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Sailin Zhong

PhD Student in Human-Computer Interaction

Research interests

My research area lies in the conjunction of the human sense of comfort and AI through environmental and physiological sensing and my research interests are human-building interaction, human-computer interaction, sensing and interface design.

Teaching

Current courses

Theses supervision

Completed

  • Loïc Rosset, Advancing the User Experience of Hybrid Meetings with Binaural Audio [MSc, 2021] (together with Dr. Hamed S. Alavi and Prof. Dr. Denis Lalanne)

Publications

  • Verma, H., Constantinides, M., Zhong, S., El Ali, A., & Alavi, H. S. (2021, September). SensiBlend: Sensing Blended Experiences in Professional and Social Contexts. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 491-495). . https://doi.org/10.1145/3460418.3479268
  • Zhong, S., Lalanne, D., and Alavi, H.S. (2021, May). The Complexity of Indoor Air Quality Forecasting and the Simplicity of Interacting with It–A Case Study of 1007 Office Meetings. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-19) . https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445524
  • Rosset, L., Alavi, H.S., Zhong, S., and Lalanne, D. (2021, May). Already It Was Hard to Tell Who’s Speaking Over There, and Now Face Masks! Can Binaural Audio Help Remote Participation in Hybrid Meetings? In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-7). https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3451802
  • Zhong, S., Alavi, H.S., and Lalanne, D. (2020, April). Hilo-wear: Exploring Wearable Interaction with Indoor Air Quality Forecast. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-8).. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382813
  • Yun, S., Zhong, S., Alavi, H.S., Sven, K., Alahi, A., and Licina, D. (2020). Detection of Occupancy Presence and Activities in a Simulated Office Environment. In 16th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (INDOOR AIR 2020) (pp. 1286–1289).
  • Alavi, H.S., Zhong, S., and Lalanne, D. (2019). Predictive Models of Indoor Carbon Dioxide Concentration to Prevent Daily Decay of Productivity and Well-Being in Shared Offices.
  • Zhong, S., Nevat, I., Acero, J.A., Rüfenacht, L.A., Jan, P., and Koh, E. (2019, November). A Novel Decision Support Tool for Climate-Responsive Urban Design. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1343, No. 1, p. 012011). IOP Publishing https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012011
  • Burkhard, R., Perhac, J., Asada, S., Troyanov, A., Zhong, S., Jiang, Y., and Schubiger, S. (2018, July). 4D-UX: User Experience Design Principles for Coupling Multidimensional Visual Representations in Presentations. In 2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV) (pp. 379-385). IEEE.https://doi.org/10.1109/iV.2018.00071

Patent

  • Zhong, S., Alavi, H.S., Lalanne, D., and undisclosed industrial partners (2021). Productivity Improvement Monitoring Notification, and Control based on Environment Factors.