Tung’s

Wang Zhaodong

Interdisciplinary ResearcherMaster’s Candidate in Design

Interdisciplinary researcher with a background in physics and design, studying how embodied experience makes social relations meaningful and reconstructing them as designable structures through technological mediation.

Shanghai, China tungwang@tongji.edu.cn ORCID 0009-0008-1111-6742 Download CV ↓

Research Interests

  • Design Epistemology and Methodology
  • Cognitive Semantics and Meaning-Making
  • Embodied Cognition
  • Human–Technology Relations

Education

Selected Research
Projects

2025 - Present Master’s Researcher, Tongji University

XR-Mediated Design for Subtle Embodied Social Experience

Investigates how subtle embodied experiences of public-space social interaction can be reconstructed as design-operable relations and instantiated through XR design propositions.

  • Conceived the theoretical and methodological framework and designed and conducted a first-person study with 16 participants.
  • Developed the Evidence-Side and Design-Side Image-Schematic Systems and generated XR symbolic-metaphor propositions.
  • Led data analysis, visualization, and manuscript preparation; currently developing the Unity-based XR prototype and preparing its empirical evaluation.
2025 - Present Co-Researcher, Tongji University

Cooperative Process Transparency in AR-HMI

Examines how different levels of cooperative process transparency affect driver cognition during V2V cooperative lane changes.

  • Contributed to the conceptualization and three-level operationalization of cooperative process transparency; curated and formally analysed performance and subjective data.
  • Produced research visualizations and led manuscript preparation and revision.
2024 - 2025 Co-Researcher, Tongji University

AR Social-Space Design through Interpersonal Distance and Social Cues

Examines how virtual-agent layout, gesture amplitude, and interaction guidance shape affect, social presence, and continued engagement in AR.

  • Contributed to research conceptualization and curated and formally analysed the experimental data.
  • Drafted the original manuscript and contributed to its review and revision.
2024 - Present Co-Researcher, Tongji University

Automated-Driving HMI and Driver Attention

Comprises three driving-simulator studies of collaboration modes, monitoring requests, and multimodal takeover warnings.

  • Contributed to the experimental design and execution of one controlled driving-simulator study.
  • Processed and analysed eye-tracking and fNIRS data across the project studies.
  • Contributed to the interpretation of results and manuscript review and revision.

Publications &
Manuscripts

Reconstructing subtle embodied social experience as designable relations: An image-schema-mediated empirical-to-design method demonstrated through a public-space gaze case.

Z. Wang, & F. You (2026).

First Author Submitted to International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

Preprint available on SSRN. doi:10.2139/ssrn.7201181

Seeing the whole process: How cooperative process transparency in AR-HMI affects driver cognition in V2V lane changes.

F. You, X. Yan, Z. Wang, & Q. Fu (2026).

Corresponding Author Revision under review at Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Designing multimodal takeover request interfaces: The impact of warning modalities and information types on drivers’ takeover performance and subjective perceptions.

Y. Chen, F. Jia, Z. Wang, X. Wu, & J. Wang (2026).

Under review at International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

Beyond attention reminders: Effects of monitoring request design type and non-driving-related task engagement on driver takeover performance and subjective perceptions.

Y. Chen, Y. Jin, F. Jia, J. Wang, Z. Wang, B. Mehler, & F. You (2026).

Under review at Accident Analysis & Prevention

Is control necessary for drivers? Exploring the influence of human–machine collaboration modes on driving behavior and subjective perception under different hazard visibility scenarios.

Y. Chen, J. Wang, F. Jia, X. Wu, Q. Xiao, Z. Wang, & F. You (2025).

Published in Accident Analysis & Prevention, 217, 108067.

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2025.108067

Research Capabilities
& Technical Skills

Research Capabilities

  • Conceptual Analysis · Framework Development
  • Embodied Experience Analysis
  • Metaphor/Schema Analysis · XR Prototyping
  • Driving Simulation · Eye Tracking · EEG/fNIRS Analysis

Technical Skills

Research · Analysis
SPSS · MATLAB · GraphPad Prism · NVivo · Tobii Pro Lab
Programming · XR
Unity · Python · C/C++ · HTML
Design · Media
Figma · Adobe Photoshop · Adobe Premiere Pro · Blender · SketchUp
Authoring
LaTeX

External Research
Collaborations

2025

Eye-Tracking Experiment and Analysis Coordinator

Tongji University & Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Provided methodological training and supervised eye-tracking experiments and data analysis for an industry collaboration on task complexity in cloud change operations.

2025 - 2026

EEG Data Analysis Coordinator

Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology

Supervised and conducted EEG data analysis for the project “Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Detection and Dissemination of AI-Generated Misinformation.”

Languages

Chinese - Native · English - Academic working proficiency · Japanese - Intermediate · French - Elementary

Curriculum Vitae · Publications · Research Collaboration