Shengchen Zhang


Hi! Shengchen here. I’m a PhD candidate at College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University. My research studies how people and conversational agents can establish mutual understanding, drawing on linguistic theories of communication, dialogue, and grounding.
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Aligning alignment : Comparing human-agent conceptual alignment behaviors.
Conceptual talks : Building a taxonomy for conceptual grounding and negotiation Dialogue
Flashcard : A simple yet flexible flashcard widget for FigJam.
BirdsEye : Breaking out of the Twitter echo chamber with a multi-robot interface
Intrigue : A research tool for organizing literature into ideas, fast.
Equity WITHOUT Zoning : A web-based simulation for the Equity WITHOUT Zoning workshop, presented at City Science Summit 2020.
Imaginary social touch : Exploring virtual, touch-screen mediated social touch behavior.
Desk Manager : A macOS app that help you keep only what you need on your Desktop.
Candle.js : A GPU-accelerated library to make running PyTorch models in the browser a bit easier. It also serves as a tensor computation library.
FontNN : Create fonts with the help of a neural network, by giving examples of what you want.
Blog posts
Time management for the single-threaded mind

A system that I use to help me (not) keep track of multiple projects.