Publications

* indicates equal contribution.

2026
[C2] Yaxuan Mao , Yanheng Li, Yuzhuo Jia, Fanhong Li, Zi Yin, Shurui Zheng. (2026)
‍ LUMOS: Designing an Interactive Companion Robot to Enhance Critical Reading and Thinking in Academic Contexts. ‍
‍ Proc. of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

2025
[J2] Yaxuan Mao , Yanheng Li, Duo Gong, Pengchen An, Yuhan Luo. (2025)
‍ “Can I Decorate My Teeth With Diamonds?”: Exploring Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on Using VR to Reduce Children's Dental Anxiety. ‍
‍ Proc. of the ACM Human-Computer Interaction (PACM HCI) Volume 9 Issue CSCW .
[Acceptance Rate: 25%] DOI • PDF
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[EA3] Katie Xue, Yaxuan Mao , Junnan Yu, Yuhan Luo. (2025)
‍ Toward Interactive Reading: Co-designing with Adolescents to Explore Opportunities for Overcoming Reading Challenges. ‍
‍ Proc. of the ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '25) WiP .
DOI • PDF • Poster

2024
[C1] Yanheng Li, Long Bai, Yaxuan Mao , Xuening Peng, Zehao Zhang, Antoni B. Chan, Jixing Li, Xin Tong, and RAY LC. (2024)
Affecting Audience Valence and Arousal in 360 Immersive Environments: How Powerful Neural Style Transfer Is?
Proc. of the Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality (HCII 2024), LNCS Volume 14706.
[Acceptance Rate: 25%] DOI • PDF

2023
[J1] Yanheng Li, Long Bai, Yaxuan Mao , Hongliang Ren, Yu Qiao, Xin Tong, and Ray Lc. (2023)
Rethinking pain communication of patients with Alzheimer’s disease through E-textile interaction design.
Proc. of the Frontiers in Physiology 14 (2023): 1248893.
[Acceptance Rate: 25%] DOI • PDF
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[EA3] Yanheng Li*, Yaxuan Mao *, and RAY LC. (2023)
Communicating Failure Recovery with Robotic Body Movement.
Proc. of t he 40th IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) .
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[EA2] Yanheng Li, Long Bai, Yaxuan Mao , Xuening Peng, Zehao Zhang, Xin Tong, and L. C. Ray. (2023)
The Exploration and Evaluation of Generating Affective 360 Panoramic VR Environments Through Neural Style Transfer.
Proc. of t he 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) , pp. 759-760. IEEE.
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[EA1] Yanheng Li, Lin Luoying, Xinyan Li, Yaxuan Mao , and Ray Lc. (2023)
"Nice to meet you!" Expressing Emotions with Movement Gestures and Textual Content in Automatic Handwriting Robots.
Proc. of t he Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction , pp. 71-75.
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