Time flies, 2017 has come to an end, and 2018 has arrived. Last year, I wrote an article about 2016, but this year, I become older and lazier, so I decide to do a quick review of my past year in numbers, below is my 1-10 in 2017.
- Together with colleagues in Huawei, started an ambitious and futuristic project
- Graduated two PhD students: Chua Soon Hau & Meng Xiaojun), congratulations!
- Given 3 keynote speeches in ACM VRST, ACM MUM, and IEEE ISCID on the next interaction paradigm & taught 3 courses: User Interface Development, Interaction Design, and Research topics in HCI.
- Initiated 4 exciting collaboration projects in Canada with University of Toronto and University of Waterloo!
- Manage to run marathon under 5 hours: I finished the Sundown Marathon in 4 hours and 46 minutes in March.
- Together with my excellent students and colleagues, we published/gotAccepted 6 high quality papers:
- 2 CHI (an eyes-free word processing interface called Editalk & a study on volunteer peer learning for Dementia Patients),
- 1 Ubicomp (with Tsinghua University on an eyes-free text input technique called BlindType)
- 1 CSCW (on enabling complex references in MOOC environment called Korero)
- 1 IUI (on automatic engagement measuring tool called AVEID for Dimentia Patients)
- 1 RSS (on an novel interfaces for Flying Camera called XPose, note that RSS is a premium conference in Robotics, XPose has won the best system paper award)
- I spent 7 months of eyes-opening industrial attachment with the Huawei consumer group from May – December 2017.
- Read 8 great books,
- The Gun, Germs and Steel [The best history book I have ever read]
- Homo Sapien [A lighter version of the previous book, aiming to reach a wider audience]
- The economic way of thinking [Understand how the world functions, from an economic point of view]
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perserverence [The high level guiding principle of work & life]
- The Power of Full Engagement [How to balance the different kind of energy in life]
- Never Eat Alone [The secret behind social interaction]
- Running Revolution [How to training to run a marathon]
- Story: substance, structure, style, and the Principles of Screenwriting [The secret behind any good Holliwood movie]
- Mainly stayed in 9 different cities: Shenzhen, Huizhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou in China, Singapore, Toronto, Waterloo in Canada, Gothenberg in Sweden, Stuartgart in Germany.
- Gain 10 pounds in weight (thanks to the delicious food and cold weather in China which makes me eat more and run less ? )