I am an associate professor at School of Artificial Intelligence, Sun Yat-sen University. I received my Ph.D. at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where my supervisor is Prof. Xiaojuan Ma. I had a wonderful short postdoctoral experience with Prof. Antti Oulasvirta at Aalto University. I obtained my bachelor's degree at ESE from Nanjing University.
I am open to collaboration with academics and industries. Please check my research and email me if there is any opportunity for our collaboration! 我2026年秋季入学的硕士研究生还有一个名额，欢迎邮件联系。我有与本科生（可先看Intro to HCI了解该领域）和实习生丰富的科研合作经验和产出，多位学生前往境内外高校（如港科大、加州大学圣地亚哥分校、乔治亚理工学院、纽约大学、新国立、清华大学、浙江大学等）就读博士和硕士，欢迎交流合作！ 我的团队也擅长研发各种人机交互界面，能帮助企业和政府部门增产增效，提升产品竞争力，欢迎联系合作！
Research
My research focuses on the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing, and Large Models. I build computational models to understand complex human interaction in social media and develop novel user interfaces that argument human ability in higher-order thinking activities. My HaiA (Human-AI Augmentation) lab mainly conduct three lines of research:
- Understanding People: Based on multimodal data in social media, we build computational models to understand people's mental health social support, argumentative behaviors, and so on. Such understandings contribute to the field of social science and inform the designs of user interfaces to address people's unmet needs.
- Facilitate Users: We develop interfaces to ease the process and improve the outcome of higher-order thinking tasks, including information seeking, mental health problem solving, critical reading (e.g., scientific papers, news), creative designs (e.g., Chinese paintings), and lesson planning.
- Teach Users: We develop interfaces that teach users knowledge (e.g., second language, visual design) and skills (e.g., critical thinking, teaching), so that they can independently complete tasks without AI support next time.
Publications
I primarily publish papers in HCI venues like CHI, CSCW, UIST, and IJHCS.
†: corresponding author; *: equal contribution
Journal
IJHCI 2025 Xueer Lin, Xia Chen, and Zhenhui Peng†. 2025. BeautyClicker: Modeling Viewers’ Click Intent of the Cover Image to Support Drafts of Beauty Product Promotion Posts. (IJHCI 2025). PDF | Publisher's link |
CSCW 2025 Qiyu Pan*, Jianqiao Zeng*, Jie Wang*, Junyu Liu**, Yihan Qiu**, Kangyu Yuan, and Zhenhui Peng†. 2025. AMQuestioner: Training Critical Thinking with Question-Driven Interactive Argument Maps in Online Discussion. (CSCW 2025). PDF | ACM |
CSCW 2025 Zhiqing Wang, Haoxiang Fan, Qiaoyi Chen, Shiwei Wu, Yongqi Liang, and Zhenhui Peng†. 2025. Exploring the Usage of Generative AI for Group Project-Based Offline Art Courses in Elementary Schools. (CSCW 2025). PDF | ACM | Arxiv
CSCW 2025 Xia Chen*, Xinyue Chen*, Weixian Hu, Haojia Zheng, Yujun Qian, and Zhenhui Peng†. 2025. Redesign of Online Design Communities: Facilitating Personalized Visual Design Learning with Structured Comments. (CSCW 2025). PDF | ACM | Arxiv
CSCW 2025 Shiwei Wu, Mingxiang Wang, Chuhan Shi, and Zhenhui Peng†. 2025. ComViewer: An Interactive Visual Tool to Help Viewers Seek Social Support in Online Mental Health Communities. (CSCW 2025). PDF | ACM | Arxiv
CSCW 2025 Han Zhang, Jiaqi Zhang, Yuxiang Zhang, Ryan Louie, Taewook Kim, Qingyu Guo, Shuailin Li, and Zhenhui Peng†. 2024. MentalImager: Exploring Generative Images for Assisting Support-Seekers’ Self-Disclosure in Online Mental Health Communities. (CSCW 2025) (Best Paper Honorable Mention Award). PDF | ACM | Arxiv
CSCW 2025 Yuansong Xu, Shuhao Zhang, Yijie Fan, Shaohan Shi, Zhenhui Peng, and Quan Li. 2025. ReviseMate: Exploring Contextual Support for Digesting Academic Paper Reviews. (CSCW 2025). ACM
