Mingyuan Zhong

Mingyuan Zhong

PhD Student
Computer Science & Engineering

University of Washington

About me

I am a PhD student in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.
I am co-advised by James Fogarty and Jacob Wobbrock.

I received by Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, where I was advised by Chun Yu and Yuanchun Shi.

Download my CV.

myzhong [at] cs [dot] washington [dot] edu

Interests
  • Accessibility for people who are blind/low vision or with limited fine motor control
  • User Interfaces
  • Interaction & Sensing Techniques
Education
  • PhD Student in Computer Science & Engineering

    University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  • BEng in Computer Science & Technology, 2019

    Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Publications

The Ability-Based Design Mobile Toolkit (ABD-MT): Developer Support for Runtime Interface Adaptation Based on Users' Abilities. In MobileHCI ’24, Best Paper Award.
One-Dimensional Eye-Gaze Typing Interface for People with Locked-in Syndrome. In UIST ’22 (Poster), 2022.
Quantifying Touch: New Metrics for Characterizing What Happens During a Touch. In ASSETS ’22, Honorable Mention.
A Large-Scale Longitudinal Analysis of Missing Label Accessibility Failures in Android Apps. In CHI ’22, 2022.
Ga11y: An Automated GIF Annotation System for Visually Impaired Users. In CHI ’22, 2022.
New Metrics for Understanding Touch by People with and without Limited Fine Motor Function. In ASSETS ’21 (Poster), 2021.
ProxiMic: Convenient Voice Activation via Close-to-Mic Speech Detected by a Single Microphone. In CHI ’21, 2021.
ForceBoard: Subtle Text Entry Leveraging Pressure. In CHI ’18, 2018.
One-Dimensional Handwriting: Inputting Letters and Words on Smart Glasses. In CHI ’16, Honorable Mention.

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
CSE, University of Washington
Research Assistant
Sep 2019 – Present Seattle, Washington
 
 
 
 
 
Google
Research Intern
Jun 2021 – Sep 2021 California (Remote)
Developed algorithms to improve touch accuracy during different phases of a touch gesture by examining touch-related sensor data.
 
 
 
 
 
Google Research
Research Intern
Jun 2020 – Sep 2020 California (Remote)
Conducted research on the HelpViz and Spacewalker projects.
 
 
 
 
 
CSE, University of Washington
Teaching Assistant
Sep 2019 – Dec 2019 Seattle, Washington
 
 
 
 
 
Pervasive HCI Lab, Tsinghua University
Undergraduate Student Researcher
Jul 2015 – Jun 2019 Beijing, China
Conducted research that led to the publication of ForceBoard and 1D Handwriting. Also worked on other projects.