• 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