Jiangnan Xu is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate in Niantic Geo Game Media Research Lab at RIT, NY, USA.

 

Her research falls under HCI & UX fields. Specifically, it focuses on exploring the natures and possibilities between humans and the physical environment in this digital era through AR technology. In particular, she is looking at how AR technology and gamification systems could co-evolve the way people interact with each other in hybrid spaces. View her publications here.
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Jiangnan has an interdisciplinary background in UX Research, Industrial Design, and Computer information. She holds a master of science degree (Distinction) from the University of Edinburgh, UK, majoring in Design Informatics. Her thesis is about web UX of data visualization tool online collection, designed and implemented a website for data visualization tool browsing and searching. In her undergraduate study, she was awarded the 2018 outstanding undergraduate fellowship by China Scholarship Council (CSC) and the 2020 outstanding undergraduate student in Zhejiang province.
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Jiangnan was born in August 1998 in Hangzhou, China, spending her early 20’s in Germany, Scotland, and the states. She is fond of cross-cultural communication, film photography, painting, and sci-fi writing.