
Ran Zhou | 周然
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Ph.D. student @KTHuniversity, advised by @MadelineBalaam, @dleithinger, Anna Ståhl | Expressive Haptic Design | Previously @UChicagoCS @cuatlas @parsonsdesign
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Ran Zhou | 周然 Sugiduino Shape-Kit: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37… The paper received the Honorable Mention Award, and the talk will be on Tuesday, within the Haptic Technology session, 4:20-5:50pm by Ran Zhou | 周然 .

If are attending #CHI2025, come find these special 3D printed tags for #TEI2026 TEI Conference which will take place in Chicago, USA on March 8-11, 2026!!!!! The Paper/Pictorial deadline will be August 7th! tei.acm.org/2026/



Received my first CHI Honorable Mention Award with my dearest advisors Dr Madeline Balaam Daniel Leithinger Ken Nakagaki! Also thanks to our Shape-Kit collaborators: Jerry, Jesse, Michael, and Ben! 📸 by Jasmine Lu 🥰


Ran Zhou Ran Zhou | 周然, a former visiting PhD student, is presenting Shape-Kit, a design toolkit for crafting on-body expressive haptics, in #CHI2025 now held in Yokohama, Japan. The paper won the Honorable Mention Award. Today is the last day for the demo - you can't miss it!

Shape-Kit Demo DONE!!! Daniel Leithinger Ken Nakagaki Thanks everyone for visiting and playing with us 🟨🟨🟨 #CHI2025


#CHI2025 Current and past group photos with me, my students, and my advisor. See you all again in Barcelona for #CHI2026 Hye-Young Jo Keiichi Ihara Nandi Zhang Xiaoan Mehrad Faridan Jarin Thundathil Hiroki Kaimoto Ran Zhou | 周然 Daniel Leithinger


Our Shape-Kit Interactivity Demo received the Jury Honorable Mention!!! Daniel Leithinger Ken Nakagaki Dr Madeline Balaam 🥳 Thanks Koya NARUMI and the jury!!


The call for AC volunteers for Full Papers is open in PCS! ACs help select reviewers and play an important role in the peer review process: new.precisionconference.com/submissions Society → SIGCHI | Conference → CHI 2026 | Track → CHI 2026 AC Volunteering Fill your info and submit! ACM SIGCHI

My supervisor Dr Madeline Balaam is hiring a new Post-doc at KTH Royal Institute of Technology! 🤩 Our team is particularly interested in researchers with a psychology background, experience in quantitative studies, while also engaging with creative approaches. kth.se/lediga-jobb/82…






