I'm a 5th year PhD student in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. I'm advised by Amy Zhang and part of the Social Futures Lab. My research interests are human-computer interaction and social computing. Specifically, I am interested in designing interactive tools to support communication and collaboration in teams.
Before coming to UW, I spent a year in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at CMU, working with Prof. Haiyi Zhu. Before that, I earned my BA at Macalester College, where I studied Sociology, Mathematics. I also worked at the GroupLens Lab at the University of Minnesota during my undergrad.
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News
November 2024: Attending CSCW in San José, Costa Rica.
October 2024: Serving as a Web Co-Chair for FAccT 2025.
June 2024: Attending CHIWORK in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
June 2024: Attending FAccT in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
June 2022: Starting summer internship at Microsoft Research, working with the SAINTES group!
May 2022: Attending CHI in New Orleans.
Oct 2021: Attending CSCW virtually. Co-organizing a workshop on "Subtle CSCW Traits". Attending a workshop on "Human-Machine Partnerships in the Future of Work"
June 2021: Starting summer internship at Microsoft Research, working with Dr. Mihaela Vorvoreanu!
Oct 2020: Attending CSCW and UIST virtually and serving as a student volunteer for CSCW!
July 2020: Started (remotely) as a PhD student at UW!
Oct 2019: Moved to Pittsburgh and started working at HCII!
Publications
Social-RAG: Retrieving from Group Interactions to Socially Ground AI Generation
Ruotong Wang, Xinyi Zhou, Lin Qiu, Joseph Chee Chang, Jonathan Bragg, Amy Zhang
CHI 2025
[arXiv]
[Video]
Meeting Bridges: Designing Information Artifacts that Bridge from Synchronous Meetings to Asynchronous Collaboration
Ruotong Wang, Lin Qiu, Justin Cranshaw, Amy X Zhang
CSCW 2024
[arXiv] [PDF]
Investigating and designing for trust in ai-powered code generation tools
Ruotong Wang, Ruijia Cheng, Denae Ford, Thomas Zimmermann
FAccT 2024
[arXiv] [PDF]
"Is Reporting Worth the Sacrifice of Revealing What I've Sent?": Privacy Considerations When Reporting on {End-to-End} Encrypted Platforms
Leijie Wang, Ruotong Wang, Sterling Williams-Ceci, Sanketh Menda, Amy X Zhang
SOUPS 2023
[USENIX] [PDF]
Personalizing content moderation on social media: User perspectives on moderation choices, interface design, and labor
Shagun Jhaver, Alice Qian Zhang, Quan Ze Chen, Nikhila Natarajan, Ruotong Wang, Amy X Zhang
CSCW 2023
[ACM DL] [PDF]
"It would work for me too": How Online Communities Shape Software Developers' Trust in AI-Powered Code Generation Tools
Ruijia Cheng, Ruotong Wang, Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford
TiiS 2023
[arXiv] [PDF]
How Do Data Science Workers Communicate Intermediate Results?
Rock Yuren Pang; Ruotong Wang; Joely Nelson; Leilani Battle
VDS 2022
[IEEE Xplore] [PDF]
Tabletop Games in the Age of Remote Collaboration: Design Opportunities for a Socially Connected Game Experience
Ye Yuan, Jan Cao, Ruotong Wang, Svetlana Yarosh
CHI 2021, Best Paper Honerable Mention
[ACM DL] [PDF]
Decolonial Pathways: Our Manifesto for a Decolonizing Agenda in HCI Research and Design
Adriana Alvarado Garcia*, Juan F. Maestre*, Dr Manuhuia Barcham Archetekt*, Marilyn Iriarte*, Marisol Wong-Villacres*, Oscar A Lemus*, Palak Dudani*, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar*, Ruotong Wang*, Teresa Cerratto*
alt.chi 2021
[ACM DL] [PDF]
Factors Influencing Perceived Fairness in Algorithmic Decision-Making: Algorithm Outcomes, Development Procedures, and Individual Differences
Ruotong Wang, F Maxwell Harper, Haiyi Zhu
CHI 2020
[ACM DL] [PDF]