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My name is Shengdong (Shen) ZHAO, or 赵盛东 in Chinese. I am an associate professor of the Computer Science Department at the National University of Singapore (NUS). I am also a member of the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences & Engineering. My PhD degree is in computer science from the University of Toronto. My master degree is from School of Information Management & Systems, University of California, Berkeley. I also had a dual major in computer science and biology from the Linfield College, Oregon, USA. I founded the NUS-HCI Lab at the National University of Singapore in January 2009. I am passionate about developing new interface tools and applications that can simplify and enrich people’s lives (i.e., Draco, won best iPad App of the year in 2016). I publish regularly in top HCI conferences and journals (ToCHI, CHI, UbiComp, CSCW, UIST, IUI, etc.). I am interested in connecting academy results with the industry, and have served as a senior consultant with the Huawei Consumer Business Group. I frequently participate in program committees of top HCI conferences, and have worked as the paper co-chair for the ACM SIGCHI 2019 and 2020 conferences. In my leisure time, I love to read, run, and explore the beautiful nature.
My vision in human computer interaction is to fundamentally improve the way humans interact with technology through Heads-Up Computing – the next interaction paradigm built on a wearable platform consisting of head, hand, and body modules that distributes the input and output capabilities of the device to match the human input and output channels. It proposes a voice + gesture multimodal interaction approach. Once realized, Heads-Up computing can transform the way we work and live – imagine being able to attend to and manipulate information seamlessly while engaging in a variety of indoor and outdoor daily activities such as cooking, exercising, hiking, socializing with friends, etc. To find out more, watch the introductory video on the left. Or visit this page.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much. --Helen Keller
NUS-HCI Lab successfully conducted a six-day bootcamp of talks, activities, workshops and hackathon of Future Interactions using Smart-glasses and related wearable devices from May 23rd
LSVP: Towards Effective On-the-go Video Learning Using Optical Head-Mounted Displays, a research article authored by Ashwin Ram and Professor Shengdong Zhao was featured on NUS
Singapore’s premier Chinese lifestyle newspaper, zbNOW released an article about Metaverse after interviewing associate professor Shengdong Zhao and others. Read the article below: