Publications

TCHAN Research bridges AI-powered healthcare usability and human-centered design through evidence-based methodologies. Our peer-reviewed studies, published in Springer HCI, IEEE Healthcom, and Arts & Humanities journals, establish actionable frameworks for medical interface design:

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• AI mHealth Usability: Developed the first GUI checklist for AI medical apps (Springer HCI 2024), addressing rural user needs in China (IEEE Healthcom 2023).

• Clinical Interface Standards: Created evaluation tools for glucose monitor apps (Springer 2023), aligning with FDA/ISO usability guidelines.

• Cross-Cultural Design: Pioneered visual semiotics for Chinese users (CNKI 2019), later extended to IoT medical devices.

Current work explores emotional AI in diagnostic interfaces (Scopus-submitted 2024) and Taiji-inspired clinical UI metaphors. These innovations directly inform TCHAN’s industry projects, ensuring AI enhances—not complicates—patient-clinician interactions.

Publications

June 2025 - April 2026

July 2024 - May 2025

January 2023 - June 2024

Tu, C., Russo, A., & Zhang, Y. (2024, June). A Checklist for the Usability Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) mHealth Applications Graphical User Interface. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 324-337). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

TU, C. J. & RUSSO, A. Visual Design Checklist for Glucose Monitor App User Interface Usability Evaluation. Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Design, User Experience, and Usability, 2023. Springer Nature Switzerland, 454-464.

Tu, C., Zhang, Y., & Xu, R. (2023, December). A Visual Checklist Evaluation of Mobile Health Apps User Interface for Rural Users in China. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (Healthcom) (pp. 59-60). IEEE.