• Built a server and implemented a messaging layer for cross-platform messages Xizi (Lucy) Wang using Node.js and WebSocket • Co-authored a CHI 2020 full-length paper (Accepted) Website: www.xiziwang.me | Email: [email protected] GroupLens Research, University of Research My research interests are interaction design, AR/VR design, tangible computing, Student Researcher & Volunteer & Remote Volunteer Interests wearable technology design and embodied computing in human-computer interaction, March 2016 – November 2018 | , MN computer-mediated communication, and computer-mediated learning areas, concerning 1. Mediated Social Touch (MST) (Supervisor: Prof. Svetlana Yarosh) promoting collaborative learning and the development of social relationships. • Designed and co-created entire wearable hand and arm bands that actuate with squeezing and heat to simulate various gestures, such as hugging, high five, etc. Education University of Michigan School of Information • Co-authored a CSCW 2018 full-length jounal September 2018 - April 2020 | Ann Arbor, MI 2. Self-updating AA Meeting List (Supervisor: Prof. Svetlana Yarosh) Master of Science in Information • Developed a system that provides recovering alcoholics with a global self-updating Master Thesis Advisor: Prof. Michael Nebeling Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting list • Implemented and optimized an interface for crowdsourcing - Twin Cities • Co-authored a CHIIR 2019 full-length paper September 2012 - December 2016 | Minneapolis, MN Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science Work Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) | Programmer Intern Bachelor of Science in Economics Experience September 2017 - November 2017 | Harbin, China • Developed a ground station telemetry & telecommand system that receives data sent Publications Peer-reviewed Conference Papers: by satellites and sends commands to satellites in collaboration with a team • Michael Nebeling, Maximilian Speicher, Xizi Wang, Shwetha Rajaram, Brian D. Hall, • Designed and built a NoSQL database for data and images storage using Zijian Xie, Alexander Robert Edgar Raistrick, Michelle Aebersold, Edward G Happ, Elasticsearch Jiayin Wang, Yanan Sun, Lotus Zhang, Leah Ramsier, Rhea Kulkarni. 2020. MRAT: • Organized and pieced received image fragments together using Python The Mixed Reality Analytics Toolkit. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). (Accepted) Egali Reactive Digital Signage Project | Freelance Programmer February 2017 - April 2017 | Minneapolis, MN • Sabirat Rubya, Xizi Wang, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2019. HAIR: Towards Developing a • Researched, developed and tested interactive digital signage that displays different Global Self-Updating Peer Support Group Meeting List Using Human-Aided contents in a different language and font depending on the user's preferences and Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information proximity to the screen using C++ and Qt for my client’s the thesis project Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 83-92. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3295750.3298933 Application Moment Capsule (Deployed Android App in 2018) Development • Designed, developed, tested and deployed an android app that allows the user to Peer-reviewed Journals: keep memories and send messages to the future • Svetlana Yarosh, Kenya Mejia, Baris Unver, Xizi Wang, Yuan Yao, Akin Campbell, and Brad Holschuh. 2017. SqueezeBands: Mediated Social Touch Using Shape Skills Memory Alloy Actuation. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, CSCW, Article 116 (December 2017), 18 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3134751

CHI Student Design Competition: • Xuan Jin, Peipei Nie, Xizi Wang, Zhuo Wang, and Chunying Zhang. 2019. Shadoji: View Body Shapes from a Different Angle. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper SDC04, 1-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3309686 Paper Review

Research Information Interaction Lab, University of Michigan Scholarships Experience Research Assistant & Summer Intern October 2018 – December 2019 | Ann Arbor, MI 1. Mixed Reality Toolkit Analytics (MRAT) (Supervisor: Prof. Michael Nebeling) • Designed and implemented mixed reality environments and interactions for crisis simulations using Unity and HoloLens. • Built a server and implemented a messaging layer for cross-platform messages using Node.js and WebSocket • Co-authored a CHI 2020 full-length paper (Accepted)

