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SITES Lab

Social Intelligence Technologies Experimental Studio (SITES) is a lab/design studio led by Yoyo Tsung-Yu Hou at National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan.

We are hiring — see open positions below.

News

2026-04

Lab launched

SITES Lab officially opens at NCCU.

2026-03

CHI 2026 paper accepted

Our work on social-AI interaction was accepted at CHI 2026.

2026-02

Recruiting RAs

We are looking for undergraduate and MS research assistants.

Publication

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2026

AI as the Phantom Limb: The Asymmetry of Attribution in Human vs. AI Delegation

Yu-Sheng Chen, Yoyo Tsung-Yu Hou, Yu-Hsuan Lin, Joshua Mu-En Liu, WeiRong Chen, Yihsiu Chen

CHI '26 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · DOI: 10.1145/3772318.3791075

Paper
AI Helps Those Who Have Less? Social Support Gaps and Perceptions of AI Emotional Support

WeiRong Chen, Yoyo Tsung-Yu Hou, Ric Yu-Sheng Chen, Chia-Hsuan Tai, Clarence Chi-Hong Weng, Yihsiu Chen

CHI EA '26 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · DOI: 10.1145/3772363.3798800

Paper
When AI Agrees, Polarization Sticks: Private AI Consulting May Increase Confidence and Reduces Depolarization

Joshua Mu-En Liu, Clarence Chi-Hong Weng, Yu-Hsuan Lin, Pang-Yu Hsiao, Yoyo Tsung-Yu Hou

CHI EA '26 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · DOI: 10.1145/3772363.3798705

Paper
When Flattery Backfires: How Sycophancy and Interaction Context Shape Perceived Authenticity and Trust in Large Language AI Models

Joshua Mu-En Liu, Clarence Chi-Hong Weng, Yoyo Tsung-Yu Hou

CHI EA '26 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · DOI: 10.1145/3772363.3798575

Paper

2024

Power in Human-Robot Interaction

Yoyo Tsung-Yu Hou, EunJeong Cheon, Malte F. Jung

HRI '24 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction · DOI: 10.1145/3610977.3634949

Paper

2023

“Should I Follow the Human, or Follow the Robot?” — Robots in Power Can Have More Influence Than Humans on Decision-Making

Yoyo Tsung-Yu Hou, Wen-Ying Lee, Malte Jung

CHI '23 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3581066

Paper

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People

Yoyo Tsung-Yu Hou

Principal Investigator

Dept. of Communication, NCCU

HCI
Social Computing
Design Research

Student A

MS Student

Communication

Conversational AI
Trust
Qualitative

Student B

Research Assistant

Computer Science

Sensemaking
Prototyping
LLM

Alumni

Alumni Example

MS, 2025

Communication

CSCW
Fieldwork
Ethics

Now at Example Co.

Project

Project Alpha

A study on conversational AI and social presence.

Project Beta

Design probes for collective sense-making.