Hi there!
My name is Huang, Zeyu (黄 泽宇). In Chinese, surnames come first, so you can call me Zeyu. I am a PhD candidate in CSE at the HCI Lab of HKUST, supervised by Prof. Xiaojuan Ma. Currently, I am attending a research visit to Georgia Institute of Technology, at the Future Feelings Lab directed by Prof. Noura Howell in the Digital Media department. Apart from my main research direction, I also do some musical acoustic studies following Prof. Andrew Horner. Prior to that, I also earned my Bachelor’s Degree in CS and MATH at HKUST.
I am an ENFJ that not always believe in MBTI. I love music and playing drums. I brew coffees and cook. I check out exhibitions, shops, restaurants, streets, and the unexpected. I drift off and wake, learn and forget.
zhuangbi 𝖆𝖙 connect 𝕕𝕠𝕥 ust 𝕕𝕠𝕥 hk
Publications
SelfGauge: An Intelligent Tool to Support Student Self-assessment in GenAI-enhanced Project-based Learning
Adjunct Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '24 Adjunct)
Sharing Frissons among Online Video Viewers: Exploring the Design of Affective Communication for Aesthetic Chills
Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24)
A Comparative Study of Violin and Erhu Emotional Characteristics: Influence of Playing Techniques and Instrument
Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA) 2024
A Comparative Analysis of Violin and Erhu: Examining the Differences and Similarities through Statistical Analysis of Multiple Musical Excerpts
Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA) 2023
The Emotional Characteristics of Bass Drums, Snare Drums, and Disengaged Snare Drums with Different Strokes and Dynamics
Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (POMA) 2023
Student Paper Competition Winner
CoArgue: Fostering Lurkers’ Contribution to Collective Arguments in Community-based QA Platforms
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23)
PlanHelper: Supporting Activity Plan Construction with Answer Posts in Community-based QA Platforms
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6, CSCW2, Article 454 (CSCW '22)
MetaMap: Supporting Visual Metaphor Ideation through Multi-dimensional Example-based Exploration
Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21)
Projects
HKUST Course Monitor
A scraper & visualizer of course quota changes at HKUST (on an Oracle PeopleSoft Student Record deployment) during past add-and-drop periods.
UST::parser
A minimalism re-imagination of campus navigation page and start page for HKUST students.
Fun Facts
About My Name
My surname, Huang (黄; 黃 in Traditional Chinese), is one of the most common surnames in China. Apart from being a surname, it also literally means yellow — now you know where my website domain comes. My given name, Zeyu (泽宇; 澤宇 in Traditional Chinese), is also a quite popular one. That’s also why any domain name as a combination of huang and zeyu is already taken. 泽 originally means the place where water gathers (especially, pools, swamps, and magnificently large lakes). Since water is such a pure and glistening thing and a necessity for life, it also gains another meaning of to bestow favor (to something). 宇 means the universe. Therefore, together, 泽宇 means to bestow favor and show kindness to the entirety of the world.
It is beautiful, isn’t it?
About My HKUST Account Name
If you ever know Mandarin Pinyin or understand Mandarin, you must have been stunned by my one-in-a-million HKUST account name. “zhuangbi” is the Mandarin Pinyin for “装逼” — a slang meaning to flaunt, to show off. But actually, it is intended to be “z” (for my given name “Zeyu”), “huang” (my surname), and a two-letter order code for all “zhuang"s since the first day of HKUST. Starting from “aa”, “ab”, and so on, I happen to get “bi”. Not many of us HKUST students have to luck to be known by a catchy account name instead of the real name. And for the past four years of my undergraduate life, people have been (and beening loving) calling me by my account name.
My Videogame Collection
I am a game player, but not the most typical ones. I love the experience of constant encounter with new stuff. Therefore, I seldom play online games (too competitive) and AAA games (too complicated), but I play a lot of indie puzzle and narrative games.
Story-oriented games like What Remains of Edith Finch and The Stanley Parable are something I’d definitely recommend. For puzzle games, I want them to either come with delicate furnishings, like Gorogoa, Framed, The Witness, or be wrapped in adventures, like Machinarium (point-and-click), Fez and Portal (platform), or something new and eccentric like Return of the Obra Dinn and Superliminal.
Beyond the two main category, I am very similar to Videogamedunkey as a die-hard fan of Mario games, and I hate RPG and turn-based combat. As Videogamedunkey said, that (counter-)preference especially stands out when I say I do like Undertale, Legend of Zelda, and Paper Mario.
Recent Posts
Campus Collective Memory — Introduction and Requirements
上方可以切换语言 / Switch Language Please read through this page and find the sign up link at the bottom. You are invited to participate in a research study that aims to explore the co-creation of the community’s collective memory. You will play with a location-based mobile application with physical exertion (think of Pokemon Go) and the metaphor for memory postcards. You will freely try using the app, posting your own memories related to HKUST and interacting with others’ memories.…
Campus Collective Memory — Data Consent
Title of the Project: Community Co-creation of Collective Memory Project leader: Mr. HUANG Zeyu (zhuangbi@connect.ust.hk) Supervisor / Primary Investigator(s): Prof. MA Xiaojuan (mxj@cse.ust.hk) Voluntary Participation Participation in this study is completely voluntary. You have the right to withdraw at any time without penalty. If you choose to withdraw from the study, you should inform the project leader, and upon confirmation, your data will be deleted and not included in the study.…
What if Maslow Pyramid Is Upside Down
Today, while taking a shower, I had a sudden burst of inspiration about the concept of “spiritual needs”: Is it possible that we are not starting to pursue spiritual needs after satisfying the basic ones, but instead, we are losing our spiritual fulfillment in the process of striving to meet those basic needs?
…My Dream Elevator
It’s said that every engineering-minded person will observe and imagine the elevator scheduling algorithm while waiting for the elevator. Especially when multiple elevators and buttons are interconnected and divided into odd-floor and even-floor, the problem becomes even more complex. At this point, this wandering thought process can perfectly help us pass the few minutes before the elevator arrives. Until— In the year I moved out of campus dormitory, I finally encountered my dream elevator, a system that controlled odd- and even-floor elevators with a strict logic that most residents couldn’t understand.…
My LaTeX Academic Writing Tips
Here are some of my tips for collaborative writing of academic papers in LaTeX. I will use ACM as an example (one of the largest association in computer science), but many tips should also apply to different fields and templates.
…Different Contexts of Chrome Extension Scripts
Had you ever written a Chrome browser extension, you must have been struggling to differenciate the contexts of every script file in your project. There are content scripts, background scripts, scripts in a popup page, and even more!
