Ying Liu

Research Leader
Beijing

Dr. Ying Liu is now a research leader in the Growth Economies Lab in Nokia Research Center. She is leading a user experience team focusing on exploration of local users, designing relevant service or device concepts and piloting some new ideas with local end users. Ying has worked as a mobile user experience professional since 2001 in Nokia Research Center Beijing. Ying’s academic background is in Human-Computer Interaction; she got her doctor degree from University of Tampere on Interactive Technologies and before that, she got her bachelor and mster degrees on Psychology from Zhejiang University of China. Ying's core expertise is on user-centered design, a multidisciplinary activity involving innovation of novel concepts based on empirically grounded user needs.

Dr. Ying Liu has led or worked on multiple research projects on user interface design or service design. In 2003, she has worked on a project exploring factors of contexts on user interface design of mobile phones. Together with colleagues, they proposed a framework to understand specific contexts and how users use their mobile phones in such contexts. Based on the identified opportunities, they proposed new user interface concepts and built prototypes for user validations. In recent few years, she turned to mobile service design for local consumers. With different approaches, she led a few service design projects and piloted them with end users.

Research Interests

Human-computer interaction

Information visualization on and for mobile devices

Chinese text entry with mobile devices

Ethnographic studies

System pilot and deployment in China

Publications

1. Ying Liu & Kari-Jouko Räihä (2010). Predicting Chinese text entry speeds on mobile phones. In Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Human Factors on Computing Systems (CHI ‘10), ACM Press, pp. 2183–2192.

2. Jun Liu, Ying Liu, Pei-luen Rau, Hui Li, Xia Wang, Dingjun Li (2010). How socio-economic structure influences rural users’acceptance of mobile entertainment. In Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Human Factors on Computing Systems (CHI ‘10), ACM Press, 2203-2212.

3. Sami Ronkainen, Emilia Koskinen, Ying Liu, & Panu Korhonen (2010). Environment analysis as a basis for designing multimodal and multi-device user interfaces. Human-Computer Interaction, 25 (2), 148–193.

4. Ning Liu, Ying Liu, Xia Wang (2010). Data logging plus e-diary: towards an online evaluation approach of mobile service field trial. In: Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI ‘10), 287-290.

5. Ying Liu & Kari-Jouko Räihä (2008). RotaTxt: Chinese Pinyin Input with a rotator. In: Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI), Amsterdam, 225-233.

6. Ying Liu & Zheying Zhang (2008). Stakeholder-Centered Requirements Elicitation: A View from User Research. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2008), Gdańsk, Poland.

7. Jenny Wang, Linda Liu, Ying Liu & Jyri Salomaa (2008). User study on family communication in China. In: Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, Canada.

8.Dinglong Huang, Pei-Luen Rau & Ying Liu. (2008) Effects of font size, display resolution and task type on reading Chinese fonts from mobile devices. In International Journal of Industrial Erognomics, 2008, 39 (2008), 81-89.

9. Dinglong Huang, Pei-luen Rau, Gavriel Salvendy, Xiaoli Shang, Ying Liu & Xia Wang. (2008) Perception of information security and its implications for mobile phone. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 52nd Annual Meeting, NYC.

Patents

1. Hand writing and editing Chinese based on phrase, 2002. 12. 12, Granted.

2. Control Method for Flip in Mobile Phones, 2002. 12. 12, Granted.

3. A new full screen UI, 2003.11.10, Granted.

4. An improved full screen pen UI, 2003. 11.10, Granted.

5. A new two-box input method, 2004.2.25, Granted.

6. Chinese rotator input, 2003. 8. 18, Filed application.

7. A new one box input method, 2004.3.4, Filed application

8. Chinese HWR wildcard, 2006.1.11, Filed application.

9. A touch text entry UI for Hindi, 2007.6.13, Filed application

10. Ziphone: a form factor and interactions, 2008.5.6, Filed application.

11. DynaMove: a UI enabling quick file exchanges, 2010. 1. 27, Filed application.

12. A Chinese HWR UI, 2010, 11, 09, Filed application.

13. Pie menu augumented soft keyboard for Chinese pinyin method, 2011, 05, Filed application.

14. Search history and relevant UI, 2011, 08, Filed application.

15. Phonebook based application sharing, 2011, 09, Filed application