About

Hi! I'm Rongkai Shi, a fourth-year Ph.D. student at University of Liverpool, advised by Prof. Hai-Ning Liang. Previously, I completed my undergraduate degree at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and worked as a research assistant in X-CHI Lab. My research interests fall broadly into Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design. In specific, I focused on researching, designing, and evaluating interaction techniques, especially those involving multiple input modalities, for complex interaction scenarios in Virtual/Augmented Realty (VR/AR) systems.

Latest News

  • Jan 2024: Here are some updates:
    • Recently, I have been working hard on finishing the last few projects (during my Ph.D. studies) and my thesis.
    • I will soon serve as an AC for CHI'24 LBW.
    • Two papers have been conditionally accepted for IEEE VR'24, one as an IEEE TVCG paper and another as a conference paper.
    • Our paper "Design and Evaluation of Controller-based Raycasting Methods for Efficient Alphanumeric and Special Character Entry in Virtual Reality" was accepted and published in IEEE TVCG.
    • Our paper "Hands-free Multi-type Character Text Entry in Virtual Reality" was accepted and published in Virtual Reality (Springer).
  • Oct 2023: Attended IEEE ISMAR'23!
  • Apr 2023: One paper was accepted for publication in the ACM ETRA'23 Journal Track (PACMHCI).
  • Mar 2023: Attended IEEE VR'23.

Selected Publications

rk-ARRegionSelection23 publication teaser

Exploring Gaze-assisted and Hand-based Region Selection in Augmented Reality

Rongkai Shi, Yushi Wei, Xueying Qin, Pan Hui, and Hai-Ning Liang

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (Issue ETRA), 2023

rk-3dofalignment22 publication teaser

Group-based Object Alignment in Virtual Reality Environments

Rongkai Shi, Jialin Zhang, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, and Hai-Ning Liang

Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI'22), 2022

rk-modeswitching21 publication teaser

Exploring Head-based Mode-Switching in Virtual Reality

Rongkai Shi, Nan Zhu, Hai-Ning Liang, and Shengdong Zhao

2021 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR'21), 2021

rk-vrsickness21 publication teaser

Virtual Reality Sickness Mitigation Methods: A Comparative Study in a Racing Game

Rongkai Shi, Hai-Ning Liang, Yu Wu, Difeng Yu, and Wenge Xu

Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (Issue I3D), 2021

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