Think of Difference

Do With Diligence

Welcome to the personal website of Zheyu Zhang

You May Wonder

  • Zheyu Zhang made this website, with the help of a popular website building and hosting platform squarespace.

  • The name in this context refers to the creator of the website, Zheyu Zhang. As of 2023, he is a first-year master student in Pennsylvania State University located in PA, US. He finishes undergraduate degree in Computer Science in the same institution and decided to pursue a master degree in Informatics with a focus on Human-Computer Interactions. He likes technology, gaming, and daydreaming. The life goal of his is to make technology human’s best friend, instead of best terminator.

  • Upon the completion of the first year of master study, he has completed one project papers and is about to finish another two project reports. These papers all focus on the intellectual development of online environment, whether it be the management of social applications or online communities. The author wants to explore the socio-technical ecosystem of the Internet, and provide suggestions to improve usability of future technologies.

  • The domain and the name of this website is called “Iridescent”. It comes from a song of the same name by American band Linkin Park. Zheyu Zhang has been resonating with this song since the first time he listened to it, and has since been shaped by it as a person profoundly.

What I Think

  • Users First

    Every one of them is unique, they are hard to satisfy, they are us. Users pay for products, so design with them early, and make them happy.

  • Details Matter

    There is no short of nitpickers. A tiny difference can make them decide whether they like the product or not, and they will make a lot more influence than people could imagine.

  • Dream Bigger

    We live in the science fiction world described in the early 20th century. Our dream today will become the norm in the future as well. It’s a matter of time before impossible things become possible.

What I Do

  • Explore Challenges of Player-driven Online Game Community Management

    By conducting questionnaire survey and collecting feedback from both members and administrators, I explored problems and challenges faced by player-driven online game communities.

  • How Does Safety Measures Help Users Present Themselves Authentically in Social Apps

    By conducting interviews to users of a social application, and using the theories of Social Construction of Technology, I analyzed the approaches used by the social application that allows its users to authentically present themselves, and provided suggestions to future development in the industry.

  • Explore User-defined Hand Gestures for Data Manipulation in VR Environment

    By conducting observation studies, my team explores the creativities of VR users and record the hand gestures they intuitively perform to achieve certain data manipulation tasks in a VR environment.

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