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Explore three research directions and the technologies, settings and questions that connect them.

Research figure showing artifact display, viewing and handheld inspection in ResponsiveView.

XR interaction & experience IEEE TVCG · IEEE VR · 2025

ResponsiveView

Adapting display height, viewing distance and handheld artifact scale to the viewer and the object.

  • VR
  • Museum
  • Artifact viewing
MagicMap interface and a visitor in a virtual museum.

XR interaction & experience IEEE VR · 2024

MagicMap

World-in-Miniature map interaction for complex indoor navigation.

  • VR
  • Museum
  • Navigation
Voice of Artifacts interface with voice customization controls in a virtual museum.

XR interaction & experience Computers & Graphics · 2025

Sound of Artifact

Exploring how default, familiar and customizable artifact voices shape the VR museum experience.

  • VR
  • Museum
  • Voice interaction
HeritageSite AR mobile experience alongside the Twin Pagodas heritage site.

Culture & heritage ACM JOCCH · 2024

HeritageSite AR

A mobile AR exploration game connects visitors with the heritage of Suzhou’s Twin Pagodas.

  • AR
  • Heritage site
  • Exploration
Project-provided AR reconstruction visualization at the Twin Pagodas site.

Culture & heritage CHI Extended Abstracts · 2025

ARTimeTravel

Web-based AR serious games for understanding spatial changes in heritage sites.

  • AR
  • Heritage site
  • Spatial change
CubeMuseum AR research image showing tangible cubes and digital heritage content.

Culture & heritage IJHCI · 2024

CubeMuseum AR

Tangible augmented reality for cultural heritage learning and museum gifting.

  • AR
  • Tangible interaction
  • Learning
Mu-nopoly board game materials and an augmented reality view.

Learning & training IEEE TCSS · 2026

Mu-nopoly

A museum board game connecting playing, learning and socializing, developed around artifacts from the Museum of Wu.

  • Board game
  • Museum
  • Learning
Pingjiang Mystery map-based board game and playing materials.

Culture & heritage HHME 2025 · CCIS · 2026

Pingjiang Mystery

A board game inspired by the Pingjiang Map, bringing Suzhou’s intangible cultural heritage into collaborative play.

  • Board game
  • Heritage site
  • Learning
XR Exhibit+ museum guide presenting artifacts and conversational interpretation.

Learning & training UbiComp Companion · UbiSense · 2025

XR Exhibit+

An AI-enhanced museum guide combining XR, conversation and connected exhibit knowledge, with the XJTLU Museum.

  • AI
  • Museum
  • Learning
Research environments used to explore hybrid virtual and augmented reality.

XR interaction & experience ACM TOCHI · 2023

HVAR

Investigating the factors that shape engagement in hybrid virtual and augmented reality.

  • Hybrid XR
  • Engagement
  • Museum
A personal virtual museum displaying photographs in MemoryVR.

Culture & heritage IJHCI · 2025

MemoryVR

Collect, arrange and share digital memories in personal virtual museums, and explore the memory spaces of others.

  • VR
  • Memory
  • Museum
An object-based layout with text panels arranged around a museum artifact.

XR interaction & experience IEEE ISMAR · 2024

Text layout in VR

Exploring how exhibit descriptions should be placed in the environment, attached to artifacts or carried by visitors in virtual museums.

  • VR
  • Museum
  • Information design
First-person view of the VR fire-escape training environment.

Learning & training ICVR · 2024

VR Fire Escape

A fire-escape simulation pairing a VR actionist with a desktop strategist to study collaboration, competition and learning.

  • VR
  • Safety training
  • Collaboration
The virtual laboratory environment in ChemistryVR.

Learning & training SIGGRAPH Asia Educator’s Forum · ICVRV · 2022–2024

ChemistryVR

A virtual chemistry laboratory with safety training, guided experiments and real-time reaction simulations, based on the ninth-grade curriculum.

  • VR
  • Laboratory
  • Experiential learning
Welcome space and topic portals in the exploratory virtual classroom.

Learning & training ICET · ICVRV · 2022–2023

VR Classroom

User-centered research and exploratory 3D classrooms supporting course materials, discussion and learning across VR, web and mobile devices.

  • VR
  • Classroom
  • Learning