Context-Aware Interaction Lab

Oct 2026: Two papers will appear in PACM HCI and be presented at CSCW 2026 this October:

• "'Is This Really a Human Peer Supporter?': Misalignments Between Peer Supporters and Experts in LLM-Supported Interactions", led by Kellie Sim. [preprint]

• "Sword and Shield: Uses and Strategies of LLMs in Navigating Disinformation", led by Gionnieve Lim, with Kellie Sim and Weiyan Shi. [preprint]

Sep 2026: Congratulations to PhD student Kellie Sim, who received the Top Seed Award at the Design Business Chamber Singapore (DBCS) Seed Award 2026 — one of only 10 recipients! 🎉 A wonderful recognition of her work.

Jun 2026: A nice showing at DIS 2026 — three papers accepted to the Provocations & Works-in-Progress track!

• "Acts of Configuration: Rethinking Provenance, Temporality and Legitimacy in Post-Mortem Agents" — led by Kellie Sim, with Master's students Darryl Lim and John-Henry Lim. 

• "'I'm Not Able to Be There for You': Emotional Labour, Responsibility, and AI in Peer Support" — led by Kellie Sim.

• "When Drawing Is Not Enough: Exploring Spontaneous Speech with Sketch for Intent Alignment in Multimodal LLMs" — led by Weiyan Shi.

Feb 2026: "TalkSketch: Multimodal Generative AI for Real-Time Sketch Ideation with Speech", led by Weiyan Shi, is out in the Springer volume Creative AI for Live  Interactive Performances! Congratulations to all authors.

Jan 2026: A fantastic start to the year for the lab at CHI!

• Huge congratulations to PhD students Weiyan Shi and Kellie Sim — both had papers accepted to CHI 2026, and both received a Best Paper Honourable Mention Award (top 5% of submissions)! 🎉🏆

  • "Words to Describe What I'm Feeling: Exploring the Potential of AI Agents for High Subjectivity Decisions in Advance Care Planning", led by Kellie Sim — Honourable Mention Award. [Check out our paper!]

  • "Towards Aligning Multimodal LLMs with Human Experts: A Focus on Parent-Child Interaction", led by Weiyan Shi — Honourable Mention Award. [Check out our paper!]

• Two honourable mentions in the same CHI cycle — huge congratulations to all authors and collaborators!

• Two Late-Breaking Works accepted to CHI 2026!

  • "Foreign Domestic Workers' Perspectives on an LLM-Based Emotional Support Tool for Caregiving Burden", led by Master's student Nicholas Teng — great to see thesis work reach CHI.

  • "A Taxonomy of Human–MLLM Interaction in Early-Stage Sketch-Based Design Ideation", led by Weiyan Shi.

We also had "BLEnD-Vis: Benchmarking Multimodal Cultural Understanding in Vision Language Models" accepted to EACL 2026 — great work advancing how we evaluate cultural understanding in vision-language models.

Dec 2025: Our paper "Dronaquatics: Real-time Swimming Analytics Using Drone Captured Imagery" was accepted in WACV 2026! Congratulations to all authors!

Nov 2025: 

• Our paper "TalkSketch: Multimodal Generative AI for Real-time Sketch Ideation with Speech" was accepted in AAAI CLIP 2025! Congratulations to all authors!

• Our paper "Humor in Pixels: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models Understanding of Online Comics" was accepted in EMNLP 2025. Congratulations to all authors!

Oct 2025: Our paper "Easy Modeling of Man-Made Shapes in Virtual Reality" was accepted in Pacific Graphics 2025! Congratulations to all authors! Watch the demo. 

Jun 2025: Our poster "Communication Games to Study Emerging Disinformation Scenarios With LLMs" was accepted in CSCW'25. Congratulations to all authors!

Apr 2025: Our paper "Towards Multimodal Large-Language Models for Parent-Child Interaction: A Focus on Joint Attention" was accepted in CHI'25 LBW. Congratulations to all authors and collaborators!