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你好, my name is Houjiang Liu ("Whole ji oy LOU") ~ I am a doctoral student (2021 to present), studying HCI and Human-centered AI at the School of Information, UT Austin. Currently, I am advised by professor Matthew Lease, designing with NLP to combat mis/disinformation. While most of my current research has to do with AI, I prefer seeing myself as a designer, framing AI applications from a humanistic perspective.

Previously, I was a design researcher at the Center for Design at the Northeastern University, working with professor Miso Kim on designing services grounded in autonomy and Paolo Ciuccarelli on visualizing interactive network graphs. I was also a part-time lecturer teaching Interaction Design in CAMD at Northeastern. Before starting my PhD at UT, I was a User Experience Designer, working at JD.com (Beijing) and SeetaTech AI (Beijing).

Contact

liu.ho at utexas dot edu
1616 Guadalupe St., 5.520, Austin, TX, 78701

Lab & Affiliation

Research group:
AI & Human-Centered Computing

Associated research community:
UT NLP | Good System Mis/disinformation

Publications (Google Scholar)

* These authors are equally contributing as first authors.

2024

  1. Houjiang Liu, Gwizdka Jacek, and Lease Matthew. Exploring multidimensional checkworthiness: Designing AI-assisted claim prioritization for human fact-checkers. arXiv [cs.HC], 2024. arXiv

  2. Li Shi*, Houjiang Liu*, Yian Wong, Utkarsh Mujumdar, Dan Zhang, Jacek Gwizdka, and Matthew Lease. Argumentative experience: Reducing confirmation bias on controversial issues through LLM-generated multi-persona debates. arXiv [cs.HC], 2024. arXiv

  3. Houjiang Liu*, Anubrata Das*, Alexander Boltz*, Didi Zhou, Daisy Pinaroc, Matthew Lease, and Min Kyung Lee. Human-centered NLP Fact-checking: Co-Designing with Fact-checkers using Matchmaking for AI. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-computer Interaction, 8(CSCW2) :Article(423), 44 pages, 2024. DOI arXiv Presentation

    Best Paper Honorable Mention (top 4% submitted paper)

2023

  1. Anubrata Das, Houjiang Liu, Venelin Kovatchev, and Matthew Lease. The state of human-centered NLP technology for fact-checking. Information Processing & Management, 60(2) :103219, 2023. DOI arXiv

  2. Estefania Ciliotta Chehade*, Houjiang Liu*, William Albert, and Miso Kim. An Empirical Study of How Service Designers Use Metrics. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 9(3) :402–427, 2023. DOI Blog

  3. Mingzhu Li, Miso Kim, Liqing Huang, and Houjiang Liu. Designing for people you can’t meet: Persuasive design to nurture seniors’ participation in community services during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Design Journal, 26(6) :934–955, 2023. DOI

  4. Houjiang Liu and Miso Kim. Is gift a token of gratitude or an imposition of identity? Facilitating positive consequences of gift-giving with receiver-centred design. In: Proceedings of IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design, DRS, 2023. DOI Presentation

  5. Sara Colombo, Estefania Ciliotta, Lucia Marengo, Houjiang Liu, Piero Molino, and Paolo Ciuccarelli. Design for Emergency: How Digital Technologies Enabled an Open Design Platform to Respond to COVID-19. Interacting with Computers, 35(5) :650–665, 2023. DOI Website Blog Video

2022

  1. Anubrata Das, Houjiang Liu, Venelin Kovatchev, and Matthew Lease. The Need for Human-centered Design in Fact-checking Research. In: Proceedings of the 1st Information Processing & Management (IP&M) Conference 2022. PDF

  2. Jiabao Li, Houjiang Liu, Jilie Zeng, Di Wu, Ying Ding, and Alec McGail. Shifting Winds: Gendered Structures of Academic Mentorship. In: 2022 IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), pp. 14–29, ieeexplore, 2022. DOI Code Website

  3. Houjiang Liu, Ray Lc, Miso Kim, Concettina Cormio, and Meixin Yu. Designing for Distance Nursing: Reconnecting Nursing Students with Senior Home Residents During COVID-19. In: Proceedings of IASDR 2021: [ ] With Design: Reinventing Design Modes, pp. 2571–2582, Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. DOI Presentation

  4. Houjiang Liu, Miso Kim, Mingzhu Li, and Shruthi Lakshmi Narayan. Technology, Autonomy, and Participation: Designing Community Games and Services to Enhance Older Adults’ Technology Literacy. In: Proceedings of IASDR 2021: [ ] With Design: Reinventing Design Modes, pp. 1575–1591, Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. DOI Presentation

2021

  1. Houjiang Liu, Miso Kim, Canqun He, and Tia Thomson. Autonomy as a Design Principle: Service Design for the Technology Literacy of Older Adults. In: Proceedings of Design Culture(s) Cumulus 2021, pp. 1190–1207, Cumulus, 2021. PDF

2020

  1. Houjiang Liu. Enriching Gifts, Experience Design to Understand Human Relationships, Northeastern University, 2020. PDF (MFA Thesis)


Others

For years, I have also been assisting my grandpa, a retired professor, in his lifelong work of editing Chinese dictionaries. Among his series of books, I helped co-edit the following work:

  1. 邓治凡 ed. 汉字字族字群典籍. -, 北京 2024. (校对中)

  2. 邓治凡 ed. 中华千古名言大辞典. 中国外文局华语教学出版社, 北京 2023.

  3. 邓治凡 ed. 中华联语语典. 崇文书局, 武汉 2014.