Yuqing Kyra Xing

Bio

Yuqing studies personal and proxy agency in higher education, focusing on how students engage with generative AI not merely as a tool, but as a cognitive collaborator in tasks such as brainstorming, writing, coding, and problem-solving. Her research explores how these interactions influence students’ academic self-efficacy, self-regulated learning, and evolving notions of authorship and support.

She also investigates the role of conversational AI in early childhood mathematics learning, particularly through storytelling as a pedagogical bridge to support engagement and understanding. In addition, Yuqing examines how AI-assisted writing reshapes academic practices in higher education by analyzing student-AI collaboration through digital traces, writing artifacts, and reflective narratives.

Publications

• Liu, X., Xing, Y., Chen, Y., Pei, W., Choi, J., & Xu, Y. (2025). Children’s Narrative Participation in Story Co-Creation with AI vs. Human Partners: Response Styles and Narrative Features. In Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (pp. 803-809). https://doi.org/10.1145/3713043.3731486