Professor, East China Normal University
Head and Principal Investigator of Visual Cognition and Virtual Reality Application Lab
Assistant dean for academic affairs, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University
Email: sgkuai@psy.ecnu.edu.cn
Office: Room 2010, Old Library Building, 3663 North Zhongshan Road, Shanghai
Combine virtual reality, neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG, TMS) and computational modeling to explore human social vision
Project 1: computational rules of social interaction in the human brain. As social animals, we live in a complex society where social interaction plays an important role in our lives. Previous studies have identified numerous factors such as spatial distance, facing orientation, and posture influencing the perception of social interaction (zhou et al). However, little is known about how our brain represents these cues and integrates them to form the perception of social interactions. Professor Kuai’s research uses virtual reality technology to manipulate various social factors in complex social scenes, by which he builds a computational model of the human social interaction field. Moreover, he uses neuroimaging to investigate how brain areas encode social interaction information.
Zhou, C., Han, M., Liang, Q., Hu, Y. F., & Kuai, S. G. (2019). A social interaction field model accurately identifies static and dynamic social groupings. Nature human behaviour, 3(8), 847-855.
Project 2: virtual reality experimental tool for psychophysical experiment. In recent years, virtual reality has shown great potential in the study of psychology given its immersive experience. However, due to the technical complexity of virtual reality, it is technically and practically challenging to creating psychological experiments in virtual reality. To facilitate more psychologists to use virtual reality technology, he has developed a toolbox for virtual reality experiments. In this toolbox, he provides 1) a library of social scenes; 2) database of avatars; 3) example demos of virtual reality experimental programs.
2009 Ph.D., Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2004 B.S., Psychology (major) and Computer Science (minor), East China Normal University
2019 – present Assistant dean for academic affairs, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University
2015 – present Head and Principal Investigator of Visual Cognition and Virtual Reality Application Lab, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University
2012 – 2015 Scientist, Philips Research
2010 – 2012 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Birmingham
2009 – 2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham
- Zhou, C., Miao, M. C., Chen, X. R., Hu, Y. F., Chang, Q., Yan, M. Y., & Kuai, S. G*. (2022). Human-behaviour-based social locomotion model improves the humanization of social robots. Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(11), 1040-1052. (* Corresponding Author).
- Kuai, S. G*., Shan, Z.K.D., Chen, J., Xu, Z.X., Li, J.M., Field, D., &Li., L*. (2020). Integration of motion and form cues for the perception of self-motion in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(5), 1120-1132 (* Corresponding Author).
- Zhou, C., Han, M., Liang, Q., Hu, Y. F., & Kuai, S. G*. (2019). A social interaction field model accurately identifies static and dynamic social groupings. Nature human behaviour, 3,847–855 (* Corresponding Author)
- Deng, C. L., Geng, P., Hu, Y. F., & Kuai, S. G*. (2019). Beyond Fitts’s Law: A Three-Phase Model Predicts Movement Time to Position an Object in an Immersive 3D Virtual Environment. Human factors, 0018720819831517(* Corresponding Author)
- Kuai, S. G.＊, Zhang, J. Y.＊, Klein, S. A., Levi, D. M., & Yu, C. (2005). The essential role of stimulus temporal patterning in enabling perceptual learning. Nature Neuroscience, 8(11), 1497-1499. (＊Equal contributors)