Erzhen Hu

eh2qs[at]virginia[dot]edu

I am a first-year Ph.D. student at the CS Department at the University of Virginia, where I work on Human-Computer Interaction. My PhD advisor is Seongkook Heo.

I'm interested in Human-Computer Interaction, Collaborative and Social Computing, AR/VR for Remote Collaboration and Assistive Technologies.

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News

05/2022: I’ll be attending CHI' 22 in New Orleans to present my first 1st-author paper about a new video-conferencing tool built for breakout meetings, co-authored by Asshik Azim and Seongkook Heo. Check out the "Supporting Virtual Work" session on Mon, May 2 (15:00 - 15:15 CDT).
03/2022: I'll be presenting my work on FluidMeet at the Virtual Social Presence Seminar on Apr. 18th. You can watch the recorded 40-min talk here.

Research

FluidMeet: Enabling Frictionless Transitions Between In-Group, Between-Group, and Private Conversations During Virtual Breakout Meetings

Erzhen Hu, Md Aashikur Rahman Azim, Seongkook Heo
Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2022
doi / pdf / 30s preview / video figure /

FluidMeet enables out-group members to overhear group conversations while allowing conversation groups to control their shared level of context. Users within conversation groups can also quickly switch between in-group and private conversations.

Design and source code from Jon Barron's website