Minghao Cai
PhD candidate, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada
Hey there! I am a recent member of the EdTeKLA research group. My research interests fall into Human-computer interaction and Learning analytics. Recent research involves the use of sensory and psychometric approaches to support student modelling which can further inform the adaptative designs that improve learning performance and enhance the learning experience.
In my Master's thesis project, I worked on remote communication with mixed reality and gesture interactions.
News
05/2024: Student volunteer at CHI 2024
03/2024: One paper was accepted by PhysioCHI ’24
03/2024: Received the Graduate Student Travel Award
01/2024: One paper was accepted by CHI 2024
Talks & Presentations
Guest speaker: Introduction to Information Visualization, Mar 2024
Graduate Student Seminar: Does Affect Impact People’s Cognitive Load in Game-based Learning?, Jul 2023
Guest speaker: The Effects of Augmented Reality as a Learning Tool, Nov 2022
Presenter: Complex Learning Environments: Tensions in Student Perspectives that Indicate Competing Values, Jul 2022
Presenter: Towards Supporting Adaptive Training of Injection Procedures: Detecting Differences in the Visual Attention of Nursing Students and Experts, Jul 2022
Presenter: Exploring Augmented Reality Games in Accessible Learning: A Systematic Review, May 2021
Presenter: Remote shoulder-to-shoulder communication enhancing co-located sensation, Feb 2019
Presenter: Analyzing Interaction in Remote Joint Shopping System, Nov 2018
Presenter: Shopping together: a remote co-shopping system utilizing spatial gesture interaction, Jul 2018
Student design competition at HCII'18: Let’s Go Outside — a telecommunication assistant system for people with inconveniences, Jul 2018
Presenter: Gesture-based mobile communication system providing side-by-side shopping feeling. Mar 2018
Teaching
Winter 2024: Guest speaker, CMPUT 302 - Introduction to Human Computer Interaction
Winter 2023: Principle instructor, CMPUT 302 - Introduction to Human Computer Interaction
TAships experience:
CMPUT 174 - Introduction to the Foundations of Computation I
CMPUT 272 - Formal Systems and Logic in Computing Science
CMPUT 302 - Introduction to Human Computer Interaction
Academic Service
As an active researcher, I have served on academic committees for years and have reviewed more than 40 papers.
CHI main track & late-breaking work (AC)
AIED main track & posters and late-breaking results
IUI main track & posters and demos
EDM short papers & posters and demos
ACHI main track
Papers
Cai, M. & Demmans Epp, C. Exploring the optimal time window for predicting cognitive load using physiological sensor data. PhysioCHI ’24, Hawaii, US (Accepted)
Cai, M., Rebolledo Méndez, G., Arevalo, G., Tang, S. S., A Abdullah, Y., & Demmans Epp, C. Toward Supporting Adaptation: Exploring Affect's Role in Cognitive Load when Using a Literacy Game. The ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024. CHI2024, Hawaii, US (Accepted) https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642150
Liaqat, A., Demmans Epp, C., Cai, M., & Munteanu, C. Exploring Collaborative Culture Sharing Dynamics in Immigrant Families through Digital Crafting and Storytelling. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW2, Article 307 (October 2023), 29 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610098
Gonz ́alez Esparza, L., Cai, M., Palestino, I., Rebolledo-Mendez, G., Demmans Epp, C., & Cutumisu, M. Automatically Detecting Affect in Computerized Learning Environments: A Systematic Literature Review. 20th Biennial European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction Conference. EARLI'23. August 2023, Thessaloniki , Greece
Cai, M., & Demmans Epp, C. Modeling Cognitive Load and Affect to Support Adaptive Online Learning. in: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Educational Data Mining. EDM'22. 2022, July https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6853020
Cai, M.*, Demmans Epp, C., & Firoozi, T. Complex Learning Environments: Tensions in Student Perspectives that Indicate Competing Values. In Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners’ and Doctoral Consortium: 23rd International Conference, AIED 2022, Durham, UK, July 27–31, 2022, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 144-149). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-11647-6_25
Cai, M., Zheng, B., & Demmans Epp, C. Towards Supporting Adaptive Training of Injection Procedures: Detecting Differences in the Visual Attention of Nursing Students and Experts. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp. 286-294). 2022, July https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3503252.3531302
Cai, M., Akcayir, G., & Demmans Epp, C. Exploring Augmented Reality Games in Accessible Learning: A Systematic Review. CHI 2021: Adaptive Accessible AR/VR Systems, May 2021, Japan http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08214
Cai, M., & Tanaka, J. Go together: providing nonverbal awareness cues to enhance co-located sensation in remote communication. Journal Human-centric computing and information sciences, 9, 1-25, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13673-019-0180-y
Dou, H., Li, Z., Cai, M., Cheng, K., Masuko, S., & Tanaka, J. Show something: intelligent shopping assistant supporting quick scene understanding and immersive preview. In Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information in Intelligent Systems: Thematic Area, HIMI 2019, Held as Part of the 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Orlando, FL, USA, July 26-31, 2019, Proceedings, Part II 21 (pp. 205-218). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22649-7_17
Cai, M., & Tanaka, J. Remote shoulder-to-shoulder communication enhancing co-located sensation. In Proc of 12th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI) (pp. 80-85), 2019, Feb (Best Paper Award)
Cai, M., Masuko, S., & Tanaka, J. Shopping together: a remote co-shopping system utilizing spatial gesture interaction. In Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Technologies: 20th International Conference, HCI International 2018, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 15–20, 2018, Proceedings, Part III 20 (pp. 219-232). Springer International Publishing. 2018, July https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91250-9_17
Cai, M., Masuko, S., & Tanaka, J. Gesture-based mobile communication system providing side-by-side shopping feeling. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion (pp. 1-2), 2018, March https://doi.org/10.1145/3180308.3180310
Cai, M., & Tanaka, J. Trip together: a remote pair sightseeing system supporting gestural communication. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction (pp. 317-324), 2017, October https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3125762