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General information
| Name | Qing Zhang |
| Label | Interest-driven Researcher? |
| qzkiyoshi'at'gmail.com | |
| Url | https://artisticsciencex.github.io/ |
| Summary | Dr. Qing Zhang is an HCI researcher at the University of Tokyo working on wearable computing and programmable vision—augmenting human visual perception through smart eyewear—with a focus on inclusive design for aging and human-AI co-creation. |
Education
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2020.04 - 2023.03 Tokyo, Japan
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2017.04 - 2019.03 Tokyo, Japan
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2009.10 - 2013.06 Wuhan, China
Appointments
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2026 - 2027 -
2026 - 2027 -
2024 - 2026 -
2023 - 2024
Awards & Honors
- 2026
NVIDIA Academic Grant
NVIDIA
- 2026
Best Paper Honorable Mention
Augmented Humans International Conference (AHs 2026)
For OpticalAging: Real-time Presbyopia Simulation for Inclusive Design via Tunable Lenses.
- 2025
Best Paper Honorable Mention
Augmented Humans International Conference (AHs 2025)
For Cuddle-Fish (with mentored students).
- 2024
- 2024
Best Poster Award
Augmented Humans International Conference (AHs 2024)
For AgedEyes: Optically Simulating Presbyopia Using Tunable Lenses.
- 2024
Silver Prize (approx. JPY 1,000,000)
Jimeng (ByteDance) AI UI/UX Design Contest
- 2023
- 2023
Most Excellent Presentation Award
Keio AIC Conference 2023
- 2022
Most Creative (Top Award), Student Design Competition
ACM MobileHCI 2022
Team Leader; prize approx. JPY 450,000. Mouth Movements based Human Smart Glasses Interactive System Design.
Grants & Funding
- 2025-2028
Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (International Collaborative Research, B)
JSPS
Reconstructing fragmented experience: first-person MLLM support for the cognitive well-being of older adults. JPY 15,340k.
- 2025-2028
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (Wakate)
JSPS
Universal design support via first-person experience of aged vision for an aging society. JPY 4,680k.
- 2025-2026
UTokyo-Princeton Joint Research & Education Project
The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator (UTokyo side). JPY 1,800k.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Papers (Full & Short)
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2026 Beyond "Made with AI": Visualizing Provenance Density to Mitigate the Transparency Penalty
35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2026), Human-Centred AI Track
Zhang, Q., Huang, Y., Lee, J., Starner, T., Rekimoto, J. — Bremen, Germany (to be presented Aug 2026).
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2026 OpticalAging: Real-time Presbyopia Simulation for Inclusive Design via Tunable Lenses
Augmented Humans International Conference 2026 (AHs '26)
Zhang, Q., Su, Z., Kondoh, Y., Asada, K., Starner, T., Kunze, K., Itoh, Y., Rekimoto, J. — Best Paper Honorable Mention.
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2025 Panel-by-Panel Souls: A Performative Workflow for Expressive Faces in AI-Assisted Manga Creation
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), Creative AI Track
Zhang, Q., Huang, J., Huang, Y., Rekimoto, J.
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2025 Semantic Glitch: Agency and Artistry in an Autonomous Pixel Cloud
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), Creative AI Track
Zhang, Q., Huang, J., Xu, M., Rekimoto, J.
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2025 Beyond Symbols: Motion Perception Cues Enhance Dual-Task Performance with Wearable Directional Guidance
ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp/ISWC '25)
Zhang, Q., Chen, J., Huang, Y., Huang, J., Starner, T., Kunze, K., Rekimoto, J.
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2025 Cuddle-Fish: Exploring a Soft Floating Robot with Flapping Wings for Physical Interactions
Augmented Humans International Conference 2025 (AHs '25)
Xu, M., Shao, J., Ju, Y., et al., Zhang, Q., et al., Kunze, K. — Best Paper Honorable Mention (with mentored students).
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2022 Seeing our Blind Spots: Smart Glasses-based Simulation to Increase Design Students' Awareness of Visual Impairment
35th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '22)
Zhang, Q., Barbareschi, G., Huang, Y., Li, J., Pai, Y. S., Ward, J., Kunze, K.
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2021 Tunnel Vision: Dynamic Peripheral Vision Blocking Glasses for Reducing Motion Sickness Symptoms
ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp/ISWC '21)
Zhang, Q., Yamamura, H., Baldauf, H., Zheng, D., Chen, K., Yamaoka, J., Kunze, K.
Posters, Demos & Extended Abstracts
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2026 Pinching Tactile Display: End-to-End Vibration Transmission for Fabric Tactile Sensation
Extended Abstracts, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26)
Kitagishi, T., Zhang, Q., Rekimoto, J. — Barcelona, Spain.
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2025 Pro's Eyes: A Wearable System for Synchronous and Asynchronous Observational Pattern Learning
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Emerging Technologies
Zhang, Q., Huang, J., Itoh, Y., Starner, T., Kunze, K., Rekimoto, J.
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2025 Spread Your Wings: Demonstrating a Soft Floating Robotic Avatar with Flapping Wings for Novel Physical Interactions
ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 Emerging Technologies
Xu, M., Ju, Y., Zhang, Q., et al., Kunze, K., Minamizawa, K. (with mentored students).
