Publications
Publications
Zhou, Xiaoyan, Natalia Sempere, Pooria Ghavamian, Asreen Rostami, and Andrii Matviienko (2026). “MicroVRide: Exploring 4-in-1 Virtual Reality Micromobility Simulator”. In: Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26). Barcelona, Spain: ACM, pp. 1–6. doi: 10.1145/3772363.3798943.
Zhou, Xiaoyan (2025). “Layered Immersive Analytics for Smart Homes: Supporting Decision-Making Through Situated Awareness, Simulation, and Narrative Reflection”. In: 2025 IEEE Conference on Human Factors in Immersive Analytics (HFIA), pp. 20–23. doi: 10.1109/HFIA68651.2025.00009.
Zhou, Xiaoyan, Anil Ufuk Batmaz, Adam S. Williams, Dylan Schreiber, and Francisco Ortega (2024). “I Did Not Notice: A Comparison of Immersive Analytics with Augmented and Virtual Reality”. In: Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI EA ’24. Association for Computing Machinery. isbn: 97984007033172405. doi: 10.1145/3613905.3651085.
Zhou, Xiaoyan, Benjamin Lee, Francisco R. Ortega, Anil Ufuk Batmaz, and Yalong Yang (Oct. 2024). “Lights, Headset, Tablet, Action: Exploring the Use of Hybrid User Interfaces for Immersive Situated Analytics”. In: Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8.ISS. doi: 10.1145/3698147. url: https://doi. org/10.1145/3698147.
Williams, Adam S., Xiaoyan Zhou, Anil Ufuk Batmaz, Michel Pahud, and Francisco Ortega (2023). “A Pilot Study Comparing User Interactions Between Augmented and Virtual Reality”. In: Advances in Visual Computing. Ed. by George Bebis, Golnaz Ghiasi, Yi Fang, Andrei Sharf, Yue Dong, Chris Weaver, Zhicheng Leo, Joseph J. LaViola Jr., and Luv Kohli. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 3–14. isbn: 978-3-031-47966-3.
Zhou, Xiaoyan, Yalong Yang, Francisco Ortega, Anil Ufuk Batmaz, and Benjamin Lee (2023). “Data- driven Storytelling in Hybrid Immersive Display Environments”. In: 2023 IEEE International Sympo- sium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), pp. 242–246. doi: 10.1109/ISMAR- Adjunct60411.2023.00056.
Zhou, Xiaoyan (2023). “Designing Navigation Tool for Immersive Analytics in AR”. In: 2023 IEEE Con- ference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), pp. 975–976. doi: 10.1109/VRW58643.2023.00330.
Zhou, Xiaoyan, Adam S. Williams, and Francisco R. Ortega (2022). “Towards Establishing Consistent Proposal Binning Methods for Unimodal and Multimodal Interaction Elicitation Studies”. In: Human- Computer Interaction. Theoretical Approaches and Design Methods. Ed. by Masaaki Kurosu. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 356–368. isbn: 978-3-031-05311-5. doi: https://doi.org/10. 1007/978-3-031-05311-5_25.
Zhou, Xiaoyan, Adam Sinclair Williams, and Francisco Raul Ortega (Nov. 2022). “Eliciting Multimodal Gesture+Speech Interactions in a Multi-Object Augmented Reality Environment”. In: 28th ACM Sym- posium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST ’22), November 29-December 1, 2022, Tsukuba, Japan. doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3562939.3565637.
Patton, Colleen E., Christopher D. Wickens, Benjamin A. Clegg, and Xiaoyan Zhou (2020). “The Planning Bias in the Spatial Rendezvous: Partial Compensation for Temporal Uncertainty”. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 64.1, pp. 298–302. doi: 10 . 1177 / 1071181320641069. eprint: https://doi.org/10.1177/1071181320641069. url: https://doi.org/ 10.1177/1071181320641069.
Web & Design Chair – ACM AutoUI 2026
Session Chair – Nordic Pre-CHI 2025
Associate Chair – CHI Late-Breaking Work 2025
Student Volunteer Chair – ACM MUM 2024
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2022, 2023, 2025, 2026)
ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) (2026)
IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) (2022, 2023, 2024, 2026)
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) (2022, 2023)
ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) (2022, 2024)
ACM Spatial User Interaction (SUI) (2023, 2024)
ACM Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI) (2025, 2026)
ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) (2025)
Coordinated course delivery for 120+ students
Supervised teaching assistants and course structure
Teaching Assistant
Extended Reality in Theory and Practice, KTH (2025–2026)
Designed Unity-based AR/VR lab sessions
Supported students and evaluations
Guest Lecturer
Human-Computer Interaction Seminar, KTH (2026)
Physical Interaction Design, KTH (2025)
Supervised 3 Master’s thesis projects (2026)
Mentored Master’s students in DM2350 Human Perception for Information Technology (KTH) (2025)
Mentored a Master’s student research project in Hands-On HCI (TU Darmstadt) (2025)