The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

runhua.zhang@connect.ust.hk

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. 

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

Qi Wang, Yuan Zeng, Runhua Zhang, Nianding Ye, Linghao Zhu, Xiaohua Sun*, and Teng Han*

UIST’23

Qi Wang, Fang Cui, Runhua Zhang, Leheng Chen, Xiaohua Sun, Bin Yu*

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (IJHCI)

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Runhua Zhang, Leheng Chen, Yuanda Hu, Yueyao Zhang, Jiayi Chen, Tianzhan Liang, Xiaohua Sun, Qi Wang

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (IJHCI)

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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)

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]

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!)