I'm a Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) based within the HCI Research Group , Birmingham City University. My university profile page can be found here.
I obtained my PhD degree in 2021 from University of Liverpool, where I was supervised by Prof Hai-Ning Liang. Currently, my main research interests are around HCI, with a focus on XR, responsible AI for disabled people, Accessibility (see my Google Scholar Profile for citation details or check out my Publication Page to access each paper).
Latest News
- 10/2026: Our Road Safety and Simulation conference paper has been invited to be published at Accident Analysis & Prevention journal (Q1).
- 08/2026: I gave a talk on "Towards an Accessible Future with Immersive Technology: From Accessible Interaction to Societal Imapct" at University of Buckingham
- 07/2026: I will be serving as an AC for IEEE VR'27
- 06/2026: Our paper "Toward Personalized Takeover Support Systems: Exploring the Effects of Driver Personal Traits and Trust in Conditionally Automated Vehicles" has been accepted by Road Safety and Simulation conference.
- 05/2025: Danqing Liu has started her PhD with me, she will investigate visual-based methods for obstcale avoidance for blind and low vision people through XR.
- 04/2026: Our paper "Learning from Drivers: A Case-Based Reasoning Framework for Takeover Control in Conditionally Automated Vehicles" has been accepted by AHFE.
- 04/2025: I will be serving as an AC for ACM AutoUI'26.
- 03/2026: I gave a talk on "Towards an Accessible Future with Immersive Technology: From Accessible Interaction to Societal Imapct" at HKUST (GZ)
- 03/2026: I published an article on The Conversation How driverless vehicles can be made safer for deaf and hard of hearing people ...
- 03/2026: Our CHI'26 paper "Towards Inclusive External Human-Machine Interface: Exploring the Effects of Visual and Auditory eHMI for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People" has received an ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ.
- 03/2026: I will be visiting Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) for 3 weeks from 13th March.
- 02/2026: I will be serving as an AC for IEEE ISMAR'26.
- 02/2026: I have successfully completed my British Sign Language Level 1 course.
- 02/2026: I have been awarded the Small Research Grant from the university to continue work on accessible external human-machine interface for sensory-disabled people.
- 01/2026: Two papers, funded by Royal Society, have been accepted by CHI'26, see you in Barcelona.
- 01/2026: I will be serving as an AC for ACM ASSETS'26.
- 08/2025: Our paper Effects of Customisation of AI Shopping Assistant on VR Retail has been accpeted by OzCHI'25.
- 06/2025: My promotion application for the Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction role has been successful.
- 05/2025: Real-Time Prediction of Simulator Sickness in Virtual Reality Games is one of the most cited papers published over the last two years at IEEE Transactions on Games according to the IEEE Xplore journal webpage.
- 05/2025: Our IEEE Transactions on Games paper entitled โReal-Time Prediction of Simulator Sickness in Virtual Reality Gamesโ has been nominated for the "IEEE ToG Outstanding Paper Award". We have accepted the invitation to present it at the IEEE Conference on Games in Lisbon, Portugal!
- 04/2025: I will be serving as an AC for ACM AutoUI'25.
- 03/2025: Our position paper "Conducting VR User Studies with People with Vision/Hearing Impairments: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies" has been accepted by The Third Workshop on Building an Inclusive and Accessible Metaverse for All (W18) at CHI'25.
- 03/2025: I will travel to Japan for CHI'25, thanks the Royal Society Grant.
- 03/2025: I will be serving as an AC for IEEE ISMAR'25.
- 03/2025: Our paper "VR Pet Therapy for Improving the Well-Being of Adults with Autism: A Pilot Study" will be published by HCII Conference.
- 02/2025: Our Late Breaking work titled "Impact of Visual Embellishments on Player Experience in Virtual Reality Exergames" has been accepted by CHI EA 2025.
- 05/2024: Oliver Collier has started doing a PhD under my supervison, he will work on accessible VR games for Deaf gamers.
- 05/2024: I will be serving as an AC for ACM CHI'25.
- 03/2024: Our paper "Understanding the Relationship between User Game Preferences and Depressive symptoms: A Pilot Study" has been accepted by Games for Health journal.
