Xiang Li | HCI

Year 1 Ph.D. Student

Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge

Hello World...

I am Xiang Li, a Year 1 PhD student in Intelligent Interactive Systems at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Per Ola Kristensson. I am also a Student Fellow at The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI). Want to collaborate? If you're interested in working with me, especially if you want to explore the future intelligent interactive interfaces in VR and AR, feel free to send me an email! I am always happy to collaborate with smart minds!

My research interest lies in Human-Computer Interaction, at the intersection of Mixed Reality, Bodily Interfaces, Sensing Technologies, and Computational Interaction. I aim to focus my PhD studies on understanding the relationship between human bodies and the digital environment, and concurrently creating new interactive systems that augment a wide range of perceptions via computational interaction methods, which I believe are crucial for the successful Integration or even the Fusion of Human-Computer Interaction.

I was a Visiting Ph.D. scholar at the Center for Metaverse and Computational Creativity, HKUST (Guangzhou) in 2022, working with Pan Hui. I received my B.Sc. (Honors) from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China & the University of Liverpool in the UK. I finished my Bachelor Honors Dissertation at the X-CHI Lab, advised by Hai-Ning Liang, and previously worked with Wenge Xu. Besides, I have worked with Jan Gugenheimer and David Lindlbauer at the Institute Polytechnique de Paris (Télécom Paris) and Carnegie Mellon University, and Florian 'Floyd' Mueller at the Exertion Games Lab, Monash University.

Research Interests

Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality
Sensing Technologies
Bodily Interfaces
Computational Perception

Education

Ph.D. in Intelligent Interactive Systems
University of Cambridge, Oct. 2022 - Sept. 2025
B.Sc. (Honors) in Information and Computing Science
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Sep. 2018 - Jul. 2022
B.Sc. (Honors) in Information and Computing Science
University of Liverpool, Sep. 2018 - Jul. 2022

News

11/2022: Our ToCHI paper, Towards understanding the design of intertwined human-computer integrations, has been accepted!
11/2022: Our article has been published at ACM Interactions to celebrate the 40th birthday of SIGCHI!
10/2022: I am a Student Fellow at The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence!
10/2022: Our poster GesPlayer has been accepted by ACM ISS 2022! Congrats to my coauthors, Xiaohang and Yuzheng!
09/2022: Accepted the Program Committee Member invitation for ACM CHI 2023 Late-Breaking Work (again)!
09/2022: Received the ACM SIGCHI Gary Marsden Travel Awards! See you in Wellington, NZ!
09/2022: Submitted two CHI 2023 papers and two ISS 2022 posters! Congrats to my hard-working co-authors!
05/2022: NO REGISTRATION FEES FOR DIS 2022! Join us and enjoy the digital wellbeing!
01/2022: Accepted the invitation to serve as an AC for ACM CHI 2022 Late-Breaking Work!
Please help us by going to PCS –> "Review" tab –> "Volunteer to Review" –> "Late-Breaking Work" track under CHI 2022. 🙏
12/2021: I am serving as an Online-Participation Chair for ACM DIS 2022!
Submit your great work to DIS 2022! 🎉
09/2021: Submitted two papers to CHI 2022!
07/2021: Two papers accepted by CHI PLAY 2021!
04/2021: Join the DIVA HCI Group of Institute Polytechnique de Paris (Télécom Paris) and the Augmented Perception Lab of Carnegie Mellon University as a research intern!
01/2021: Accepted the Program Committee Member invitation for ACM IUI 2021 Demos and Posters!

Publications

Note: ACM CHI (A*), ACM UIST (A*), IEEE VR (A*), IEEE ISMAR (A*), and ACM CHI PLAY are recognized as top-tier conferences in HCI and VR/AR.

Florian ’Floyd’ Mueller, Nathan Semertzidis, Josh Andres, Joe Marshall, Steve Benford, Xiang Li, Yash Mehta, and Louise Matjeka. Towards Understanding the Design of Intertwined Human-Computer Integrations. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions (ToCHI).
[Paper] [ACM DL]
Xiang Li, Xiaohang Tang, and Yuzheng Chen. GesPlayer: Using Augmented Gestures to Empower Video Players. In Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS ’21 Companion), pages 1-5, Wellington, New Zealand, 2022.
[Paper] [Video] [ACM DL]
Susan Dray, Elizabeth Buie, Gillian Crampton Smith, Assem Kroma, Xiang Li, Aaron Marcus, Monica Pereira, Cuauhtémoc Rivera-Loaiza, and Janice Rohn. 'It changed my life': stories of SIGCHI's influence. ACM Interactions, Vol. 29, No. 6, 42-45.
[Paper] [ACM DL]
Xiang Li, Xiaohang Tang, Xin Tong, Rakesh Patibanda, Florian ’Floyd’ Mueller and, Hai-Ning Liang. Myopic Bike and Say Hi: Games for Empathizing with The Myopic. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (ACM CHI PLAY '21, SGDC Award Finalist), pages 1-7, Virtual Event, Austria, 2021.
[Paper] [Video] [ACM DL]
Rakesh Patibanda, Xiang Li, Yuzheng Chen, Aryan Saini, Chris Hill, Elise van den Hoven and, Florian ’Floyd’ Mueller. Actuating Myself: Designing Hand-Games Incorporating Electrical Muscles Stimulation. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (ACM CHI PLAY '21), pages 1-8, Virtual Event, Austria, 2021.
[Paper] [Video] [ACM DL]
Florian ’Floyd’ Mueller, Rakesh Patibanda, Richard Byrne, Zhuying Li, Yan Wang, Josh Andres, Xiang Li, Jonathan Marquez, Stefan Greuter, Jonathan Duckworth and Joe Marshall. Limited Control Over The Body As Intriguing Play Design Resource. Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI '21), pages 1-16, Yokohama, Japan (Virtual), 2021.
[Paper] [Video] [ACM DL]
Xiang Li, Yuzheng Chen, Rakesh Patibanda and Florian ’Floyd’ Mueller. vrCAPTCHA: Exploring CAPTCHA Designs in Virtual Reality. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI '21), pages 1-4, Yokohama, Japan (Virtual), 2021.
[Paper] [Video] [ACM DL] [Code]
Wenge Xu, Hai-Ning Liang, Xiang Li, Yuzheng Chen, Kangyou Yu, and Qiuyu He. Results and Guidelines from a Repeated-Measures Design Experiment Comparing Standing and Seated Full-Body Gesture-Based Immersive Virtual Reality Exergames: Within-Subjects Study. JMIR Serious Games, 2020 (SCI, IF=4.143).
[Paper]
Wenge Xu, Hai-Ning Liang, Yuzheng Chen, Xiang Li and Kangyou Yu. Exploring Visual Techniques for Boundary Awareness During Interaction in Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Displays. 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR '20, Best Conference Paper Nomination), 2020, pp. 204-211
[Paper] [Video] [IEEE Xplore]
Xueshi Lu, Difeng Yu, Hai-Ning Liang, Wenge Xu Yuzheng Chen, Xiang Li and Khalad Hasan. Exploration of Hands-free Text Entry Techniques For Virtual Reality. 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (IEEE ISMAR '20), 2020, pp. 344-349
[Paper] [Video] [IEEE Xplore]
Wenge Xu Hai-Ning Liang, Xiaoyue Ma and Xiang Li. VirusBoxing: A HIIT-based VR Boxing Game. Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (ACM CHI PLAY '20, SGDC Award Finalist), pages 1-5, Virtual Event, Canada, 2021.
[Paper] [Video] [ACM DL]

