Research


Design cognition and neuroscience

Human-AI co-design

Creativity research

Health

Health Design
Accessible Design
Digital Health Intervention

Interaction

Human-Computer Interaction
Brain-Computer Interaction
Human-AI Interaction

Interdisciplinary

Project list

Funded projects (in progress)

  • Human-AI co-creative process (2023 - present)
    • Principal investigator, Funded by STELLAR HE Programme funding 
  • Reduce AI digital divide and ageism on older adults through responsible user interface (2024- Present)
    • Principal investigator, Early Career Researcher Fund 
  • Nature of VRCo-principal investigator (2022-present)
    • Co-Principal investigator, Cooperate with Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Delft University of Technology, Identify the effect of VR on creative design 

Funded projects (PI)

  • Motivation of using AI for designers (2024- 2025)
    • Principal investigator, Funded by Goldsmiths University of London
  • Ability of high-school educators in distinguishing AI-generated design assignment (2022-2023)
    • Principal investigator, Funded by Goldsmiths University of London
  • The expectation of online learning platforms for protection of intangible cultural heritage (2021 - 2023)
    • Principal investigator, Funded by University of Southern California, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and the Association of International Cultural and Creative Industry Research

Funded projects (Researcher)

  • Develop AI for creativity evaluation (2025)
    • Research Fellow, University of Exeter Department of Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship, Funded by UKRI EPSRC Digital Economy Centre DIGITlab 
  • Health service design (2024-2025)
    • Research Assistant, Discovery the conceptual model of health service design, University of Exeter Department of Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship, Funded by SPHERE funded by EPSRC/NIHR
  • Understand AI technologies to help auditor to building construction (2024-2025)
    • Research Assistant, Imperial College London Dyson school of design engineering, Funded by Innovative UK (Grant Number: 10102569; grant title BuildAudit)
  • Connected through robots: physically coupling humans to boost handwriting and music learning (2022-2023)
    • Research Associate, Newcastle University School of Engineering, Funded by EU HORIZON 2020 (ID: 871803; grant title: CONBOTS)

Cooperation projects

  • EDI Avatar for visualization (2024-2025)
    • Develop new avatars that considered the EDI  principles, Cooperate with Educational department, Imperial College London
  • Education and design  (2021-2022)
    • Principal investigator,  Investigate effects of having a course on creativity on freshman performance during their college time and beyond.
  • Constructive alignment (2021)
    • Cooperate with Educational department and medicine department at Imperial College London, Develop a virtualization platform to teach surgical educators.
  • AR device to be used in training for bone marrow biopsy personnel (2021)
    • Cooperate with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust staff, the Technical University of Munich student, and Royal Collage of Art student. An AR device to be used in training for bone marrow biopsy personnel.
  • Investigation on AI and Exploratory creativityCo-principal investigator (2020-2022)
    • Cooperate with Zhejiang University, Investigate the different performance of exploratory creative design between human and machines and developed an exploratory creativity assessment scale
  • ENtrainment & synchronization at multiple TIME scales in the MENTal foundations of expressive gesture (EnTimeMent) (2019)
    • Advance understanding of components of human movement (perception) and build sound/music feedback systems that are tailored to these. (Principal investigator: Prof Nadia Berthouze) EU H2020 FET project, 2019 to 2022. ID: 824160
  • Bathrooms for senior people (2018-2022)
    • Cooperate with RISE SICS (previously Swedish Institute of Computer Science), Design new bathrooms for senior people
  • Dashboard of UCL Hospital (2019)
    • Improve conceptual design for an information dashboard in the Intensive Care Unit at UCL Hospital
  • Digital behavior change applications motivation (2019-2022)
    • Identify the effect of digital behavior change applications and the motivation of digital behavior change intervention
  • Communication Equipment for the Hearing Impaired People (2018-2019)
    • The equipment which can help the hearing impaired people to communicate with other people  
  •  A solar house   (2017)
    • Workshop of Wuppertal University and Beijing Institute of Technology,Design a house can operate through collecting and storing solar energy