Research.
PUBLICATIONS
[DIS] BioVR: An Exploratory Study of Biofeedback-Driven Adaptive VR for Personalized and Sustained Fitness Intensity
Zhao, Yuchen, Jay Bolter, Kexin Chen, Xuerui Wang, Xintong Jiang, & Zhao Ni.
In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 586-591) (DIS), 2025 [Acceptance Rate: 30.5%]. 
[JMIR] Likelihood of Leveraging Augmented Reality Technology to Promote HIV Prevention and Treatment Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Cameroon: Cross-Sectional Survey.
Ni, Zhao, Intan Maharani Sulistyawati Batubara, Georges Bediang, Habakkuk Yumo, Xuehong Zhang, Sunyong Oh, Yuchen Zhao, and LaRon E. Nelson.
In JMIR pediatrics and parenting 8, no. 1 (2025): e69471.
[CHI] Grow With Me: Exploring the Integration of Augmented Reality and Health Tracking Technologies to Promote Physical Activity.
Zhao, Yuchen, Tulika Banerjee, Na Liu, and Jennifer G. Kim.
In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-9. 2024 [Acceptance Rate: 33.88%].
[PRESENCE] Exploring Location-based AR Narrative Design for Historic Site.
Zhao, Yuchen., Brandy J. Pettijohn, Amanda Y. Wang, Daniel P. Keehn, Angela Dai, Joy Dang, Janet H. Murray
In PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality, 30, 167-184.
[CHI PLAY] Shopping in a Pandemic: A Persuasive Game for COVID-19.
Zhao, Yuchen., Gasque, T. M., Winstead, R. J., Tang, K., Busch, D. J., Dominguez-Mirazo, Janet Murray
In ACM SIGCHI CHI PLAY, October 18–21, 2021, Vienna, Austria. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
[IEEE] The Pickrick Protests: An Interactive Geo AR Experience.
Zhao, Yuchen., Daniel P. Keehn, Amanda Y. Wang, Jason Jiang, and Janet Murray
In IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). IEEE, 2021.
[IEEE] VR Touch Museum
Zhao, Yuchen., Maurizio Forte, and Regis Kopper.
In IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR). IEEE, 2018.
Awaken the Sense of Smell: From the Role of Smell in Rituals to the Application of Olfactory Mechanism in Artistic Creation
Zhao, Yuchen.
In Art and the Age, No.560, pp22-26. ISSN 1003-2592, 2014
The Disappearance and Reappearance in the Aura of Art: Exploring contemporary art from the angle of the ceremony
Zhao, Yuchen.
In Art and the Age, No.560, pp22-26. ISSN 1003-2592, 2013
Visual Persuasion - Based on the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games trail.
Zhao, Yuchen.
In Tongji Academe, No.15, pp.417-423. 2013. ISBN 978-7-5608-4803-7
PEER REVIEWING
- Journal: PRESENCE Virtual Reality (2025) Topic: AR and Health
- Conference: CHI (2025) Topic: AR and Physical Activity
- Journal: Frontiers in Virtual Reality (2023) Topic: Storytelling in Virtual Reality
- Conference paper: CHI (2023) Topic: Self-tracking Data Visualization
TALKS/PRESENTATIONS
- Yuchen Zhao, Tulika Banerjee (2023). “Grow With Me: Exploring the Integration of Augmented Reality and Health Tracking Technologies to Promote Physical Activity”, CHI 2024 online.
- Yuchen Zhao, Terra Mae Gasque (2021). “Shopping in a Pandemic: A Persuasive Game for COVID-19.” 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA,
- Yuchen Zhao (2021). “How to design history into New Media – The Pickrick AR Project” invited talk at 2021 George Washington English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) Symposium, online.
- Yuchen Zhao (2021). “The Pickrick Protests: An Interactive Geo AR Experience” paper presented at IEEE VR 2021, online.
- Yuchen Zhao, (2018). “VR Touch Museum” poster presented at IEEE VR 2018, Germany.
- Yuchen Zhao, (2018). “The Disenchantment and Nature Recovery of Art: Exploration on Contemporary and Modern Art from the Angle of Ritual” invited talk presented at Reformatting the World: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Technology and the Humanities Conference, York University, Canada.
- Yuchen Zhao, (2017). “The five senses in religious ritual and its significance to new media art” invited talk presented at Post-human Network Symposium, Arizona State University, USA.
- Yuchen Zhao, (2016). “The five senses in religious ritual and its significant to new media art” invited talk presented at The Tank Workshop hosted by Tongji University and Bern University, China.
EXHIBITIONS
Ryan J Winstead , Yuchen Zhao, Terra Mae Gasque , Andrew J Busch, (2020) “Dino-Store” exhibited at Indiecade Game Jam, online.
Ellen Sebring, (2019) “March 1900” exhibited at Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference in 2019, Colorado, USA.
Raqual Prada, (2019) “Cornered” exhibited at NeMaf: Seoul International New Media Festival, Seoul, Korea.