Biography
Currently, I am a first-year Master student at the Vision Lab, working under the guidance of Dr. Alejandro Lleras and Dr. Simona Buetti. Before my graduate studies, I conducted research on the human aesthetic preference for color-shape associations with personalities during my undergraduate studies, where I completed my Bachelor degree in Applied Psychology from Beijing Normal University - Hongkong Baptist University United International College.
Research Interests
- Visual search
- Visual Cognition
- Visual Perception
- Attention
- Driving
Research Description
My current research, under the guidance of PhD candidate Jing (Zoe) Xu, is focused on exploring how top-down instructions influence the attentional weight on color and shape dimensions in visual search tasks. We will use values from unidimensional trials (color or shape) combined with different algorithms to predict bidimensional trial (color and shape) values. Additionally, we will calculate the proportion of color and shape dimensions in visual search tasks to understand how the human visual system uses different visual attributes to direct attention to objects.
Recent Publications
Zixu Gong, Kang Zhang, and Rongrong Chen. 2023. Kandinsky's Color-Shape Associations in Chinese Context: Do Personality and Affect Matter? In Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (VINCI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 9, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3615522.3615531