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2025 AutoGaze: A SAM2-based Pipeline for Automated Eye-Object Interaction Analysis in First-Person Videos
IEEE VR Workshops 2025 (pp. 897-900)
Zhang, Q., Huang, Y., Rekimoto, J. (with mentored students).
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2025 Look and Talk: Seamless AI Assistant Interaction with Gaze-Triggered Activation
Augmented Humans International Conference 2025 (AHs '25)
Zhang, Q., Rekimoto, J.
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2024 Affec-tive Wings: Exploring Affectionate Behaviors in Close-Proximity Interactions with Soft Floating Robots
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Posters
Xu, M., Ju, Y., Qi, Y., Meng, X., Zhang, Q., et al., Kunze, K. (with mentored students).
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2024 Mapping Gaze and Head Movement via Salience Modulation and Hanger Reflex
Adjunct Proceedings, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '24)
Li, W., Zhang, Q., Nakamura, T., Lai, S., Rekimoto, J. (with mentored students).
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2024 Real-Time Bidirectional Head Rotation Sharing for Collaborative Interaction Enhancement
ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI '24)
Li, W., Nakamura, T., Zhang, Q., Rekimoto, J. — Best Demo Award (with mentored students).
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2024 AgedEyes: Optically Simulating Presbyopia Using Tunable Lenses
Augmented Humans International Conference 2024 (AHs '24)
Zhang, Q., Kondoh, Y., Itoh, Y., Rekimoto, J. — Best Poster Award.
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2023 First Bite/Chew: Distinguish Different Types of Food by First Biting/Chewing and the Corresponding Hand Movement
Extended Abstracts, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23)
Chen, J., Wang, X., Li, J., Chernyshov, G., Huang, Y., Kunze, K., Huang, J., Starner, T., Zhang, Q. (corresponding author; with mentored students).
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2023 First Bite/Chew: Distinguish Typical Allergic Food by Two IMUs
Augmented Humans International Conference 2023 (AHs '23)
Li, J., Wang, X., Chen, J., Starner, T., Chernyshov, G., Huang, J., Huang, Y., Kunze, K., Zhang, Q. — Best Poster Award (with mentored students).
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2022 Inner self-drawing machine
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 Art Gallery
Zhang, Q., Xie, F., Huang, Y., Pai, Y. S., Chernyshov, G., Huang, J., Wang, X., Ward, J. A., Kunze, K.
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2022 Experience Visual Impairment via Optical See-through Smart Glasses
Adjunct Proceedings, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '22 Adjunct)
Zhang, Q., Wang, X., Starner, T., Huang, Y., Chernyshov, G., Barbareschi, G., Pai, Y. S., Huang, J., Yamaoka, J., Ward, J. A., Kunze, K.
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2022 Programmable Peripheral Vision: augment/reshape human visual perception
Extended Abstracts, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '22) - Doctoral Consortium
Zhang, Q.
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2022 GazeSync: Eye Movement Transfer Using an Optical Eye Tracker and Monochrome Liquid Crystal Displays
27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '22 Companion)
Zhang, Q., Huang, Y., Chernyshov, G., Li, J., Pai, Y. S., Kunze, K.
Invited Talks
- 2025
Visual Communication Design to HCI
Hubei Institute of Fine Arts
- 2023
Design for the Future - 2023 Kanji Art Triennial "East Meets West"
China Academy of Art
- 2023
Programmable Vision: Boosting Inclusive Design
University of Science and Technology of China
- 2023
Design for Desired Reality
Wuhan Institute of Design and Sciences
Exhibitions
- 2025
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025, Emerging Technologies
Hong Kong, China
- 2025
SIGGRAPH 2025, Emerging Technologies
Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 2022
SIGGRAPH Asia 2022, Art Gallery
EXCO, Daegu, Korea
- 2019
Cat Exhibition
Tokyo University of the Arts, Art Plaza
- 2019
Media Art & Programming 2019
Tokyo University of the Arts, AMC Center
- 2018
MOT Satellite 2018 Autumn: Stories That Move
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
- 2017
International Digital Picture Book Fair 2017 @ UTokyo
The University of Tokyo, Fukutake Hall
- 2017
Folkestone Triennial, UK 2017
Folkestone, United Kingdom
- 2017
Character Q&A - China-Japan Font Design Comparison
Hubei Museum of Art
- 2015/2016
ArtPath 2015 & ArtPath 2016
Tokyo University of the Arts
Academic Service
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2021 - Present Reviewer
Conference & Journal Peer Review
- ACM CHI (2022-2026)
- ACM UIST (2025-2026)
- ACM IMWUT (2025-2026)
- ACM SIGGRAPH (2026)
- NeurIPS (2026)
- IEEE ISMAR (2024-2025)
- IEEE TVCG (2024-2025)
Languages
| Chinese | |
| Native speaker |
| Japanese | |
| Fluent |
| English | |
| Fluent |
Interests
| Research Interests | |
| Wearable & Augmented Perception | |
| Human-AI Co-Creation | |
| 24/7 AI Assistants | |
| Inclusive Design for Aging | |
| Art x Science |
References
| Professor Jun Rekimoto | |
| Professor Thad Starner | |
| Professor Kai Kunze | |