Morgen! This is Jiangnan Xu. Welcome (\*>_<*/).

Jiangnan is currently a first-year Ph.D. researcher in Niantic Media Research Lab at RIT, NY. Her research focuses on exploring the natures and possibilities between human beings and the physical environment in this digital era through AR technology. In particular, she is looking at how AR technology and gamification systems could co-evolve the way people interact with each other, the community, and society.

Jiangnan has an interdisciplinary background in UX Design, Industrial Design, and Computer Informations. She holds a master of science degree at the University of Edinburgh, UK, majoring in Design Informatics. Her thesis is about web UX of data visualization tool online collection, designed and implemented a website for data visualization tool browsing and searching. Jiangnan was born in 1998, Hangzhou, China, spending her early 20’s in Germany, Scotland, the US, and her homeland. She is fond of cross-cultural communication, film photography, and sci-fi writing.