CSCW 2025 Qingyu Guo, Yuqi Zhang, Kangyu Yuan, Changyang He, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2025. Exploring the Evolvement of User Engagement in Online Creative Community under the Surge of Generative AI: A Case Study of DeviantArt. (CSCW 2025). PDF | ACM
CSCW 2024 Zhenhui Peng, Qiaoyi Chen, Zhiyu Shen, Xiaojuan Ma, and Antti Oulasvirta. 2024. DesignQuizzer: A Community-Powered Conversational Agent for Learning Visual Design. (CSCW '24). PDF | Project Page | ACM
IJHCS 2022 Zhenhui Peng, Yuzhi Liu, Hanqi Zhou, Zuyu Xu, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2022. CReBot: Exploring interactive question prompts for critical paper reading. Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud. (IJHCS) 167, C (Nov 2022). PDF | Supplimentary materials | HTML
TVCG 2023 Chenyang Zhang, Xiyuan Wang, Chuyi Zhao, Yijing Ren, Tianyu Zhang, Zhenhui Peng, Xiaomeng Fan, Xiaojuan Ma, and Quan Li. 2022. PromotionLens: Inspecting Promotion Strategies of Online E-commerce via Visual Analytics. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 767-777, Jan. 2023. PDF | ACM
CSCW 2022 Chengzhong Liu, Zeyu Huang, Dingdong Liu, Shixu Zhou, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2022. PlanHelper: Supporting Activity Plan Construction with Answer Posts in Community-based QA Platforms. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2, Article 454 (November 2022), 26 pages. PDF | ACM
CSCW 2021 Liuping Wang, Dakuo Wang, Feng Tian, Zhenhui Peng, Xiangmin Fan, Zhang Zhan, Shuai Ma, Yu Mo, Xiaojuan Ma, and Hongan Wang. 2021. CASS: Towards Building a Social-Support Chatbot for Online Health Community. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW1, Article 9 (April 2021), 31 pages. PDF | ACM
IJSR 2020 Mingfei Sun, Zhenhui Peng, Meng Xia, Xiaojuan Ma. 2020. Investigating the Effects of Robot Engagement Communication on Learning from Demonstration. International Journal of Social Robotics 14, 789 - 806. Arxiv
TPCI 2020 Zhenhui Peng and Xiaojuan Ma. 2020. A survey on construction and enhancement methods in service chatbots design. CCF Trans. Pervasive Comp. Interact. 1, 204–223. PDF | HTML
CSCW 2019 Taewook Kim, Jungsoo Lee, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2019. Love in Lyrics: An Exploration of Supporting Textual Manifestation of Affection in Social Messaging. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 3, CSCW, Article 79 (November 2019), 27 pages. PDF | ACM | Project Page
Conference
CHI 2025 Haoxiang Fan, Changshuang Zhou*, Hao Yu*, Xueyang Wu, Jiangyu Gu, and Zhenhui Peng†. 2025. LitLinker: Supporting the Ideation of Interdisciplinary Contexts with Large Language Models for Teaching Literature in Elementary Schools. (CHI 2025). PDF | ACM | Arxiv
CHI 2025 Shuai Ma, Qiaoyi Chen, Xinru Wang, Chengbo Zheng, Zhenhui Peng, Min Yin, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2025. Towards Human-AI Deliberation: Design and Evaluation of LLM-Empowered Deliberative AI for AI-Assisted Decision-Making. (CHI 2025 (Honorable Mention)). ACM | Arxiv
CHI 2025 Ziqi Pan, Xiucheng Zhang, Zisu Li, Zhenhui Peng, Mingming Fan, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2025. ACKnowledge: A Computational Framework for Human Compatible Affordance-based Interaction Planning in Real-world Contexts. (CHI 2025). ACM
ChineseCHI 2024 Han Zhang, Ka Wing Tsang and Zhenhui Peng†. 2024. VChater: Exploring Generative Conversational Agents for Simulating Exposure Therapy to Reduce Social Anxiety. (ChineseCHI 2024). Arxiv
UIST 2024 Haoxiang Fan, Guanzheng Chen, Xingbo Wang, and Zhenhui Peng†. 2024. LessonPlanner: Assisting Novice Teachers to Prepare Pedagogy-Driven Lesson Plans with Large Language Models. (UIST 2024). PDF | ACM | Arxiv
UIST 2024 Tianjian Liu, Hongzheng Zhao*, Yuheng Liu*, Xingbo Wang, and Zhenhui Peng†. 2024. ComPeer: A Generative Conversational Agent for Proactive Peer Support. (UIST 2024). PDF | ACM | Arxiv
