Research & Publication

2026

Qianji: A Resilient Framework for Orchestrating "A Thousand Machines" in Distributed Performance

Ruilei Duan, Z Ma*

Accepted

New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2026), London

2026

Orchid-Creator: An Authoring Tool Supporting LLM-Driven Interactive Narrative Creation

Z Wu, Serkan Kumyol, Z Ma, T Braud

Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Google Scholar

2025

Ready or not? Investigating in-service teachers' integration of learning analytics dashboard for assessing students' collaborative problem solving in K-12 classrooms

Y Liu, X Hu, JTD Ng, Z Ma, X Lai

Education and Information Technologies 30 (2), 1745-1776

Google Scholar

2025

Multimodal learning analytics for game-based assessment of collaborative problem solving skills among young students

Y Liu, Z Ma, JTD Ng, X Hu

Proceedings of the 15th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference

Google Scholar

2025

AIR-HLoc: Adaptive Retrieved Images Selection for Efficient Visual Localisation

C Liu, J Jiao, H Huang, Z Ma, D Kanoulas, T Braud

2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 11698

Google Scholar

2024

Adopt or abandon: Facilitators and barriers of in-service teachers' integration of game learning analytics in K-12 classrooms?

Y Liu, JTD Ng, X Hu, Z Ma, X Lai

Computers & Education 209, 104951

Google Scholar

2024

Towards multimodal learning analytics of game-based collaborative problem solving among primary school students

Y Liu, JTD Ng, X Hu, Z Ma

2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)

Google Scholar

2024

Locality and digital musical instruments design: a user study

I Kuzmin, Z Ma, R Masu

Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations

Google Scholar

2024

Toward Musical Cosmotechnics: the case of zhu nao 竹脑—a bamboo-based instrument

I Kuzmin, Z Ma, R Masu

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Google Scholar

2024

Pharosphones: interactive audience participation using light

Z Ma, I Kuzmin, D Ruilei, R Masu

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Google Scholar

2015

Strands Project (Robotics)

I was an undergraduate student in BSc Computer Science at University of Birmingham back in the days. I don't think I have done much in this project, but it is the first research project I have ever participated in. I actually learnt a lot by watching other people and robots. This project inspired me to put a lot of effort into robotics and the field of doing research. Our team ended up scoring 2nd prize in the UK-RAS field robotics challenge in 2016.