Dr. Xipei Ren
University of Macau
Talk Title
Data-Enabled Design for Smart Health Innovation
Abstract
With the rapid advancement of human-computer interaction and pervasive computing, diverse forms of data have come to play a pivotal role across various stages of intelligent product innovation. This development opens up significant opportunities for designers and design researchers to engage with real-world contexts through interdisciplinary approaches. Using the healthcare setting as an example, this keynote will illustrate how data can contribute to design innovation and foster meaningful user-system interactions, supported by several case studies.
Biography
Xipei Ren is an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Macau. Before joining UM, he worked as an associate professor and the director of the intelligent design department at Beijing Institute of Technology, as a data scientist at HumanTotalCare (Netherlands), and as a postdoc researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology (where he received his Ph.D. degree).
With strong interests in promoting high-impact, interdisciplinary design research, Prof. Ren leads the Lab of Design Intelligence for Vitality (DIV Lab), as well as serves as an executive member of China Computer Federation (CCF) human-computer interaction committee and an adjunct PhD mentor at Shanghai AI Academy. He has been the Associate Chair of CHI 2026 and TEI 2024, the guest associate editor of Journal of Engineering Design and Behaviour & Information Technology, and the reviewer of multiple internationally recognized journals and conferences in the fields of human-computer interaction and digital health.
Prof. Ren has been the recipient of more than 10 competitive research grants, including the National Science Fund of China (NSFC), the National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC), and the Dutch Research Council Creative Industries Grant (NWO-KIEM). He has published more than 60 SCI/SSCI/A&HCI/EI indexed scientific papers and received more than 10 invention patents and software copyrights. His design works have been exhibited in various globally recognised design events, including the Dutch Design Week, the ACM CHI Interactivity, and the World Design Capital Expo.