GroupLens Research, University of Minnesota Research My research interests are interaction design, AR/VR design, tangible computing, Student Researcher & Volunteer & Remote Volunteer Interests wearable technology design and embodied computing in human-computer interaction, March 2016 – November 2018 | Minneapolis, MN computer-mediated communication, and computer-mediated learning areas, concerning 1. Mediated Social Touch (MST) (Supervisor: Prof. Svetlana Yarosh) promoting collaborative learning and the development of social relationships. • Designed and co-created entire wearable hand and arm bands that actuate with squeezing and heat to simulate various gestures, such as hugging, high five, etc. Education University of Michigan School of Information • Co-authored a CSCW 2018 full-length jounal September 2018 - April 2020 | Ann Arbor, MI 2. Self-updating AA Meeting List (Supervisor: Prof. Svetlana Yarosh) Master of Science in Information • Developed a system that provides recovering alcoholics with a global self-updating Master Thesis Advisor: Prof. Michael Nebeling Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting list • Implemented and optimized an interface for crowdsourcing University of Minnesota - Twin Cities • Co-authored a CHIIR 2019 full-length paper September 2012 - December 2016 | Minneapolis, MN Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science Work Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) | Programmer Intern Bachelor of Science in Economics Experience September 2017 - November 2017 | Harbin, China • Developed a ground station telemetry & telecommand system that receives data sent Publications Peer-reviewed Conference Papers: by satellites and sends commands to satellites in collaboration with a team • Michael Nebeling, Maximilian Speicher, Xizi Wang, Shwetha Rajaram, Brian D. Hall, • Designed and built a NoSQL database for data and images storage using Zijian Xie, Alexander Robert Edgar Raistrick, Michelle Aebersold, Edward G Happ, Elasticsearch Jiayin Wang, Yanan Sun, Lotus Zhang, Leah Ramsier, Rhea Kulkarni. 2020. MRAT: • Organized and pieced received image fragments together using Python The Mixed Reality Analytics Toolkit. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). (Accepted) Egali Reactive Digital Signage Project | Freelance Programmer February 2017 - April 2017 | Minneapolis, MN • Sabirat Rubya, Xizi Wang, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2019. HAIR: Towards Developing a • Researched, developed and tested interactive digital signage that displays different Global Self-Updating Peer Support Group Meeting List Using Human-Aided contents in a different language and font depending on the user's preferences and Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information proximity to the screen using C++ and Qt for my client’s the thesis project Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 83-92. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3295750.3298933 Application Moment Capsule (Deployed Android App in 2018) Development • Designed, developed, tested and deployed an android app that allows the user to Peer-reviewed Journals: keep memories and send messages to the future • Svetlana Yarosh, Kenya Mejia, Baris Unver, Xizi Wang, Yuan Yao, Akin Campbell, and Brad Holschuh. 2017. SqueezeBands: Mediated Social Touch Using Shape Skills Programing: C# (Proficient); Java (Proficient); Python (Proficient); Memory Alloy Actuation. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, CSCW, Article 116 C++ (Intermediate); C (Intermediate); Objective-C (Familiar) (December 2017), 18 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3134751 MR Development: Unity (Proficient); A-Frame (Intermediate) Web Development: HTML5 (Proficient); CSS (Proficient); JavaScript (Intermediate); CHI Student Design Competition: Flask(Familiar); AngularJS (Familiar) • Xuan Jin, Peipei Nie, Xizi Wang, Zhuo Wang, and Chunying Zhang. 2019. Shadoji: Database: MySQL (Intermediate); MongoDB (Familiar); View Body Shapes from a Different Angle. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Data Analysis: R (Intermediate); Stata (Intermediate); SPSS (Familiar) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper SDC04, 1-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3309686 Paper Review • ISWC 2019

Research Information Interaction Lab, University of Michigan Scholarships • Maroon Global Excellence Scholarship, University of Minnesota (2012 - 2016) Experience Research Assistant & Summer Intern October 2018 – December 2019 | Ann Arbor, MI 1. Mixed Reality Toolkit Analytics (MRAT) (Supervisor: Prof. Michael Nebeling) • Designed and implemented mixed reality environments and interactions for crisis simulations using Unity and Microsoft HoloLens.