Research

Nowadays, agents with autonomous systems have rapidly evolved towards higher automation while studies in HCI are slower than techniques, which made current robots not human-friendly yet.

I hope to use knowledge in computer science and cognitive psychology to not only establish and validate fundamental theories of HRI but also develop real-world human-centered algorithms and designs.

I am interested in three overarching questions:

• How do we interact with automation systems such as atonomous vehicles and collaborative robots?

• How can we better collaborate with them? Could system “read” and “understand” human behavior and mental states?

• How to design systems to better serve the public and people with accessibility needs?

Research Overview

Cognitive Psychology (Starts from 2018.9)

• Ye, X., Liang, J. and Gao, Z. (Working Paper). Arousal-Biased Competition in Visual Perception and Working Memory: A Unique Examination with a Continuous Recall Task. (For Emotion Journal)

• Active Suppression Mechanism of Attention Information based on Dual Task Paradigm.

Engneering Psychology (Starts from 2019.6)

• Auditory Messages for Intersection Movement Assist (IMA) Systems: Effects of Self-prioritization.

• Pedestrian-Vehicle Communication Displays in the Context of Autonomous Driving: A Scoping Review.

• The Manipulation of Pedestrian-Automated Vehicle Interaction : A Scoping Review of Experimental Methods.

• Ye, X., Zhu, A., Liu, T., Wu, J., He, Y., Zhou, M., Pan, H., & Gao, Z. (2020). “Common human factors methods in infectious disease prevention and control”. In: Psychological Response to Public Health Emergencies: A Handbook of Self-Care and Psychological Growth. Ed. by Zhejiang University Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. 2020, pp. 251-263. (in Chinese).

• Correction and Prevention in High-risk Traffic Behavior: Warnings. (Major Project of Ministry of Sci & Tech of China)

• System Security and Intelligent Protection of Human-Machine Integration. (Major Project of Ministry of Sci & Tech of China)

HCI (Starts from 2021.12)

• Kim, S., Esterwood, C., Ye, X. and Robert, L. P. (Working Paper). A Review on Morphological View of Affective Responses to Robot.

• Ye, X. and Robert, L. P. (Under Review). A Literature Review of Security Robot in Human Robot Interaction. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23-28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany.

• A Comparative Study on the Influence of Anthropomorphism on Human–Security Robot Interaction

Others

• Ye, X., Rahmy, S., Zhang, N., Lee, J., Chhabria, H. (2022). DEVIATE: The Unglamorous Foundations of Machine Learning. Poster presented at University of Michigan, the College of Engineering Design Expo. Fall 2022

• Pan, C., Li, F., Ye, X. (2022). Predicting short-term Bitcoin price from buy and sell orders. Poster presented at University of Michigan, the School of Information Project Expo. Dec 2022.

• Internet Wealth Management of Research on the Trust Design of Digital Inclusive Finance.