Dr Chen Zhou
- Lecturer (SPN Research)
email:
Chen.Zhou@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
Room 575, 62 Hillhead Street, G12 8QB
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462Research interests
Dr. Zhou combines classic psychophysical methods, cutting-edge virtual reality technologies and computational modelling to study human perception and action in social contexts. He is especially interested in modelling human social behaviour and translating the findings into algorithms that can be directly used in intelligent virtual agents and social robot platforms. He has rich experience in developing virtual reality programs with Unreal Engine and conducting behavioural experiments with robot platforms.
Publications
2026
Zhou, Chen 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462 and Zhang, Yuxin
(2026)
The development and application of Virtual Reality.
In:
Virtual Reality in Tunneling Engineering.
CRC Press.
ISBN 9781032823744
(In Press)
Nölle, Jonas, Titus, Alex, Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462 and Peeters, David
(2026)
Investigating language and cognition in Virtual Reality.
In:
Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Cognition.
Bloomsbury Publishing.
(In Press)
2025
Kou, Yitian, Gu, Yihe, Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462, Zhu, Dandan and Kuai, Shu-Guang
(2025)
RLSLM: A Hybrid Framework Combining Reinforcement Learning and a Rule-based Social Locomotion Model for Socially-aware Navigation.
In: 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2026, Singapore, 20-27 Jan 2026,
(Accepted for Publication)
Chang, Qi, Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462, Miao, Ming-Cheng, Chen, Shuye, Gu, Yihe and Kuai, Shuguang
(2025)
Quantifying Recursive Mentalizing Depth for Social Navigation.
47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 30 – August 2, 2025.
Miao, Ming-Cheng, Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462, Chen, Shuye, Chang, Qi, Gu, Yihe and Kuai, Shuguang
(2025)
The Influence of Indirect Social Relationships on Human Social Navigation.
47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 30 – August 2, 2025.
2022
Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462, Miao, Ming-Cheng, Chen, Xin-Ran, Hu, Yi-Fei, Chang, Qi, Yan, Ming-Yuan and Kuai, Shu-Guang
(2022)
Human-behaviour-based social locomotion model improves the humanization of social robots.
Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(11),
pp. 1040-1052.
(doi: 10.1038/s42256-022-00542-z)
2020
Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462 and Warren, William
(2020)
Social Groups Increase the Influence of Neighbors In a Crowd.
Vision Sciences Society 20th Annual Meeting, 19-24 June 2020.
(doi: 10.1167/jov.20.11.825)
2019
Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462, Miao, Ming-Cheng, Hu, Yi-Fei and Kuai, Shu-Guang
(2019)
Invisible Social Space Alters Human Walking Behaviours.
Vision Sciences Society Nineteenth Annual Meeting, St Pete Beach, Florida, 17-22 May 2019.
(doi: 10.1167/19.10.179b)
Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462, Han, Ming, Liang, Qi, Hu, Yi-Fei and Kuai, Shu-Guang
(2019)
A social interaction field model accurately identifies static and dynamic social groupings.
Nature Human Behaviour, 3(8),
pp. 847-855.
(doi: 10.1038/s41562-019-0618-2)
(PMID:31182793)
Articles
Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462, Miao, Ming-Cheng, Chen, Xin-Ran, Hu, Yi-Fei, Chang, Qi, Yan, Ming-Yuan and Kuai, Shu-Guang
(2022)
Human-behaviour-based social locomotion model improves the humanization of social robots.
Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(11),
pp. 1040-1052.
(doi: 10.1038/s42256-022-00542-z)
Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462, Han, Ming, Liang, Qi, Hu, Yi-Fei and Kuai, Shu-Guang
(2019)
A social interaction field model accurately identifies static and dynamic social groupings.
Nature Human Behaviour, 3(8),
pp. 847-855.
(doi: 10.1038/s41562-019-0618-2)
(PMID:31182793)
Book Sections
Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462 and Zhang, Yuxin
(2026)
The development and application of Virtual Reality.
In:
Virtual Reality in Tunneling Engineering.
CRC Press.
ISBN 9781032823744
(In Press)
Nölle, Jonas, Titus, Alex, Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462 and Peeters, David
(2026)
Investigating language and cognition in Virtual Reality.
In:
Bloomsbury Handbook of Language and Cognition.
Bloomsbury Publishing.
(In Press)
Conference or Workshop Item
Chang, Qi, Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462, Miao, Ming-Cheng, Chen, Shuye, Gu, Yihe and Kuai, Shuguang
(2025)
Quantifying Recursive Mentalizing Depth for Social Navigation.
47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 30 – August 2, 2025.
Miao, Ming-Cheng, Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462, Chen, Shuye, Chang, Qi, Gu, Yihe and Kuai, Shuguang
(2025)
The Influence of Indirect Social Relationships on Human Social Navigation.
47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 30 – August 2, 2025.
Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462 and Warren, William
(2020)
Social Groups Increase the Influence of Neighbors In a Crowd.
Vision Sciences Society 20th Annual Meeting, 19-24 June 2020.
(doi: 10.1167/jov.20.11.825)
Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462, Miao, Ming-Cheng, Hu, Yi-Fei and Kuai, Shu-Guang
(2019)
Invisible Social Space Alters Human Walking Behaviours.
Vision Sciences Society Nineteenth Annual Meeting, St Pete Beach, Florida, 17-22 May 2019.
(doi: 10.1167/19.10.179b)
Conference Proceedings
Kou, Yitian, Gu, Yihe, Zhou, Chen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5684-4462, Zhu, Dandan and Kuai, Shu-Guang
(2025)
RLSLM: A Hybrid Framework Combining Reinforcement Learning and a Rule-based Social Locomotion Model for Socially-aware Navigation.
In: 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2026, Singapore, 20-27 Jan 2026,
(Accepted for Publication)
