Publications

Peer-reviewed work, newest first. My name is in bold. Citation counts are on Google Scholar.

peer-reviewed publications listed below: 11
of them first-authored: 8
venues: 7
years: 2019–2026

Publications by year and venue

2019
- ICIDS: The Effects of Interactive Emotional Priming on Storytelling: An Exploratory Study (first author)
2020
2021
- ICALT: Enhancing the Visual Efficiency for Communicating Students’ Personal Relevant Information (first author)
- HCII: Flexible Low-Cost Digital Puppet System (first author)
2022
- HCII: Exploring Information Retrieval for Personalized Teaching Support (first author)
2023
- INTERACT: Everyday-Inspired Movies: Towards the Design of Movie Recommender Systems Based on Everyday Life through Personal Social Media (co-author)
- ICALT: The Context for Contextualizing: Design Implications for Adaptive Teacher Support Systems for More Relevant Instruction (first author)
2024no papers
2025no papers
2026
- ICIDS: Hands as Narrators: Characterizing Idea Reuptake from Hand Enactment in Story Writing (first author)
- ICALT: Identifying Student Interests for Interest-Based Learning: A Comparison of Interest Extraction from Browsing History and Social Media Posts (first author)

Refereed conference papers

Rao, N., Lanzino, A., Chenore, R., Adhikari, I., Brown, S. A., Quek, F., & Chu, S. L. (2026). Hands as Narrators: Characterizing Idea Reuptake from Hand Enactment in Story Writing. ICIDS 2026, Springer. Full paper, accepted.
Rao, N., Huang, Z., Kulkarni, A., Ragan, E., & Chu, S. L. (2026). Identifying Student Interests for Interest-Based Learning: A Comparison of Interest Extraction from Browsing History and Social Media Posts. IEEE ICALT 2026. Full paper.
Kulkarni, A., Powell, L., Murphy, S., Rao, N., & Chu, S. L. (2023). Everyday-Inspired Movies: Towards the Design of Movie Recommender Systems Based on Everyday Life through Personal Social Media. IFIP INTERACT 2023, Springer, pp. 160–169.
Rao, N., Li, Q., Murphy, S., & Chu, S. L. (2023). The Context for Contextualizing: Design Implications for Adaptive Teacher Support Systems for More Relevant Instruction. IEEE ICALT 2023, pp. 71–73.
Rao, N., & Chu, S. L. (2021). Enhancing the Visual Efficiency for Communicating Students’ Personal Relevant Information. IEEE ICALT 2021. Best Short Paper Nomination.
Rao, N., Chu, S. L., & Chenore, R. (2021). Flexible Low-Cost Digital Puppet System. HCI International (HCII 2021), Springer LNCS.
Li, Q., Chu, S. L., Rao, N., & Nourani, M. (2020). Understanding the Effects of Explanation Types and User Motivations on Recommender System Use. AAAI HCOMP 2020.
Zarei, N., Chu, S. L., Quek, F., Rao, N. J., & Brown, S. A. (2020). Investigating the Effects of Self-Avatars and Story-Relevant Avatars on Children’s Creative Storytelling. ACM CHI 2020.
Rao, N., Chu, S. L., Faris, R. W., & Ospina, D. (2019). The Effects of Interactive Emotional Priming on Storytelling: An Exploratory Study. ICIDS 2019, Springer, pp. 395–404.

Extended abstracts, posters, and workshop papers

Rao, N., Chu, S. L., Jing, Z., Kuang, H., Tang, Y., & Dong, Z. (2022). Exploring Information Retrieval for Personalized Teaching Support. HCI International 2022 — Late Breaking Posters, Springer, pp. 191–197.
Rao, N., Zhang, L., Chu, S. L., Jurczyk, K., Candelora, C., Su, S., & Kozlin, C. (2020). Investigating the Necessity of Meaningful Context Anchoring in Augmented Reality Smart Glasses Interaction for Everyday Learning. IEEE VR 2020. Workshop paper and poster.