Dr Wenge Xu

Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction

School of Computing and Digital Technology

Email:: Wenge.Xu@bcu.ac.uk

Dr Wenge Xu is a lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and an active researcher at the Digital Media Technology Lab. He specialises in HCI, Extended (Virtual, Augmented, Mixed) Reality (XR), User Experience, 3D User Interface and Serious Games.

Wenge earned his PhD in Computer Science in 2021 with “Motion-based Interaction for Head-Mounted Displays” at the University of Liverpool. His PhD studies were supported by a Postgraduate Research Scholarship by Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (RDF 15-02-12). He is an award-winning academic and researcher. His awards include IEEE VR Best Conference Paper Nominee, ACM CHI PLAY Student Game Design Competition Finalist, and Outstanding Teaching Team Award (undergraduate program) in Suzhou.

Wenge has a strong HCI, XR, and Serious Games background. He has published roughly 30 International journals and conferences papers. Many of these publications are published in top-tier HCI conferences such as ACM CHI; top-tier XR conferences such as IEEE VR and IEEE ISMAR; top-ranked journals on graphics and visualisations such as IEEE TVCG and SIGGRAPH (i3D); and top-ranked serious game journals such as JMIR serious games and Games for Health. In addition, Wenge actively acts as a reviewer for many leading conferences (e.g. ACM CHI, IEEE VR, IEEE ISMAR) and journals (International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, JMIR serious games, IEEE Transactions on Games). You can find the updated list of publications here.

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Selected recent publications. You can find a more updated list here.

Journal

W. Xu, H.N. Liang, N Baghaei, X Ma, K Yu, X Meng, S Wen. Effect of Immersive Virtual Reality Exergaming on University Students’ Anxiety, Depression, and Perceived Stress: A Pilot Study. JMIR serious games. (2021; In Press)

R. Shi, H.N. Liang, Y. Wu, D. Yu, and W. Xu. Virtual Reality Sickness Mitigation Methods: A Comparative Study in a Racing Game. Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. (2021)
DOI: 10.1145/3451255

W. Xu, H.N. Liang, Q. He, X. Li, K. Yu, Y. Chen. Results and Guidelines From a Repeated-Measures Design Experiment Comparing Standing and Seated Full-Body Gesture-Based Immersive Virtual Reality Exergames: Within-Subjects Evaluation. JMIR Serious Games. (2020)
DOI: 10.2196/17972

W. Xu, H.N. Liang, N. Baghaei, W.B. Bing, and Y. Yue. Health Benefits of Digital Videogames for the Ageing Population: A Systematic Review. Games for Health. (2020)
DOI: 10.1089/g4h.2019.0130

W. Xu, H.N. Liang, Z. Zhang, and N. Baghaei. Studying the Effect of Display Type and Viewing Perspective on User Experience in Virtual Reality Exergames. Games for Health. (2020)
DOI: 10.1089/g4h.2019.0102

W. Xu, H.N. Liang, Y. Zhao, T. Zhang, D. Yu, D. Monteiro, and Y. Yue. RingText: Dwell-free and hands-free Text Entry for Mobile Head-Mounted Displays using Head Motions. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. (2019)
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2898736.

D. Yu, K. Fan, H. Zhang, D. Monteiro, W. Xu, and H.N. Liang. PizzaText: Text entry for virtual reality systems using dual thumbsticks. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. (2018)
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2018.2868581

D. Monteiro, H.N. Liang, W. Xu, M. Brucker, V. Nanjappan, and Y. Yue. Evaluating Immersion, Presence, and Emulator Sickness in Virtual Reality Games based on First- and Third-Person Viewing Perspectives. Computer Animation & Virtual Worlds. (2018)
DOI: 10.1002/cav.1830

Conference

D. Monteiro, H.N. Liang, X. Wang, W. Xu, H. Tu. Design and Development of a Low-cost Device for Weight and Center of Gravity Simulation in Virtual Reality. ACM ICMI’21.
DOI: 10.1145/3462244.3479907

W. Xu, H.N. Liang, K. Yu, N. Baghaei. Effect of Gameplay Uncertainty, Display Type, and Age on Virtual Reality Exergames. ACM CHI’21.
DOI: 10.1145/3411764.3445801

X. Lu, D. Yu, H.N. Liang, W. Xu, Y. Chen, X. Li, K. Hasan. Exploration of Hands-free Text Entry Techniques for Virtual Reality. IEEE ISMAR’20.
DOI: 10.1109/ISMAR50242.2020.00061

W. Xu, H.N. Liang, Y. Chen, X. Li, and K. Yu. Exploring Visual Techniques for Boundary Awareness During Interaction in Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Displays. IEEE VR’20. Nominated for the best conference paper award (top5%)
DOI: 10.1109/VR46266.2020.00039

D. Yu, H.N. Liang, X. Lu, T. Zhang, and W. Xu. DepthMove: Leveraging Head Motions in the Depth Dimension to Interact with Virtual Reality Head-Worn Displays. IEEE ISMAR’19.
DOI: 10.1109/ISMAR.2019.00-20

W. Xu, H.N. Liang, A. He, and Z. Wang. Pointing and Selection Methods for Text Entry in Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Displays. IEEE ISMAR’19.
DOI: 10.1109/ISMAR.2019.00026

W. Xu, H.N. Liang, Y. Zhao, D. Yu, and D. Monteiro. DMove: Directional Motion-based Interaction for Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Displays. ACM CHI’19.
DOI: 10.1145/3290605.3300674