I’m Yichen (逸宸), an interaction designer and HCI researcher with a PhD in Computer Science and industry R&D experience. I experiment with emerging technologies across mixed reality, audio, and AI, connecting ideas from design, sound, and computing. My work combines concept development, hands-on prototyping with Unity, JavaScript, and audio programming, and evaluation through user studies and musical performance.

[+] Selected projects

• Sù 溯 — An AI-assisted musical interface translating a complex latent synthesis model into direct creative controls for real-time generative audio and spatialisation.
• arMIDI — An AR interface for collaborative performance. Evaluation with four musician pairs explored how visual feedback supports shared awareness and competes for attention.
• cube — Three gesture-based AR interaction concepts, developed through iterative self-testing and evaluated with 20 users to explore learnability, creative exploration, and sound customisation.
• off-the-shelf — An AR interface for human-AI musical collaboration, explored through performances and a study with 16 users in solo and duo groups.

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[<] Background

I’m currently a research fellow in the France 2030 PEPR eNSEMBLE program, hosted by the MINT team at the Université de Lille. I develop interaction concepts that make AI behaviour more understandable during creative collaboration, and investigate how AI tools influence creative agency and roles.

I completed my PhD in Computer Science at The Australian National University in 2025, researching spatial musical interface design with augmented reality.