Zheer Xu

Short Bio

I am a second year PhD student in the Department of Computer Sicence at Dartmouth College, and a student member of XDiscovery Lab, the HCI research group of Dartmouth led by Prof. Xing-Dong Yang. My research interests lie in the area of human-computer interaction (HCI), particularly in novel text input method beyond touchscreen and huamn behavioral models. Before coming to Dartmouth, I obtained my bachelor degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2018.

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Selected Awards

• ACM UIST Best Paper Award, ACM SIGCHI, 2019
• ACM CHI Honorable Mention Award, ACM SIGCHI, 2018
• Distinguished Member of Class 2018, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2018

News

• Oct 2019: Presented TipText at UIST'19 in New Orleans.
• July 2019: TipText has won a UIST Best Paper Award!
• May 2019: Travelled to Glasgow to attend my first CHI.
• Feb 2018: WrisText has won a CHI Honorable Mention Award!

Refereed Publications

BiTipText: Bimanual Eyes-free Text Entry on a Fingertip Keyboard

CHI 2020 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)

Zheer Xu, Weihao Chen, Dongyang Zhao, Jiehui Luo, Te-yen Wu, Jun Gong, Sicheng Yin, Jialun Zhai, Xing-Dong Yang

[Paper] [Video] [DOI]

TipText: Eyes-free Text Entry on a Fingertip Keyboard

UIST 2019 (Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology)

Zheer Xu*, Pui Chung Wong*, Jun Gong, Te-yen Wu, Aditya Shekhar Nittala, Xiaojun Bi, Jürgen Steimle, Hongbo Fu, Kening Zhu, Xing-Dong Yang

🏆 Best Paper Award | [Paper] [Video] [DOI]

WrisText: One-handed Text Entry on Smartwatch using Wrist Gestures

CHI 2018 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)

Jun Gong, Zheer Xu, Qifan Guo, Teddy Seyed, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Xiaojun Bi, Xing-Dong Yang

🏅 Honorable Mention Award | [Paper] [Video] [DOI]