Ran Zhou is a creative technologist and researcher passionate about human-robot interaction, haptics听and 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 exam听in November 2022, submitting these written responses to her exam听prompts. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Design and Technology from听Parsons School of Design, with a background in architecture. Her advisor is Daniel Leithinger.
Projects
Publications
Ran Zhou,听Zachary Schwemler, Akshay Baweja, Harpreet Sareen,听Casey Lee Hunt, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2023. "". In:听Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems听(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).
Ran Zhou,听Zachary Schwemler, Akshay Baweja, Harpreet Sareen,听Casey Lee Hunt, and听Daniel Leithinger. 2023. "". In:听Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems听(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).听
S. Sandra Bae,听Rishi Vanukuru,听Ruhan Yang,听Peter Gyory,听Ran Zhou,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do,听Danielle Albers Szafir. 2022.听Cultivating Visualization Literacy for Children Through Curiosity and Play. In听Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2022,听听听(Oct.16-21, 2022鈥擮klahoma City, Oklahoma).
Ran Zhou, Harpreet Sareen, Yufei Zhang, and听Daniel Leithinger.听2022. EmotiTactor: Exploring How Designers Approach Emotional Robotic Touch. In听Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1330鈥�1344.听听.pdf 听(June 13-17, 2022鈥擵irtual Event, Australia)听[Best Pictorial Honorable Mention].
Ran Zhou听and Harpreet Sareen. 2020. EmotiTactor: Emotional Expression of Robotic Physical Contact. In听Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS' 20 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 151鈥�156. DOI:
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