When designers and AI co-create, the invisible feelings, curiosity, and motivation that drive the designer are rarely taken into account, which can leave both parties frustrated and make the AI tools less useful to them. By treating “human‑awareness” as a co‑regulated partnership, we give AI tools the chance to listen, adapt, and help designers stay motivated and trusted, turning tool usage into true collaboration.
Check out how we keep creators and users engaged, improve utilization and creativity, and make AI feel like a helpful teammate instead of a black-box algorithm.
Ongoing project - Interested in collaborating? Talk to me!
How should a human and an AI find the best ways to work with each other?
To appear at SIGCSE TS 2026
Devon Mckee, Zhiyu Lin, Boyd Fox, Jiahong Li, Jichen Zhu, Magy Self El-Nasr, Tyler Sorensen
Meet Parallel X, an educational game that seamlessly bridge theory, play, and real‑world coding.
Ongoing project - Interested in collaborating? Talk to me!
How would you turn a learning experience beyond a dialogue, into a fun game?
Reza Habibi, Seung Wan Ha, Zhiyu Lin, Atieh Kashani, Ala Shafia, Lakshana Lakshmanarajan, Chia-Fang Chung, Magy Seif El-Nasr
Check out how meanings of concepts, as symbols, aren’t just decoded by either side of human or AI, but co-crafted from a social communication ending up in socially-grounded, shared consensus.
Reza Habibi, Zhiyu Lin, Jiahong Li, Tejas Polu, Ashwin Nagarajan, Magy Seif El-Nasr
Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning Workshop - CHI 2025
See a glimpse of what "finding common ground" between human and AI means!