Min Zhou ( 周敏 ) Phd Student School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University Location: Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG, Cardiff, UK Short Bio | Education | Experiences | Publications | Awards & Honors | Professional Achievements Email: ZhouM25@Cardiff.ac.uk; [Github]

News

• [2025.09-Now] Working on Narrative game for children in VR enviroment,I plan to submit it at the IJHCS
• [2025.09] I wrote a paper focus on exergame for old adults already submitted to the CHI-2026 full paper
• [2025.01] The Paper "Emotionally Challenging Games Can Satisfy Older Adults’Psychological Needs: From Empirical Study to Design Guidelines" taht I wrote was successfully accpet in 2025 CHI conference.
• [2024.06] The thesis I wrote was successfully entered to Revise and Resubmit stage of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology , UIST 2024 UIST.
• [2023.04] I accepted a Patent for a real-life digital pipeline based on photogrammetry Technical patent.

Short Bio

Hi, My name is Min Zhou, the Phd student in cardiff university! From 2024.10 - now, I start my reserach study on "Emotional challenge game" "Exergame " "User study" and "Childern study", supervised by Dr. Soumya Barathi. And Dr Katarzyna (Kathy) Stawarz. And Pfo. JOSE CAMACHO COLLADOS. During 2021-2024, I study in Beijing institude of technology .My areas of study include user experience design, UI design, interaction design, and virtual space design. My graduation thesis focused on the design of virtual games aimed at enhancing the behavioral and social abilities of children with autism. During the period of 2023.07 - 2024.9, I worked as a research assistant intern at the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where I worked with Researcher Xiaolan Peng and Researcher. Jin Huang . studied the emotional challenges older adults face in virtual spaces From 2022.09 - 2023.04, I worked as a research assistant intern at the International Design Institute of Zhejiang University, where I worked as a conversational agent collaborating with driving workers In 2021.09-2022.06, I Participated in the Digital Performance and Simulation Technology Laborat, Beijing Institute of Technology, where I worked with Prof. Gangyi Ding. Currently, I focus on the following research topics: Exergame in VR; Emotional challenge game; Narrative Game; Affective computing; Children game

Education

• 2024.10-Now           Phd. in School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University.
  Major: Computer Science
• 2021.09-2024.06         M.A. in School of Design and Art, Beijing Institute of Technology.
  Major: Industry Design
• 2016.09-2020.06         B.E. in School of Design, Jilin Animation Institute.
  Major: Product Design

Experiences

• 2024.10-Now, Cardiff university,School of Computer Science and Informatics: Location: HCI group | Phd student
2023.07-2024.9, Chinese Academy of Sciences, worked in Beijing Key Lab of Human-Computer Interaction and State Key Laboratory of Computer Science : Location: Intelligence Engineering Lab (IEL)| Visting student
• 2022.10-2023.04, Zhejiang University, worked in International Design Institute of Zhejiang University, Location: IDEA lab | Research Intern
• 2022.08-2022.11, NSFOCUS Technology Co., Ltd, worked in the UCD apartment, location: NSFOCUS | Interface Design Engineer
• 2022.06-2022.08, Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, location:ZhiPuAi | Technical Art Group
• 2021.09-2024.06, Digital Performance and Simulation Technology Laborat， Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China location:School of Design and Arts | Master student



Publications

"*" means equal contribution.
2025

• Min Zhou, Xiaolan Peng, BinJie Liu, Alena Denisova,Soumya C. Barathi,Zhuying Li,Xurong Xie,Jin Huang,Feng Tian. “Emotionally Challenging Games Can Satisfy Older Adults’ Psychological Needs: From Empirical Study to Design Guidelines” " was accepted by CHI, 2025 CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI), 2025.

2024

• Xiang Wei, Tian hui Guo, Xin li Chen, Min Zhou, Shi Chen. “Pika: A conversational agent collaborating with driving workers through social support” " Entering the revise and resubmit stage of CHI, 2024 CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI), 2024.

Awards & Honors

Awards:

• 2023, FA International Frontier Innovation Art Design Competition, Second Prize
• 2022, 9th Future Designer National University Digital Art Design Competition, Second Prize
• 2021, 10th Taihu Lake Award Design Competition, Third Prize
• 2021, SDG Global Sustainable Design Competition, Finalist
• 2018, National Undergraduate Industrial Design Competition, First Prize
• 2018, 7th National Marine Design Competition, Finalist

Honors:

• 2024, Beijing Institute of Technology Postgraduate, Second Class Study Scholarship
• 2023, Beijing Institute of Technology Postgraduate, Second Class Study Scholarship
• 2022, Beijing Institute of Technology Postgraduate, Second Class Study Scholarship
• 2019, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, National Scholarship for Undergraduates
• 2018, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, National Encouragement Scholarship for Undergraduates

Patent

• 2023, Patent for real-life digital pipeline based on photogrammetry

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