Northeastern University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Lab (NEU HAI)

The Northeastern University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Lab (NEU HAI, pronounced “new-hi”) is lead by Prof. Dakuo Wang.

Prof. Dakuo Wang is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University, jointly appointed at Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Arts, Media and Design. His research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI) and artificial intelligence (AI), with a focus on the exploration, development, and evaluation of human-centered AI (HCAI) systems. The overarching goal is to democratize AI for every person and every organization, so that they can access their own AI and collaborate with these real-world AI systems (human-AI collaboration).

News

2025.01	Our lab members are traveling to Yokohama, Japan to attend CHI 2025! We are excited to see you all there!
2025.01	We’re excited to share that five of our papers have been accepted to CHI 2025! Congratulations to all authors and collaborators! 📌 Characterizing LLM-Empowered Personalized Story-Reading and Interaction for Children: Insights from Multi-Stakeholders’ Perspective Jiaju Chen, Yuxuan (Leo) Lu, Bingsheng (Arthur) Yao, Elissa Fan, Ying Xu, Dakuo Wang, Yuling Sun 📌 CardioAI: A Multimodal AI System to Support Symptom Monitoring and Risk Detection of Cancer Treatment-Induced Cardiotoxicity Siyi (Reyna) Wu, Weidan Cao, Ping Zhang, Varun Mishra, Changchang Yin, Ziqi Yang, Bingsheng (Arthur) Yao, Shihan Fu, Dakuo Wang 📌 Live-Streaming-Based Dual-Teacher Classes for Equitable Education: Insights and Challenges From Local Teachers’ Perspective in Disadvantaged Areas Yuling Sun, Jiaju Chen, Bingsheng (Arthur) Yao, Dakuo Wang 📌 Examining Student and Teacher Perspectives on Undisclosed Use of Generative AI in Academic Work Rudaiba Adnin, Bingsheng (Arthur) Yao, Dakuo Wang, Maitraye Das 📌 Promoting Prosociality via Micro-acts of Joy: A Large-Scale Well-Being Intervention Study Hitesh Goel, Xuhai (Orson) Xu, Bingsheng (Arthur) Yao, Dakuo Wang 📌 UXAgent: An LLM Agent-Based Usability Testing Framework for Web Design Yuxuan Lu, Bingsheng Yao, Hansu Gu, Jing Huang, Zheshen (Jessie) Wang, Yang Li, Jiri Gesi, Qi He, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Dakuo Wang
2023.10	We have 2 papers accepted at EMNLP2023: “An Automatic Science Journalism Framework” and “Active Learning for human annotators with explanations”
2023.10	Great pleasure to host Dr. Yun Wang from Microsoft Research Aisa to visit us and share her exciting work on “Human-AI Co-Creation of Visual Storytelling”!
2023.09	It is great honor to have Prof. Juho Kim from KAIST visiting Northeastern University and having insightful discussions with you!
2023.07	Congratulations to Bingsheng ‘Arthur’ Yao, passing his proposal defense, with a topic on exploring human-AI collaboration towards better performance and explanations.
2023.07	We have 2 papers accepted at ACL2023: “Are Human Explanations Always Helpful?” for oral presentation and “Are Fairytales Fair?”.
2023.06	Our cross-disciplinary research collaboration was awarded $3 Million Grant from NIMHD to build a human-centered AI system for VARSMS! More details here
2023.05	Prof. Dakuo Wang had a great visit at HKUST! Sincerely thank Prof. Huaming Qu and Prof. Xiaojuan Ma, learned a lot about teaching, mentorship, research, and leadership.
2023.05	Finally recovered from the overwhelming CHI2023 trip! Looking forward to meeting you all again at CHI2024 in Hawaii!