Merging Digital and Physical Realities-A Human-centered Approach
Abstract:
The convergence of the digital and physical realms presents a complex yet fascinating challenge. This talk will introduce a human-centered approach to this intersection, with a focus on the interactions among on-body wearables, off-body devices, and humans. The discussion will highlight the potential of next-generation wearables and ubiquitous devices, particularly smart head-worn devices and backscatter tags, as unique tools for unified representations of digital and physical resources. The talk will conclude with a discussion of the future human-computer interaction technologies from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Biodata:
Dr. Tengxiang Zhang is an Associate Research Scientist at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Zhang’s research lines in the technical side of ubiquitous computing and human-computer interaction. He builds smart wearables (e.g., glasses, rings), develop sensing algorithms (e.g., for gestures/facial actions), and design interaction interfaces (e.g., with AR/MR) to understand and merge the tagged physical world, the digital metaverse, and the humans. Such efforts have led to various patents and publications on top venues including CHI and IMWUT. He received his Ph.D. with Honors in Computer Science from Tsinghua University in 2019, and his master’s degree from the ECE department of the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Biomedical Engineering Department at NUS