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Professor Shengdong Zhao Honored for Pioneering Contributions in HCI

Professor Shengdong Zhao has received the prestigious ICACHI Pioneer Award for his outstanding career and pioneering leadership in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This accolade celebrates his remarkable achievements and the lasting foundation he has established for the discipline’s advancement.

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Additionally, his groundbreaking project, GestureGPT: Toward Zero-Shot Free-Form Hand Gesture Understanding with Large Language Model Agents, developed in collaboration with Zhang Tengxian’s team, has been featured in the SCM Research Stories section. This project addresses a fundamental challenge in gesture recognition and has earned the Best Paper Award at ACM ISS 2024. GestureGPT combines contextual inference with interaction data to infer user intent, making gesture-based interfaces seamless and adaptive.

Congratulations to Professor Zhao on these well-deserved honors!