I'm a Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) based within the HCI Research Centre , 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, current interests are VR Accessibility (hands-free interaction, controller-free interaction, features for disability/inclusivity), external human-machine interface, AR for everyday task (see my Google Scholar Profile for citation details or check out my Publication Page to access each paper). My research mainly focuses on (1) understanding human factors of people interacting with emerging technologies and, (2) designing interaction for people interact with emerging devices.
Current projects are: (1) Inclusive eHMI for d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people (Royal Society-funded) and (2) Inclusive VR games for Deaf people (PhD student where I supervise as primary supervisor).
Latest News
- 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 “Real-Time Prediction of Simulator Sickness in Virtual Reality Games” 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 (£69.5k)
- 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 (£2.5k), 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 £2k 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.