- 03/2024: Our IEEE TVCG paper "Breaking the Isolation: Exploring the Impact of Passthrough in Shared Spaces on Player Performance and Experience in VR Exergames" is available online now.
- 02/2024: I will be serving as an AC for CHI PLAY'24.
- 02/2024: I am glad to share that my funding bid to Royal Society Research Grant titled "Inclusive External Human-Machine Interface for Automated Vehicles-d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Pedestrian Interaction" has been successful (ยฃ69.5k)
- 02/2024: I will be serving as an AC for IEEE ISMAR'24.
- 01/2024: Our poster based on the BCU-funded StatsBoost project has been accepted as oral presentation at Advance Higher Education Conference.
- 01/2024: I will join the Editorial Board of Discover Computing (Springer Nature).
- 01/2024: A paper has been accepted and shortlisted for the best paper award at VISIGRAPP 2024.
- 12/2023: A paper has been conditionally accepted by IEEE VR TVCG track.
- 11/2023: Received 2 Special Recognitions for a CHI'24 paper review.
- 10/2023: Our paper "Hands-free Multi-Type Character Text Entry in Virtual Reality" has been accepted by Springer Virtual Reality
- 09/2023: I will be serving as an AC for CHI'24.
- 09/2023: I have a funded PhD studentship available on "Accessible AR/VR for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users (HearingXR)", if you are interested in this, please contact me.
- 08/2023: Our paper "Who's Watching Me?: Exploring the Impact of Audience Familiarity on Player Performance, Experience, and Exertion in Virtual Reality Exergames" has been accepted by IEEE ISMAR'23
- 07/2023: I will travel to Paris for ICMI'23, thanks SIGCHI Gary Marsden Travel Award for supporting this!
- 07/2023: Our first BCU UX Hackathon event was successful, thanks for our judge panel Adrian Sutherland, Rob Parker, Atalanta Nnochiri, Sandeep Chahil, Philippa Long.
- 07/2023: I will be working with Dr Angle Tan for project StatsBoost (ยฃ2.5k), which aims to design and develop a serious games for teaching and learning statistics.
- 04/2023: Our paper "Exploring the Effect of the Size and Feedback of Non-Player Character Spectators in Virtual Reality Exergames" has been accepted by Frontier in Psychology
- 02/2023: Our Springer VR paper "Cheer for Me: Effect of Non-Player Character Audience Feedback on Older Adult Users of Virtual Reality Exergames" is now available online
- 02/2023: We were awarded ยฃ2k from CEBE Curriculum Innovation Grant to develop and implement curriculum design and practice that supports effective student outcomes
- 02/2023: I will be an AC for ACM CHI PLAY, ACM IMX, and IMET again this year.
- 02/2023: Our paper "Cheer for Me: Effect of Non-Player Character Audience Feedback on Older Adult Users of Virtual Reality Exergames" has been accepted by Springer Virtual Reality
- 12/2022: A paper on AR text selection has been accepted by ACM VRCAI'22
- 11/2022: I am serving as a virtual setup co-chair for IEEE AIVR 22
- 10/2022: Invited by TechXplore for an interview about our VR hands-free text selection paper, see interview.
- 09/2022: My first patent, RingText, has been approved, more information see patent
- 08/2022: I am running an online survey regarding UK overweight and obese adults' acceptance on immersive virtual reality exergames, please feel free to participat in it in this Survey link.
- 08/2022: Two full papers + one poster (the poster will be published elsewhere) have been accepted by IEEE ISMAR.
- 07/2022: Our paper entitled "Acceptance of Virtual Reality Exergames Among Chinese Older Adults" has been published online.
- 05/2022: Our paper Real-time Prediction of Simulator Sickness in Virtual Reality Games has been accepted by IEEE ToG.
- 04/2022: Please help us share the IEEE ToG special issue User Evalaution on VR Games to your network.
- 04/2022: Our paper entitled "Acceptance of Virtual Reality Exergames Among Chinese Older Adults" has been accepted with minor revision (language) by International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
- 03/2022: I was invited to describe a HCI paper for Science News for Students, thanks Alison Stevens for the invitation.
- 02/2022: I will service as a PC member for IMET'22, ILRN'22.
- 02/2022: I will service as an AC member for CHI PLAY'22 full papers.
- 01/2022: Will start my first AC role in IMX'22.