Yihao Zhou

I am a master's student in Informatics at Penn State IST, advised by Dr. Tanusree Sharma. Previously, I obtained my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science from East China Normal University.

Research Interests
  • Human-Computer Interaction: Video Games
  • Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: Virtual Worlds
News
  • I have several ongoing projects and am open to collaboration. If you are interested in my work or share similar research interests, please feel free to email me. I encourage students or researchers with limited experience to reach out. Let's just say 'Hi' to start the conversation.
Publications ( show selected / show all by date )
Honey Trap or Romantic Utopia: A Case Study of Final Fantasy XIV Players' Intimate Partner-Seeking Posts on Social Media
Yihao Zhou, Tanusree Sharma

CHI 2025 (Late-Breaking Work) Preprint

Collective Creation of Intimacy: Exploring the Cosplay Commission Practice within the Otome Game Community in China
Yihao Zhou, Haowei Xu, Lili Zhang, Shengdong Zhao

Chinese CHI 2024 Preprint

An Attention-Based Approach for Assessing the Effectiveness of Emotion-Evoking in Immersive Environment
Feng Liu, Yihao Zhou, Jingyi Hu

Heliyon Paper

BlueVR: Design and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Serious Game for Promoting Understanding towards People with Color Vision Deficiency
Ruoxin You, Yihao Zhou, Weicheng Zheng, Yiran Zuo, Mayra Donaji Barrera Machuca, Xin Tong

CHI PLAY 2023 Paper / Code

Eye Tracking Emotion Evoking Interaction Based on Go/No-Go Paradigm VR Demonstration
Feng Liu, Junhao Qin, Zhenyin Zhang, Kecheng Tang, Jingyi Hu, Yihao Zhou

VRCAI 2022 Paper