Latest News
[07/2025] A first-authored paper was accepted to UIST’25. See you in Busan, Korea
in late September!
[06/2025] A co-authored poster was accepted by CSCW’25! See you in Bergen, Norway
in October! Congrats to Ziqi and Prof. Ma!
[05/2025] A co-authored paper, was accepted by DIS’25! Congrats to Xinglin and Prof. Wang!
[04/2025] Happy to attend CHI’25 in Yokohama, Japan
I’d love to connect! Feel free to email me!
[04/2025] Excited to present our CHI’25 paper at the GBA Pre-CHI event at CityU, HK.
[01/2025] Excited to be a committee member (AC) of CHI’25 Late Breaking Work!
[01/2025] Our paper “Walk in Their Shoes to Navigate Your Own Path: Learning About Procrastination Through A Serious Game” was conditionally accepted by CHI’25! This is my first first-author CHI paper! Many thanks to my co-authors! See you in Yokohama, Japan!
[12/2024] I was invited to be a reviewer for CSCW 2025!
[10/2024] I was invited to be a reviewer for ChineseCHI 2025!
[10/2024] I was invited to be a reviewer for CHI 2025! Excited to do some service to our community!
[09/2024] Began my PhD journey at HKUST!
[07/2024] Graduated from College of Design and Innovation (D&I), Tongji University, and won the Outstanding Graduate Honor in Shanghai, China.
[06/2024] My master’s thesis earned the Best Thesis Award at D&I, Tongji University!
[10/2023] Excited to share that I was awarded the National Scholarship (1%) at Tongji University. This was my fourth time winning this award.
[10/2023] Our paper “Textile-sensing Wearable Systems for Continuous Motion Angle Estimation: A Systematic Review” was accepted by IJHCI. I am the first author of this work.
[08/2023] Our paper “EmTex: Prototyping Textile-Based Interfaces through An Embroidered Construction Kit” was accepted by UIST’23.
[07/2023] Our poster “A Tailored Textile Sensor-based Wrap for Shoulder Complex Angles Monitoring” was accepted by Ubicomp/ISWC’23. I am the co-first author of this work!
[07/2023] Our poster “LayTex: A Design Tool for Generating Customized Textile Sensor Layouts in Wearable Computing” was accepted by Ubicomp/ISWC’23.
[07/2023] Our paper “Designing Smart Legging for Posture Monitoring based on Textile Sensing Networks” was accepted by IJHCI.
Latest Blogs
Some materials, personal thoughts on HCI, feminism, or personal growth.
[May 22, 2025] Personal Thoughts on Gender-based Violence: The Trap of Individualism.
[Mar 8, 2025] Reflection on How My HCI Research Experiences Helped Me Heal. (Happy Women’s Day!)
[Jan 17, 2025] My First CHI Paper Journey!
[Oct 30, 2024] KEY Guidelines for the Reviewers in the HCI Community.
[Sept 19, 2024] Personal Thoughts on What Makes HCI Different from Psychology?
Academic Services
AC @ CHI’25 Late Breaking Work
Reviewer @ CSCW 2025
Reviewer @ ChineseCHI 2025
Reviewer @ CHI 2025
Hi, I’m Runhua ZHANG, a first-year PhD student at HKUST. As a member of VisLab and the HCI Initiative, I am luckily to be supervised by Prof. Huamin QU and Prof. Xiaojuan MA. My research focuses on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Recently, I have been exploring how HCI technologies, such as Human-AI collaboration, can contribute to the advancement of feminism. I am also interested in designing interactions that empower personal storytelling and reflection.
Before joining HKUST, I received an M.A. in Design (Best Thesis Award ), under the supervision of Prof. Qi WANG, at Center for Digital Innovation (CDI), College of Design and Innovation(D&I), Tongji University. I also earned a B.E. in Industrial Design (Best Thesis Award ) from School of Engineering, Sichuan University.
Publications
Before stepping into Feminist HCI (ongoing projects), I cultivated my interest in HCI by exploring a range of topics. Gradually, I found they formed two lines: (1) empowering storytelling (UIST ’25) or leveraging storytelling to facilitate positive reflection (CHI ’25, DIS ’25); and (2) tangible interfaces using e-textiles (UIST ’23, Ubicomp/ISWC ’23, IJHCI)
* denotes corresponding author, + denotes equal contribution
Runhua Zhang, Jiaqi Gan, Shangyuan Gao, Siyi Chen, Xinyu Wu, Dong Chen, Yulin Tian, Qi Wang*, Pengcheng An*
CHI’25
Xinglin Sun, Caroline Claisse, Runhua Zhang, Xingyu Wu, Jialin Yuan, Qi Wang*
DIS’25
Qi Wang, Yuan Zeng, Runhua Zhang, Nianding Ye, Linghao Zhu, Xiaohua Sun*, and Teng Han*
UIST’23
Runhua Zhang+, Yuanda Hu+, Yuxuan He, Shiwen Fang, Bin Yu, Xiaohua Sun, Qi Wang*
Ubicomp/ISWC’23 (poster)
Qi Wang, Fang Cui, Runhua Zhang, Leheng Chen, Xiaohua Sun, Bin Yu*
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (IJHCI)
Yueyao Zhang, Nianchong Qu, Runhua Zhang, Ye Tao, Guanyun Wang, Qi Wang*
UbiComp/ISWC ’23 (poster)
Runhua Zhang, Leheng Chen, Yuanda Hu, Yueyao Zhang, Jiayi Chen, Tianzhan Liang, Xiaohua Sun, Qi Wang*
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (IJHCI)
Education Experiences
[2024-present] PhD student in indvidualised Interdisciplinary Program (IIP), HKUST
[2021-2024] Master of Art in Design, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University 
[2022-2023] Exchange Program, School of Arts, Design and Architecture (ARTS), Aalto University 
[2017-2021] Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Design, School of Engineering, Sichuan University
Awards, Scholarships, and Honors (selected)
Best Thesis Award for Master’s Degree [06/2024] (Research Topic: Designing for Reflection, Personal Informatics)
Best Thesis Award for Bachelor’s Degree [06/2021] (Research Topic: Voice User Interfaces, Automotive)
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National Scholarship of China (<1%, top award in China) [10/2023]
Excellent Master Student Scholarship at Tongji University (<5%) [12/2023]
Jianguo-Peng Scholarship for Students at Sichuan University (10/400) [12/2020]
National Scholarship of China (<1%, top award in China) [09/2020]
National Scholarship of China (<1%, top award in China) [09/2019]
National Scholarship of China (<1%, top award in China) [09/2018]
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Outstanding Graduate in Shanghai, China (< 1%) [06/2024]
Best Graduate at Tongji University (Sole winner at the College of Design and Innovation) [11/2023]
Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate in Sichuan Province, China (<1%) [06/2021]
“TOP 100” Students at Sichuan University (Ranked 100/30,000, biennial) [07/2020]
Acknowledgements
Jiaqi (Flora) GAN (My best friend. Developer at Oracle, Graduate at Dartmouth College. Her expertise in coding had saved me time and time again. I am so proud of being her best friend.)
Tianzhan Liang (The best designer I know)
Dr. Yao WANG ( Post-doc at University of Stuttgart. He really helped me a lot when I knew very little about HCI and Visualisation. Congrats to Dr. Wang on earning his doctoral degree on November 5th, 2024!)