About
human-AI whisperer \ data artist \ interactive futurist
I am a tenure-track assistant professor at the College of Electronic and Information Engineering at Tongji University. Before that, I was a research assistant professor at New York University working with Prof. Claudio Silva in the VIDA group. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University advised by Prof. Jeff Huang. I have also earned an MFA in Emergent Design from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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I am looking for self-motivated undergraduate and master’s students join our group. Students interested in human–computer interaction, artificial intelligence, extended reality, and intelligent interactive systems are especially encouraged to apply. Interested students are welcome to contact me at jqian1590@tongji.edu.cn with a brief introduction and CV.
Vision
I am interested in how human-AI collaboration can work towards long-term mutual benefits, co-presence, and co-evolution.
Publications
DuoZone: A User-Centric, LLM-Guided Mixed-Initiative XR Window Management System
Jing Qian* , George Xi Wang* , Xiangyu Li, Yunge Wen, Guande Wu , Sonia Castelo , Fumeng Yang, and Claudio Silva TVCG 2026
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InsightAR: A Tool for Multi-modal Summarization and Interactive Analysis of AR-based Egocentric Task Videos
Wu, Guande, Dishita Turakhia, Eden Wu, Sonia Castelo Quispe, João Rulff, Erin McGowan, Jianben He, Yawei Wang, *Jing Qian, and *Claudio Silva. AVI 2026
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CHORUS: Effort-Aware Multi-Agent Human–AI Collaboration for Professional Translation
Wang, George X., Jiaqian Hu, and Guande Wu and Jing Qian. ICMI 2026
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AdaptiveCoPilot: Exploring a NeuroAdaptive LLM Cockpit Guidance System in both Novice and Expert Pilots
Shaoyue Wen, Michael Middleton, Songming Ping, Nayan N Chawla, Guande Wu, Bradley S Feest, Chihab Nadri, Yunmei Liu, David Kaber, Maryam Zahabi, Ryan P. McMahan, Sonia Castelo Quispe, Ryan McKendrick, Jing Qian**, Claudio Silva** . VR 2025
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Satori: Towards Proactive AR Assistant with Belief-Desire-Intention User Modeling
Chenyi Li, Guande Wu, Gromit Chan, Dishita G Turakhia, Sonia Castelo Quispe, Dong Li, Leslie Welch, Claudio Silva**, Jing Qian**
CHI 2025 ​​​
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ARTiST: Automated Text Simplification for the Task Guidance in Augmented Reality
Guande Wu, Jing Qian**, Sonia Castelo Quispe, Shaoyu Chen, João Rulff, Claudio Silva**. CHI 2024
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​FocalPoint: Adaptive direct manipulation for selecting small 3D virtual objects
Jiaju Ma, Jing Qian, Tongyu Zhou, Jeff Huang. UbiComp 2023
​Dually Noted: Layout-aware cross-device annotations with smartphone augmented reality
Jing Qian, Qi Sun, Curtis Wigington, Han L. Han, Tong Sun, Jennifer Healey, James Tompkin, Jeff Huang. CHI 2022
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Readability Research: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Jing Qian and other 27 co-authors with equal contribution. TCHI 2022
​ARGUS: Visualization of AI-Assisted Task Guidance in AR
Sonia Castelo, Joao Rulff, Erin McGowan, Bea Steers, Guan-de Wu, Shaoyu Chen, Iran Roman, Roque Lopez, Ethan Brewer, Chen Zhao, Jing Qian, Kyunghyun Cho, He He, Qi Sun, Huy Vo, Juan Bello, Michael Krone, and Claudio Silva VIS 2023 (Honorable Mention Award (top 5%)
​​​​Exploring free-hand AR drawing with a dual-display smartphone-wearable paradigm
Jing Qian*, Tongyu Zhou*, Meredith Young-Ng*, Jiaju Ma, Angel Cheung, Xiangyu Li, Ian Gonsher, Jeff Huang. DIS 2021
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A virtual reality memory palace variant aids knowledge retrieval from scholarly articles
Fumeng Yang, Jing Qian, Johannes Novotny, David Badre, Cullen D. Jackson, David H. Laidlaw. IEEE TVCG 2020
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Portal-ble: Intuitive free-hand manipulation in unbounded smartphone-based augmented reality
Jing Qian, Jiaju Ma, Xiangyu Li, Benjamin Attal, Haoming Lai, James Tompkin, John F Hughes, Jeff Huang. UIST 2019
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​Remotion: A motion-based capture and replay platform of mobile device interaction for remote usability testing
Jing Qian, Arielle Chapin, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Fumeng Yang, Klaas Nelissen, Jeff Huang. UbiComp 2018
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