Yi-Chieh Lee
Assistant Professor
Designs conversational AI agents for mental well-being and behaviour change, working in HCI, CSCW and human-centred AI.
Yi-Chieh Lee's lab at NUS works on accessibility, health & wellbeing, interfaces & interaction techniques and dialogue, generation & summarization. 51 papers since 2023, 32 at top venues, mostly CHI and CSCW. 11 PhD students and 1 master's student. 21 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 13/ year
- at T1 venues
- 63%
- PhD students
- 11
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 21
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 21 papers2026 · T1 14 · collecting
- 21 papers2025 · T1 13
- 5 papers2024 · T1 3
- 4 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, CSCW, IJHCS, ACL, NPJ Digital Medicine
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Dialogue, generation & summarization6 papers
- Accessibility, health & wellbeing3 papers
- well-being2 papers
- Interfaces & interaction techniques1 paper
- hci0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202621 papers
- CHI (T1)Affective and Goal-Oriented Factors of Relationship Formation in the Digital Therapeutic Alliance: A Longitudinal Study of Mental Health Chatbots
- CHI (T1)AI Personalization Paradox: Reading Highlights for Personalized AI-Assisted Writing Increases Engagement but Undermines Autonomy and Ownership (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)AI-exhibited Personality Traits Can Shape Human Self-concept through Conversations (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW (T1)Alleviating Linguistic and Interactional Anxiety of Non-Native Speakers in Multilingual Communication (opens in a new tab)
- Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsBranchat: A Tree-Structured Interface for Efficient Revisitation in Long-Horizon LLM Conversations
- CHI (T1)Can AI be a Social Buffer? Investigating the Effect of AI-assisted Cognitive Reappraisal and Narrative Perspectives on Managing Difficult Workplace Conversations over Email (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)ChatLearn: Leveraging Non-Native Speaker Communication Challenges as Language Learning Opportunities (opens in a new tab)
- Nature Computational ScienceComputational and Ethical Considerations for Using Large Language Models in Psychotherapy (opens in a new tab)
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ConferenceConversational AI for Social Good (CAI4SG): An Overview of Emerging Trends, Applications, and Challenges (opens in a new tab)
- Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsConvScale: Conversational Interviews for Scale-Aligned Measurement
- CHI (T1)Designing Computational Tools for Exploring Causal Relationships in Qualitative Data (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI); LAK 25 Workshop: From Data to Discovery: LLMs for Qualitative Analysis in EducationExploring the Human-LLM Synergy in Advancing Theory-driven Qualitative Analysis
202521 papers
- Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsAI Literacy Education for Older Adults: Motivations, Challenges and Preferences [CHI Session] (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW (T1)AI-Based Speaking Assistant: Supporting Non-Native Speakers’ Speaking in Real-Time Multilingual Communication
- CHI (T1)As Confidence Aligns: Exploring the Effect of AI Confidence on Human Self-confidence in Human-AI Decision Making (opens in a new tab)
- IJHCSConfronting Verbalized Uncertainty: Understanding How LLM’s Verbalized Uncertainty Influences Users in AI-Assisted Decision-Making (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Deconstructing Depression Stigma: Integrating AI-driven Data Collection and Analysis with Causal Knowledge Graphs (opens in a new tab)
- Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsEmpowering Social Service with AI: Insights from a Participatory Design Study with Practitioners [arXiv] (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW (T1)Exploring the Effects of Chatbot Anthropomorphism and Human Empathy on Human Prosocial Behavior Toward Chatbots (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW (T1)From Interaction to Attitude: Exploring the Impact of Human-AI Cooperation on Mental Illness Stigma (opens in a new tab)
- Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsGreater than the Sum of its Parts: Exploring Social Influence of Multi-Agents [CHI Session] (opens in a new tab)
- IJHCSHow Animal-persona Chatbots Enhance Empathy and Positive Attitudes toward Animals (opens in a new tab)
- Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsHumans Help Conversational AI: Exploring the Impact of Perceived AI Deservingness on People’s Decisions to Help and Their Perceptions on AI Seeking Help [CHI Session] (opens in a new tab)
- Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsLeveraging Human-AI Partnership Approach to Unravel Human Psychological Constructs (opens in a new tab)
20245 papers
- Social Media+ SocietyAI Privacy in Context: A Comparative Study of Public and Institutional Discourse on Conversational AI Privacy in the US and Chinese Social Media (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW (T1)Exploring Effects of Chatbot's Interpretation and Self-disclosure on Mental Illness Stigma (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW (T1)Exploring the Role of Mom's Chat Groups in the Messaging App: Enhancing Support and Empowerment for Stay-At-Home Mothers (opens in a new tab)
- Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMitigating Ageism through Virtual Reality: Intergenerational Collaborative Escape Room Design (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Understanding Public Perceptions of AI Conversational Agents: A Cross-Cultural Analysis (opens in a new tab)
20234 papers
- CSCW (T1)"A feeling of déjà vu": The Effects of Avatar Appearance-Similarity on Persuasiveness in Social Virtual Reality (opens in a new tab)
- Extended abstracts of the CHI conference on human factors in computing systems“Do you get déjà vu”: Persuasiveness Effects of Communicating with an Avatar of Similar Appearance in Social Virtual Reality (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Exploring Effects of Chatbot-based Social Contact on Reducing Mental Illness Stigma (opens in a new tab)
- NPJ Digital MedicineSystematic review and meta-analysis of AI-based conversational agents for promoting mental health and well-being (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went21 listed
Apply to NUSFall 2027
School of Computing PhD in Computer Science
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