Podcast: Designing with Immersion: Storytelling, Training, and Spatial Understanding In this episode of Innovation By Design, Evan Troxel and Candace Kitchen talk with architect and educator Ming Tang, director of the XR Lab at the University of Cincinnati, about extended reality and the rapidly changing tools that make immersive experiences more accessible than ever. Ming […]
Poster: Co-Designing Data Governance Policies for a Neighborhood-Based Digital Health Intervention Lauren Forbes, ..Ming Tang. Co-Designing Data Governance Policies for a Neighborhood-Based Digital Health Intervention. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN AFFAIRS 2026. Digital health innovations (DHI) present important opportunities to improve individual health outcomes and community well-being; however, they are typically developed by private sector innovators who prioritize […]
VR as a Creative Medium for Immersive Storytelling: An Autobiographic Design Exploration Bozhi Peng, Heekyoung Jung, Ming Tang, and Yoshiko Burke. 2026. VR as a Creative Medium for Immersive Storytelling: An Autobiographic Design Exploration. In Proceedings of the Creativity & Cognition 2026 conference (C&C ’26, London. UK. 2026). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, […]
We are grateful to be recognized in Office of Research’s Digital Futures’ fourth-year celebration newsletter and honored to have the work of the XR-Lab highlighted alongside so many outstanding researchers and collaborators. Since the opening of the Digital Futures building, XR-Lab has been proud to be part of this vibrant community, which has created countless […]
2026. Housing Studio. SAID, DAAP, UC This studio will focus on a large-scale housing project on one of two linear sites in Cincinnati. The proposal centers on a 100-unit dense housing intervention integrated with shared amenities serving both residents and the surrounding urban community. Rather than creating a singular tower or landmark, the studio will […]
