Publications
📚 Under Review
[J.08] Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu, Yunlong Wang, Allen Jue†, Yao Lyu, Yiheng Su†, Shuo Niu, Nathan TeBlunthuis, and Yan Zhang. 2025. Decoding Visual Storytelling in Mental Health Narratives: Aesthetics, Disparity, and Peer Support in YouTube Vlogs. Social Media + Society (under review). Preprint
[J.07] Emma S. Gueorguieva, Jina Suh, Hongli Zhan, Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu, Katie Yan, Javier Hernandez, Tatiana Lau, J. Jessy Li, Desmond C. Ong. 2025. AI-Generated Empathy is Homogeneous. In Nature Human Behavior (in progress).
📚 Journal Papers
[J.06] Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu, Shuer Zhuo, Xingyu Li, Noura Howell, Angela Smith, Andrew Dillon, Yan Zhang. 2025. From Regulation to Support: Centering Humans in Technology-Mediated Emotion Intervention in Care Contexts. In CSCW 2025. To appear. PDF
[J.05] Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu, Yan Zhang. 2025. “When I lost it, they dragged me out”: How Care Encounters Empower Marginalized Young Adults’ Aspiration and Mental Health Care-Seeking. In CSCW 2025. To appear. PDF
[J.04] Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu, Sierrah Bessler, Yan Zhang, Midori McKay Komi, Annie T. Chen. 2025. Changes of Information Needs and Emotions During COVID-19: A Longitudinal View. In Library & Information Science Research (LISR), 47(3), 101367. PDF
[J.03] Katie Trainum, Jiaying Liu, Elliott Hauser, and Bo Xie. 2024. Nursing Staff’s Perspectives of Care Robots for Assisted Living Facilities: Systematic Literature Review. In JMIR Aging, 7:e58629. PDF
[J.02] Jiaying Liu and Yan Zhang. 2024. Modeling Health Video Consumption Behaviors on Social Media: Activities, Challenges, and Characteristics. In Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. (CSCW 2024), 28 pages. PDF
[J.01] Yan Zhang, Jiaying Liu, Shijie Song. 2023. The Design and Evaluation of a Nudge-based Interface to Facilitate Consumers’ Evaluation of Online Health Information Credibility. In JASIS&T, 74(7), 828–845. PDF
🎤 Peer-reviewed Conference Papers
[C.05] Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu, Yiheng Su†, and Praneel Seth†. 2025. From Pixels to Concepts: How AI interprets Visual Concepts in Social Media Videos? A Case Study of Mental Health YouTube Shorts. In Association for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting (ASIS&T’ 25), November 14-18, 2025, Washington DC, USA, 10 pages.
[C.04] Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu,, Yan Zhang. 2024. Video-Mediated Emotion Disclosure: Expressions of Fear, Sadness, and Joy by People with Schizophrenia on YouTube. In Association for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting (ASIS&T’ 25), November 14-18, 2025, Washington DC, USA, 10 pages.
[C.03] Jiaying Liu, Yan Zhang. 2024. Exploring Young Adults’ Mental Health Help-Seeking Journey: Preliminary Findings on Resource Navigation Behavior. In Association for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting (ASIS&T’ 24), October 25-29, 2024, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 4 pages. [pdf] [Best Paper Award by SIG USE & HLTH]
[C.02] Jiaying Liu, Chang Liu, Yan Lv, Bingxuan Li. 2023. “Ad blindness”? Not for all searchers! Investigation of “Not Ad blind” Searchers’ Perception and Interactions towards Search Engine Ads in Health-Related Tasks. In Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology Asia Chapter (ASIS&T-AP’ 23), Dec 23, 2023, Beijing, China.
[C.01] Jiaying Liu, Yan Zhang, Yeolib Kim. 2023. Consumer Health Information Quality, Credibility, and Trust: An Analysis of Definitions, Measures, and Conceptual Dimensions. In ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’ 23), March 19–23, 2023, Austin, TX, USA. ACM, 14 pages.
🎤 Peer-reviewed Posters, Extended Abstracts, & Workshops
[DC.09] Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu. Designing Identity-Affirming Generative AI for Visual Emotional Expression: Empowering Marginalized Young Adults. CSCW Doctoral Consortium 2025.
[Workshop.08] JaeWon Kim, Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu, Cassidy Pyle, Sowmya Somanath, Lindsay Popowski, Hua Shen, Casey Fiesler, Gillian R Hayes, Alexis Hiniker, Wendy Ju, Florian ‘Floyd’ Muller, Ahmer Arif, Yasmine Kotturi. Design for Hope: Cultivating Deliberate Hope in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges. CSCW25 Workshop.
[P.07] Zihan Gao, Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu Yifei Xu, Jacob Thebault-Spieker. From Clips to Communities: Fusing Social Video into Knowledge Graphs for Localness-Aware LLMs. CSCW Companion’ 25.
[P.06] Shuer Zhuo†, Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu. Digital Boundaries of Time: Exploring How Calendar App Designs Mediate Time Perceptions and Boundary Management. CSCW Companion’ 25.
[P.05] Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu, Yiheng Su†, and Praneel Seth†. 2025. *Can Large Language Models Grasp Concepts in Visual Content? A Case Study on YouTube Shorts about Depression. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25), April 26- May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599 [pdf]
[P.04] Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu, Yunlong Wang, Yao Lyu, Yiheng Su†, Shuo Niu, Xuhai “Orson” Xu, and Yan Zhang. 2024. *Harnessing LLMs for Automated Video Content Analysis: An Exploratory Workflow of Short Videos on Depression. In Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion’ 24), November 9–13, 2024, San Jose, Costa Rica. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. [pdf]
[DC.03] Jiaying Liu, Shijie Song, Yan Zhang. Implications of a Real-Time Assistive Tool for Online Health Information Credibility Evaluation. In IEEE International Conference of Health Informatics (ICHI’ 24). Doctoral Consortium, Orlando, FL, USA. [Best PhD Project Honorable]
[P.02] Katie Trainum, Jiaying Liu, Elliott Hauser, and Bo Xie. 2024. Nursing Staff’s Attitudes, Needs, and Preferences for Care Robots in Assisted Living Facilities: A Systematic Literature Review. In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’ 24 Companion), March 11–14, 2024, Boulder, CO, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. [pdf]
[P.01] Jiaying Liu, Shijie Song, Yan Zhang. 2021. Linguistic Features and Consumer Credibility Judgment of Online Health Information. iConference’ 21. [Best Poster Honorable Mention] pdf