wei Hung, Chien Wen (Tina) Yuan, Chih-Chiang Chiu, Ming-Chyi Huang, Chuang-Wen You.
In Proceedings of CSCW 2023 [Paper]
Inverse Kinematics Assistance for the Creation of Redirected Walking Paths
Jerald Thomas, Seraphina Yong, Evan Suma Rosenberg.
In Proceedings of ISMAR 2022 [Paper]
Daedalus in the Dark: Designing for Non-Visual Accessible Construction of Laser-Cut Architecture
Ruei-Che Chang, Chih-An Tsao, Fang-Ying Liao, Seraphina Yong, Tom Yeh, Bing-Yu Chen.
In Proceedings of UIST 2021 [Paper] [Video] [Talk]
Attitudes Toward Health and Communication in Depressed Older Adults
Seraphina Yong, Min-Wei Hung, Chien Wen (Tina) Yuan, Chih-Chiang Chiu, Ming-Chyi Huang, Chuang-Wen You.
In Proceedings of CSCW 2020
(Poster)
[Paper] [Talk]
HMD Light: Sharing In-VR Experience via Head-Mounted Projector for Asymmetric Interaction
Chiu-Hsuan Wang, Seraphina Yong, Hsin-Yu Chen, Yuan-Syun Ye, Liwei Chan.
In Proceedings of UIST 2020 [Paper] [Video] [Talk]
Slice of Light : Transparent and Integrative Transition among Realities in a Multi-HMD User Environment
Chiu-Hsuan Wang, Chia-En Tsai, Seraphina Yong, Liwei Chan.
In Proceedings of UIST 2020 [Paper] [Video] [Talk]
AuralTrace: Pitch-Based Sonified Referencing to Support Reception of Virtual Spatial Communication
Seraphina Yong, Yuan-Chi Tseng, Hao-Chuan Wang.
In Proceedings of Taiwan Computer Human Interaction Conference (TAICHI) 2019 🏆 Best Paper Award
Using Spatialized Audio to Improve Human Spatial Knowledge Acquisition in Virtual Reality
Seraphina Yong, Hao-Chuan Wang.
In Proceedings of IUI 2018
(Poster)
[Paper]
HandVis: Visualized Gesture Support for Remote Cross-Lingual Communication
Kuan-Yu Lin, Seraphina Yong, Shuo-Ping Wang, Chien-Tung Lai, Hao-Chuan Wang.
In Proceedings of CHI 2016
(EA)
[Paper]