

Shuo Zhou


Shuo Zhou is a PhD student in the Personal Health Informatics program at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, advised by Professor Timothy Bickmore. A native of Beijing, China, Shuo earned her Bachelor of Science from Tsinghua University in China and her Master of Science from Cornell University.
Shuo’s research area includes personal health informatics, and she is in the Relational Agents Group at Northeastern. She is interested in promoting health behavior changes using embodied conversational agents.
I received my master’s degree from Cornell University in human factors and ergonomics, and I am currently pursuing my PhD degree in personal health informatics.
My current research interests are promoting health counseling and health education using conversational virtual characters.
My dissertation research is about improving risk communication using embodied conversational virtual characters.
I am studying how health communication can be facilitated by conversational virtual characters, and how the interaction process and information displayed can be improved to achieve better health outcomes.
I grew up in Beijing, China.
My undergraduate degree is about vehicle engineering and car design, which leads to my current interest in human centered design.
Shuo Zhou is a PhD student in the Personal Health Informatics program at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, advised by Professor Timothy Bickmore. A native of Beijing, China, Shuo earned her Bachelor of Science from Tsinghua University in China and her Master of Science from Cornell University.
Shuo’s research area includes personal health informatics, and she is in the Relational Agents Group at Northeastern. She is interested in promoting health behavior changes using embodied conversational agents.
I received my master’s degree from Cornell University in human factors and ergonomics, and I am currently pursuing my PhD degree in personal health informatics.
My current research interests are promoting health counseling and health education using conversational virtual characters.
My dissertation research is about improving risk communication using embodied conversational virtual characters.
I am studying how health communication can be facilitated by conversational virtual characters, and how the interaction process and information displayed can be improved to achieve better health outcomes.
I grew up in Beijing, China.
My undergraduate degree is about vehicle engineering and car design, which leads to my current interest in human centered design.