Conference Publications

  1. Xin Sun, Xiao Tang, Abdallah El Ali, Zhuying Li, Pengjie Ren, Jan de Wit, Jiahuan Pei, Jos Bosch. Rethinking the Alignment of Psychotherapy Dialogue Generation with Motivational Interviewing Strategies. International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)

  2. Xin Sun, Erkan Basar, Iris Hendrickx, Jan de Wit, Tibor Bosse, Gert-Jan De Bruijn, Jos A.Bosch, Emiel Krahmer. How Well Can LLMs Reflect? A Human Evaluation of LLM-generated Reflections for Motivational Interviewing Dialogues. International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)

  3. Xin Sun, Yunjie Liu, Jos A. Bosch, and Zhuying Li. Interface Matters: Exploring Trust Perception in Health Information from Large Language Models via Text, Speech, and Embodiment. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW 2024)

  4. Xin Sun, Jiahuan Pei, Jan de Wit, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Emiel Krahmer, Jos TP Dobber, Jos Bosch. Eliciting Motivational Interviewing Skill Codes in Psychotherapy with LLMs: A Bilingual Dataset and Analytical Study. International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2024)

  5. Xin Sun, Yunjie Liu, Jan De Wit, Jos A. Bosch, and Zhuying Li. Trust by Interface: How Different User Interfaces Shape Human Trust in Health Information from Large Language Model. (Poster) ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024)

  6. Xin Sun, Isabelle Teljeur, Zhuying Li, Jos A. Bosch. Can a Funny Chatbot Make a Difference? Infusing Humor into Conversational Agent for Behavioral Intervention. ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI 2024)

  7. Xin Sun, Emiel Krahmer, Jan De Wit, Reinout Wiers, and Jos A. Bosch. Plug and Play Conversations: The Micro-Conversation Scheme for Modular Development of Hybrid CA. (Poster) Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW 2023)

  8. Xin Sun, Jos A. Bosch, Jan De Wit, and Emiel Krahmer. Human-in-the-Loop Interaction for Continuously Improving Generative Model in CAs for Behavioral Intervention. (Poster) ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2023)

  9. Xin Sun, Boris Schmitz, and Jos A. Bosch. TIMELY: Providing In-Time Support for Cardiovascular Rehabilitation with ‘Patients and Practitioners in the Loop’. (Poster) ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2023)

  10. Xin Sun et al. Virtual Support for Real-World Movement: Using Chatbots to Overcome Barriers to Physical Activity. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (HHAI 2023)

  11. Xin Sun, Jan de Wit, Zhuying Li, Jiahuan Pei, Abdallah El Ali, Jos A Bosch. Script-Strategy Aligned Generation: Aligning LLMs with Expert-Crafted Dialogue Scripts and Therapeutic Strategies for Psychotherapy. Pre-printed on arXiv. Under review (Anonymous)

  12. Yuto Mandai, Katie Seaborn, Tomoyasu Nakano, Xin Sun, Yijia Wang, Jun Kato. Super Kawaii Vocalics: Amplifying the “Cute” Factor in Computer Voice. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025)

  13. Xiao Tang, Zhuying Li, Xin Sun, Xuhai “Orson” Xu, Min-Ling Zhang. ZzzMate: Designing an Empathetic Chatbot for Addressing Self-Conscious Emotions for Sleep Adherence. (Poster) ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025)

  14. Zhuying Li, Si Cheng, Zhenhuan Chen, Xin Sun, Jiatong Li, Ding Ding. SleepyFlora: Supporting Sleep Sharing and Augmentation over a Distance for Social Bonding across Time Zones. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW 2023)

  15. Benjamin Beilharz, Xin Sun, Sariya Karimova, and Stefan Riezler. LibriVoxDeEn - A Corpus for German-to-English Speech-Translation and Speech Recognition. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020)

Journal and Book Publications

  1. Gert-Jan de Bruijn, Divyaa Balaji and Xin Sun. Book Publication: “Chapter 16 Chatbots for health communication”. Book: Health, Media, and Communication, De Gruyter Mouton, 2025, pp. 309-332.

  2. Zhuying Li, Yan Wang, Xin Sun. Integrating Culture in Human-Food Interaction: A Study of Cultural and Creative Food Experiences and Technological Interactions. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (SCI-1)

  3. Mirela Habibovic, Emma Douma, Hendrik Schäfer, Manuela Sestayo-Fernandez, Tom Roovers, Xin Sun, … Boris Schmitz. A patient-centered risk prediction, prevention and intervention platform to support the continuum of care in coronary artery disease using eHealth and artificial intelligence. Journal of Medical Internet Research (SCI-1)

  4. Xin Sun et al. Understanding Trust Perception in AI-Generated Information with Behavioral and Physiological Sensing (Eye-tracking and Physiological Study). ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (SCI-1). Under review, as the first author

  5. Xin Sun et al. From Agents to Interfaces: Understanding Trust in Health Information from Conversational Search (Mixed-methods). International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (SCI-1). Under review, as the first author