Bio
Hello, I am Xipei. As a design researcher with a background in industrial design, I am interested in exploring new forms of intelligent product service systems in relation to health promotion, human vitality, and healthcare provision.
Currently, I am associate professor and PhD promoter at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). Besides, I also work as the principle investigator of the Healthful Experience Design (HxD) research group, the vice director of the BIT-International Design Center, as well as the vice director of the interaction design and social innovation key lab at BIT. Additionally, I am appointed as a guest researcher and a PhD advisor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Previously, I was a postdoc researcher of Vitality Data Centre at TU/e. Apart from my postdoctoral fellowship, I also worked as UX researcher in the AI and Data Science team at HumanTotalCare, the largest occulational health service provider in the Netherlands.
I received a Ph.D. degree also from the Industrial Design department at TU/e, under the supervison of Dr.Yuan Lu and Prof.dr.Aarnout Brombacher. I regularly publish scientific papers in international journals and conferences in the field of human-computer interaction or digital health, and presents research projects in design exhibitions globally. I coach students at BIT and TU/e and many more design institutions on design and research projects at batchelor, master, and Ph.D. levels. I sometimes travel to universities and research institutions in China and Europe to give lectures.
My research often conducts in collaborative settings with partners from academia and industry. I take qualitative inquiry and participatory design to understand users and contexts and derive design requirements for health technology; I follow iterative design processes to develop concepts, mockups, and functional prototypes; I use quantitative and qualitative evaluations to study the meaning of novel designs to people's life and measure their impacts on health, well-being, and beyond.
Recent Activities
08-2021
My research proposal "Designing Smart Technology for Epidemic Prevention based on Personal Health Big Data" has been granted by the National Social Science Fund of China.
03-2021
Our paper entitled Why exercise at work: Development of the office exercise behavior determinants scale has been accepted by International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (impact factor: 3.390). Congratulations to all my co-authors from BIT and TU/e!
10-2020
I have been appointed as associate professor and PhD promoter at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), one of the top class university in China.
06-2020
Our paper entitled Understanding physician’s experience with conversational interfaces during occupational health consultation has been accepted by IEEE Access (impact factor: 4.098). Congratulations to all my co-authors from HumanTotalCare!
03-2020
Our workshop proposal entitled Weaving healthy behaviors into new technology routines: designing in (and for) the COVID-19 work-from-home period has been accepted by DIS2020 conference. Congratulations to all my co-authors from TU/e, San Jose State University, RMIT University, University of Nottingham Ningbo, National University of Singapore, and HumanTotalCare!
02-2020
Our paper entitled Engaging stakeholders to design an intelligent decision support tool in the occupational health context has been accepted by CHI2020 conference as late-breaking work. Congratulations to all my co-authors from the research and development department at HumanTotalCare!
01-2020
I have been teaching at Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing, China) for one month on the guest lecture - "Life Probes and Programming".
11-2019
I attended the 9th International Digital Public Health conference (Marseille, France) and present the research paper based on our VDC project.
11-2019
My research proposal "Smart Office for Promoting Healthy Behaviors in the Work Routine" has been awarded a NWO KIEM Creative Industries grant.
10-2019
I attended the 2019 World Industrial Design Conference (Yantai, China) and exhibited our LightSit project.
07-2019
I participated the "Design Research and Scientific Writing" summer school (Guangzhou, China) as a lecturer.
05-2019
I attended the 2019 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Glasgow, UK) and presented the paper based on our Step-by-Step project.
05-2019
The article based on our LightSit project was accepted and published by Sensors (imapact factor: 3.031).
02-2019
I successfully defended my Ph.D. entitled: Work or workout? designing interactive technology for workplace fitness promotion.
11-2018
I attended the 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (New York, USA) and presented the article from my Ph.D. project.
10-2018
Our LightSit project has been selected and funded by Mind the Step and exhibited at Dutch Design Week 2019 (Eindhoven, the Netherlands).
09-2018
I am appointed as a postdoc researcher by the Vitality Data Centre (VDC) project at TU/e.