Publications

2025

Aoyagui, P. A., Stemmler, K., Ferguson, S., Kim, Y. H., & Kuzminykh, A. "A Matter of Perspective(s): Contrasting Human and LLM Argumentation in Subjective Decision-Making on Subtle Sexism". Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2025

Jones, B., Stemmler, K., Su, E., Kim, Y., and Kuzminykh, A. (2025). “Users’ Expectations and Practices with Agent Memory”. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2025

Kumar, H., Yoo, S., Bernuy, A.Z., Shi, J., Luo, H., Williams, J., Kuzminykh, A., Anderson, A. and Kornfield, R., 2025. "Large Language Model Agents For Improving Engagement With Behavior Change Interventions: Application To Digital Mindfulness". Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW 2025)

Reza, M., Thomas-Mitchell, J., Dushniku, P., Laundry, N., Williams, J. J., & Kuzminykh, A. (2025). "Co-writing With AI, On Human Terms: Aligning Research With User Demands Across The Writing Process". Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(7), 1-37. (CSCW 2025)

Boostani, R., Munteanu, C., & Kuzminykh, A. “Towards Age-Inclusive Conversational Interfaces: Understanding Requirements Across Age Groups”. The 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI 2025).

Ratto, M., Kuzminykh, A., Guha, S., Law, E., & Vines, J. (2025, July). "Social agentics: ACM COMPASS workshop". In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (pp. 853-856).

Jones, B., Stemmler, K., Su, E., Kim, Y., and Kuzminykh, A. "From Storage to Interpretation: User Perceptions, Practices, and Challenges with Long-term Memory in Agents". Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Human Agent Interaction. (HAI 2025).

Veisi, O., Kuzminykh, A. "Human Autonomy VS AI Autonomy: Society Resists Against Tech Companies' Desires in the Era of Autonomous Agents". Workshop on Social Agentics: Situating Agentic AI Within Social & Organizational Contexts at CASCON 2025

Cheng, M., Xu, Y., & Kuzminykh, A. "Rethinking Psychological Ownership Over AI Agents". Workshop on Social Agentics: Situating Agentic AI Within Social & Organizational Contexts at CASCON 2025

Xu, Y., Cheng, M., & Kuzminykh, A. "Am I Working with “Someone”: Psychological Ownership as a Lens for Designing Agentic GenAI". Workshop on Social Agentics: Situating Agentic AI Within Social & Organizational Contexts at CASCON 2025

2024

Kalirai, M., Williams, C., Kuzminykh, A. "Toward Faceted Skill Recommendation in Intelligent Personal Assistants". In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. ACM, 2024

Herdel, V., Kuzminykh, A., Parmet, Y., Cauchard, J. "Anthropomorphism and Affective Perception: Dimensions, Measurements, and Interdependencies in Aerial Robotics". IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2024). Harvard

Bhattacharjee, A., Zeng, Y., Xu, S.Y., Kulzhabayeva, D., Ma, M., Kornfield, R., Ahmed, S.I., Mariakakis, A., Czerwinski, M.P., Kuzminykh, A., Liut, M. "Understanding the Role of Large Language Models in Personalizing and Scaffolding Strategies to Combat Academic Procrastination". In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2024

Reza, M., Laundry, N., Musabirov, I., Dushniku, P., Yu, Z.Y., Mittal, K., Grossman, T., Liut, M., Kuzminykh, A., Williams, J.J., "ABScribe: Rapid Exploration of Multiple Writing Variations in Human-AI Co-Writing Tasks using Large Language Models". In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2024

Ponochevnyi, N., Kuzminykh, A. “Chart What I Say: Exploring Cross-Modality Prompt Alignment in AI-Assisted Chart Authoring”. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2024

Ferguson, S., Akemi Aoyagui, P., Rizvi, R., Kim, Y., Kuzminykh, A. “The Explanation That Hits Home: The Characteristics of Verbal Explanations That Affect Human Perception in Subjective Decision-Making”. 2024 CSCW, ACM

Kumar, H., Musabirov, I., Reza, M., Shi, J., Willliams, J.J., Kuzminykh, A., Liut, M. “Guiding Students in Using LLMs in Supported Learning Environments: Effects on Interaction Dynamics, Learner Performance, Confidence, and Trust”. 2024 CSCW, ACM

Khatra, K., Sin, J., Kuzminykh, A., Hassan, K. “Agent-based Mediation on Smartphone Usage among Co-located Couples”. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 8. MHCI (2024): 1-20.

Xu, Y., Cheng, M., Kuzminykh, A. “What Makes It Mine? Exploring Psychological Ownership over Human-AI Co-Creations”. Proceedings of the 50th Graphics Interface Conference (pp. 1-8).

Dutta, S., Linder, R., Williams, A., Kuzminykh, A., Ruoti, S. “Unveiling the Inter-Related Preferences of Crowdworkers: Implications for Personalized and Flexible Platform Design”. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing. Vol. 12. 2024.

