Chinese CHI 2021: Dialogue Speakers Announced and Questions Invited
Chinese CHI 2021, organized by International Chinese Association of Computer Human Interaction (ICACHI), will take place online on October 16–17, 2021, with free livestreams for participants.
Two renowned Chinese HCI scholars will join the conference as dialogue guests: Shumin Zhai from Google and Professor Xiangshi Ren from Kochi University, Japan.
The conference theme is Identity, Value, and Trust amid technological progress. The two scholars will discuss frontier human–computer interaction questions and respond to concerns from audiences both within and beyond the venue, offering an unmissable exchange of ideas.
The dialogue begins on October 17, 2021, at 9:00 AM Beijing Time.
Dialogue Guest Introductions
Shumin Zhai
Google Research
Dr. Shumin Zhai received bachelor's and master's degrees in radio remote control and telemetry and computer applications from Xidian University in 1982 and 1984, respectively,1984-1989 then taught there and earned a PhD from the University of Toronto in 1995. He was a senior computer science researcher at IBM Almaden in California and has worked at Google since January 2011. The ShapeWriter project and team led by Dr. Shumin Zhai pioneered gesture keyboards, introducing the world's first such product, SHARKtex, in 2004. His work has received extensive coverage from The New York Times, The San Jose Mercury News, The Wall Street Journal, and BBC. Dr. Shumin Zhai was elected an ACM Fellow in 2010 for his outstanding gesture-keyboard contributions.
Xiangshi Ren
Kochi University of Technology, Japan
Xiangshi Ren is a tenured professor in the School of Information and director of the Human-Engaged Computing institute at Japan's Kochi University of Technology. A foreign member of the Engineering Academy of Japan and fellow of IPSJ, he has conducted fundamental human–computer interaction research and education for nearly 30 years. He has trained doctoral and postdoctoral scholars from more than ten countries, now active across Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania, and received paper awards from ACM, IEEE, CCF, and IPSJ-related venues. ICACHI's founding and lifetime honorary president, he has been a visiting researcher at IBM Almaden and visiting professor at Toronto and Chinese universities. Considering humanity's future and ideal technological relations, he proposed Human-Engaged Computing (Human-Engaged Computing), grounded in Eastern balanced moderation, and is advancing the new field.
Call for Dialogue Questions
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