Publications (peer-reviewed): 

  1. Urgo, Kelsey and Li, Yuan (2025). The Enhanced Subgoal Manager: Supporting Complex Learning During Information Seeking for Creative Tasks. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 453–457. https://doi.org/10.1145/3698061.3734403
  2. Li, Yuan, Teja Mandaloju, Haihua Chen (2025). Exploring Public Perceptions of Generative AI in Libraries: A Social Media Analysis of X Discussions. In 88th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information, Science & Technology (ASIS&T 2025).
  3. Li, Yuan, Tong, Xiao, Taylor, Brian, Su, Jin and Carrico, Melanie (2025). Beyond the Sketch: Exploring Emerging Practices of Generative AI Use in Fashion Design. In International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Proceedings (ITAA2025).
  4. Tong, Xiao, Taylor, Brian, Li, Yuan, Oblites, Emilia , Su, Jin and Carrico, Melanie (2025). Adaptive Apparel Entrepreneurs: Motivations, Abilities, Opportunities, and Challenges. In International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Proceedings (ITAA2025).
  5. Li, Y. and Sprayberry, A. (2024). People’s Voice: Exploring Discussion Themes on Generative AI and Libraries on X. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST’22). https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pra2.1164
  6. Li, Y. and Capra, R. (2024). Stopped yet completed: Exploring the relationships between session- stopping reasons, information types, and cognitive activities in cross-session searches. In ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’24), Sheffield, UK. https://web.archive.org/web/20240318134944id_/https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3627508.3638304
  7. Li, Y., Crescenzi, A., Ward, A. R., and Capra, R. (2023). Thinking inside the box: An evaluation of a novel search-assisting tool for supporting (meta) cognition during exploratory search. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, pages 1–18. https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1002/asi.24801
  8. Li, Y. (2023). Stopping and Resuming: How and Why Do People Search Across Sessions for Complex Tasks? PhD thesis, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=zt2aDv4AAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=zt2aDv4AAAAJ:M3ejUd6NZC8C
  9. Li, Y. and Capra, R. (2023). Contextualizing search resuming reasons for expected cross-session searches. In iConference (virtual), Barcelona, Spain. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-28032-0_32
  10. Li, Y. and Capra, R. (2022). Intertwining search and non-search activities during cross-session search tasks. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST’22), 59, pages 738–740. https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pra2.710
  11. Li, Y., Zhang, Y., and Capra, R. (2022). Analyzing information resources for supporting creative process. In ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’22), pages 180–190, Regensburg, Bavaria. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3498366.3505817
  12. Li, Y. and Capra, R. (2022b). Want or need: Why would users expect to conduct cross-session searches? In ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’22), pages 327–331, Regensburg, Bavaria. [Best short paper]. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3498366.3505829
  13. Liu, J. and Li, Y. (2021). Supporting information use and task accomplishment: What system features do users like and expect? Journal of Information Science, 47:1–15. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=xTETcIYjgp
  14. Crescenzi, A., Ward, A., Li, Y., and Capra, R. (2021b). Supporting metacognition during exploratory search with the orgbox. In Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’21), pages 1093–1096, New York, NY. ACM. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3404835.3462955
  15. Crescenzi, A., Capra, R., Choi, B., and Li, Y. (2021a). Adaptation in information search and decision- making under time constraints. In ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’21), pages 95–105, New York, NY. ACM. https://amcc.web.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/5750/2021/03/crescenzi-etal-chiir2021.pdf
  16. Li, Y., Ward, A., and Capra, R. (2021). An analysis of information types and cognitive activities involved in cross-session search. In ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’21), pages 313–317, New York, NY. ACM. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3406522.3446044
  17. Li, Y. and Capra, R. (2020). Exploring factors affecting renewal and stopping reasons in cross-session search. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST’20), page e267. https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pra2.267
  18. Li, Y., Capra, R., and Zhang, Y. (2020). Everyday cross-session search: How and why do people search across multiple sessions? In ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval(CHIIR’20), pages 163–172, New York, NY. ACM. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3343413.3377970
  19. Li, Y. (2020). Interruption and renewal: How and why do people search across sessions? (Doc- toral consortium). In ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’20), New York, NY. ACM. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3343413.3377952
  20. Zhang, Y., Capra, R., and Li, Y. (2020). An in-situ study of information needs in design-related creative projects. In ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’20), pages 113–123, New York, NY. ACM. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3343413.3377973
  21. Choi, B., Ward, A., Li, Y., Arguello, J., and Capra, R. (2019). The effects of task complexity on the use of different types of information in a search assistance tool. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 38(1):1–28. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3371707
  22. Crescenzi, A., Li, Y., Zhang, Y., and Capra, R. (2019). Towards better support for exploratory search through an investigation of notes-to-self and notes-to-share. In Proceedings of the 42th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’19), pages 1093–1096, New York, NY. ACM. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3331184.3331309
  23. Capra, R., Arguello, J., Brien, H. O., Li, Y., and Choi, B. (2018). The effects of manipulating task determinability on search behaviors and outcomes. In Proceedings of the 41th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’18), pages 445–454, New York, NY. ACM. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3209978.3210047
  24. Liu, J. and Li, Y. (2018). Supporting information task accomplishment: Helpful systems and their features. In ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR’18), pages 253–256, New York, NY. ACM. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3176349.3176875
  25. Liu, J., Zamir, H., Li, Y., and Hastings, S. (2018). Search systems and their features: What college students use to find and save information. Journal of Information Science, 40(2):118–124. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0740818817303055

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