Hi, I'm Xiaoyan Zhou, a researcher in Human-Computer Interaction and Extended Reality.

Xiaoyan Zhou is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Media Technology and Interaction Design, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, where she is part of the Immersive Technologies Lab led by Dr. Andrii Matviienko. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Colorado State University, USA, in 2024, where she was a member of the Natural User Interaction Lab (NUI Lab) advised by Dr. Francisco Ortega.

Her research lies in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) and Extended Reality (XR), with a focus on immersive interaction, navigation, and visualization. Her work spans multimodal interaction techniques in augmented reality, immersive analytics and data-driven storytelling, and comparative studies of user interaction across augmented and virtual reality environments. Her recent research further explores micromobility simulation in virtual reality, climate change visualization in augmented reality, and the cognitive effects of misinformation in immersive environments.