AI4SG Lab Earns Four Honourable Mention Awards at ACM CHI 2026
The AI for Social Good (AI4SG) Lab, led by Assistant Professor Lee Yi-Chieh from the Department of Computer Science, has earned four Honourable Mention Awards at ACM CHI 2026 – the world's premier conference in human-computer interaction. The awards recognise the top 5% of accepted papers for their originality, rigour, and potential for impact.
CHI 2026 received a record 6,700 paper submissions. The AI4SG Lab contributed 11 full papers to the conference, with three of the four awarded papers led by NUS Computing PhD students as first authors.
The four award-winning papers are:
- AI-exhibited Personality Traits can Shape Human Self-concept through Conversations
First author: Jingshu Li (PhD student, Computer Science, Year 4) - Designing Computational Tools for Exploring Causal Relationships in Qualitative Data
First author: Han Meng (PhD student, Computer Science, Year 3) - Affective and Goal-Oriented Factors of Relationship Formation in the Digital Therapeutic Alliance: A Longitudinal Study of Mental Health Chatbots
Co-authored by: Yi-Chieh Lee with collaborators from the University of Auckland - Who You Explain to Matters: Learning by Explaining to Conversational Agents with Different Pedagogical Roles
First author: Zhengtao Xu (PhD student, Computer Science, Year 2)
Together, these papers span education, mental health, AI personality, and qualitative research methods, reflecting the breadth of the lab's mission to harness AI for real-world social benefit.
The papers will be presented at CHI 2026 in Barcelona, Spain, from 13 - 17 April 2026.
Congratulations to the team on this outstanding recognition!