Zhenchi 楨璾
日水天王海王1宮の專業邊緣人
Taiwan, Taipei
出生於台灣，目前為自由接案設計師以及設計研究者。喜歡設計研究、分享、討論。
Zhenchi is a designer and researcher based in Taiwan. As a design researcher, she practices and reflects upon design as a mode of inquiry, participatory engagement, and speculative exploration.
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Education
2022 - present
臺灣科技大學設計系&荷蘭恩荷芬理工大學 設計雙博士候選人
Double PhD candidate in Interactive Design, at Department of Design National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan.
Double PhD candidate in Industry Design, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
2018 - 2021
臺灣科技大學設計系 設計學碩士
Master’s Degree in Interactive Design, at Department of Design National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan.
2008 - 2011
銘傳科技大學 數位媒體設計學系
Bachelor’s Degree in Digital Media Design, at Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
Teaching Experience
2025 - Present
Coach, Eindhoven University of Technology; Eindhoven, NL. Coach for the ARTIFICE: Aesthetics and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Squads
2024 - 2025
Teaching Assistant, National Taiwan University of Technology and Science; Taipei, Taiwan.
設計敘事道具課程 & 數據賦能物件課程
2022 - 2024
實踐大學媒體傳達設計學系 兼任講師
Adjunct Lecturer at Department of Communications Design Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Coach, Eindhoven University of Technology; Eindhoven, NL. Coach for the ARTIFICE: Aesthetics and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Squads
2024 - 2025
Teaching Assistant, National Taiwan University of Technology and Science; Taipei, Taiwan.
設計敘事道具課程 & 數據賦能物件課程
2022 - 2024
實踐大學媒體傳達設計學系 兼任講師
Adjunct Lecturer at Department of Communications Design Shih Chien University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Awards and Distnctions
Paper Awards
2026
(Honorable Mention Awards)
Zhen-Chi Lai, Janet Yi-Ching Huang, and Rung-Huei Liang. 2026. The Cat Fiction: Orchestrating Situated AI-Enabled Storytelling for Multispecies Sense-Making. In Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 4687–4708. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800645.3812921
Fellowships
2026-2028
Partnership program for the Connection to the top labs in the world (Dragon Gate Program)” supported by Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council, Grant No. 115-2926-I-011-505-G, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC).
115 年度國家科學及技術委員會「補助任務導向型團隊赴國外研習」(龍門計畫)。
計畫名稱：以超越人類視角重塑長者照護人智互動：探索跨物種陪伴及隱喻取徑以促進高齡社會連結與 AI 素養
2025
Overseas Research Grant for PhD Students, Qianli Ma Program Fellow Envisioning Future Smart Homes for Human–Cat Coexistence through Fiction and Artificial Intelligence, Grant No. 114-2917-I-011-002, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC).
114 年補助博士生赴國外研究，千里馬計畫補助生，<透過虛構與人工智慧構想未來人貓共居智慧家庭> (核定編號：114-2917-I-011 -002)，國科會
Publication
2026
(Honorable Mention Awards)
Zhen-Chi Lai, Janet Yi-Ching Huang, and Rung-Huei Liang. 2026. The Cat Fiction: Orchestrating Situated AI-Enabled Storytelling for Multispecies Sense-Making. In Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 4687–4708. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800645.3812921
2025
賴楨璾、梁容輝（2025）。「Narracat Camera」貓咪敘事相機－探索虛構敘事在促進人貓關係中意義建構的潛力。 設計學報，30(3)，25-46。https://www.airitilibrary.com/Article/Detail?DocID=16068327-N202510040012-00002
2024
Lai, Z., Huang, J. Y. C., & Liang, R. H. (2024, July). AI Cat Narrator: Designing an AI Tool for Exploring the Shared World and Social Connection with a Cat. In Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 224-228). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3656156.366369
Lai, Z., Tsai, W. C., & Liang, R. H. (2024, May). Designing PhenoProbe: An Interview Tool for Inquiring into the Phenological Knowledge of Taiwanese Elders. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-6). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.365084
2019
Zhen-Chi Lai, Heng-An Lin, Yi-Ting Shih, Shih-Min Hong, and Rung-Huei Liang. 2019. Expected-Experience Entanglements: Reframing Morning Experience through Design Fiction and Sound Interaction. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper LBW0142, 1–6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312800
Professional Experience
2021 – 2022
自由接案設計師
Freelancer and Design Reseacher
2016 - 2019
Digital Medicine Lab, 設計師
Senior Designer
Designer who worked on various design projects such as digital exhibition / User interface design / Web design / Book Design / Comercial Design and so on.
2015 - 2016
牛津資訊科技-FDT金融創新工場, 資深使用者介面設計師
FDT Incubator, Taiwan & Hangzhou
Senior UIUX Designer / Android UI design and web design team lead
2015 - 2016
小果日日, 合夥人 / 設計師
Fruiday, Co-Founder / Designer
2011 - 2015
早安設計, 設計師
Morning Design, Junior Designer
Worked on various design projects such as commercial design, branding, and web&UI design
2010-2011
智榮科技-好米亞文創 , 設計師
Hoomia , Junior Designer
2008
桑河數位科技, 網頁設計實習
Shanger Digital, Web design intern
Workshop
2025
Generative Hocrux: Designing AI Carrier for AI Afterlife International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR)
2025
「Nekozuki Workshop」 AI 協作之推測未來物件工作坊：推測未來貓咪寵物智慧物件 寬廣科技股份有限公司；台北，台灣
2024
推測未來抓鬼神器 —「神器道具營業中」 台灣人機互動研討會 (TAICHI)；台南， 台灣
2024
推測未來日常道具 —「明日生活百貨開張！」 OpenHCI 人機互動工作坊，台科大、台大、政大以及陽明交大合辦；台北，台灣
Writing
2020
《非人推測1》如何進入動物的世界？— Speculatizen
2019
「賽伯格之寵」-科幻與設幻的結合— Speculatizen
Service
2026
Reviewer, Poster & Demo session, Annual Conference of Taiwan Association of Computer Human Interaction (TAICHI)
2026
DIS Associate Chair, Research through Design
2026
Reviewer, International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI)
2025
Reviewer, Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)
2025
International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR)
2024
Reviewer, Annual Conference of Taiwan Association of Computer Human Interaction (TAICHI)
2024
Reviewer, Design Journal Shih Chien University (Praxes)
2009 - 2011
Museum docent Company NameMuseum of Contemporary Art Taipei