For best experience please turn on javascript and use a modern browser!
You are using a browser that is no longer supported by Microsoft. Please upgrade your browser. The site may not present itself correctly if you continue browsing.

Dr. Y. (Yen-Chia) Hsu

Faculty of Science
Informatics Institute
Visiting address
  • Science Park 900
Contact details
Social media
  • Profile

    I am a computer scientist with an architectural design background. I research how to embed technology in hyper-local contexts to facilitate civic engagement and community empowerment. Specifically, my research is focused on Community-Empowered Artificial Intelligence (AI), where I co-design, implement, deploy, and evaluate interactive AI systems that empower communities, especially in addressing environmental and social issues. My research concerns both the social and technical aspects. Regarding the social aspect, my vision is to create a community-based framework for conducting AI research with communities in the public health domain, which requires empirical studies of co-creating AI systems in local contexts. Regarding the technical aspect, I am interested in understanding the value of human feedback in AI pipelines, as well as algorithms that can enable machine learning models to take different types of human feedback.

    More information about me can be found on my website: http://yenchiah.me/

  • Publications

    2024

    • Alpherts, T., Ghebreab, S., Hsu, Y. C., & Van Noord, N. (2024). Perceptive Visual Urban Analytics is Not (Yet) Suitable for Municipalities. In 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT 2024 (pp. 1341-1354). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3630106.3658976
    • Debnath, A., Lahnala, A., Genç, U., Soubutts, E., Lahav, M., Horne, T., Meijer, W., Pai, Y. S., Hsu, Y.-C., Barbareschi, G., Verma, H., & Mauri, A. (2024). EmpathiCH: Scrutinizing Empathy-Centric Design beyond the Individual. In CHI '24: Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 467 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3636297 [details]
    • Gavros, A., Hsu, Y.-C., & Karatzas, K. (2024). Modelling Smell Events in Urban Pittsburgh with Machine and Deep Learning Techniques. Atmosphere, 15(6), Article 731. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15060731 [details]
    • Mauri, A., Hsu, Y. C., Verma, H., Tocchetti, A., Brambilla, M., & Bozzon, A. (2024). Policy Sandboxing: Empathy As An Enabler Towards Inclusive Policy-Making. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW2), Article 369. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686908

    2023

    • Lammerts, P., Lippmann, P., Hsu, Y.-C., Casati, F., & Yang, J. (2023). How do you feel? Measuring User-Perceived Value for Rejecting Machine Decisions in Hate Speech Detection. In AIES '23: proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society : August 8-10, 2023, Montreal, Canada (pp. 834-844). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3600211.3604655 [details]

    2022

    • Hsu, Y. C., Huang, T. H. K., Verma, H., Mauri, A., Nourbakhsh, I., & Bozzon, A. (2022). Empowering local communities using artificial intelligence. Patterns, 3(3), Article 100449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2022.100449
    • Mauri, A., Hsu, Y.-C., Brambilla, M., O'Kane, A. A., Huang, T.-HK., & Verma, H. (2022). Empathy-Centric Design At Scale. In CHI '22: extended abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems : April 30-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA Article 75 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503744 [details]
    • Mauri, A., Tocchetti, A., Corti, L., Hsu, Y.-C., Verma, H., & Brambilla, M. (2022). COCTEAU: an Empathy-Based Tool for Decision-Making. In WWW '22 Companion: companion proceedings of the Web Conference 2022: April 25, 2022, Lyon, France (pp. 219-222). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3487553.3524233 [details]

    2021

    • Hsu, Y. C., Huang, T. H., Hu, T. Y., Dille, P., Prendi, S., Hoffman, R., Tsuhlares, A., Pachuta, J., Sargent, R., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2021). Project RISE: Recognizing Industrial Smoke Emissions. In 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2021 (pp. 14813-14821). (35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2021; Vol. 17A). Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

    2020

    • Hsu, T. Y., Huang, C. Y., Hsu, Y. C., & Huang, T. H. K. (2020). Visual story post-editing. In ACL 2019 - 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 6581-6586). (ACL 2019 - 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
    • Hsu, Y. C., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2020). When human-computer interaction meets community citizen science. Communications of the ACM, 63(2), 31-34. https://doi.org/10.1145/3376892
    • Hsu, Y. C., Cross, J., Dille, P., Tasota, M., Dias, B., Sargent, R., Huang, T. H., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2020). Smell Pittsburgh: Engaging Community Citizen Science for AirQuality. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, 10(4), Article 3369397. https://doi.org/10.1145/3369397
    • Huang, T. H., Huang, C. Y., Ding, C. K. C., Hsu, Y. C., & Lee Giles, C. (2020). CODA-19: Using a non-expert crowd to annotate research aspects on 10,000+ abstracts in the COVID-19 open research dataset. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

    2019

    • Hsu, T. Y., Huang, T. H. K., & Hsu, Y. C. (2019). On how users edit computer-generated visual stories. In CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 3312965 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312965
    • Hsu, Y. C., Tasota, M., Cross, J., Dias, B., Dille, P., Sargent, R., Huang, T. H. K., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2019). Smell Pittsburgh: Community-empowered mobile smell reporting system. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 65-79). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3301275.3302293

    2018

    • Hsu, Y. C., Cross, J., Dille, P., Nourbakhsh, I., Leiter, L., & Grode, R. (2018). Visualization tool for environmental sensing and public health data. In DIS 2018 - Companion Publication of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 99-104). (DIS 2018 - Companion Publication of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3197391.3205419

    2017

    • Hsu, Y. C., Dille, P., Cross, J., Dias, B., Sargent, R., & Nourbakhsh, I. (2017). Community-empowered air quality monitoring system. In CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire (pp. 1607-1619). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2017-May). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025853

    2012

    • Hsu, Y. C., Jeng, T. S., Shen, Y. T., & Chen, P. C. (2012). SynTag: A web-based platform for labeling real-time video. In CSCW'12 - Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 715-718). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2145204.2145312

    2011

    • Shen, Y. T., Jeng, T. S., & Hsu, Y. C. (2011). A "live" interactive tagging interface for collaborative learning. In Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering - 8th International Conference, CDVE 2011, Proceedings (pp. 102-109). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 6874). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23734-8_16

    2024

    2023

    • Mauri, A., Hsu, Y.-C., Verma, H., Tocchetti, A., Bozzon, A. & Brambilla, M. (29-6-2023). Data for the paper "Policy Sandboxing: Empathy As An Enabler Towards Inclusive Policy-Making". Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8094820
    This list of publications is extracted from the UvA-Current Research Information System. Questions? Ask the library or the Pure staff of your faculty / institute. Log in to Pure to edit your publications. Log in to Personal Page Publication Selection tool to manage the visibility of your publications on this list.
  • Ancillary activities
    No ancillary activities
edit contact information   edit profile page