Publications
Book Chapter
Zhao, Yinshu and Baghaei, Nilufar (2025). Exploring AI interaction modalities in virtual environments and its impact on users’ attitudes. The impact of artificial intelligence on societies: understanding attitude formation towards AI. (pp. 41-55) edited by Christian Montag and Raian Ali. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-70355-3_4
Journal Article
Chitale, Vibhav, Baghaei, Nilufar, Playne, Daniel, Liang, Hai-Ning, Zhao, Yinshu, Erensoy, Aysu and Ahmad, Yvette (2022). The use of videogames and virtual reality for the assessment of anxiety and depression: a scoping review. Games for Health Journal, 11 (6), 341-354. doi: 10.1089/g4h.2021.0227
Conference Papers
Wong, Andrew, Zhao, Yinshu, Xu, Wenge and Baghaei, Nilufar (2025). Effects of customisation of AI shopping assistant on VR retail. OZCHI '25: 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Sydney, Australia, 29 November 2025- 3 December 2025. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3764687.3764706
Zhao, Yinshu, Ricci, Marina, Fiorentino, Michele and Baghaei, Nilufar (2024). Avatar design in virtual retail environments: a scoping review and proposed framework. 36th Australasian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Meanjin (Brisbane), QLD Australia, 30 November-4 December 2024. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3726986.3726991
Wong, Andrew, Zhao, Yinshu and Baghaei, Nilufar (2024). Effects of customizable intelligent VR shopping assistant on shopping for stress relief. 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), Bellevue, WA, United States, 21-25 October 2024. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ismar-adjunct64951.2024.00069
Schnack, Alexander, Zhao, Yinshu and Baghaei, Nilufar (2023). Introducing shopper avatars in a virtual reality store. 30th IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR), Shanghai, China, 25-29 March 2023. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/vrw58643.2023.00274
Erensoy, Aysu, Mathrani, Anuradha, Schnack, Alexander, Zhao, Yinshu, Chitale, Vibhav Sunil and Baghaei, Nilufar (2022). Comparing customer behaviours: immersive virtual reality store experiences versus web and physical store experiences. 2022 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering (CSDE), Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 18-20 December 2022. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/csde56538.2022.10089288
Zhao, Yinshu, Schnack, Alexander, Mathrani, Anuradha, Erensoy, Aysu, Chitale, Vibhav and Baghaei, Nilufar (2022). Virtual reality stores: studies on shopper perceptions and behaviors. 9th IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering (CSDE), Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 18-20 December 2022. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/CSDE56538.2022.10089221
Zhao, Yinshu, Baghaei, Nilufar, Schnack, Alexander and Stemmet, Lehan (2021). Assessing telepresence, social presence and stress response in a virtual reality store. IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), Bari, Italy, 4-8 October 2021. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct54149.2021.00020
Generic Document
Yang, Yifei, Wallace, Sarah J., Hudson, Kyla, Zingelman, Sally, Fothergill, Lauren, King, Michelle, Zhao, Yinshu, Al Khuwaitem, Mohammed and Worthy, Peter (2026). Protocol for workforce training for care technologies in aged care: a scoping review. Centre for Open Science. doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/2JDAQ
Thesis
Zhao, Yinshu (2025). The impact of avatar design on user experience and shopping behaviour in immersive virtual stores. PhD Thesis, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/daee693