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2026
谁需要人机交互（一）：大哥大与人形机器人
多年来，每当我跟朋友解释我做的 “人机交互” 研究时，大家十有八九会理解成 “人工智能”，“脑机接口”，或者 “机器人”，基本取决于时下流行的技术现象和社会讨论。再加上现在的 “人机” 在流行语汇中的意义，人机交互作为一个研究领域的意义就越发模糊。恰逢今年春晚人形机器人汇报演出火遍海内外，借机讲讲我理解的人机交互，以及它在当下这个每年都能换算成五个什么元年的时代应该有什么价值和意义。
2025
Another Aarhus-Lancaster Meetup
Another semester, another Aarhus-Lancaster Meetup! This week, we had a fun gathering between Postdocs, PhDs, and Master students who work with Prof. Hans Gellersen in Aarhus to share research ideas and skills. I delivered a Masterclass on reviewing in HCI, and shared experience in career development in academia. We were...
Organising GEMINI Workshop at ISMAR 2025
Our proposal for the 3rd Workshop on Gaze and Eye Movement in Interaction in XR (GEMINI) has been accepted at ISMAR 2025!
Organising Online Seminar with Cornell Tech XR Collaboratory
I had the pleasure of co-organising on online seminar on Friday with Harald Haraldsson and Ken Pfeuffer between two active XR Collaboratories at Cornell Tech in New York and Pioneer Centre for AI across Denmark. We shared research ideas and teaching expereinces, and hopefully have built new connections across the...
Happy to serve as AC for UIST 2025
UIST 2025 received a record-breaking 953 complete paper submissions — a 56% increase from last year! I was invited as an AC to help with reviewing. Happy to join the UIST community!
Organising Nordic Pre-CHI Event 2025
The Nordic Pre-CHI Event last week was a blast! We had around a hundred participants from eight Universities in the Nordic countries gathering on the campus of University of Copenhagen. We saw presentations of 23 papers that were accepted (and many awarded!) at CHI by nearly all of its subcommittees....
Hosting visit from Alexandra Institute
It was a pleasure for me to represent the XR research group at Aarhus University to host a visit by the team from Alexandra Institute. Our upstairs neighbors specilise in converting cutting-edge research outcomes to products that produce commercial value and benefit the public sector. It was super cool to...
Teaching the Augmented Reality Course
Today, I have finisehd my share of lecturing for the Augmented Reality course at Aarhus University. The subject aims to provide the fundamental theoretical knowledge and development skills for Master students in Computer Science. Co-teaching with Prof. Ken Pfeuffer this semester, I covered half of the planned content including the...
2024
Attended Danish HCI Day
I’ve attended and presented at the annual Danish HCI Day at one of the new comer talk sessions. It was great meeting new people and catching up with old colleagues.
Hosting the Annual XR Collaboratory Meetup of Pioneering Centre
It was a great pleasure hosting the annual XR Collaboratory meetup of Pioneer Centre for AI at Aarhus for the first time!
Starting Postdoc at Aarhus University
After nine years at University of Melbourne, I am finally moving to Denmark to start a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Aarhus University with Dr. Ken Pfeuffer and Prof. Hans Gellersen on XR interaction. I’m super excited to embark on this new journey and very much looking forward to meeting my...
Two paper accepted at CHI 2024
I have two co-authored papers accepted at CHI 2024:
PhD thesis passed
Today, mny PhD thesis Reflected Reality: Augmented Reality Interaction with Mirror Reflections has officially passed the examination. Welcome to download and read it if you find the Abstract interesting ;-)
Starting as organising committee members of UbiComp and AHs 2024
I had the pleasure of being invited as Student Volunteer Chair for UbiComp 2024 and as Poster Chair for Augmented Humans 2024, both happening in Melbourne! I’m excited as the preparations of both conferences gradually start now. Looking forward to seeing you in Melbourne!
2023
Sydney trip: Basser Seminar, guest lecture, ISMAR
Just finished a productive trip to Sydney — I gave a research talk at the Basser Seminars at The School of Computer Science, University of Sydney. The talk encapsulated the main theme of my PhD research around augmented reality interaction with mirror reflections. I also gave a guest lecture to...
My paper 'Reflected Reality' accepted by IMWUT
My paper “Reflected Reality: Augmented Reality through the Mirror” has just been accepted at IMWUT. This paper defines and enumerates the interaction affordances of mirror reflections for everyday tasks in augmented reality (AR), while forming the main piece of my PhD thesis. Here is the PDF and a demo video:...
