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Botao 'Amber' Hu

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Botao 'Amber' Hu

Doctoral Student

Student, Oriel College

E: botao.hu@cs.ox.ac.uk
E: amber@reality.design
I: Google Scholar
I: ORCID
S: LinkedIn
O: GitHub

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Research: As a Social Computing researcher, I focus on Decentralized AI and its implications and governance in More-than-human Society. My research applies Protocol Studies, Artificial Life, Collective Intelligence, Human-AI Symbiosis thinking. I've proposed a Trust Experience Design (TXD) manifesto for distributed autonomous intelligence in the wild. See more here: https://tx.design.

Design: I also work as an Experiential Futures designer across various media, with Mixed Reality as my primary media. I employ diverse design approaches including Speculative Design, Somaesthetic Design, More-Than-Human Design, and Game Design. I direct Reality Design Lab, while I teach Mixed Reality Design at China Academy of Art. See more my design works: https://reality.design. I also invented HoloKit, an open-source mixed reality headset designed for spatial computing education: https://holokit.io.

 

Biography

Botao 'Amber' Hu is a Social Computing researcher and Experiential Futures designer. He is a DPhil student in Human Centred Computing group at University of Oxford's Department of Computer Science. As a researcher, his interest lies in Decentralized AI and its implications and governance in More-Than-Human Society, involving Trust Experience Design, Protocol Studies, and Artificial Life. As a designer, he creates Experiential Futures using Social Mixed Reality as his primary medium. He also serves as a visiting lecturer for Mixed Reality Design at China Academy of Art while directing Reality Design Lab, an independent interdisciplinary research and design lab that explores the intersection of Soma Design, Speculative Design, Spatial Computing, and Social Computing. His work has been featured at leading conferences including SIGGRAPH, CSCW, CHI, UbiComp, WWW, TEI, ISEA, IEEEVR, IEEEVIS, ISMAR, ALIFE, Ars Electronica, SXSW, and TEDx. He has received numerous accolades, including SIGGRAPH Best in Show, CHI Best Interactivity, Webby, Red Dot, iF Design, Good Design, A' Design, Core77 Design Award, and grants from Ethereum Foundation. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Tsinghua University and a master's degree in computer science with AI concentration from Stanford University.

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Supervisor

Max Van Kleek

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