DIS 2024 Qiaoyi Chen, Siyu Liu, Kaihui Huang, Xingbo Wang, Xiaojuan Ma, Junkai Zhu, and Zhenhui Peng†. 2024. RetAssist: Facilitating Vocabulary Learners with Generative Images in Story Retelling Practices. (DIS 2024). PDF | ACM
ICWSM 2024 Shuailin Li, Shiwei Wu, Tianjian Liu, Han Zhang, Qingyu Guo, and Zhenhui Peng†. 2024. Understanding the Features of Text-Image Posts and Their Received Social Support in Online Grief Support Communities. (ICWSM 2024). PDF | AAAI
CHI 2024 Chengbo Zheng, Kangyu Yuan, Bingcan Guo, Reza Hadi Mogavi, Zhenhui Peng, Shuai Ma, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2024. Charting the Future of AI in Project-Based Learning: A Co-Design Exploration with Students. (CHI '24). PDF | ACM
IUI 2024 Qianyu Liu, Haoran Jiang, Zihao Pan, Qiushi Han, Zhenhui Peng, and Quan Li. 2024. BiasEye: A Bias-Aware Real-time Interactive Material Screening System for Impartial Candidate Assessment. (IUI '24). PDF | ACM
UIST 2023 Zhenhui Peng*, Xingbo Wang*, Qiushi Han, Junkai Zhu, Xiaojuan Ma, and Huamin Qu. 2023. Storyfier: Exploring Vocabulary Learning Support with Text Generation Models. (UIST '23). PDF | ACM
UIST 2023 Kangyu Yuan*, Hehai Lin*, Shilei Cao*, Zhenhui Peng†, Qingyu Guo, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2023. CriTrainer: An Adaptive Training Tool for Critical Paper Reading. (UIST '23). PDF | ACM | Video preview
CHCI 2023 Chen Cheng, Ziang Li, Zhenhui Peng, and Quan Li. 2023. ALens: An Adaptive Domain-Oriented Abstract Writing Training Tool for Novice Researchers. (HHME/CHCI 2023). PDF | Arxiv
ChinaVis 2023 Longfei Chen, Qianyu Liu, Chenyang Zhang, Yangkun Huang, Zhenhui Peng, Haipeng Zeng, Zhida Sun, Xiaojuan Ma, and Quan Li. 2023. Amplifying the Music Listening Experience through Song Comments on Music Streaming Platforms. (ChinaVis 2023). PDF | Arxiv
CHI 2023 Qingyu Guo, Chao Zhang, Hanfang Lyu, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2023. What Makes Creators Engage with Online Critiques? Understanding the Role of Artifacts’ Creation Stage, Characteristics of Community Comments, and their Interactions. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 556, 1–17. PDF | ACM
DIS 2022 Chengzhong Liu, Shixu Zhou, Yuanhao Zhang, Dingdong Liu, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2022. Exploring the Effects of Self-Mockery to Improve Task-Oriented Chatbot's Social Intelligence. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1315–1329. PDF | ACM
CHI 2022 Qingyu Guo, Siyuan Zhou, Yifeng Wu, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2022. Understanding and Modeling Viewers’ First Impressions with Images in Online Medical Crowdfunding Campaigns. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 361, 1–20. PDF | ACM
ICWSM 2022 Wenjie Yang, Sitong Wang*, Zhenhui Peng*, Chuhan Shi, Xiaojuan Ma, and Diyi Yang. 2022. Know It to Defeat It: Exploring Health Rumor Characteristics and Debunking Efforts on Chinese Social Media during COVID-19 Crisis. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). 16, 1 (May 2022), 1157-1168. PDF | AAAI
ChineseCHI 2021 Quan Li, Haipeng Zeng, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2022. Understanding Players’ Interaction Patterns with Mobile Game App UI via Visualizations. In The Ninth International Symposium of Chinese CHI (Chinese CHI 2021). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 9–21. PDF | ACM
MobileHCI 2021 Ziming Wu*, Qianyao Xu*, Yiding Liu, Zhenhui Peng, Yingqing Xu, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2021. Exploring Designers’ Practice of Online Example Management for Supporting Mobile UI Design. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 44, 1–12. PDF | ACM
