Yan Hu

Yan Hu

Associate professor

yan.hu@bth.se

Department of Computer Science, Room J3218

+46 (0) 455-385829

Yan Hu is a senior lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at BTH. Yan Hu received her M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 2010 at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden and M.Sc. degree in Computer Application Technology in 2011 at Zhejiang University of Technology, China. By the end of 2011, she joined BTH as a Ph.D. candidate. In April 2017, she received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science. Her research interests include human-computer interaction, user experience design and evaluation, XR interaction, biometric research in behaviours and interaction, eHealth and applying XR to the health-related area. She has worked on several research projects in the area of mHealth, game addiction and human-centered computing for visual and interactive applications.

Recent publications
Yan Hu, Veronica Sundstedt, Jessica Berner, Ivan Perlesi, "Applying Virtual Reality in Older Adult Healthcare Education - A Case Study", Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, ISSN 1867-8211, EISSN 1867-822X, EISSN 611, Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2025
Veronica Sundstedt, Yan Hu, Patrik Arlos, Shahrooz Abghari, Prashant Goswami, Kurt Tutschku, Majed Elwardy, Chaoming Wang, Bowen Qin, "Human-Centered Intelligent Realities Laboratory", Proceedings - 2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, VRW 2025, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2025
Nan Huang, Prashant Goswami, Veronica Sundstedt, Yan Hu, Abbas Cheddad, "Personalized smart immersive XR environments", The Visual Computer, ISSN 0178-2789, EISSN 1432-2315, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2025
Emil Fransson, Jonatan Hermansson, Yan Hu, "A Comparison of Performance on WebGPU and WebGL in the Godot Game Engine", 2024 IEEE Gaming, Entertainment, and Media Conference, GEM 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024
Yu Fu, Yan Hu, Veronica Sundstedt, "A Pilot Study of User Preferences of Posture and Display Technologies in Virtual Reality Exercise Games", Proceedings of 2024 International Conference on Virtual and Augmented Reality Simulations, ICVARS 2024, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024