Zhicong Lu(Caleb) 陆志聪

@luzc08

Assistant professor of CS at GMU. CS PhD, DGP Lab @UofT. HCI, CSCW, live streaming, social media, creativity, misinformation, labor & cultural heritage

Toronto, Ontario luzhc.github.io Joined January 2012

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Zhicong Lu(Caleb) 陆志聪 @luzc08 Apr 23, 2025

Congrats, Yue!!🚀
Future students—if you’re into computational UI/eye-tracking, seek her out at #CHI2025. I’m sure she’ll be an awesome mentor doing cool research 👀

Yue Jiang @YueJiang_nj Apr 23, 2025

I’ll be an assistant professor later this year and will be actively looking for potential students (RAs and PhDs) at #CHI2025. If you are interested in UI or eye tracking-related research, feel free to talk to me at CHI.
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Zhicong Lu(Caleb) 陆志聪 @luzc08 Mar 12, 2025

Congratulations, @ChenxinranS! Looking forward to seeing your future research

Chenxinran Elise Shen @ChenxinranS Mar 11, 2025

200 citations reached!
scholar.google.ca/citations?user…

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Zhicong Lu(Caleb) 陆志聪 @luzc08 Feb 16, 2025

Thrilled to share our upcoming #CHI2025 paper on fans’ practices of building collective understanding of social media algorithms and organizing coordinated algorithmic actions to influence the online sphere. It provides insights into collective actions and online fandom.

Qing XIAO @QingXIAO__Comm Feb 14, 2025

🚀 Our study headed to #CHI2025 in Yokohama! doi.org/10.48550/arXiv…

Through an ethnography, we examine how millions of fans mobilize to influence social media algorithms.

Thanks for the collaborators: Yuhang Zheng, @XianzheFan, @Blingblingzhang, @luzc08
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Zhicong Lu(Caleb) 陆志聪 @luzc08 Feb 10, 2025

Super proud to have collabroated on this #chi2025 paper which studied how users of AI companion apps actively re-align AI's values for various purposes. The strategies users used and their rationales behind were quite interesting and inspiring, especially for human-AI interaction

Hong Shen @hongshenus Feb 8, 2025

AI alignment is often top-down, with technical teams setting broad safeguards. But what if users had more agency? Our CHI'25 paper introduces "user-driven value alignment" -- where users actively re-align AI to reflect their values. #chi2025
📎arxiv.org/abs/2409.00862
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Zhicong Lu(Caleb) 陆志聪 @luzc08 Jan 19, 2025

I'm thrilled to share that another paper on Virtual YouTuber (VTuber) was conditionally accepted at #CHI2025. Led by @KenjenLee and in collab. with @AllenPiao, we explored how fans respond to the "termination"/graduation of a VTuber, through the lens of parasocial grieving. 1/2