Tao Lu （陆韬）

Tech Square Research Building

85 5th Street NW

Atlanta, GA, 30332

My research interest is to study how to extend human’s ability or increase their performance and engagement on a wide range of tasks through different environments. My goal is to design interactions that maximize the power of the environment and minimize the difficulty of the task. The environments I touched in my past research are primarily extended reality and mobile platforms, and some tasks I have been working on are data visualization and data collections.

In the future, I’m going to approach my goal by exploring how algorithms can be incorporated in the environment to support more personalized and situated interactions.

News

Sep 20, 2024	Start PhD applications.
Jan 18, 2024	My first paper “InteractOut: Leveraging Interaction Proxies as Input Manipulation Strategies for Reducing Smartphone Overuse” is accepted by CHI 2024!

Selected Publications

CHI

InteractOut: Leveraging Interaction Proxies as Input Manipulation Strategies for Reducing Smartphone Overuse

Tao Lu, Hongxiao Zheng , Tianying Zhang , Xuhai Xu , and Anhong Guo

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

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@article{lu2024interactout,
  title = {InteractOut: Leveraging Interaction Proxies as Input Manipulation Strategies for Reducing Smartphone Overuse},
  author = {Lu, Tao and Zheng, Hongxiao and Zhang, Tianying and Xu, Xuhai and Guo, Anhong},
  journal = {Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  year = {2024},
}

VIS

CompositingVis: Exploring Interactions for Creating Composite Visualizations in Immersive Environments

Qian Zhu , Tao Lu, Shunan Guo , Xiaojuan Ma , and Yalong Yang

IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics, 2024

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@article{zhu2024compositingvis,
  title = {CompositingVis: Exploring Interactions for Creating Composite Visualizations in Immersive Environments},
  author = {Zhu, Qian and Lu, Tao and Guo, Shunan and Ma, Xiaojuan and Yang, Yalong},
  journal = {IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

CHI

Ego vs. Exo and Active vs. Passive: Investigating the Effects of Viewpoint and Navigation on Spatial Immersion and Understanding in Immersive Storytelling

Tao Lu, Qian Zhu , Tiffany Ma , Kam-Kwai Wong , Anlan Xie , Alex Endert , and Yalong Yang

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

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@article{lu2025egoexoactivepassive,
  title = {Ego vs. Exo and Active vs. Passive: Investigating the Effects of Viewpoint and Navigation on Spatial Immersion and Understanding in Immersive Storytelling},
  author = {Lu, Tao and Zhu, Qian and Ma, Tiffany and Wong, Kam-Kwai and Xie, Anlan and Endert, Alex and Yang, Yalong},
  journal = {Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  year = {2025},
}