Aaron Pengyu Zhu
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[Nov 2025] Our research received the Excellent Poster Award at the Tech for Good: Driving Social Impact conference hosted by NUS and Tencent!
[Sep 2025] I was invited by Tencent’s Tech for Good Programme to visit its headquarters in Shenzhen for three days of tours and exchanges (it was also my first time experiencing a typhoon).
[Jul 2025] I showed a poster and volunteered at DIS'25 in Madeira! Also, I made a zine!
[Apr 2025] I attended CHI'25 in Yokohama (attended a workshop)!
[Jan 2025] I joined the JEDI Lab at Division of industrial Design, National University of Singapore
Publications
Conference Papers
Unveiling the Invisible Work of Migrant Care Workers in Aged Care Homes: Implications for Future Care Technologies.(DIS ’25 Companion)[Paper]
Pengyu Zhu, Yiming Yao, Haiyue Lu, Tse Pei Ng, Celeste Seah, Janghee Cho, Yiying Wu, and Jung-Joo Lee.
Text Readability of Smartphone in Dark Mode: Effects of Font Type, Font Weight and Color.(HCII 2023)[Paper]
Jun Xiangchen, Pengyu Zhu, Jing Yun, Baixuan Tian, Yalan Yang, and Na Liu.
Workshop Papers
Tao-Technology for Teen Mobile Use: Harmonizing Adaptation, Autonomy, and Reflection (CHI’25 Workshop on Mobile Technology and Teens)[Paper]
Pengyu Zhu and Janghee Cho
Manuscripts
Toward Pluralizing Reflection in HCI through Daoism. (Submitted to CHI’26, Under Review with R&R)
Anonymous Author(s) (As First Author).
Reflecting on Teens' and Parents' Voices on Mobile Technology and AI Through Design Probes, Diaries, and Personal Narratives(Submitted to CHI’26 Meet-ups, Under Review)
Jina Huh-Yoo, Pengyu Zhu, Ji Youn Shin, Angela Ng, Mengyuan Zhu, Katherine di Bona, Minghe Lu, Willow Yoo, Naseem Ahmadpourm, Gabriela Marcu, Janghee Cho.