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Xiang Cao

xiangc [at] microsoft.com

Microsoft Research Cambridge
Roger Needham Building
7 JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0FB
United Kingdom

I am an associate researcher in the Computer-Mediated Living Group at Microsoft Research Cambridge and a research fellow at Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge. My research is on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). My work spans a variety of areas in HCI, such as novel interaction technologies beyond desktop computing, computer-supported cooperative activities, user performance modeling, and applications of computer vision techniques in HCI.

Before joining Microsoft, I also worked at other research labs such as in IBM, Intel, and Siemens. I received my PhD from the the Department of Computer Science at University of Toronto, supervised by Prof. Ravin Balakrishnan. For earlier information please visit my my old homepage at University of Toronto.

 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS  

New Interaction Technologies and Techniques

  • Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi, Dan Rosenfeld, Hrvoje Benko, John Helmes, Jonathan Westhues, Steve Hodges, Eyal Ofek, Alex Butler, Xiang Cao, Billy Chen. (2009). Mouse 2.0: Multi-touch meets the mouse. Proceedings of UIST 2009, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. p. 33-42. UIST 2009 Best Paper Award. Video

Playing, Creating, and Communicating in the Social Context

  • Xiang Cao, Siân E. Lindley, John Helmes, Abigail Sellen. (2010 - in press). Telling the whole story: Anticipation, inspiration and reputation in a field deployment of TellTable. To appear in CSCW 2010, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Project Page

  • Xiang Cao, Abigail Sellen, A.J. Bernheim Brush, David Kirk, Darren Edge, Xianghua Ding. (2010 - in press). Understanding family communication across time zones. To appear in CSCW 2010, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

  • David Kirk, Abigail Sellen, Xiang Cao. (2010 - in press). Home video communication: Mediating ‘closeness’. To appear in CSCW 2010, ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

  • John Helmes, Xiang Cao, Siân E. Lindley, Abigail Sellen. (2009 - in press). Developing the story: Designing an interactive storytelling application. To appear in ITS 2009, ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces. Project Page

Studying and Modeling User Performance

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Tech Report, Invited Paper, Poster etc.

Theses

  • Xiang Cao. (2008). Handheld projector interaction. Ph. D. Thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
  • Xiang Cao. (2004). An exploration of gesture-based interaction. M. Sc. Thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
  • Xiang Cao. (2000). Segmentation and tracking of semantic objects in video. B. Eng. Thesis. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University.

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

 

RESEARCH SUPERVISIONS

  • Yan Xu. Research intern at Microsoft Research Cambridge. 2009.
  • Boon Yew Chew. Master's thesis at University College London, co-supervised with Jennifer A. Rode and Abigail Sellen. 2009.
  • Serena Kao. Undergraduate research assistant at University of Toronto. 2008.
  • Clarissa Mak. Undergraduate research assistant at University of Toronto. 2008.
  • Jacky Jie Li. Undergraduate research assistant at University of Toronto. 2007.
  • Janek Lasocki-Biczysko. Undergraduate research assistant at University of Toronto, co-supervised with Tomer Moscovich. 2007.
  • Shuo Zhao. Research intern at Siemens Ltd., China. 2005.