I am Runze Cai, a Ph.D. Student at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Synteraction Lab (formerly NUS-HCI Lab), and advised by Prof. David Hsu and Prof. Shengdong Zhao.
My research interests focus on Wearable Devices, Augmented Reality (AR), and Human-AI Collaboration within a Multimodal & Multitask Context. My recent work centers around the following question:
How can we utilize AR Smart Glasses, alongside AI, to help users process, manipulate, and document information in daily activities with minimal effort and distraction?
I hope that through my efforts, technology can assist us in a seamless and friendly way, making our daily lives more convenient rather than invading them.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, National University of Singapore. 2023 - Present
- Master of Computing, National University of Singapore. 2021 - 2023
- Bachelor in Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2017 - 2021
Publication
- PANDALens: Towards AI-Assisted In-Context Writing on OHMD During Travels
- Runze Cai, Nuwan Janaka, Yang Chen, Lucia Wang, Shengdong Zhao, Can Liu. 2024. To Appear In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24).
ParaGlassMenu: Towards Social-Friendly Subtle Interactions in Conversations
- Runze Cai, Nuwan Nanayakkarawasam Peru Kandage Janaka, Shengdong Zhao, and Minghui Sun. 2023. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23).
News
- 2024/01: Thrilled to have my first-author paper, PANDALens: Towards AI-Assisted In-Context Writing on OHMD During Travels, conditionally accepted at CHI 2024 – a wonderful birthday gift 🎉!
- 2023/04: Memorable first CHI travel and presentation for the ParaGlassMenu paper.
- 2023/01: My first research paper as first author, ParaGlassMenu: Towards Social-Friendly Subtle Interactions in Conversations, was conditionally accepted at CHI 2023.