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Yiqi's particular interest aims at human-computer interaction in smart environments for cognitive augmentation, within either physical or digital experiences. She believes that the revolution of living is through spatial computing that consider the daily human experience in transforming critical issues from the real world into user-centered design solutions. In the end, these design solutions will blur the boundary of human, machine and the built environment.
Yiqi is also a freelance digital designer/artist/photographer for 10+ years. Familiar with drone&360virtual tour, wide range of design...
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YIQI PROFILE
Design Lead @Unity
METAVERSE entrepreneur | HCI researcher
Ex-feature owner @Sony/Bungie
[Shipped multiple AAA games, XR Platforms, Web/mobile-based products]
Veteran knowledge in digital media, data analysis and visualization, wearable devices, sensor network, IoT, design computation, bio engineering...
Yiqi Zhao spent her research time at Harvard & MIT Media Lab, traces of her research could also be found at Leica, Bose, the State Department, various AEC corp offices
TANGIBLE [HAREDWARE]
Works related to how wearable tech, digital media, tangible interface can depict, disrupt, transform, or improve perception or the physical environment.
Hardware like ARVR eyewear is the vital medium for the next level of enhanced experience. Yiqi believes that adopting affordable, familiar interface as an additive XR layer toward everyday activities is the direction. For example, free off the ordinary shopping experience, e-learning, work collaboration.
Issues discussed here are bond to cognitive enhancement and psychology under human-centered research, especially through machine vision, responsive audio and communication.
TECHNOLOGY [TOOL]
XR technology stack structure could be divided into 5 layers:
1. end ARVR apps
2. developer toolkit (ARfoundation, customized interaction toolkit etc)
3. XR plugin framework (tracking, environment, camera, display, input etc)
4. development engine and XR sdk (unity, unreal etc)
5. provider implementation (plug-in of ARcore/ARkit, Oculus XR, Magic Leap, Windows, OpenXR, other third parties)
Overarching direction for XR tools&pipeline development could be always thinking about how and where the new tool is fit into the above layers or construct/transform them.
DIGITAL [SOFTWARE]
Affordance | Empathy | Freedom Level(of use)
Affordance: software is cross-platform, require minimum hardware or engineering support.(eg. lightweight webGL/webXR cloud approach)
Empathy: vital when it comes to immersive product, as many of the attempts are totally new concepts for ordinary user. A close loop approach of dev-conversation-testing could let the user and product grow together
Freedom: it would be more dynamic if the product has a hierarchy of usage for consumer, prosumer, and open source dev
be open and bring-in collaboration opportunities every time
EXPERIENCE [CONTENT]
Yiqi believes that the experience design within immersive technology has two vital factors, narrative and perception. Narrative is the core content of certain experience, while perception is how effective/efficient our user perceive the narrative.
WORK [DIGITAL + TANGIBLE]
to get people to feel, interact, and respond to the product while the product or experience dynamically transforming based on human activities
# webGL & webXR
# wearable & mobile
# simulation & training
# digital twin with lidar & SLAM
# arvr content creation & pipeline
# multi-user(life) interaction
# generative machine learning
# technical art & design computation
# data-vis
“I lead the design and product strategy of immersive cool tech!”
Yiqi is an Experienced Design Leader, Spatial Computing and AI entrepreneur, Researcher, focusing on living, wellness. She has a proven track record of product success across multiple platforms, domains, customer profiles, and stages. Her specialty is often depicted as rapidly scaling up complex, end-to-end platform ecosystems that involve 0-1, large user volumes, or enterprise partnerships.
Currently Design Lead@Meta
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“I lead the design and product strategy of immersive cool tech!”
Yiqi is an experienced Design Leader, Spatial Computing and AI Entrepreneur, Researcher, focusing on living, wellness. She has a proven track record of product success across multiple platforms, domains, customer profiles, and stages. Her specialty is often depicted as rapidly scaling up complex, end-to-end platform ecosystems that involve 0-1, large user volumes, or enterprise partnerships.
Currently Design Lead@Meta
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