Lei Zhang

Most AI-driven AR for children casts them as consumers, not creators. That’s like being able to read but not write. How can we help them write with #AI and #AR? 🪄

In our #UIST2025 paper, we introduce Capybara, an authoring tool that empowers kids to build expressive, AI-enabled AR experiences.

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I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 as I begin my journey as an assistant professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in January 2025. Let's explore the future of intelligent creation tools for AR/VR experiences. ✨ Details about my advising philosophy and research vision: https://raynez.art/join-us/.

🚀 Please help spread the word 🙏

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That sounds fun!

@andresmh@hci.social @hci@micro.blogs.princeton.edu
Hahah yes, it can be disastrous sometimes..

1/5 Excited to share our upcoming paper exploring effortful communication, which won the *best paper award* at #CSCW2022. We built a communication system that encourages people to invest meaningful effort through digitally handcrafted AR experiences. https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07771