Yingna WANG (王莹娜)

I am a M. Phil. student at HKUST, supervised by Prof. Mingming FAN and Prof. Theo Papatheodorou. Before I came to HKUST, I received a M.A. in Communication from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), with China National Scholarship honored. My research interests lie in the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Virtual Reality (VR) for creative and immersive experience.

Email: ywang885@connect.hkust-gz.edu.cn
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Latest News

[2025-03] One Paper Accepted by CHI25!
I will attended CHI'25 and present our paper in person at Yokohama, Japan!
[2025-02] One Paper Accepted by ISEA25!
[2024-05] One Paper Accepted by CHI24!
I attended CHI'24 and presented our paper in person at Honolulu, Hawaii!
[2023-09] Started my MPhil in Computational Media and Arts(CMA) at HKUST(GZ)!
[2023-07] Graduated from Digital Art Lab at USTC.
[2023-06] Being a Research Assistant at APEX Group at HKUST(GZ).

Publications

    * indicates equal contribution, † indicates corresponding author.

    On going

    Blossoms Across Time: AI-Assisted Cultural Dialogue Through Diverse Artistic Expressions in VR Intangible Cultural Heritage Experience (submitted to SIGGRAPH 2025 Immersive Pavilion)

    Yingna WANG, Qingqin Liu, Xiaoying Wei, and Mingming Fan†. The ACM SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques). ACM, 2025. [Video]

    Published

    Facilitating Daily Practice in Intangible Cultural Heritage through Virtual Reality: A Case Study of Traditional Chinese Flower Arrangement (CHI 2025)

    Yingna WANG, Qingqin Liu, Xiaoying Wei, and Mingming Fan†. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2025. [Paper] [Video]

    Exploring Cross-Chronotope Tombs: A Generative AI-Assisted Multimodal Heritage Virtual Reality Experience (ISEA 2025)

    Jian Yu, Ling Li, Yingna WANG, Wei Zeng, and Zeyu Wang†. 30th International Symposium on Electronic/Emerging Art.

    Designing Upper-Body Gesture Interaction with and for People with Spinal Muscular Atrophy in VR (CHI 2024)

    Jingze Tian*, Yingna WANG*, Keye Yu, Liyi Xu, Junan Xie, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Yafeng Niu,and Mingming Fan†. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2024. [Paper] [Video] [Preview]

    Touch the History in Virtuality: Combine Passive Haptic with 360° Videos in History Learning (VR 2022)

    Zhang Yanxiang†, Yingna Wang, and Qingqin Liu. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops. IEEE, 2022. [Paper] [Video]

    Redirected Walking in 360° Video: Effect of Environment Size on Detection Thresholds for Translation and Rotation Gains (VR 2022)

    Zhang Yanxiang†, Qingqin Liu, and Yingna Wang. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops. IEEE, 2022. [Paper] [Video]

    The Effect of Camera Height on The User Experience of Mid-air 360° Videos (VR 2021)

    Zhang Yanxiang†, Yingna Wang, and Qingqin Liu. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops. IEEE, 2021. [Paper] [Video]

Seleted Honors & Awards

[2022] China National Scholarship (1/107)
[2020] Outstanding Graduates from Universities in Shanghai (Top 5%)
[2019] Outstanding Camper of the National Excellent University Student Summer Camp at USTC (1/50)
[2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021] The First Prize Scholarship (Top 2% in USST, top 15% in USTC)
[2018] YiMo Scholarship (Top 3%)
[2018] The 15th Academy Award of Advertising Festival of Chinese College Students Excellent Work Award
[2017, 2018, and 2019] Outstanding Volunteer of USST (Top 3%)
[2017] Shanghai University Tennis League and Tennis Championship (North Zone) Women's Team 5th place

Services

Virtual Tour for the Innovative Practice Centre in USTC

Built a virtual tour with two floors using Pano2VR and applied in the building guidance.