Xu, K., & Shi, J. (2024). Visioning a two-level human-machine communication framework: Initiating conversations between explainable AI and communication. Communication Theory. DOI: 10.1093/ct/qtae016

Xu, K., Chen, X., Liu, F., & Huang , L. (2024). What did you hear and what did you see? Understanding the transparency of facial recognition and speech recognition systems during human-robot interaction. New Media & Society. DOI: 10.1177/14614448241256899

Kim , J., Merrill , K., Jin, X., Collins , C., & Xu, K. (2023). Trust, perceived usefulness, and intentions to adopt robotic health advisors for physical and relational health issues. The Social Science Journal. DOI: 10.1080/03623319.2023.2289241

Kim, J., Merrill , K., Xu, K., & Collins, C. (2023). My health advisor is a robot: Understanding intentions to adopt a robotic health advisor. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2023.2239559

Liu , W., Xu, K., & Yao, M. (2023). Can you tell me about yourself? The impacts of chatbot names and communication contexts on users’ willingness to self-disclose information in human-machine conversations. Communication Research Reports, 40, 122-133. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08824096.2023.2212899#:~:text=The%20results%20showed%20that%20a,chatbot%20names%20was%20not%20significant.

Xu, K. (2023). A mini imitation game: How individuals model social robots via behavioral outcomes and social roles. Telematics & Informatics, 78. DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2023.101950

Xu, K., Chen , M., & You , L. (2023). The Hitchhiker’s Guide to a Credible and Socially Present Robot: Two Meta-Analyses of the Power of Social Cues in Human–Robot Interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics. DOI: 10.1007/s12369-022-00961-3

Kim , J., Merrill , K., Xu, K., & Kelly , S. (2022). Perceived credibility of an AI instructor in online education: The role of social presence and voice features. Computers in Human Behavior, 136. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2022.107383

Xu, K., Chen, X., & Huang, L. (2022). Deep mind in social responses to technologies: A new approach to explaining the Computers are Social Actors phenomena. Computers in Human Behavior, 134, 107321. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2022.107321

Kim , J., Merrill , K., Xu, K., & Sellnow , D. (2022). Embracing AI-based machine teacher in higher-education: Examining social presence in online education. Human-Machine Communication.

Kim , J., Xu, K., & Merrill , K. (2022). Man vs machine: Human responses to an AI newscaster and the role of social presence. The Social Science Journal. DOI: 10.1080/03623319.2022.2027163

Xu, K., Chan-Olmsted, S., & Liu, F. (2022). Smart speakers require smart management: Two routes from user gratifications to privacy settings. International Journal of Communication, 16. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/17823

Kim, J., Kelly , M., Xu, K., & Sellnow , D. (2021). I like my relational machine teacher: An AI instructor’s communication styles and social presence in online education. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2021.1908671

Lombard, M., & Xu, K. (2021). Social responses to media technologies in the 21st century: The Media are Social Actors paradigm. Human-Machine Communication, 2, 29-55. Retrieved from https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=hmc

Xu, K. (2020). Language, modality, and mobile media use experiences: Social responses to smartphones in a task-oriented context. Telematics & Informatics, 48. DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2020.101344

Kim, J., Merrill, K., Xu, K., & Sellnow, D. (2020). My teacher is a machine: Understanding students’ perception of AI teaching assistants in online education. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 36, 1902-1911. DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2020.1801227

Xu, K., Liu , F., Mou, Y., Wu, Y., Zeng, J., & Schafer , M. (2020). Using machine learning to learn machines: A cross-cultural study of users’ responses to machine-generated art works. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. DOI: 10.1080/08838151.2020.1835136

Liao, T., & Xu, K. (2020). A process approach to understanding multiple open source innovation contests: Assessing the contest structures, execution, and participant responses in the Android Developer Challenges. Information and Organization, 30(2). Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1471772720300245

Wu, Y., Mou, Y., Li, Z., & Xu, K. (2020). Investigating American and Chinese Subjects’ explicit and implicit perceptions of AI-Generated artistic work. Computers in Human Behavior, 104. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074756321930398X

Liao, T., Yang, H., Lee, S., Xu, K., & Bennett , S. (2020). Augmented criminality: How people process in-situ augmented reality crime information in relation to space/place. Mobile Media and Communication. DOI: 10.1177/2050157919899696

Steiner, E., & Xu, K. (2020). Binge-watching motivates change: Uses and gratifications of streaming video viewers challenge traditional TV research. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 26(1), 82-101. Retrieved from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1354856517750365

Xu, K., & Liao, T. (2020). Explicating cues: A typology for understanding emerging media technologies. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 25(1), 32-43. DOI: 10.1093/jcmc/zmz023

Xu, K. (2019). First encounter with robot Alpha: How individual differences interact with vocal and kinetic cues in users’ social responses. New Media & Society, 21(11-12), 2522-2547. Retrieved from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444819851479

Mou, Y., Shi, C., Shen, T., & Xu, K. (2019). A Systematic Review of the Personality of Robot: Mapping Its Conceptualization, Operationalization, Contextualization and Effects. International Journal of Human--Computer Interaction, 36, 591-605. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10447318.2019.1663008

Xu, K. (2018). Location Speaks: Using GIS Approach to Understand an Anti-pornography Campaign in Mainland China. China Media Research, 14(2), 29-44.

Mou, Y., Xu, K., & Xia, K. (2018). Unpacking the black box: Examining the (de) Gender categorization effect in human-machine communication. Computers in Human Behavior, 90, 380-387. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563218304242

Xu, K. (2018). Painting Chinese mythology: Varying touches on the magazine covers of Time, The Economist, Der Spiegel, and China Today. International Communication Gazette, 80(2), 135-157. Retrieved from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1748048517707386

Xu, K., & Lombard, M. (2017). Persuasive computing: Feeling peer pressure from multiple computer agents. Computers in Human Behavior, 74, 152-162. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563217302856

Mou, Y., & Xu, K. (2017). The media inequality: Comparing the initial human-human and human-AI social interactions. Computers in Human Behavior, 72, 432-440. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563217301486

Xu, K., Lin, M., & Haridakis, P. (2015). Being Addicted to Chinese Twitter: Exploring the Roles of Users' Expected Outcomes and Deficient Self-regulation in Social Network Service Addiction. China Media Research, 11(2).