researcher · observer · builder
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在人與人、機器與人、以及自己與自己之間，收集那些還值得慢慢讀的對話。
I am Bryan Chen / 陳明炳, a researcher, writer, and builder thinking across AI, conversation, culture, language, and collective intelligence.
My work begins from a long-standing obsession: how humans think together. I am interested in the fragile moments where people try to project their inner worlds into one another — through words, pauses, tone, silence, disagreement, and repair.
Before research, I moved through journalism, teaching, languages, and years of observing how people explain themselves to one another. Today, my PhD research explores how AI can help us analyse, support, and rethink multi-party conversation: not simply as text, but as a living process where understanding is negotiated over time.
Covolab is a gallery of conversations between humans, machines, and selves — a place to collect difficult, beautiful, awkward, or revealing moments of dialogue, and to ask what they teach us about intelligence, culture, and being human.
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跋I am currently a PhD researcher at the University of Melbourne, working on AI, conversational facilitation, moderation, dialogue quality, and collective understanding.
My research asks how conversations unfold, how facilitators shape group dynamics, and how computational systems might help groups become wiser rather than merely faster.
I am drawn to the space between humanities and engineering: between reflection and measurement, between lived experience and system design, between the art of conversation and the infrastructure that may preserve it.
selected papers · research traces
- 2023 The uncivil empathy: Investigating the relation between empathy and toxicity in online mental health support forums
- 2025 · Apr WHoW: A Cross-domain Approach for Analysing Conversation Moderation
- 2025 · Jul Moderation Matters: Measuring Conversational Moderation Impact in English as a Second Language Group Discussion
- 2026 · Apr CIG: Measuring Conversational Information Gain in Deliberative Dialogues with Semantic Memory Dynamics
Conversation may be one of the oldest human arts. This room exists to preserve some of its traces before they disappear into feeds, interfaces, and speed.