Kalirai, M., Kuzminykh, A. “You Today, Better Tomorrow: Envisioning The Role of Conversation in Recommender Systems of the Future”. Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. 2024.

Boostani, R., Munteanu, C., Kuzminykh, A. “Unraveling The Paradigm: Prioritizing Process over Results—Sports Training as a Catalyst for Age-Friendly CUI Design”. Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. 2024.

Ferguson, S., Akemi Aoyagui, P., Rizvi, R., Kim, Y., Kuzminykh, A. “Just Like Me: The Role of Opinions and Personal Experiences in The Perception of Explanations in Subjective Decision-Making”. TREW 2024 (Trust and Reliance in Evolving Human-AI Workflows) at CHI’24

Akemi Aoyagui, P., Ferguson, S., Kuzminykh, A. “Exploring Subjectivity for more Human-Centric Assessment of Biases in Large Language Models”. HEAL 2024 (Human-centered Evaluation and Auditing of Language Models) at CHI'24

Kumar, H., Yoo, S., Bernuy, A.Z., Shi, J., Luo, H., Kuzminykh, A., Anderson, A., Kornfield, R. “Large Language Model Agents for Improving Engagement with Behavior Change Interventions: Application to Digital Mindfulness”. International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) 2024.

Desai, S., Wei, C., Sin, J., Dubiel, M., Zargham, N., Ahire, S., Porcheron, M., Kuzminykh, A., Lee, M., Candello, H., Fischer, J., Munteanu, C., Cowan, B.R. “CUI@CHI 2024: Building Trust in CUIs—From Design to Deployment”. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

2023

Wei, C., Kim, Y., Kuzminykh, A. "The Bot on Speaking Terms: The Effects of Conversation Architecture on Perceptions of Conversational Agents". Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. ACM, 2023

Ferguson, S., Akemi Aoyagui, P., Kuzminykh, A. "Something Borrowed: Exploring the Influence of AI-Generated Explanation Text on the Composition of Human Explanation". In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2023

McConvey, K., Guha, S., Kuzminykh, A. "A Human-Centered Review of Algorithms for Decision-Making in Higher Education". Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2023.

ASM Tsui, Kuzminykh, A. "Detect and Interpret: Towards Operationalization of Automated User Experience Evaluation" International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Springer, 2023

Kumar, H., Musabirov, I., Reza, M., Shi, J., Kuzminykh, A., Williams, J. J., Liut, M. (2023). "Impact of Guidance and Interaction Strategies for LLM Use on Learner Performance and Perception". arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13712.

Wei, C., Kuzminykh, A. "Examining Marginalization in the Financial Industry Related to Conversational Agents" The Workshop on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI at CHI'23)

Chowdhury, N., Kuzminykh, A. "An Exploration of Prompt-Based Biases in AI Art-Generated Tools" The Workshop on Generative AI and HCI (GenAICHI at CHI'23)

Something Borrowed: Exploring the Influence of AI-Generated Explanation Text on the Composition o...

A Human-Centered Review of Algorithms for Decision-Making in Higher Education

2022

Kalirai, M., Kuzminykh, A. "What Can You Do For Me? The Discoverability of Intelligent Assistant Skills" Late-Breaking Work at the ACM UbiComp/ISWC 2022.

Ferguson, S., Akemi Aoyagui, P., Alexander, R., Kuzminykh, A. "A Thematic Comparison of Human and AI Explanations of Sexism Assessment" The Workshop on Human-Centered AI (HCAI at NeurIPS'22)

Dutta, S., Linder, R., Lowe, D., Rosenbalm, M., Kuzminykh, A., Williams, A. "Mobilizing Crowdwork: A Systematic Assessment of the Mobile Usability of HITs" Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2022

McConvey, K., Guha, S., Kuzminykh, A. "Human-Centered Review of Algorithms for Decision-Making in Higher Education" The Workshop on Human-Centered AI (HCAI at NeurIPS'22)

Dutta, S., Linder, R., Kuzminykh, A., Williams, A. "Doing Work From Where You Are: AI HIT Management Dispatching Work Tailored to Context". The Workshop on Reimagining Global Crowdsourcing for Better Human-AI Collaboration (REGROW at CHI'22)

Dutta, S., Linder, R., Ruoti, S., Williams, A., Kuzminykh, A. "Beyond a One-Size-Fits-All Approach: Towards Personalizing Multi-device Setups in Crowdwork". Late-Breaking Work at the ACM UbiComp/ISWC 2022

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Human-Computer Interaction and User Interface Design

Mobilizing Crowdwork: A Systematic Assessment of the Mobile Usability of HITs

2021

Herdel, V., Kuzminykh, A., Hildebrandt, A., Cauchard J. R. "Drone in Love: Emotional Perception of Facial Expressions on Flying Robots." Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2021.

