Xinrui Fang | The University of Tokyo

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 also collabroted with Prof.Can Liu from the CityU of HongKong during the HCIX summer internship program.

I like making coffee ,workout and playing console games in my leisure time. Recently, I am playing Cyberpunk 2077 on PS5.

Research Interests

Human Computer Interaction: Human-AI Interaction, Critical AI

News

[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. I appreciate the warm welcomes.
[Apr. 2024] Joined IIS Lab, UTokyo to start my PhD life.
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Peer-reviewd Papers

IFAC-PapersOnLine

Light Guidance Control of Human Drivers: Driver Modeling, Control System Design, and VR Experiment

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

VoLearn: A Cross-Modal Operable Motion-Learning System Combined with Virtual Avatar and Auditory Feedback

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

Knock Knock: A Children-oriented Vocabulary Learning Tangible User Interaction System

Xinrui Fang, Takuro Watanabe, Chengshuo Xia, Arthur Torck

Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference (AHs), 2022.

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Asian CHI

FacialPen: Using Facial Detection to Augment Pen-Based Interaction

Xinrui Fang, Chengshuo Xia, Yuta Sugiura

Proceedings of the Asian CHI Symposium 2021 (Asian CHI), 2021.

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Peer-reviewd Demos, LBWs and Workshops

CHI EA ’25 LBW

Exploring Practices, Challenges, and Design Implications for Citation Foraging, Management, and Synthesis

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 EA ’25 Workshop

Meta-HCI: First Workshop on Meta-Research in HCI

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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UIST EA '22 Demo

VoLearn: An Operable Motor Learning System with Auditory Feedback

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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Conference Reviewers

The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI LBW) 2022, 2025