Portia Wang

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Hi there! I am a Communication PhD student at Stanford University, supported by a Stanford Graduate Fellowship and a McCoy Ethics Graduate Fellowship. I am advised by Prof. Jeremy Bailenson at the Virtual Human Interaction Lab. I also work with Dr. Stephanie Balters at the Empowerment Neuroscience Lab.

I am interested in building up a theoretical framework towards understanding personalized and adaptive immersive technologies. To do this, I hope to develop tools for facilitating social interactions and the creative process in virtual and augmented reality and characterize how individuals and groups utilize these tools over time.

Previously, I completed my M.S. in MS&E at Stanford University and B.S. in Computer Science at Columbia University. While at Columbia, I worked as a research assistant advised by Prof. Steven Feiner at the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab.

Note: look out for the adorable mini golden retriever (Toto) as we navigate through grad school.

news

Apr 2024 Completed my M.S. at Stanford :smile: :mortar_board:
Jan 2024 Our paper “Socially Late, Virtually Present: The Effects of Transforming Asynchronous Social Interactions in Virtual Reality” was accepted as a full conference paper at CHI 2024 :hourglass_flowing_sand:
Dec 2023 Our paper “Asynchronously Assigning, Monitoring, and Managing Assembly Goals in Virtual Reality for High-Level Robot Teleoperation” was accepted as a full conference paper at IEEE VR 2024 :palm_tree:
Dec 2023 Our paper “Understanding virtual design behaviors” was accepted at Design Studies :tada:
Sep 2023 Finished a summer fellowship at the SIP Lab :switzerland:

selected publications

  1. Virtual reality as a research tool
    Portia Wang, Jeremy N. Bailenson
    In Reimer, T., van Swol, L. & Florack, A. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Social Cognition. (Forthcoming)
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  2. Seeing the World through Digital Prisms: Psychological Implications of Passthrough Video Usage in Mixed Reality
    Jeremy N. Bailenson, Brian Beams, James Brown, Cyan DeVeaux, Eugy Han, Anna C. M. Queiroz, Rabindra Ratan, Monique Santoso, Tara Srirangarajan, Yujie Tao, Portia Wang
    Technology, Mind, and Behavior (To Appear)
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  3. Socially Late, Virtually Present: The Effects of Transforming Asynchronous Social Interactions in Virtual Reality
    Portia Wang, Mark R. Miller, Anna C.M. Queiroz, Jeremy N. Bailenson
    CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024
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  4. Understanding virtual design behaviors: A large-scale analysis of the design process in Virtual Reality
    Portia Wang, Mark R. Miller, Eugy Han, Cyan DeVeaux, Jeremy N. Bailenson
    Design Studies 2024
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  5. Adaptive Visual Cues for Guiding a Bimanual Unordered Task in Virtual Reality
    Jen-Shuo Liu*, Portia Wang*, Barbara Tversky, Steven Feiner
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2022
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