Hi there! I'm Yuwen.

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.

I research in Human-Computer Interaction and Human-AI Collaboration. My advisor is Toby Li.

Previously, I graduated with a Master of Human Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University. I have a background in Computer Science and UX design & research.

Me
Currently Working On...
Exploring UI for AI (maybe more direct manipulation?),
Using AI to support design,
Publication
Misty Project Snapshot

Misty: UI Prototyping Through Interactive Conceptual Blending

Yuwen Lu, Alan Leung, Amanda Swearngin, Jeffrey Nichols, Titus Barik

CHI 2025

Work done during internship at Apple AIML

PaperCodeVideo

Dark Pita Project Snapshot

From Awareness to Action: Exploring End-User Empowerment Interventions for Dark Patterns in UX

Yuwen Lu*, Chao Zhang*, Yuewen Yang, Yaxing Yao, Toby Jia-Jun Li (* equal contribution)

CSCW 2023 🏆 Best Paper Award (Top 1%)

Left image generated by DALL-E 2, with prompt "a picture showing the experience of a user using a browser extension that helps them change dark patterns on website interfaces"

PaperCode

Project Snapshot

A Bottom-Up End-User Intelligent Assistant Approach to Empower Gig Workers against AI Inequality

Toby Jia-Jun Li, Yuwen Lu, Jaylexia Clark, Meng Chen, Victor Cox, Meng Jiang, Yang Yang, Tamara Kay, Danielle Wood, Jay Brockman

CHIWORK 2022

PaperVideo (will autoplay on open)

Project Snapshot

Bridging the Gap Between UX Practitioners’ Work Practices and AI-Enabled Design Support Tools

Yuwen Lu, Chengzhi Zhang, Iris Zhang, and Toby Jia-Jun Li

CHI 2022 Extended Abstracts (Late-Breaking Work)

PreprintVideoPoster

Project Snapshot

Computational Approaches for Understanding, Generating, and Adapting User Interfaces

Yue Jiang*, Yuwen Lu*, Jeffrey Nichols, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Chun Yu, Christof Lutteroth, Yang Li, Ranjitha Kumar, Toby Jia-Jun Li (* equal contribution)

CHI 2022 (we also held this workshop at CHI 2023, CHI 2024, and CHI 2025)

ProposalWorkshop Website

Project Snapshot

Characterizing Work-Life for Information Work on Mars: A Design Fiction for the New Future of Work on Earth

Rhema Linder, Chase Hunter, Jacob McLemore, Senjuti Dutta, Fatema Akbar, Ted Grover, Thomas Breideband, Judith W Borghouts, Yuwen Lu, Gloria Mark, Austin Z Henley, Alex C Williams

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6 (GROUP) 2022

Paper

Contact

Design and developed by Yuwen Lu with React.

Last updated: Nov 2024