Global Research in Design Innovation Exhibition  & Forum

Donghui CUI has been engaged in design education and research for 20 years. Since 2007, he has focused on the research of interior design in urban rail transit spaces and urban public art design. He has completed the planning, implementation, and research promotion of multiple urban rail transit lines.

Terrence CURRY is professor of architecture at Tsinghua University Institute for Future human Habitats and founder of Zao Lab in Shenzhen. An award-winning architect, committed educator and skilled craftsman, Professor Curry’s areas of research include design cognition and design methodology, tectonics, materials and methods of construction, fabrication and the production of housing.

Topic: Designing as discovery  

Qin GAO is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University, China. Her research interests include IT design for older people, user behaviors and experiences in social media, and human factors in complex systems. She has 20 years of experience researching usability and user behaviors with interactive systems. Her interests lie in understanding how social technologies are driven by users' inherent needs and how these technologies, in turn, shape users' perceptions and behaviors.   Qin GAO holds a PhD in Human Factors from Tsinghua University and an MS in Production Engineering from RWTH Aachen University in Germany. She has been a faculty member at Tsinghua University since 2006 and was a visiting scholar at the MIT AgeLab in 2019. She currently serves as the president of China Chapter of HFES, a Co-Chair of International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population (ITAP), and an associate editor of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries. In addition, she also serves as an editorial board member of International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, a member of the founding committee of Nuclear Psychology and Training (Chinese Nuclear Society), and a technical committee member of Managerial Ergonomics (Chinese Ergonomics Society).

Topic: Design of wearable devices for older people

Ting HAN is a Professor at the School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a Doctoral Supervisor, and a dual-appointed Professor at the Medical Robotics Research Institute. He was awarded the Special Appointment of the Changjiang Scholars Program by the Ministry of Education in 2022. Recognized as one of the Top Ten Educators by the China Industrial Design Association, he serves as a member of the Teaching Steering Committee for Industrial Design of the Ministry of Education and the National Committee for Guiding Postgraduate Education in Design Disciplines. Professor Han has won the Second Prize of the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award of Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education and the First Prize of the Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award. 

Topic: Design Thinking and Innovative Design in the Intelligence-Augmented Era Based on Human-Machine Integrated Intelligence    

Prof. Yingqing XU is a professor of Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing China. At Tsinghua University, he serves as Director of the Future Lab, and Director of the Lab for Lifelong Learning (TULLL), Tsinghua University. His research interestings include user experience design, natural user interface, immersive perception & interaction, tangible perception & interaction, and e-heritage. Before joined Tsinghua University, he was a Lead Researcher of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) where he had worked for 12 years since January 1999. Prof. Xu has published over 100 research papers and granted patents. He is a fellow of CCF (China Computer Federation), a member of CAA (China Artists Association), CDIA (China Industrial Design Association), ACM (Association for Computing Machinery); and a senior member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

Abstract: The speaker will introduce the interdisciplinary multimode human computer interaction researches of the future lab at Tsinghua university.  

Weitao YOU received the Ph.D. degree in digital art and design. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. His research interests include design intelligence, computational aesthetics, and human-computer interaction.

Topic: Co-Evolving with AI : Reimagining Human-AI Relationship in the Age of AI Agent

Dr Yang ZHAO is currently Associate Professor at the School of Public Health (Shenzhen) of Sun Yat-sen University. Prior to joining Sun Yat-sen University, Dr Yang Zhao worked as Scientific Officer at Centre for Systems Informatics Engineering of the City University of Hong Kong, where she obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2015. Dr Yang Zhao is specialized in applied statistics and machine learning, particularly their applications to facilitate system health monitoring, improve integrated decision support system, and enhance healthcare management.

Dr Yang ZHAO has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research projects, as well as track records of highly productive publications. She has been in charge of several research grants (e.g., National Natural Science Foundation of China Young Scientist Fund) as Principal Investigator and involved in various large-scale research grants (e.g., National Key Research and Development Program of China, Hong Kong RGC Theme-based Research Fund) as Co-Investigator. She has published over 40 SCI-indexed research papers in leading peer-reviewed journals on data mining and engineering, and received over 1,700 Google Scholar citations (h-index is 20).