Publications

Please see Jenny's Google Scholar page for more info.

Journals 

1. Yu, Zhiwei, Cory Crane, Linlin Chen, Maria Testa, Zhi Zheng. “A Computation Model to Estimate Interaction Intensity through Non-verbal Behavioral Cues: A Case Study of Intimate Couples under the Impact of Acute Alcohol Consumption.” ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH). (under review)

2. Zheng, Zhi, Hyunkyoung Oh, Mayesha Mim, Wonchan Choi, and Yura Lee. "An Exploration of Robot-Mediated Tai Chi Exercise for Older Adults." Applied Sciences 13, no. 9 (2023): 5306.

3. Nie, Guangtao, Akshith Ullal, Zhi Zheng, Amy R. Swanson, Amy S. Weitlauf, Zachary E. Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "An Immersive Computer-Mediated Caregiver-Child Interaction System for Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder." IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 29 (2021): 884-893. 

4. Koirala, Ankit, Zhiwei Yu, Hillary Schiltz, Amy Van Hecke, Brian Armstrong, and Zhi Zheng. "A Preliminary Exploration of Virtual Reality-Based Visual and Touch Sensory Processing Assessment for Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder." IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 29 (2021): 619-628.

5. Choi, Wonchan, Shengang Wang, Yura Lee, Hyunkyoung Oh, and Zhi Zheng. "A systematic review of mobile health technologies to support self-management of concurrent diabetes and hypertension." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (2020).

6. Zheng, Zhi, Guangtao Nie, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Intelligent Robotic Response to Joint Attention Intervention System." Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (2020): 1-13.

7. Zheng, Zhi, Huan Zhao, Amy R. Swanson, Amy S. Weitlauf, Zachary E. Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Noninvasive Autonomous Robot-Mediated Joint Attention Intervention System for Young Children With ASD." IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 48, no. 2 (2018): 125-135.

8. Jing Fan, Dayi Bian, Zhi Zheng, Linda Beuscher, Paul A. Newhouse, Lorraine C. Mion, Nilanjan Sarkar, “A Robotic Coach Architecture for Elder Care (ROCARE) Based on Multi-user Engagement Models,” Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on 25, no. 8 (2017): 1153-1163.

9. Zheng, Zhi, Qiang Fu, Huan Zhao, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, Nilanjan Sarkar “Design of an Autonomous Social Orienting Training System (ASOTS) for Young Children with Autism.” Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on 25, no. 6 (2017): 668-678.

10. Zheng, Zhi, Zachary Warren, Amy Weitlauf, Qiang Fu, Huan Zhao, Amy Swanson, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Brief Report: Evaluation of an Intelligent Learning Environment for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. "Journal of autism and developmental disorders 46, no. 11 (2016): 3615-3621.

11. Zheng, Zhi, Eric M. Young, Amy Swanson, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “Robot-mediated Imitation Skill Training for Children with Autism.” Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on 24, no. 6 (2015): 682-691.

12. Warren, Zachary, Zhi Zheng, Shuvajit Das, Eric M. Young, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Brief report: Development of a Robotic Intervention Platform for Young Children with ASD." Journal of autism and developmental disorders 45, no. 12 (2015): 3870-3876.

13. Bekele, Esubalew, Julie Crittendon, Zhi Zheng, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Assessing the Utility of a Virtual Environment for Enhancing Facial Affect Recognition in Adolescents with Autism." Journal of autism and developmental disorders 44, no. 7 (2014): 1641-1650.

14. Warren, Zachary E., Zhi Zheng, Amy R. Swanson, Esubalew Bekele, Lian Zhang, Julie A. Crittendon, Amy F. Weitlauf, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Can Robotic Interaction Improve Joint Attention Skills?." Journal of autism and developmental disorders 45, no. 11 (2015): 3726-3734.

15. Bekele, Esubalew, Zhi Zheng, Amy Swanson, Julie Crittendon, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Understanding How Adolescents with Autism Respond to Facial Expressions in Virtual Reality Environments." Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on 19, no. 4 (2013): 711-720.

16. Jiao, Licheng, Maoguo Gong, Shuang Wang, Biao Hou, Zhi Zheng, and Qiaodi Wu. "Natural and Remote Sensing Image Segmentation Using Memetic Computing." Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE 5, no. 2 (2010): 78-91.

Book Chapter

1.      Zheng, Zhi, Esubalew Bekele, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar, "The Impact of Robots on Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). " Autism Imaging and Devices, Taylor & Francis, Jan. 2017.

