Publications

2025

  • He, K., Cervera, K., Levine, J., Xu, Y., Collins, P., & Warschauer, M. (2025). Promoting parent-child shared reading with a bilingual conversational agent. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2025.103489.​​

2024

  • Ojeda-Ramirez, S., Ritchie, D., & Warschauer, M. (2024). AI Literacy for Multilingual Learners: Storytelling, Role-playing, and Programming. The CATESOL Journal, 35(1). https://doi.org/10.5070/B5.35861.
  • Xu, Y., He, K., Levine, J., Ritchie, D., Pan, Z., Bustamante, A., & Warschauer, M. (2024). Artificial intelligence enhances children’s science learning from television shows. Journal of Educational Psychology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0000889 [pdf]
  • He, K., Levine, J., Cervera, K., Ojeda-Ramirez, S., Xu, Y., & Warschauer, M. (2024, May). A Home Study of Parent-Child Co-Reading with a Bilingual Conversational Agent. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-8). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3650836 [pdf]
  • Zhang, C., Liu, X., Ziska, K., Jeon, S., Yu, C. L., & Xu, Y. (2024). Mathemyths: Leveraging Large Language Models to Teach Mathematical Language through Child-AI Co-Creative Storytelling. [arxiv pre-print].

2023

  • Xu, Y., Bradford, N., & Garg, R. (2023). Transparency Enhances Positive Perceptions of Social Artificial Intelligence. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2023.
  • Xu, Y. (2023). Talking with machines: Can conversational technologies serve as children's social partners?. Child Development Perspectives, 17(1), 53-58.
  • Xu, Y., He, K., Vigil, V., Ojeda-Ramirez, S., Liu, X., Levine, J., Cervera, K., & Warschauer, M. (2023) "Rosita Reads With My Family":  Developing A Bilingual Conversational Agent to Support Parent-Child Shared Reading. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3585088.3589354

2022

  • Xu, Y., Vigil, V., Bustamante, A., & Warschauer, M. (2022). Contingent interaction with a television character promotes children's science learning and engagement.  Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2022.101439 [pdf]
  • Xu, Y., Wang, D., Yu, M., Ritchie, D., Yao, B., Wu, T., Zhang, Z., Li, T., Bradford, N., Sun, B., Hoang, T., Sang, Y., Hou, Y., Ma, X., Yang, D., Peng, N., Yu, Z., & Warschauer, M. (2022). Fantastic questions and where to find them: FairytaleQA— An authentic dataset for narrative comprehension. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13947 [pdf]
  • Yao, B., Wang, D., Wu, T., Zhang, Z., Li, T., Yu, M., & Xu, Y. (2022). It is AI’s Turn to Ask Humans a Question: Question and Answer Pair Generation for Children’s Storybooks with FairytaleQA Dataset. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2109.03423. [pdf]
  • Xu, Y., Vigil, V., Bustamante, & Warschauer, M. (2022). “Elinor’s talking to me!”: Integrating conversational AI into children’s science narrative programming. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
  • Zhang, Z., Xu, Y., Wang Y., Yao, B., Ritchie, D., Wu, T., Yu, M., Wang, D., & Li, T. (2022). Storybuddy: A human-AI collaborative agent for parent-child interactive storytelling. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517479. [pdf]

2021

  • Xu, Y., Aubele, J., Vigil, V., Bustamante, A., Kim, Y-S., & Warschauer, M. (2021). Dialogue with a conversational agent promotes children’s story comprehension via enhanced engagement. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13708. [pdf]

2020

  • Xu, Y., Wang, D., Collins, P., Lee, H., & Warschauer, M. (2020). Same benefits, different communication patterns: Comparing children’s reading with a conversational agent vs. a human partner. Computers & Education. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.104059. [pdf]
  • Xu, Y., & Warschauer, M. (2020). A content analysis of voice-based apps on the market for early literacy development. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3392063.3394418. [pdf] *Best Paper Award Honorable Mention
  • Xu, Y., & Warschauer, M. (2020). Exploring young children’s engagement in joint reading with a conversational agent. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3392063.3394417. [pdf]
  • Xu, Y., & Warschauer, M. (2020). What are you talking to?: Understanding children’s perceptions of conversational agents. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. April 25-30, 2020, Honolulu, HI. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376416. [pdf]

2019

  • Xu, Y., & Warschauer, M. (2019). Young children’s reading and learning with conversational agents. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts. May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. ACM. ​​​https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3299035. [pdf]

Publicly Available Datasets

  • ​​He, K., Xu, Y., Warschauer, M. (2025). Interactive Videos to Promote Science Learning, Dataset, https://osf.io/8gs2x/
  • Xu, Y., & Warschauer, M. (2021). Conversational Agents for Dialogic Reading, Dryad, Dataset, doi:10.7280/D10Q3P
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