👀 ABOUT ME

My name is Jiaxin An (安佳鑫). I'm doing my Ph.D. in Information Studies at UT iSchool. My research interest lies in the intersection of conversational agents (CAs), information behavior, and health. Specifically, I want to facilitate the conversational interaction between human and agents, allowing human to address their health information needs through such interaction. I’m particularly concerned about older adults, as everyone is getting old, what I do today can help understand and find a better way for the future of people I love (e.g., my parents) and myself.

I love Totoro, a kind and cute big "cat" from My Neighbor Totoro. See the picture in this page? That's me, wearing a Totoro hoodi and planting a seed with another little Totoro. The little Totoro is casting his magic on the seed to make it become a big tree, where people can sit, relax, and feel happy. The seed represents my start point of academic career, I hope my research somehow can contribute to people's wellbeing.

📁 SELECTED WORK

Note: Please check my CV or Google Scholar to see the full list of my publications.

Conversational agents

An, J., Yi, S., Lyu, Y., & Zhang, Y. (Under review). Conversational agents for older adults’ healthcare: A systematic review.

An, J., Bak., H., Choi, W., Zhang, Y., & Stvilia, B. (2024). College Students’ Metaphors for ChatGPT: An Exploratory Study. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology.

Health information behavior

An, J., Fan, W., Mittal, A., Zhang, Y., & Chen, A. (2024). Mobile App Use among Persons with Fibromyalgia: A Cross-Sectional Survey. The Journal of Pain.DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2024.03.011

An, J., Li, S., & Zhang, P. (Under review). Health Information Seeking Behaviors of Chinese Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An In-depth Interview Study.

An, J., Na, Y., & Zhang, P. (2019). How do parents of children with ASD use information grounds to seek for ASD-related information? Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 56(1), 10-20.

Other information behavior

An, J., Li, T., Teng, Y., & Zhang, P. (2018, March). Factors influencing emoji usage in smartphone mediated communications. In International Conference on Information (pp. 423-428). Springer, Cham.

🖋 PERSONAL CHANNEL

I write articles mainly in Chinese at Zhihu. Feel free to check them.

📬 CONTACT ME

The best way to contact me is through email: jiaxin.an@utexas.edu. I don't browse social media frequently, but for your interest, here are my LinkedIn and X profiles.