Conference Proceedings

1. Yu, Zhiwei, Mingma Tendu Sherpa, Suzannah Iadarola, Kenneth Shamlian, Samantha Daley, Grace Levine, Peter Bajorski, and Zhi Zheng. "Understanding Stress in Children with ASD and Their Caregivers in Daily Life: A Feasibility Study Using Mobile Devices." In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 1-7. 2023.

2. Wang, Dingrong, Deep Shankar Pandey, Krishna Prasad Neupane, Zhiwei Yu, Ervine Zheng, Zhi Zheng, and Qi Yu. "Deep Temporal Sets with Evidential Reinforced Attentions for Unique Behavioral Pattern Discovery." 2023 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), 1-19.

3. Zheng, Ervine, Qi Yu, and Zhi Zheng. "Sparse maximum margin learning from multimodal human behavioral patterns." In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 5437-5445. 2023.

4. Trent Rabe, Anisa Callis, Zhi Zheng, Jamison Heard, Reynold Bailey, and Cecilia Alm. Theory of Mind Assessment with Human-Human and Human-Robot Interactions. The 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2022). 

5. Zhiwei Yu, Cory Crane, Maria Testa, Zhi Zheng. “How Moderate Alcohol Consumption Impacts Married Couples in Expressing Disagreements: An Automatic Computation Model and Analysis.” The 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, 2021. 

6. Koirala, Ankit, Zhiwei Yu, Hillary Schiltz, Amy Van Hecke, Kathleen A. Koth, and Zhi Zheng. "An Exploration of Using Virtual Reality to Assess the Sensory Abnormalities in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder." In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, pp. 293-300. ACM, 2019.   

7. Zheng, Zhi, Xingliang Li, Jaclyn Barnes, Chung-Hyuk Park, and Myounghoon Jeon. "Facial Expression Recognition for Children: Can Existing Methods Tuned for Adults Be Adopted for Children?" In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 201-211. Springer, Cham, 2019.

8. Nie, Guangtao, Zhi Zheng, Jazette Johnson, Amy R. Swanson, Amy S. Weitlauf, Zachary E. Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Predicting Response to Joint Attention Performance in Human-Human Interaction Based on Human-Robot Interaction for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder." In 2018 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2018. 

9. Zheng, Zhi, Yuguang Wang, Jaclyn Barnes, Xingliang Li, Chung-Hyuk Park, and Myounghoon Jeon. "Non-invasive Gaze Direction Estimation from Head Orientation for Human-Machine Interaction." In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 380-389. Springer, Cham, 2018. 

10.  Hosseini, S. Maryam Fakhr, Dylan Lettinga, Eric Vasey, Zhi Zheng, Myounghoon Jeon, Chung Hyuk Park, and Ayanna M. Howard. "Both “look and feel” matter: Essential factors for robotic companionship." In 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 150-155. IEEE, 2017. 

11. Vasey, Eric, Maryam S. FakhrHosseini, Zhi Zheng, Chung-Hyuk Park, Ayanna Howard, and Myounghoon Jeon. “Development and Usability Testing of a Remote Control App for an Interactive Robot.” 2017 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 

12. Jeon, Myounghoon, Jaclyn Barnes, Maryam FakhrHosseini, Eric Vasey, Zack Duford, Zhi Zheng, and Emily Dare. “Robot Opera: A Modularized Afterschool Program for STEAM Education at Local Elementary School.” In Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence, the14th International Conference on (URAI 2017).

13. Zheng, Zhi, Guangtao Nie, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Longitudinal Impact of Autonomous Robot-Mediated Joint Attention Intervention for Young Children with ASD." In International Conference on Social Robotics, pp. 581-590. Springer International Publishing, 2016.

14. Zheng, Zhi, Eric M. Young, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Robot-mediated Mixed Gesture Imitation Skill Training for Young Children with ASD." In Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2015 International Conference on, pp. 72-77. IEEE, 2015.

15. Zheng, Zhi, Qiang Fu, Huan Zhao, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Design of a Computer-Assisted System for Teaching Attentional Skills to Toddlers with ASD." In International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 721-730. Springer International Publishing, 2015. (Best Paper Award)

16. Zheng, Zhi, Shuvajit Das, Eric M. Young, Amy Swanson, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Autonomous Robot-mediated Imitation Learning for Children with Autism." In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 2707-2712. IEEE, 2014.