Hamid, M., Alam, T., Rabbi, F., Hasan, K., Kuzminykh, A., Amin, R."Emergence of Polarization and Marginalization in Online Education System of Bangladesh due to COVID-19: Challenges and Remedies" Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. HCII 2021.

Shavitt, C., Kuzminykh, A., Ridel, I., Cauchard J. R. "Naturally Together: A Systematic Approach for Multi-User Interaction With Natural Interfaces." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2. CSCW (2021).

Dutta, S., Linder, R., Lowe, D., Rosenbalm, M., Kuzminykh, A., Williams, A. "The Productivity Paradox: Understanding Tooling Biases in Crowdwork." CSCW'21. Workshop on Investigating and Mitigating Biases in Crowdsourced Data

Herdel, V., Kuzminykh, A., Hildebrandt, A., Cauchard J. R. "Elicitation of Emotional Responses to Flying Robots with Facial Expressions" 2nd Momentary Emotion Elicitation & Capture workshop (MEEC 2020), co-located with the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2021.

Drone in Love: Emotional Perception of Facial Expressions on Flying Robots

Naturally Together: A Systematic Approach for Multi-User Interaction With Natural Interfaces

2020

Kuzminykh, A., Sun, J., Govindaraju, N., Avery, J,. Lank, E. "Genie In The Bottle: Anthropomorphized Perceptions Of Conversational Agents" Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020.

Kuzminykh, A., Rintel, S. "Classification of Functional Attention in Video Meeting" Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020.

Wehbe, R., Dickson, T., Kuzminykh, A., Nacke,L., Lank,E. "Personal Space in Play: Physical and Digital Boundaries in Large-Display Cooperative and Competitive Game" Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020.

Kuzminykh, A., Rintel, S. "Low Engagement in Remote Meetings As a Communication Practice" In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2020.

Kuzminykh, A., Cauchard, J. "Be Mine: Contextualization of Ownership Research in HCI" In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2020.

A.Kuzminykh, J.Cauchard. "How We Own Drones: On the Sense of Ownership in the Drone Design" The Interdisciplinary Workshop on Human-Drone Interaction(iHDI 2020 @ CHI 2020)

Personal Space in Play: Physical and Digital Boundaries in Large-Display Cooperative and ...

Classification of Functional Attention in Video Meetings

Genie in the Bottle: Anthropomorphized Perceptions of Conversational Agents

2026

Kalirai, M. and Kuzminykh, A., 2026, March. "Explanation Driving Exploration: Aligning Conversational Recommender Systems with Users' Exploratory Information Needs". In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 442-455).

Matthias Kraus, Sebastian Zepf, Jan Leusmann, Shiyao Zhang, Anastasia Kuzminykh, and Nima Zargham. 2026. "What Counts as Proactive? Rethinking Proactivity in Conversational Agents". In ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2026 (CUI ’26), July 21–24, 2026, Bremen, Germany. ACM

Ponochevnyi, N., Kim, Y. H., Brudno, M., & Kuzminykh, A. (2026, June). "When It's Hard to Explain: Strategies for Reducing Prompt Uncertainty In Multimodal Generative Systems". In Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 3417-3429).

Cheng, M., Xu, Y. and Kuzminykh, A., 2026. "Psychological Ownership in HCI: Dimensions and Development of an Instrument". International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, pp.1-26.

Lee, P.Y.K., Bo, J.Y., Zhao, Z., Aoyagui, P.A., Varona, M., Anderson, A., Kuzminykh, A., Chevalier, F. and Nobre, C., 2026. "Negotiating Relationships with ChatGPT: Perceptions, External Influences, and Strategies for AI Companionship". In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.

Manveer Kalirai, Christina Wei, Thomas Eßmeyer, Nima Zargham, Sviatlana Höhn, Michal Luria, Smit Desai, Minha Lee, Heloisa Candello, and Anastasia Kuzminykh. 2024. "Emerging Risks of Conversational AI". In ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2026 (CUI ’26), July 21–24, 2026, Bremen, Germany. ACM

Afroogh, Saleh, et al. "Beyond Explainable AI (XAI): An Overdue Paradigm Shift and Post-XAI Research Directions." arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.24176 (2026).

Nima Zargham, Sharon Ferguson, Jaisie Sin, Cosmin Munteanu, and Anastasia Kuzminykh. 2026. "Proactive Systems in HCI and AI: Concepts, Challenges, and Opportunities". In Graphics Interface 2026 (GI ’26), June 9–12, 2026, Waterloo, ON, Canada. ACM

Nima Zargham, Leon Tristan Dratzidis, Laura Spillner, Leandra Thiele, Johanna Rockstroh, Maximilian A. Friehs, Anastasia Kuzminykh, and Rainer Malaka. "Collaboration with NPCs Through Natural Language Interaction". In the International Conference on Entertainment Computing 2026. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.