Zheer Xu

PhD Student
Department of Computer Science
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH, US
Email: zheer.xu.gr@dartmouth.edu

Short Bio

I am a fourth 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 at the intersection of novel input techniques and text entry. 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

Recent News

  • Sep 2021: Start my internship at Facebook Reality Labs. Excited to join the CTRL Team!
  • May 2021: Three papers published at CHI'21.
  • Sep 2020: Finished my first industry internship at Microsoft Research. What an amazing journey!
  • May 2020: BiTipText has been published in CHI'20.
  • Oct 2019: Presented TipText at UIST'19 in New Orleans.
  • July 2019: TipText has won a UIST Best Paper Award!

Refereed Publications

BackSwipe: Back-of-device Word-Gesture Interaction on Smartphones
CHI 2021 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)
AccessibleCircuit: Adaptive Add-On Circuit Components for People with Blindness or Low Vision
CHI 2021 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)
Project Tasca: Enabling Touch and Contextual Interactions with a Pocket-based Textile Sensor
CHI 2021 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)
BiTipText: Bimanual Eyes-free Text Entry on a Fingertip Keyboard
CHI 2020 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)
TipText: Eyes-free Text Entry on a Fingertip Keyboard
UIST 2019 (Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology)
🏆 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)
🏅 Honorable Mention Award | [Paper] [Video] [DOI]
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