About Me
I am a 2nd year PhD student specializing in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at the University of Tokyo, under the supervision of Prof.Koji Yatani.
My passion is to design critical AI tools that foster human’s science communication and well-being. Previously I was working in the Rakuten Group Inc. as an Application Engineer for 2 years. Before that, I got my master degree from the Keio University under the supervision of Prof.Yuta Sugiura, and got my bachelar degree from the Dalian University of Technology.
I like making coffee ,workout and playing console games in my leisure time. Recently, I am playing Battlefield 6 on PS5.
Research Interests
Human Computer Interaction: Human–AI Interaction and AI for Science, focusing on how AI can be designed to foster human critical thinking and positively support mental well-being.
News
- [Jan. 2026] I presented “Designing An LLM-based Interactive System to Support Critical Paper Reading” at the domestic conference HCI研究会 216.
- [Dec. 2025] Honored to receive the JSPS DC2 Research Fellowship (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship for Young Scientists)!
- [Dec. 2025] One first-authored paper has been conditionally accepted to ACM IUI 2026.
- [Apr. 2025] First time attending CHI in person, had a great time co-hosting the Meta-HCI workshop. The After Party was a blast!
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- [Feb. 2025] One first-authored paper is accepted to CHI Late Breaking Work 2025.
- [Jan. 2025] I will collaborate to organize the Meta-HCI: First Workshop on Meta-Research in HCI in CHI 2025.
- [Nov. 2024] I visited and gave talks at Computational Behavior Lab at Aalto University; Multimodality Research Group at Helsinki University; and Ubiquitous Computing Center at Oulu University. Appreciate the warm welcomes!
- [Apr. 2024] Joined IIS Lab, UTokyo to start my PhD life.
- [Mar. 2024] Selected for the SPRING GX Research Fellowship.
- [Mar. 2024] I will join the UTokyo for my PhD study since April.
- [Aug. 2022] "Volearn" is accepted to Ubicomp IMWUT 2022.
- [Apr. 2022] Joined Rakuten Group Inc as an application engineer.
- [Mar. 2022] Received my master degree from the Keio University.
- [Feb. 2022] "Knock Knock" is accepted to Augmented Humans 2022.
- [Dec. 2021] "Knock Knock" won 2nd place of SONY Sensing Solution Hackathon.
- [Oct. 2021] "Volearn" is presented to UIST 2021 Demo session.
- [Oct. 2021] Served as the student volunteer for UIST 2021 and ASSETS 2021.
- [Apr. 2021] "FacialPen" is accpeted to Asian CHI Symposium 2021.
Publications
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IUI 2026
Xinrui Fang, Anran Xu, Chi-Lan Yang, Ya-Fang Lin, Sylvain Malacria, Koji Yatani
To appear in ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) 2026.
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CHI 2025
Xinrui Fang, Anran Xu, Sylvain Malacria, Koji Yatani
In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25), 2025.
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CHI 2025
Jonas Oppenlaender, Sylvain Malacria, Xinrui Fang, Niels van Berkel, Fanny Chevalier, Koji Yatani, Simo Hosio
In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25), 2025.
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CPHS 2022
M Takeda, M Inoue, Xinrui Fang, Y Minami, JM Maestre
4th IFAC Workshop on Cyber-Physical and Human Systems CPHS, 2022.
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IMWUT 2022
Chengshuo Xia, Xinrui Fang, Riku Arakawa, Yuta Sugiura
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2022.
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AHs 2022
Xinrui Fang, Takuro Watanabe, Chengshuo Xia, Arthur Torck
Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference (AHs), 2022.
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Asian CHI 2021
Xinrui Fang, Chengshuo Xia, Yuta Sugiura
Proceedings of the Asian CHI Symposium 2021 (Asian CHI), 2021.
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UIST 2021
Chengshuo Xia, Xinrui Fang, Yuta Sugiura
Adjunct Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Demo), 2022.
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