“If we could teach our students the value of science and technology simultaneously with the art and science of inter-human relationships, of human and total patient-care, it would be real progress. If science and technology are not to be misused to increase destructiveness, prolonging life rather than making it more human, if they could go hand in hand with freeing more time rather than less for individual person-to-person contacts, then we could really speak of a great society.”–Death and Dying: Kübler-Ross

To give a sense of the kinds of research I am doing, here is some of my recent work, mainly on healthcare and peer interactions for personal growth and wellbeing, involving design, ethnographic studies, and technology development.

Selected Publications

• Wang, W. , Ding, X. (S.) and Hirskyj-Douglas, I., Everyday Space as an Interface for Health Data Engagement: Designing Tangible Displays of Stress Data. In: DIS ‘23: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 10-14 July 2023, pp. 1648-1659. ISBN 9781450398930

• Ding, X. (S.) , Tran, L. , Liu, Y. , O’Neill, C. and Lindsay, S., Infrastructural Work Behind The Scene: A Study of Formalized Peer-support Practices for Mental Health. In: 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘23), Hamburg, Germany, 23-28 Apr 2023, p. 561. ISBN 9781450394215

• Ding, X. , Kou, Y. , Xu, Y. and Zhang, P., “As Uploaders, We Have the Responsibility”: Individualized Professionalization of Bilibili Uploaders. In: 2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’22), New Orleans, LA, USA, 30 Apr - 05 May 2022, p. 509. ISBN 9781450391573

• Jiang, Y. , Ding, X., Ma, X. , Sun, Z. and Gu, N., IntimaSea: Exploring Shared Stress Display in Close Relationships. In: 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘23), Hamburg, Germany, 23-28 Apr 2023, p. 428. ISBN 9781450394215

• Jiang, Y. , Ding, X., Liu, D. , Gui, X. , Zhang, W. and Zhang, W., Designing intelligent self-checkup based technologies for everyday healthy living. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies , 166, 102866.

• Ding, X. , Wei, S. , Gui, X. , Gu, N. and Zhang, P., Data Engagement Reconsidered: a Study of Automatic Stress Tracking Technology in Use. In: 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘21), 08-13 May 2021, p. 535. ISBN 9781450380966

• You, Y. , Kou, Y. , Ding, X. and Gui, X., The Medical Authority of AI: a Study of AI-enabled Consumer-Facing Health Technology. In: 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘21), 08-13 May 2021, p. 207. ISBN 9781450380966

• Ding, X. , Gui, X. , Ma, X. , Ding, Z. and Chen, Y., Getting the Healthcare We Want: the Use of Online “Ask the Doctor” Platforms in Practice. In: 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘20), Honolulu, HI, USA, 25-30 Apr 2020, p. 570. ISBN 9781450367080

• Ding, X. , Chen, Y. , Ding, Z. and Xu, Y., Boundary negotiation for patient-provider communication via Wechat in China. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction , 3(CSCW), 157.

• Ding, X. , Jiang, Y. , Qin, X. , Chen, Y. , Zhang, W. and Qi, L., Reading Face, Reading Health: Exploring Face Reading Technologies for Everyday Health. In: 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘19), Glasgow, UK, 04-09 May 2019, p. 205. ISBN 9781450359702