Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising
Professor, Institute of Communications Research
Professor, Journalism
Professor, Business Administration
Professor, Communication
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Affiliate, Siebel Center for Design
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Recent Publications
Liu, W., & Yao, M. (2026). The Minds Behind the Prompts: How Mental Representations Shape User Interaction with Generative AI. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2026.2629531
Wu, M., Quan, K., Liu, W., Yao, M., & Chin, J. (2026). What Makes an AI Writing Companion a Good Fit? A Personality-Informed Co-Design Study. In C and C 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Creativity and Cognition (pp. 144-163). (C and C 2026 - Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Creativity and Cognition). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3803784.3807536
Yao, M., & Chang, J. (2026). Artificial Intelligence as a Printing Press Moment: Ontological Parallelism and the Future of Communication Theory. Global Media and China, 11(1), 127-135. https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364261423864
Hamilton, K. A., Ward, A. F., & Yao, M. Z. (2025). Mind or Machine? Conversational Internet Search Moderates Search-Induced Cognitive Overconfidence. Journal of Media Psychology, 37(3), 129-143. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000419
Jahadakbar, M., & Yao, M. Z. (2025). The Routine: Enhancing Special Needs Education Through AI-Personalized Embodied Learning in Virtual Environments. In Proceedings - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and eXtended and Virtual Reality, AIxVR 2025 (pp. 176-182). (Proceedings - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and eXtended and Virtual Reality, AIxVR 2025). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/AIxVR63409.2025.00034