2025

Can LLM-Simulated Practice and Feedback Upskill Human Counselors? A Randomized Study with 90+ Novice Counselors

Ryan Louie, Ifdita Hasan Orney, Juan Pablo Pacheco, Raj Sanjay Shah, Emma Brunskill, Diyi Yang
Under review at CHI 2026 2025

MentalImager: Exploring Generative Images for Assisting Support-Seekers' Self-Disclosure in Online Mental Health Communities

Han Zhang, Jiaqi Zhang, Yuxiang Zhou, Ryan Louie, Taewook Kim, Qingyu Guo, Shuailin Li, Zhenhui Peng
CSCW 2025 2025

SPHERE: An Evaluation Card for Human-AI Systems

Dora Zhao, Qianou Ma, Xinran Zhao, Chenglei Si, Chenyang Yang, Ryan Louie, Ehud Reiter, Diyi Yang, Tongshuang Wu
ACL 2025 Findings 2025

2024

Designing Live Human-Ai Collaboration for Musical Improvisation

Nick Becker, Ryan Louie, John Thickstun, Percy Liang
Workshop on Generative AI and HCI, CHI 2024 2024

Multi-Level Feedback Generation with Large Language Models for Empowering Novice Peer Counselors

Alicja Chaszczewicz, Raj Sanjay Shah, Ryan Louie, Bruce A Arnow, Robert Kraut, Diyi Yang

Roleplay-doh: Enabling Domain-Experts to Create LLM-simulated Patients via Eliciting and Adhering to Principles

Ryan Louie, Ananjan Nandi, William Fang, Cheng Chang, Emma Brunskill, Diyi Yang

2023

The Cane Game: An Educational Tool for Orientation and Mobility

Paul Ruvolo, Ryan Louie, Eric Jerman

Rawal: A Reflection Assistant with Active Listening for Peer Support Chats

Ryan Louie, Taewook Kim, Zhenhui Peng

Human-AI Interface Layers: Enhancing Communication of Intent for AI-Assisted Creative Pursuits and Social Experiences

Ryan Louie
Doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University 2023

2022

Affinder: Expressing Concepts of Situations that Afford Activities using Context-Detectors

Ryan Louie, Darren Gergle, Haoqi Zhang

Expressive Communication: Evaluating Developments in Generative Models and Steering Interfaces for Music Creation

Ryan Louie, Jesse Engel, Anna Huang

2021

Collective Narrative: Scaffolding Community Storytelling through Context-Awareness

Nina Cong, Kevin Chen, Haoqi Zhang, Ryan Louie

2020

Novice-AI Music Co-Creation via AI-Steering Tools for Deep Generative Models

Ryan Louie, Andy Coenen, Anna Huang, Michael Terry, Carrie Cai

Opportunistic Collective Experiences: Identifying Shared Situations and Structuring Shared Activities at Distance

Ryan Louie, Kapil Garg, Jennie Werner, Allison Sun, Darren Gergle, Haoqi Zhang

2019

Leveraging Augmented Reality to Create Apps for People with Visual Disabilities: A Case Study in Indoor Navigation

Chris Yoon, Ryan Louie, Jeremy Ryan, MinhKhang Vu, Hyegi Bang, William Derksen, Paul Ruvolo
Best Artifact Award