Haimo Zhang

Haimo Zhang is a researcher in human-computer interaction and human factors. A public publication biography identifies him as director of the HCI & Human Factors Lab at OPPO Research Institute, where the team applies interaction technologies and knowledge about people to improve user experiences in existing and emerging scenarios. Earlier public profiles place him at the Augmented Human Lab as a research fellow/postdoctoral research fellow, working on stereoscopic 3D displays, 3D and gesture interaction, haptics, accessible interaction, and user research methods. His public work includes touch interaction on keycaps, tactile feedback through body hair, finger-mounted IMU contact sensing, shape-memory-alloy skin-deformation haptics, and visual motion cues for smartphone use in vehicles.

Public sources confirm a 2009 Bachelor of Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore. NUS records a PhD defence in November 2014, while an SMU speaker biography gives the computer-science PhD year as 2015; the discrepancy is retained here instead of being silently resolved.

• GestAKey: Touch Interaction on Individual Keycaps (CHI 2018): touch interaction on individual physical keycaps.
• M-Hair: Creating Novel Tactile Feedback by Augmenting the Body Hair to Respond to Magnetic Field (UIST 2019): tactile feedback mediated through body hair.
• Ready, Steady, Touch!: Sensing Physical Contact with a Finger-Mounted IMU (IMWUT 2020): sensing physical contact with a finger-mounted IMU.
• ANISMA: A Prototyping Toolkit to Explore Haptic Skin Deformation Applications Using Shape-Memory Alloys (TOCHI 2022): prototyping skin-deformation haptics with shape-memory alloys.

• 2024 online / 2025 issue (publication biography)·OPPO Research Institute·Director, HCI & Human Factors Lab
  • Applies interaction technologies and human-factors knowledge to user-experience improvement in existing and emerging scenarios.
• 2016–2021·Augmented Human Lab (AHL; publicly associated with SUTD and the University of Auckland ABI)·Research Fellow / Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • Worked on stereoscopic 3D displays, 3D and gesture interaction, haptics, accessible interaction, and interaction efficiency in multitasking settings.

• 2014/2015 (source discrepancy)·National University of Singapore·Ph.D. in Computer Science
  • NUS lists the public defence in November 2014; the SMU biography lists 2015.
• 2009·National University of Singapore·Bachelor of Computer Engineering

Sources checked: 2026-09-23. See persons/_review/76_Haimo Zhang/ for the evidence register and limitations.