Portrait of Yuan Li

Yuan Li

PhD Student at Aarhus University

I am a PhD student at Aarhus University, advised by Tobias Langlotz. My research focuses on Human-Computer Interaction, Extended Reality, and perception-driven interfaces.

Before joining Aarhus, I worked as a Technical Assistant with Takeo Igarashi at The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), where I collaborated with Mark Colley on external human-machine interfaces (eHMIs) and human-vehicle interaction.

I received my Master's degree from Keio University, supervised by Kazunori Takashio, with additional supervision from Yuki Ban at UTokyo. My Master's research explored how VR interfaces influence human perception and user experience.

News

Selected Publications

BlurDriving VR driving scene with personalized blur targets highlighted

Yuan Li , Mark Colley , Xinyue Gui , Cristian Rendon-Cardona , Pascal Jansen , Christian Sandor , Takeo Igarashi

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT / UbiComp 2026) · Journal article, 2026

We investigate how personalized blur techniques in VR driving affect drivers’ performance and visual attention across road users and scene elements.

Peeking Ahead research team with an experimental automated vehicle

Xinyue Gui , Ding Xia , Mark Colley , Yuan Li , Vishal Chauhan, Anubhav Anubhav, Zhongyi Zhou , Ehsan Javanmardi , Stela Hanbyeol Seo , Chia-Ming Chang , Manabu Tsukada , Takeo Igarashi

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26), 2026

We investigate Vision-Language Model personas as low-cost proxy participants for previewing embodied field studies before running them with real people.

Education

Master of Media and Governance

Keio University · The University of Tokyo Joint Graduate Program

Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio · Supervisor: Kazunori Takashio

Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, UTokyo · Supervisor: Yuki Ban

Bachelor of Engineering

Jiangsu University of Science and Technology

School of Computer Science

Experience

Research Collaborator

The University of Tokyo, RIISE

Co-creation Space Design, Social Collaboration Research Division

Robotic Assembly Intern

Telexistence

AI Research Intern

Neusoft

Awards & Funding

Academic Service