Publications

2025

1. LLM-mediated domain-specific voice agents: the case of TextileBot

   Shu Zhong, Elia Gatti, James Hardwick, and 3 more authors

   Behaviour & Information Technology, 2025
2. Mindful touch: Mid-air haptics facilitates novices’ subjective experiences of audio-guided mindfulness meditation

   Desiree Cho, Shu Zhong, Madhan Kumar Vasudevan, and 1 more author

   International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2025
3. Envision Human-AI Perceptual Alignment from a Multimodal Interaction Perspective

   Shu Zhong, and Marianna Obrist

   In ICLR 2025 Workshop on Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment , 2025
4. Co-producing mindful tactile technologies for healthy ageing: Cross-cultural insights from India and the UK

   Madhan Kumar Vasudevan, Ceylan Besevli, Preetham Madapura Nagaraj, and 3 more authors

   Digital health, 2025
5. Towards Interactive AI-assisted Material Selection for Sustainable Building Design

   Shu Zhong, Bon Adriel Aseniero, Allin Irving Groom, and 4 more authors

   In Companion Publication of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference , 2025

2024

1. Feeling Textiles through AI: An exploration into Multimodal Language Models and Human Perception Alignment

   Shu Zhong, Elia Gatti, Youngjun Cho, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction , 2024
2. Design Digital Multisensory Textile Experiences

   Shu Zhong

   In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction , 2024
3. Exploring Human-AI Perception Alignment in Sensory Experiences: Do LLMs Understand Textile Hand?

   Shu Zhong, Elia Gatti, Youngjun Cho, and 1 more author

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.06587, 2024
4. Milipoint: A point cloud dataset for mmwave radar

   Han Cui, Shu Zhong, Jiacheng Wu, and 3 more authors

   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024

2023

1. MindTouch: Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Mid-Air Tactile Perception

   Madhan Kumar Vasudevan, Shu Zhong, Jan Kučera, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2023
2. TextileNet: a material taxonomy-based fashion textile dataset

   Shu Zhong, Miriam Ribul, Youngjun Cho, and 1 more author

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06160, 2023
3. The Role of Temperature in the Study of Mindful Touch Perception

   Shu Zhong, MADHAN KUMAR VASUDEVAN, and MARIANNA OBRIST

   STT workshop at ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2023, 2023

2022

1. DeepWear: Towards an Automated Textiles Materials Classification using a Taxonomy-based ML Approach

   Shu Zhong, Miriam Ribul, Youngjun Cho, and 1 more author

   Women in Machine Learning workshop at NeurIPS 2022, 2022