
Jiangnan Xu
HCI Researcher + PhD Candidate + Interaction Designer

Jiangnan (she/her) is a post doctoral researcher at Gamification Group, Tampere University, supervised by Prof. Juho Hamari and Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk.
She envisions, design, develop and evaluate how computer-mediated technologies (mixed reality, generative AI, etc.) augmenting human perceptions, behaviors and interactions through a playful lens.
Publications
Jiangnan Xu, Konstantinos Papangelis, Garreth W Tigwell, Nicolas Lalone, Pengyuan Zhou, Michael Saker, Alan Chamberlain, John Dunham, Sanzida Mojib Luna, David Schwartz

Sanzida Mojib Luna, Jiangnan Xu, Konstantinos Papangelis, Garreth W Tigwell, Nicolas LaLone, Michael Saker, Alan Chamberlain, Samuli Laato, John Dunham, Yihong Wang
John Dunham, Jiangnan Xu, Konstantinos Papangelis, Nicolas Lalone, Michael Saker, David Schwartz
Sanzida Mojib Luna, Garreth W Tigwell, Konstantinos Papangelis, Jiangnan Xu

Exploring Visual Scanning in Augmented Reality: Perspectives From Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users

Jiangnan Xu, Konstantinos Papangelis, John Dunham, Cati Boulanger, Jin Ha Lee, Nicolas Lalone, Michael Saker
Sanzida Mojib Luna, Garreth W Tigwell, Konstantinos Papangelis, Jiangnan Xu

Jiangnan Xu, Konstantinos Papangelis, John Dunham, Jorge Goncalves, Nicolas James LaLone, Alan Chamberlain, Ioanna Lykourentzou, Federica L Vinella, David I Schwartz
Project + Demos
Updates
2025/04/25 I am attending CHI'25.
2025/04/20 I move to Finland!
2024/09/26 I complete 9 months of visiting student research at KIXLAB! 🎉
2024/06/10 I am giving an invited talk at the Geogames Symposium at Portucalense University remotely! 💬
2024/05/12 Our Spatial Computing SIG is successfully happening at CHI '24! 🎺
2024/01/02 I start visiting student research at KAIST, on the metaverse x LLM project collaborating with Korea Telecom! 🍀
2023/10/22 I am giving an invited talk at the IDD Webinar! 💬
2023/10/22 I am TAing Game Design Theory for Fall/Winter 23! 📖
2023/04/26 I am presenting my first CHI full paper at CHI '23! 🎙️
2022/06/10 Our AR Art Exhibition is successfully happening in Xi'An! 🎨
People
Advisor/Mentor: Konstantinos Papangenlis, Garreth W. Tigwell, Maria Wolters, Benjamin Bach, Juho Kim, John Dunham, Dae Hyun Kim
Collaborator: Alan Chamberlain, Michael Saker, Nicolas LaLone, Pengyuan Zhou, Jinha Lee, Samuli Laato, Yihong Wang, Cati Boulanger, Federica Lucia Vinella, Ioanna Lykourentzou, Jorge Goncalves, Gyu-cheol Lee, Yeo-Jin Yoon, Joni Salminen, Joongi Shin
Mentee: Sanzida Luna Mojib, Muhammad Raees, Urvashi Dhingra, Haeseul Cha
Build & Create
Fun
