ContextInk: Making Free-Form Annotations Reusable in AI-Supported Active Reading

Yantong Liu*, Xinyu Gai*, Mingyuan Qin, Mingming Fan (* equal contribution)

Manuscript under review

An AI-supported reading system that connects free-form annotations to source passages and lets readers revisit and revise their interpretations as questions evolve. Yantong Liu and Xinyu Gai contributed equally.

A Survey of Advances in Wake-Up Systems: Toward Context Awareness, Multimodality, and Personalization

Zihong He*, Yantong Liu*, Yuhui Zheng*, Chun Yu, Chen Liang, Yuanchun Shi, Hai-Ning Liang (* equal contribution)

Revised manuscript under review

A synthesis of 116 publications on context-aware, multimodal, and personalized wake-up systems. Zihong He, Yantong Liu, and Yuhui Zheng contributed equally.

POReviewer: A Visualization System for Retrospective Public Opinion Analysis

Zeyu Li, Manlu Zhou, Yantong Liu, Changchang Ye, Xiaomeng Zhou, Jiawan Zhang

Journal of Visualization 2026

[Paper]

MindWeaver: Scaffolding Critical Thinking Through Structure-Mediated Human–AI Collaboration

Qing Shi, Yilin Zheng, Yantong Liu, Luyao Shen, Ran Li, Xuning Zhang, Yi-Lung Kuo, Mingming Fan

Manuscript under review