09 / From the lab
Notes on the questions and design choices behind conversational AI research.
14 articles
Teaching guide / Agent Personality Playground
01CHAI Lab · Published 12 Oct 2026
CHAI Lab’s Agent Personality Playground gives students a way to explore how personality changes an AI interaction. The activity connects Vibe Check with everyday design choices.Try…
Research note / Vibe Check
02CHAI Lab · Updated 12 Oct 2026
When we design an AI assistant, we also shape how it comes across. A concise answer, an enthusiastic greeting, or an accommodating tone can change what people expect from the syste…
Field notes / Human–Computer Interaction
03CHAI Lab · Updated 12 Oct 2026
Human–Computer Interaction is often introduced as the study of how people use computers. That framing isn’t wrong, but it undersells the field. HCI studies what happens at the boun…
Researcher story / Supriya Khadka
04CHAI Lab · Updated 12 Oct 2026
What can begin with a cold email to a lab? For Supriya Khadka, that email led to a full paper on empathy at ACM CUI, an Honorable Mention, and the start of her next chapter as a Ph…
Medium / Research writing
05Smit Desai · Published 19 Aug 2026
A practical structure for an HCI paper’s introduction: establish why the problem matters, explain its context, connect prior work to your approach, and make the research questions…
Opens in a new tabMedium / Research practice
06Smit Desai · Published 20 Jun 2025
How do worthwhile research ideas take shape? Smit reflects on curiosity and everyday observations, then offers a framework connecting an innovation, the people using it, its contex…
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