17. Bekele, Esubalew, Joshua W. Wade, Dayi Bian, Lian Zhang, Zhi Zheng, Amy Swanson, Medha Sarkar, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Multimodal Interfaces and Sensory Fusion in VR for Social Interactions." In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Designing and Developing Virtual and Augmented Environments, pp. 14-24. Springer International Publishing, 2014.

18. Bekele, Esubalew, Dayi Bian, Zhi Zheng, Joel Peterman, Sohee Park, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Responses during Facial Emotional Expression Recognition Tasks Using Virtual Reality and Static IAPS Pictures for Adults with Schizophrenia." In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Applications of Virtual and Augmented Reality, pp. 225-235. Springer International Publishing, 2014.

19. Zheng, Zhi, Lian Zhang, Esubalew Bekele, Amy Swanson, Julie A. Crittendon, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Impact of Robot-mediated Interaction System on Joint Attention Skills for Children with Autism." In Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2013. (Best student paper finalist)

20. Bekele, Esubalew, Mary Young, Zhi Zheng, Lian Zhang, Amy Swanson, Rebecca Johnston, Julie Davidson, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "A Step Towards Adaptive Multimodal Virtual Social Interaction Platform for Children with Autism." In Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. User and Context Diversity, pp. 464-473. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.

21. Bekele, Esubalew, Zhi Zheng, Amy Swanson, Julie Davidson, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. "Virtual Reality-based Facial Expressions Understanding for Teenagers with Autism." In Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. User and Context Diversity, pp. 454-463. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.

22. Bekele, Esubalew, Zhi Zheng, Uttama Lahiri, Amy Swanson., Julie Davidson, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. (2012). “Design of a Novel Virtual Reality-based Autism Intervention System for Facial Emotional Expressions Identification.” In The 9th International conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies.

23. Zheng, Zhi, Maoguo Gong, Jingjing Ma, Licheng Jiao, and Qiaodi Wu. "Unsupervised Evolutionary Clustering Algorithm for Mixed Type Data." In Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2010 IEEE Congress on, pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2010.

Conference Abstracts     

1. Yu, Zhiwei, Suzannah Iadarola, Samantha Daley, Zhi Zheng. A Multimodal Virtual Classroom Interface to Facilitate Discovery of Behavioral Patterns in Response to Sensory Stimuli. International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting 2023 (INSAR 2023). 

2. Yu, Zhiwei, Cory Crane, Linlin Chen, Zhi Zheng. “Understand the Impact of Moderate Alcohol Intake on Non-verbal Agreement Expressions in Cohabiting Couples.” 2022 Biomdical Engineering Society Annual Meeting 

3. Zheng, Zhi, Mayesha Sahir Mim, Hyunkyoung Oh, Yura Lee, Wonchan Choi. “Can A Robot Encourage Physical Exercise for Older Adults? A Pilot Robot-Mediated Tai Chi Exercise Study.” American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2020 Annual Symposium.

4. Oh, Hyunkyoung, Yura Lee, Wonchan Choi, Zhi Zheng. “Challenges in Self-Management Among Older Adults with Hypertension and Diabetes.” The Geological Society of America 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting. 

5.  Zheng, Zhi, Qiang Fu, Huan Zhao, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “3-D Social Attention Training for Young Children with ASD.” International Meeting for Autism Research, 2016.

6. Zheng, Zhi, Qiang Fu, Huan Zhao, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “A 3-D Learning Environment for Infants and Toddlers At-risk OF ASD: Can technology improve early social communication vulnerabilities?” International Meeting for Autism Research, 2015.

Workshop paper

1.      Zheng, Zhi, Huan Zhao, Amy Swanson, Amy Weitlauf, Zachary Warren, and Nilanjan Sarkar. “A Fully Autonomous Robotic System for Training Attentional Skills to Toddlers with ASD.” International Workshop on Intervention of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders using a Humanoid Robot, 2015. 

Posters

1.    Adeniyi, Adedamola, Gracia Kalongo, Zhi Zheng. “Technology in Therapy: The Use of Sensors, Systems, and Devices to Diagnose and Treat Autism Spectrum Disorder”. 2019 UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium.

2.    Collins, Lisa, Haley Collins, Mayesha Mim, Zhi Zheng. “NAO: Human-Machine Interaction and Artificial Intelligence System-The Future of Advanced Technological Healthcare”. 2019 UWM Undergraduate Research Symposium.

3. Scholl, Catelyn, Mitchell Kossoris, Zhi Zheng. “Detection of Distracted Driving Using Machine Learning Algorithms.” UWM CEAS the 10th Anniversary Student Research Poster Competition.