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Hybrid Social Interaction Lab
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The lab designs technologies that support interactions between people and between people and AI.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing connections between people, and between people and AI.
The Hybrid Social Interaction Lab studies how new digital technologies affect interpersonal relationships and social ties.
Building on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), the lab combines insights from psychology, communication studies, and information science.
"Hybrid" in the lab's name refers to communicating in both English and Japanese, working across both online and offline settings, and designing human-AI collaboration in addition to human-human interaction.
Through system development and mixed-methods research, the lab aims to build mechanisms that support meaningful interactions for individuals and between people in a digital society.
Key terms
- CSCW
- Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. A field that studies technologies that support collaborative work using computers
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Communication between people carried out through computers, such as messaging apps and video calls
- Higher-order thinking
- The capacity for deep thinking, including creativity, critical thinking, and metacognition (the ability to reflect on one's own thinking)
- AI companion
- An AI with which people form relational bonds and intimacy
NewsLab news
Research on supporting artists in exploring their styles (joint work with NTU) is scheduled to be presented at UIST'26
Research on the influence of opinionated chatbots (joint work with NUS) is scheduled to be presented at CSCW'26
Recruiting undergraduate research assistants and research engineers
The lab was established
ResearchResearch themes
The lab explores and designs intelligent technologies that help people lead meaningful lives at the individual, dyadic, and group levels. It investigates how intelligent technologies (AI) affect the way people think and relate to one another, and designs better ways of engaging with them.
*Illustrative imageAI-Supported Higher-Order Thinking
The lab studies the design of AI and its effects on supporting higher-order thinking such as creativity, critical thinking, and metacognition. By exploring the social characteristics of AI and how people engage with it, the lab aims for relationships in which people are not replaced by AI but can grow together with it.
*Illustrative imageMeaningful Remote Communication
The lab seeks to understand remote communication such as text-based exchanges and video conferencing, and explores support for improving workplace, cross-cultural, intergenerational, and intimate relationships. It also designs enhanced social cues by using AI to mediate interpersonal communication.
*Illustrative imageDigital Technologies and Intimacy
The lab studies how people build and maintain intimate relationships with and through digital technologies. It covers both the formation of bonds with AI companions and agents, and the processes by which technology mediates intimacy between people.
*Illustrative imageInteraction in Mixed Human-AI Groups
The lab revisits social psychology theories such as social learning and social facilitation, and studies how individual cognition and behavior change in groups where humans and AI are mixed. It also aims to design multi-agent systems that encourage desirable social behavior.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Hybrid Social Interaction Lab consist of faculty, administrative staff, undergraduate research assistants, and visiting students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorChi-Lan YANG
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Mindpark Helsingborg bottenvåning Open Space” Karstendc / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- AI-Supported Higher-Order Thinking: “Design Thinking Workshop WMDE 1” Corinna Schuster (WMDE) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Meaningful Remote Communication: “Therenow3” Rsedmo at English Wikipedia / Public domain (cropped)
- Digital Technologies and Intimacy: “Crew (Unsplash xCmvrpzctaQ)” Crew crew / CC0 (cropped)
- Interaction in Mixed Human-AI Groups: “US Navy 100531-N-7676W-075 Visitors interact with the , dexterous, social (MDS) robot Octavia at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) exhibit during Fleet Week New York 2010” U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams / Public domain (cropped)
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- Related lab (Interaction Lab): “Wiki Conference 2020 zoom meeting” Ssr / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Digital Nature Development Research Center): “Sensorify Interactive Art Installation, 2023” Zafeirious / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Physically Based Computer Graphics Lab): “Rendering techniques example, path tracing, high quality, Blender Cycles” KaiaVintr / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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