Publications

Peer-reviewed and workshop publications in human-centered AI and online safety.

My published work began with human-centered AI safety: designing systems that help people recognize and respond to online harms. This foundation now informs my research on safe, human-aware embodied intelligence.

2026

  1. CHI
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    ScamPilot: Simulating Conversations with LLMs to Protect Against Online Scams
    Owen M. Hoffman, Kangze Peng, Sajid Kamal, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26), Barcelona, Spain, Apr 2026
    Refereed conference paper, ACM CHI 2026.
    DOI

2025

  1. CUI
    Promoting Online Safety by Simulating Unsafe Conversations with LLMs
    Owen M. Hoffman, Kangze Peng, Zehua You, and 2 more authors
    Jul 2025
    Position paper, ACM CUI Workshop on Personas Evolved: Designing Ethical LLM-Based Conversational Agent Personalities.
    DOI arXiv