• Hi!
    I'm Zhen

    I am a senior researcher at Huawei Canada.

About

About Me

Hi I'm Zhen Li. I am a senior researcher at Huawei Canada (Toronto Research Centre).
I received my Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, supervised by Prof. Daniel Wigdor.
My research interests lie in Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Cross-device Interaction.

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Publications

Publications

  • Armstrong: An Empirical Examination of Pointing at Non-Dominant Arm-Anchored UIs in Virtual Reality
    Armstrong: An Empirical Examination of Pointing at Non-Dominant Arm-Anchored UIs in Virtual Reality
    Zhen Li, Joannes Chan, Joshua Walton, Hrvoje Benko, Daniel Wigdor, and Michael Glueck. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21).
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  • Eyelid Gestures on Mobile Devices for People with Motor Impairments
    Eyelid Gestures on Mobile Devices for People with Motor Impairments
    Mingming Fan*, Zhen Li*, and Franklin Mingzhe Li*. In The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '20). (Best Artifact Award)
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  • HoloDoc: Enabling Mixed Reality Workspaces that Harness Physical and Digital Content
    HoloDoc: Enabling Mixed Reality Workspaces that Harness Physical and Digital Content
    Zhen Li, Michelle Annett, Ken Hinckley, Karan Singh and Daniel Wigdor. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19).
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  • SMAC: A Simplified Model of Attention and Capture in Multi-Device Desk-centric Environments
    SMAC: A Simplified Model of Attention and Capture in Multi-Device Desk-Centric Environments
    Zhen Li, Michelle Annett, Ken Hinckley and Daniel Wigdor. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (EICS '19), Vol. 3, EICS, Article 02 (June 2019).
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  • TOAST: Ten-Finger Eyes-Free Typing on Touchable Surfaces
    TOAST: Ten-Finger Eyes-Free Typing on Touchable Surfaces
    Weinan Shi, Chun Yu, Xin Yi, Zhen Li, and Yuanchun Shi. In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (UBICOMP '18), Vol. 2, No. 1, Article 33 (March 2018).
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Education

Education

  • Education: Ph.D. in University of Toronto 2017 - 2022 Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Toronto
  • Education: M.S. in University of Toronto 2015 - 2017 M.S. in Computer Science, University of Toronto
  • Education: B.Eng. in Tsinghua University 2011 - 2015 B.Eng. in Computer Science, Tsinghua University
Experience

Work Experience

Senior Researcher June 2022 - now

Huawei Canada (Toronto Research Centre).

Research Intern Apr. - Sep. 2019

Armstrong: An Empirical Examination of Pointing at Non-Dominant Arm-Anchored UIs in Virtual Reality

Supervised by Dr. Michael Glueck at Chatham Labs

Published at CHI 2021: Link

Research Intern July - Sep. 2014

Keyboard-Surface Interaction: Using the Keyboard's Surface as a Pointing Device

Supervised by Prof. Anind Dey, HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Designed the first stage of the user study and contributed to the gesture recognition

Get in Touch

Contact

zhen.li1@huawei.com

19 Allstate Pkwy, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 5A4