CHI 2021 Zhenhui Peng, Xiaojuan Ma, Diyi Yang, Ka Wing Tsang, and Qingyu Guo. 2021. Effects of Support-Seekers’ Community Knowledge on Their Expressed Satisfaction with the Received Comments in Mental Health Communities. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 536, 1–12. PDF | ACM | Rating Scheme for Sought Support | Features of Models | Source Code of Models
CHI 2020 Zhenhui Peng, Qingyu Guo, Ka Wing Tsang, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2020. Exploring the Effects of Technological Writing Assistance for Support Providers in Online Mental Health Community. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–15. PDF | ACM | Project Page
ChineseCHI 2020 Quan Li, Zhenhui Peng, Haipeng Zeng, Qiaoan Chen, Lingling Yi, Ziming Wu, Xiaojuan Ma, and Tianjian Chen. 2020. Friend Network as Gatekeeper: A Study of WeChat Users’ Consumption of Friend-Curated Contents. In The eighth International Workshop of Chinese CHI (Chinese CHI 2020). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 21–31. PDF | ACM
CHI 2019 Zhenhui Peng, Yunhwan Kwon, Jiaan Lu, Ziming Wu, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2019. Design and Evaluation of Service Robot's Proactivity in Decision-Making Support Process. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 98, 1–13. PDF | HTML
Poster, Late-Breaking Work, and Workshop
CSCW 2025Xueer Lin, Chenyu Li, Yuhan Lyu, Zhicong Lu, and Zhenhui Peng†. 2025. “Here Comes the Makeup Tutorial You Asked For!”: Exploring Communication Strategies and Viewer Engagement in Beauty Videos on Rednote. (CSCW 2025 Poster). PDF to appear |
ChineseCHI 2024 Zhendong He*, Zhupeng Huang, Yitong Xie, Feiyu Li, Zongtan He, and Zhenhui Peng. 2024. A Dataset and BenchMark Models for Predicting Human Intentions Expressed in Text-Image Posts in Chinese Online Mental Health Communities. (ChineseCHI 2024 Late-Breaking Work). PDF |
CSCW 2024 Zimo Xia*, Xichen Sun*, Xueyang Wu, Qiyu Pan, Kaixiang Mo, and Zhenhui Peng†. 2024. SummarFlex: Exploring Personalized News Filtering and Reading with Query-Focused Hierarchical Summarization. (CSCW 2024 Poster). PDF | ACM
MobileHCI 2024 Xiucheng Zhang, Yixin Zeng*, Qichang Li*, Guanyi Chen, Qianyao Xu, Xiaozhu Hu, and Zhenhui Peng†. 2024. DesignWatch: Analyzing Users’ Operations of Mobile Apps Based on Screen Recordings. (MobileHCI 2024 Late-Breaking Work). PDF | ACM
CHI 2024 Qingyu Guo, Kangyu Yuan, Changyang He, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2024. Exploring the Evolvement of Artwork Descriptions in Online Creative Community under the Surge of Generative AI: A Case Study of DeviantArt. (CHI LBW '24). PDF | ACM
ChineseCHI 2023 Qiushi Han, Haitong Chen, Haoxiang Fan, Zhenhui Peng†. 2023. ReDBot: Exploring Conversational Recommendation for Decision-Making Support in Group Chats. (ChineseCHI LBW '23). PDF | ACM
CHI 2023 Ryan Louie, Taewook Kim, and Zhenhui Peng. 2023 Rawal: A Reflection Assistant with Active Listening for Peer Support Chats. In CHI 2023 Workshop on Integrating Individual and Social Contexts into Self-Reflection Technologies. PDF
ChineseCHI 2021 Zhenhui Peng, Chuhan Shi, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2022. Exploring User Experience and Design Opportunities of Desktop Social Virtual Reality for Group Learning Activities. In The Ninth International Symposium of Chinese CHI (Chinese CHI 2021). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 105–111. PDF | ACM
IUI 2021 Quan Li, Huanbin Lin, Chunfeng Tang, Xiguang Wei, Zhenhui Peng, Xiaojuan Ma, and Tianjian Chen. 2021. “Exploring the "Double-Edged Sword" Effect of Auto-Insight Recommendation in Exploratory Data Analysis. IUI Workshops. PDF | HTML
CHI 2020 Zhenhui Peng, Kaixiang Mo, Xiaogang Zhu, Junlin Chen, Zhijun Chen, Qian Xu and Xiaojuan Ma. 2020. Understanding User Perceptions of Robot's Delay, Voice Quality-Speed Trade-off and GUI during Conversation. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–8. PDF | ACM
EuroVis 2020 Qiangqiang Liu, Quan Li, Chunfeng Tang, Huanbin Lin, Zhenhui Peng, Zhiwei Li, and Tianjian Chen. 2020. Visual Analysis of Car-hailing Reimbursement Data for Overtime. EuroVis 2020 Posters. HTML
CSCW 2019 Zhenhui Peng, Taewook Kim and Xiaojuan Ma. 2019. GremoBot: Exploring Emotion Regulation in Group Chat. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 335–340. PDF | ACM
ChineseCHI 2018 Zhenhui Peng, Jeehoon Yoo, Meng Xia, Sunghun Kim, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2018. Exploring How Software Developers Work with Mention Bot in GitHub. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium of Chinese CHI (ChineseCHI '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 152–155. PDF | ACM
Courses
- Human-Computer Interaction (Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022), Postgraduate
- Human-Computer Interaction Design (Fall 2025, Fall 2024), Undergraduate
- Principles of Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022), Undergraduate
- Data Structure and Algorithm (Fall 2023, Fall 2022), Undergraduate
Students
Current members
- Le Chen (Master student, since fall 2025, from 北京工业大学)
- Xia Chen (Master student, since fall 2025, from 中山大学)
- Xueer Lin (Master student, since fall 2024, from 中山大学)
- Yiwei Yuan (Master student, since fall 2024, from 中山大学)
- Shiwei Wu (Master student, since fall 2023, from 河北工业大学, Intern @ Tsinghua Pervasive HCI Group)
- Haoxiang Fan (Master student, since fall 2023, from 暨南大学, Intern @ Tsinghua Pervasive HCI Group)
- Yuheng Liu (Undergraduate student, since 2024)
Past members
- Zhiqing Wang (Research intern, 2024.05 - 2024.08, now puruing Ph.D.'s degree @ UCSD)
- Shuailin Li (Master student, since fall 2022, from Hainan University, Intern @ VIPS, Meituan, and Huawei, incoming job @ 百度)
- Han Zhang (Master student, since fall 2022, from Guizhou University, Intern @ ZHIPU AI, incoming job @ 同花顺)
- Qiushi Han (Master student, 2021 - 2024, from Fuzhou University), now @ 中国电信研究院(广州)
- Tianze Xie (Research intern, 2022.04 - 2022.06, now pursuing Ph.D.'s degree @ SUSTech Immersive Design Group)
- Haitong Chen (Research intern, 2023.03 - 2023.09, now Software Development Engineer @ Amazon)
- Qiaoyi Chen (Undergraduate student, 2022.06 - 2024.06, now pursuing Ph.D.'s degree @ HKUST HCI Lab)
- Kangyu Yuan (Undergraduate student, 2022.11 - 2024.06, now pursuing Ph.D.'s degree @ HKUST HCI Lab)
- Shilei Cao (Undergraduate student, 2022.11 - 2023.06, now master student @ SYSU)
- Hehai Lin (Undergraduate student, 2022.11 - 2023.06, now pursuing Ph.D.'s degree @ HKUST(GZ))
- Tianjian Liu (Undergraduate student, 2023.06 - 2024.11, now pursuing Ph.D.'s degree @ HKUST(GZ))
- Guanzheng Chen (Undergraduate student, 2021.12 - 2024.06, now master student @ Zhejiang University)
- Chenghan Xie (Undergraduate student, 2021.12 - 2024.06, now master student @ HKU)
- Xinyue Chen (Undergraduate student, 2023.01 - 2024.09, incoming master student @ NUS)
- Xiucheng Zhang (Undergraduate student, 2023.11 - 2024.08, incoming master student @ NYU)
- Zimo Xia (Undergraduate student, since 2023.11 - 2024.08, incoming master student @ NUS)
- Qiyu Pan (Undergraduate student, since 2023.11 - 2024.10)
- I have also supervised many other undergraduate students in their thesis projects or research projects. These students went to good places such as masters in Columbia University, HKUST, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, and SYSU
Academic Services
- Associate Chair of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023
- Associate Chair of ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2025
- Associate Chair of ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) 2024, 2023
- Reviewer of Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), IJHCI, CHI 2022&2021&2020&2018&, CSCW 2025&2022&2021&2020, UIST 2021, WWW 2020, CHILBW 2024&2020, ChineseCHI 2022