Research Experiences

Jul. 2021 -- Sept. 2022. Visiting PhD Scholar. HKUST, Guangzhou, China
Host: Pan Hui.
Sept. 2021 -- Jul. 2022. Bachelor Honors Dissertation. Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
Advisor: Hai-Ning Liang.
Nov. 2021 -- Feb. 2022. Research Intern. Information Somatics Lab, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Host: Zendai Kashino, Shigeo Yoshida, Masahiko Inami.
Apr. 2021 -- Dec. 2021. Research Intern. DIVA HCI Group, Institute Polytechnique de Paris (Télécom Paris), Paris, France & Augmented Perception Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Co-Advisors: Jan Gugenheimer and David Lindlbauer.
Apr. 2020 -- Sept. 2021. Research Intern. Exertion Games Lab, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Advisor: Florian 'Floyd' Mueller.
Jun. 2019 -- Jun. 2020. Research Assistant. X-CHI Lab, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
Advisors: Hai-Ning Liang and Wenge Xu.

Academic Services

Organizing Committee:
DIS 2022: Online Participation Co-Chair.
DIS AMA: Organizer.
Program Committee:
CHI 2023: Late-Breaking Work.
CHI 2022: Late-Breaking Work.
ACM IUI 2021: Demos and Posters.
Juror:
CHI 2021: Student Game Competition.
Reviewer (60+ Papers):
2022: UIST, IEEE ISMAR & IEEE TVCG, CHI, IEEE VR.
2021: VRST, IEEE VR & IEEE TVCG, CHI, IUI, CHI PLAY, IEEE ISMAR* & IEEE TVCG*.
2020: IMWUT, IEEE ISMAR* & IEEE TVCG*, VRST, CHI PLAY.
(*) received Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviewing.
Student Volunteer:
2022: CHI.
2021: IEEE ISMAR, CHI PLAY, CHI*, TEI, DIS, MobileHCI.
2020: CHI PLAY, IEEE AIVR, IEEE ISMAR.
(*) received the student volunteer award. ;-)

Awards & Honors

Student Game Design Competition Award Finalist. ACM CHI PLAY 2021
I.D.E.A. for a Better Tomorrow Scholarship. IEEE ISMAR 2021
Student Registration Scholarship. ACM UIST 2021
Student Volunteer Award. ACM CHI 2021
Ableton Scholarship. NIME 2021
Bridge to VR Scholorship. IEEE VR 2021
Student Game Design Competition Award Finalist. ACM CHI PLAY 2020
Research Assistant Fellowship ($1,400). Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Best Conference Paper Nomination (5%). IEEE VR 2020
Student Representative in Academic Practice Sub-Committee. Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Presentations & Media Press

Myopic Bike and Say Hi: Games for Empathizing with The Myopic. ACM CHI PLAY 2021
vrCAPTCHA: Exploring CAPTCHA Designs in Virtual Reality. ACM CHI 2021
Feasibility and Effectiveness of Gesture-based Virtual Reality Seated Exergames. Exertion Games Lab
vrCAPTCHA: Exploring CAPTCHA Designs in Virtual Reality. Exertion Games Lab
Exploring Visual Techniques for Boundary Awareness During Interaction in Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Displays. IEEE VR 2020
Introduction to VR, AR, and Human-Computer Interaction. Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Museum
Exploring Visual Techniques for Boundary Awareness During Interaction in AR HMDs. ChinaVR 2020
How Undergraduate Students Do Research. Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Library
Introduction to Human-Computer Integration. Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Museum, 2021.
Selected IEEE VR Papers Nominated by Chinese Scholars. CCF-TCVRV Secretariat - ChinaVR, 2020.
Living Library Highlights. Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Library, 2020.

Affiliations

I am very fortunate to be able to work at these awesome affiliations and all of my research or projects cannot be done without these collaborations!

Department of Engineering University of Cambridge

Research Interests

Education

Department of Engineering
University of Cambridge