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Ran Zhou is a creative technologist and researcher passionate about human-robot interaction, hapticsÌýand tangible interaction. She is particularly interested in improving the emotional expressiveness of robots and is now devoted to exploring the emotional communication between robots and humans through haptic interaction. She successfully passed her preliminary examÌýin November 2022, submitting these written responses to her examÌýprompts. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Design and Technology fromÌýParsons School of Design, with a background in architecture. Her advisor is Daniel Leithinger.

Projects

• EmotiTactor

Publications

Ran Zhou,ÌýZachary Schwemler, Akshay Baweja, Harpreet Sareen,ÌýCasey Lee Hunt, andÌýDaniel Leithinger. 2023. "". In:ÌýProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsÌý(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).

Ran Zhou,ÌýZachary Schwemler, Akshay Baweja, Harpreet Sareen,ÌýCasey Lee Hunt, andÌýDaniel Leithinger. 2023. "". In:ÌýExtended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsÌý(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).Ìý

S. Sandra Bae,ÌýRishi Vanukuru,ÌýRuhan Yang,ÌýPeter Gyory,ÌýRan Zhou,ÌýEllen Yi-Luen Do,ÌýDanielle Albers Szafir. 2022.ÌýCultivating Visualization Literacy for Children Through Curiosity and Play. InÌýProceedings of IEEE VIS 2022,ÌýÌýÌý(Oct.16-21, 2022—Oklahoma City, Oklahoma).

Ran Zhou, Harpreet Sareen, Yufei Zhang, andÌýDaniel Leithinger.Ìý2022. EmotiTactor: Exploring How Designers Approach Emotional Robotic Touch. InÌýDesigning Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1330–1344.ÌýÌý.pdf Ìý(June 13-17, 2022—Virtual Event, Australia)Ìý[Best Pictorial Honorable Mention].

Ran ZhouÌýand Harpreet Sareen. 2020. EmotiTactor: Emotional Expression of Robotic Physical Contact. InÌýCompanion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS' 20 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 151–156. DOI:

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