About me

YI, Zhennan｜易振南 (She/her)

How to pronounce? Click here Family name: 易 (yì) First name: 振 (zhèn) 南 (nán)

Currently an Informatics PhD student in Intelligent & Interactive Systems @IUB

Doing Research in human-robot interaction

Holding a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology @BNU

Interested in hiking ⛰️ , snowboarding🏂 , choreography💃 and crochet 🧶

Learning oil painting 🖼️

Thank you for visiting :) Feel free to contact me!

Haru 2.0: the robot I am currently working with

Publications

For a full list of publications, please see my Google Scholar profile (and you will see my best friend's cute cat 🐱)

2025

Smiles, Frowns, and Everything In Between: Understanding User Experiences with Emotion Tracking in Daily Life through Facial Expression Recognition. Zhennan Yi, Xianghua(Sharon) Ding, Chenyang You, Xingchen ZhouDIS 2025 PDF

Building Friendships Across Borders: The Role of Social Robot Haru in Children Group Communication and Connection DevelopmentZhennan Yi, Leigh Levinson, Diego Delgado-Chaves, Jose Manuel Perez-Moleron, Nabil Bougria, Antonia Krummheuer, Matthias Rehm, Anders Kalsgaard Møller, Katrine Kielsholm Ramsgaard, Selma Auala, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Edward Nepolo, David Calero, Devis Dal Moro, Daniel Serrano, Magí Dalmau-Moreno, Randy Gomez, Luis Merino, Selma SabanovicRO-MAN 2025

2024

Technology-Mediated Non-pharmacological Interventions for Dementia: Needs for and Challenges in Professional, Personalized and Multi-Stakeholder Collaborative Interventions. Yuling Sun, Zhennan Yi, Xiaojuan Ma, Junyan Mao, and Xin TongCHI 2024 🏆 PDF DOI

News

· 🤖 I'm happy to share that my first paper in HRI area as been accepted to RO-MAN 2025! June-8-2025

· 😄 I'm happy to share that my first-authored paper (from my undergrad days!) has been accepted to DIS'25! May-8-2025

· 🏆 Our paper won the Best Paper Award at CHI'24. April-26-2024

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