SHEN Zhiqi
Senior Research Scientist
School of Computer Science and Engineering

Phone: (65) 67906250, Fax: (65) 67926559
Office: N4-02b-43
Email: zqshen@ntu.edu.sg
Personal WebSite: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/zqshen

Research Statement

We live in the time that is blurring the boundaries of Art, Media, Design and Technology. With strong passion of interactive media, art, design and technology, since my PhD research, in the past ten years, my main research areas include the design of intelligent software agents, AI robots, trust, persuasive, cognitive and affective models and their applications in interactive media, art and technology in different domains (games, storytelling, virtual world, e-learning, interactive digital Chinese culture arts, web/grid/cloud computing, healthcare, artificial companion, mobile media etc.).

My research efforts have been focused on AI mediated interactive media, arts, design and technology such as trust modeling in social media, interactive computer generated culture arts for children learning and therapy, persuasive media, design and technologies, social signal processing and social intelligent systems. My current focus has been on exploring intelligent agent-augmented multi-user virtual environments and serious games as the main research paradigm for designing future learning environments and active living for elderly. Some focused research areas are:

1. Novel Design in Social Intelligent Agent and Social AI Robert: I am currently leading a group of PhD students in designing persuasive agent, teachable agent, remembrance agent, curious agent, affective agent, trust agent and motivated learning agent etc. which has great potential value in both research and commercialization. 
2. Innovative Design in Interactive Media: The agent based virtual world and game engine developed based on my PhD research has attracted much attention from both research and industrial communities and has been presented at AAMAS 2006, ACM Entertainment Conference 2006, Microsoft Game conference 2006 & 2007 and ACM IUI 2010. 
3. Design for Future Persuasive Media and Design of Emerging Applications such as Healthcare for Active Living for Elderly: Collaborating with I2R, UBC and Chinese Academy of Science China, I have done research work in persuasive healthcare with mobile phone and other new media such as agent based body area network, agent mediated internet of things, mobile health care, mobile cloud.  
   
4. Novel Computational Intelligence Model for Sustainable Design: Collaborating with SIMTech sustainability research center, we have proposed novel sustainability models which can be used in a wide range of application domains.  
5. Interactive Computer Generated Culture Arts for Language Learning, Culture Appreciation and Active Living for Elderly.