Huaxin Wei is an associate professor in the School of Design of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University where she teaches interaction design and game design. Her research centres on meaningful interactive experiences and investigates the ways they are enabled and the impacts they bring. The areas of her research interests include interactive digital narrative (IDN), game design and analysis, and human-computer interaction design. In IDN and games, she established a descriptive framework for systematic analysis of video game narratives and has been expanding the use of framework through case analyses in a series of publications related to games, game design, and interactive narrative (e.g., ICIDS conference). In interaction design, Huaxin recently started to look at design opportunities and methodology for tangible interaction design to facilitate digital memory practice and narrative experience. Some of her initial results have been published in the TEI (tangible, embedded and embodied interaction) conference. For the design and HCI communities, Huaxin served as Art Co-chair for the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2025 (DIS '25), Pictorial Co-chair for the ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction 2022 (TEI '22), and Program Co-chair for the 2021 Congress of International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR 2021).

At this moment, Huaxin is NOT recruiting any new PhD students except for those whose research interest and/or expertise hugely overlaps with hers (as described above).

• PhD in Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• MSc in Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada
• BSc in Computer Science, Xi’an Shiyou University, China

• Game design
• Interaction design: methods and process
• User research and design evaluation