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AgentHands: Generating Interactive Hand Gestures for Spatially Grounded Agent Conversations in XR

Ziyi Liu, David Li, Zhongyi Zhou, David Kim, Ruofei Du, Xun Qian

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) · 2026

XR Human-AI Interaction LLM/Generative AI

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Beyond the Phone: Exploring Phone-XR Integration through Multi-View Transitions for Real-World Applications

Fengyuan Zhu, Xun Qian, Daniel Kalmar, Mahdi Tayarani, Eric J. Gonzalez, Mar Gonzalez-Franco, David Kim, Ruofei Du

2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR 2025) · 2025

XR Mobile

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Enhancing XR Auditory Realism via Multimodal Scene-Aware Acoustic Rendering

Tianyu Xu, Jihan Li, Penghe Zu, Pranav Sahay, Maruchi Kim, Jack Obeng-Marnu, Farley Miller, Xun Qian, Katrina Passarella, Mahitha Rachumalla, Rajeev Nongpiur, D Shin

Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2025) · 2025

XR Audio/Acoustics

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Sensible Agent: A Framework for Unobtrusive Interaction with Proactive AR Agents

Geonsun Lee, Min Xia, Nels Numan, Xun Qian, David Li, Yanhe Chen, Achin Kulshrestha, Ishan Chatterjee, Yinda Zhang, Dinesh Manocha, David Kim, Ruofei Du

Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2025) · 2025

XR Human-AI Interaction LLM/Generative AI

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Thing2Reality: Enabling Spontaneous Creation of 3D Objects from 2D Content using Generative AI in XR Meetings

Erzhen Hu, Mingyi Li, Jungtaek Hong, Xun Qian, Alex Olwal, David Kim, Seongkook Heo, Ruofei Du

Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2025) · 2025

XR LLM/Generative AI Video Conferencing

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AdapTUI: Adaptation of Geometric-Feature-Based Tangible User Interfaces in Augmented Reality

Fengming He, Xiyun Hu, Xun Qian, Zhengzhe Zhu, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 8, No. ISS (2024) · 2024

XR Tangible Interfaces

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ChatDirector: Enhancing Video Conferencing with Space-Aware Scene Rendering and Speech-Driven Layout Transition

Xun Qian, Feitong Tan, Yinda Zhang, Brian Collins, Alex Olwal, David Kim, Karthik Ramani, Ruofei Du

Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024) · 2024

Video Conferencing XR

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Fast-Forward Reality: Authoring Error-Free Context-Aware Policies with Real-Time Unit Tests in Extended Reality

Xun Qian, Tianyi Wang, Xuhai Xu, Tanya R. Jonker, Kashyap Todi

Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024) · 2024

XR Authoring Tools

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InstruMentAR: Auto-Generation of Augmented Reality Tutorials for Operating Digital Instruments Through Recording Embodied Demonstration

Ziyi Liu, Zhengzhe Zhu, Enze Jiang, Feichi Huang, Ana M. Villanueva, Xun Qian, Tianyi Wang, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023) · 2023

XR Authoring Tools Education

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Best Paper Honorable Mention

LearnIoTVR: An End-to-End Virtual Reality Environment Providing Authentic Learning Experiences for Internet of Things

Zhengzhe Zhu, Ziyi Liu, Youyou Zhang, Lijun Zhu, Joey Huang, Ana M. Villanueva, Xun Qian, Kylie Peppler, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023) — Honorable Mention Award · 2023

XR Education

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Ubi Edge: Authoring Edge-Based Opportunistic Tangible User Interfaces in Augmented Reality

Fengming He, Xiyun Hu, Jingyu Shi, Xun Qian, Tianyi Wang, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023) · 2023

XR Tangible Interfaces

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Ubi-TOUCH: Ubiquitous Tangible Object Utilization through Consistent Hand-object interaction in Augmented Reality

Rahul Jain, Jingyu Shi, Runlin Duan, Zhengzhe Zhu, Xun Qian, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2023) · 2023

XR Tangible Interfaces

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Best Paper Honorable Mention

XAIR: A Framework of Explainable AI in Augmented Reality

Xuhai Xu, Mengjie Yu, Tanya R. Jonker, Kashyap Todi, Feiyu Lu, Xun Qian, João Marcelo Evangelista Belo, Tianyi Wang, Michelle Li, Aran Mun, Te-Yen Wu, Junxiao Shen, Ting Zhang, Narine Kokhlikyan, Fulton Wang, Paul Sorenson, Sophie Kahyun Kim, Hrvoje Benko

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023) · 2023

XR Human-AI Interaction

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ARnnotate: An Augmented Reality Interface for Collecting Custom Dataset of 3D Hand-Object Interaction Pose Estimation

Xun Qian, Fengming He, Xiyun Hu, Tianyi Wang, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2022) · 2022

XR Computer Vision

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MechARspace: An Authoring System Enabling Bidirectional Binding of Augmented Reality with Toys in Real-time

Zhengzhe Zhu, Ziyi Liu, Tianyi Wang, Youyou Zhang, Xun Qian, Pashin Raja, Ana Villanueva, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2022) · 2022

XR Authoring Tools Tangible Interfaces

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ScalAR: Authoring Semantically Adaptive Augmented Reality Experiences in Virtual Reality

Xun Qian, Fengming He, Xiyun Hu, Tianyi Wang, Ananya Ipsita, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022) · 2022

XR Authoring Tools

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AdapTutAR: An Adaptive Tutoring System for Machine Tasks in Augmented Reality

Xun Qian, Gaoping Huang, Tianyi Wang, F. Patel, M. Sreeram, Yuanzhi Cao, Karthik Ramani, Alexander J. Quinn

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021) · 2021

XR Education

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Best Paper Honorable Mention

GesturAR: An Authoring System for Creating Freehand Interactive Augmented Reality Applications

Xun Qian, Tianyi Wang, Fengming He, Xiyun Hu, Yuanzhi Cao, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2021) — Best Paper Honorable Mention · 2021

XR Authoring Tools

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ProcessAR: An Augmented Reality-Based Tool to Create In-Situ Procedural 2D/3D AR Instructions

Subramanian Chidambaram, Hank Huang, Fengming He, Xun Qian, Ana M. Villanueva, Thomas S. Redick, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2021) · 2021

XR Authoring Tools Education

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An Exploratory Study of Augmented Reality Presence for Tutoring Machine Tasks

Yuanzhi Cao, Xun Qian, Tianyi Wang, Rachel Lee, Ke Huo, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020) · 2020

XR Education

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CAPturAR: An Augmented Reality Tool for Authoring Human-Involved Context-Aware Applications

Xun Qian, Tianyi Wang, Fengming He, Xiyun Hu, Ke Huo, Yuanzhi Cao, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2020) · 2020

XR Authoring Tools

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GhostAR: A Time-Space Editor for Embodied Authoring of Human-Robot Collaborative Task with Augmented Reality

Yuanzhi Cao, Tianyi Wang, Xun Qian, Pawan S. Rao, Manav Wadhawan, Ke Huo, Karthik Ramani

Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2019) · 2019

XR Robotics Authoring Tools

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