Launching my new art project “Guài”
We just had a great launch event last night for the art project “Guài” that I have been working on in collaboration with the artists Mindy Meng Wang and Monica Lim from the VCA! The artwork combines my research on mixed reality mirror interaction with AI, and delivers a dazzling...
Meeting Vietnamese Minister of Science and Technology
Another ministerial visit! Happy to show our research to the Vietnamese Minister of Science and Technology.
PhD Completion Seminar
Today, I gave my PhD completion seminar that marks the finishing of my PhD research. Thanks to everyone who attended physically and online!
Talking my research to Chinese Minister of Education
Today I introduced my research to a Chinese delegation led by Prof. Huai, Chinese Minister of Education, as a part of their official visit to Australia. It was inspiring to see him intrigued by our HCI research at the Interactive Technologies lab, and to hear ideas from him as a...
Guest lecture for University of Sydney
I gave a guest lecture for the subject Usability Engineering at University of Sydney for Master students. My talk gave a brief account of the history of HMD-based mixed reality, and elaborated on my perspective of how the pubic conception of (future) mixed reality technologies has been shaped by the...
2022
FEIT covers my involvement with the SWARM exhibition
FEIT reports my involvement with the art project Anthropomorphic Machine as a part of the SWARM exhibition with a brief interview (LINK).
My art project, Anthropomorphic Machine, is alive
Anthropomorphic Machine, a collaboration project that I have been working on with @StelarcStelarc and colleagues at @scigallerymel @UniMelb opened tonight. It is a tensegrity structure actuated by pneumatic muscles that interacts with the swarms of crowd underneath. It's alive! pic.twitter.com/oW8OKn0Hun— Qiushi Zhou (@haust798) August 12, 2022
Received award at Spotlight Celebration at FEIT, Unimelb
Today I attended the Spotlight Celebration at our faculty where the FEIT Community Awards were presented. I was given the Graduate Research Student of the Year Runner Up Award (shortlist of 3).
Completed training for Melbourne Teaching Certificate
Today I received my certificate of completion of the semester-long training for the Melbourne Teaching Certificate! The Melbourne Teaching Certificate (MTC) is a professional development program for University of Melbourne staff with teaching-related responsibilities.
Started new position as a Research Fellow
Today, I’m excited to start a new position as a Research Fellow at our school, under the supervision of Eduardo Velloso. I will be working on an Augmented Reality research and development project while finishing my PhD.
Guest lecture for Designing Novel Interactions
I gave a guest lecture for the subject Designing Novel Interactions at The University of Melbourne for CS and IT Master students. My lecture looked at the history of Mixed Reality through its driving forces and contemperary influences from different points in time, and provided a perspective for us to...
Guest lecture for Media Computation
I gave a guest lecture for the subject Media Computation at The University of Melbourne for first-year Design students. My lecture covered a brief introduction of the history of Mixed Reality, and curated a selection of recent research works in that field.
Shortlisted for Graduate Research Student of the Year Award
I am honoured to be shortlisted as one of the three candidates for the Graduate Research Student of the Year Award. This award is a part of the annual Community Awards by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) at The University of Melbourne, which aims to recognise and...
Paper accepted at DIS 2022
Our paper Movement Guidance using a Mixed Reality Mirror was accepted at DIS 2022! (21.5% acceptance rate) PDF
Volunteered as AC for Late-breaking Work at CHI 2022
I’m excited to start working in the CHI 2022 LBW committee as an AC.
2021
Great experience as a Subcommittee Chair Assistant for CHI 2022
I’m honoured to be granted the opportunity to work as a Subcommittee Chair Assistant for the User Experience and Usability subcommittee. It was a great learning experience for me to attend and help organise the PC meetings, and to be exposed to the rigorous discussions and debates over paper submissions....
I was elected as the president of CIS-GReS
In our latest Annual General Meeting, I was elected as the new president of CIS-GReS, the group for all graduate research students with supervisors from the University of Melbourne’s School of Computing and Information Systems. I joined the committee in 2020 and served as Communication Officer previously. Check out what...
Showcase video for the Melbourne InnovatEd Incubation Program
Last year, our team received a grant from the Melbourne InnovatEd incubation program to develop a physiotherapy teaching and learning tool Spinallog v2. With the collaboration between a team of physiotherapy instructors, engineering specialists and HCI researchers, we battled through the restrictions imposed by the pandemic and succcessfully delivered a...
Honourable Mention Award at CHI 2021
Our paper Dance and Choreography in HCI: A Two-Decade Retrospective won an Honourable Mention Award at CHI 2021! PDF