Karen Shieh

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HCApr 20, 2025Code
Optimizing SIA Development: A Case Study in User-Centered Design for Estuary, a Multimodal Socially Interactive Agent Framework

Spencer Lin, Miru Jun, Basem Rizk et al.

This case study presents our user-centered design model for Socially Intelligent Agent (SIA) development frameworks through our experience developing Estuary, an open source multimodal framework for building low-latency real-time socially interactive agents. We leverage the Rapid Assessment Process (RAP) to collect the thoughts of leading researchers in the field of SIAs regarding the current state of the art for SIA development as well as their evaluation of how well Estuary may potentially address current research gaps. We achieve this through a series of end-user interviews conducted by a fellow researcher in the community. We hope that the findings of our work will not only assist the continued development of Estuary but also guide the development of other future frameworks and technologies for SIAs.

CRNov 16, 2025
SeedAIchemy: LLM-Driven Seed Corpus Generation for Fuzzing

Aidan Wen, Norah A. Alzahrani, Jingzhi Jiang et al.

We introduce SeedAIchemy, an automated LLM-driven corpus generation tool that makes it easier for developers to implement fuzzing effectively. SeedAIchemy consists of five modules which implement different approaches at collecting publicly available files from the internet. Four of the five modules use large language model (LLM) workflows to construct search terms designed to maximize corpus quality. Corpora generated by SeedAIchemy perform significantly better than a naive corpus and similarly to a manually-curated corpus on a diverse range of target programs and libraries.