Beichen Xue | School of Computing, University of Utah

About Me

I am a Research Assistant in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. My research lies at the intersection of eye tracking, visualization, and computational modeling of attention and interactive behavior. I study how gaze and multimodal interaction traces reflect task-driven user behavior and develop cognitively grounded models for predicting user scanpaths and evaluating interfaces.

Research Interests

Eye tracking and visualization: gaze and multimodal interaction traces of task-driven behavior
Computational modeling of human attention: cognitively grounded models of attention and scanpath prediction

Updates

[Nov. 2026] I will be attending the Trustworthy and Responsible AI Workshop at SEEC, CU Boulder East Campus, on November 4-5. Happy to chat, so feel free to reach out!

Publications

Toward Human-Like Task-Driven Gaze Navigation for Visualization

Beichen Xue, Yue Jiang

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2027.

Under review

Pace by Gaze: A Gaze-Informed Simulator of Constrained Cursor Movement

Xiangyu Zhou, Beichen Xue, Yue Jiang, Steve Oney

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2027.

Under review

DashTrace: Understanding Task-Driven Visual Attention and Multimodal Behavior in Analytical Dashboards

Yura Hwang, Beichen Xue, Yin Yang, Yue Jiang

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2027.

Under review

Gaze in the Era of Foundation Models: A Survey of Integration, Interaction, and Evaluation

Jinghui Hu, Beichen Xue, Hans Gellersen, Yue Jiang

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2027.

Under review

Generative User Interfaces: A Definition and Design Space

Katja Pott, Eunhye Kim, Chenyang Wang, Thiemo Wambsganss, Juho Kim, …, Beichen Xue, …, Matthias Söllner (50+ authors)

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2027.

Under review

Attention Is All UI Needs: The 6th Computational UI Workshop at CHI

Kewen Peng*, Beichen Xue*, Meng Chen, Felix Kretzer, Jeffrey Nichols, Tiffany Knearem, Alexander Maedche, Christof Lutteroth, Hans Gellersen, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Yue Jiang (*Equal contribution)

Workshop proposal, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2027.

Under review

How Human Is Human-Like? Interpreting Scanpath Similarity Metrics

Parvin Emami, Beichen Xue, Yue Jiang, Luis A. Leiva

ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA), 2027.

Under review

We Shape AI, and Thereafter AI Shape Us: Humans Align with AI through Social Influences

Jingshu Li, Tianqi Song, Beichen Xue, Yi-Chieh Lee

ICLR 2025 Workshop & CHI 2025 SIG

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State-Space Models With Layer-Wise Nonlinearity Are Universal Approximators With Exponential Decaying Memory

Shida Wang, Beichen Xue

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023.

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