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Who we are
Who we are
The Context-Aware Interaction Lab (CAILab) is an interdisciplinary Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research lab at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) which focuses on sensing and understanding contexts in wellness, healthcare, and human performance to empower users using AI.
Current Research Foci
Current Research Foci
Context Sensing towards Mental Health Support
Physical Social Interaction Sensing for Child Developmental Support
Human-AI Interaction with Large-Language Models
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Jan 2025: A productive Jan with lots of good news:
A huge congratulations to our PhD students Weiyan and Kellie for their amazing work that just got accepted in CHI 2026! Congratulations all authors and collaborators!
"Words to Describe What I'm Feeling: Exploring the Potential of AI Agents for High Subjectivity Decisions in Advance Care Planning" led by Kellie Sim. Check out our preprint!
"Towards Aligning Multimodal LLMs with Human Experts: A Focus on Parent-Child Interaction" led by Weiyan Shi. Check out our preprint!
Amazing work on cultural understanding "BLEnD-Vis: Benchmarking Multimodal Cultural Understanding in Vision Language Models" accepted in EACL 2026.
Dec 2025: Our paper "Dronaquatics: Real-time Swimming Analytics Using Drone Captured Imagery" was accepted in WACV 2026! Congratulations to all authors!
Nov 2025:
Our paper "TalkSketch: Multimodal Generative AI for Real-time Sketch Ideation with Speech" was accepted in AAAI CLIP 2025! Congratulations to all authors!
Our paper "Humor in Pixels: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models Understanding of Online Comics" was accepted in EMNLP 2025. Congratulations to all authors!
Oct 2025: Our paper "Easy Modeling of Man-Made Shapes in Virtual Reality" was accepted in Pacific Graphics 2025! Congratulations to all authors! Watch the demo.
Jun 2025: Our poster "Communication Games to Study Emerging Disinformation Scenarios With LLMs" was accepted in CSCW'25. Congratulations to all authors!
Apr 2025: Our paper "Towards Multimodal Large-Language Models for Parent-Child Interaction: A Focus on Joint Attention" was accepted in CHI'25 LBW. Congratulations to all authors and collaborators!
PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS
PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS
Jun 2024: Our paper "ToxiCloakCN: Evaluating Robustness of Offensive Language Detection in Chinese with Cloaking Perturbations" was accepted in EMNLP'24. Congratulations to all authors and collaborators!
Jun 2024: Our paper on "Analyzing Swimming Performance Using Drone Captured Aerial Videos" was accepted in MobiSys'24 DroNet. Congratulations to all the authors and collaborators!
May 2024: Our paper on "Towards Understanding Emotions for Engaged Mental Health Conversations" was accepted in DIS'24 PWiP. Congratulations to Kellie and Kohleen!
Apr 2024: Our paper "SGHateCheck: Functional Tests for Detecting Hate Speech in Low-Resource Languages of Singapore was accepted in WOAH'24. Congratulations to all the authors!
Mar 2024: Our paper on "A Taxonomy for Human-LLM Interaction Modes: An Initial Exploration" was accepted in CHI'24 LBW. Congratulations to all the authors!
Feb 2024: Our demo paper "Brinjal: A Web-Plugin for Collaborative Hate Speech Detection" was accepted in The Web Conference 2024. Congratulations to all the authors!
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