Ruiqi Chen

MS Student, HCDE

University of Washington

Ruiqi Chen is an HCDE Master Student dedicated in research on Human-AI system and AI-assisted tools. He joined the lab in June 2024, mentored by PhD student Xia Su.

Bio last updated: August 27, 2025

Projects

A teaser image for FlyMeThrough

FlyMeThrough

2024 – Present

DIAM system overview. (A) The DJI Avata drone used to scan indoor spaces. (B) Indoor accessibility mapping result, green part shows detected doors. (C) DIAM use a few-shot fine-tuned instance segmentation model to detect accessibility related facilities. (D) DIAM also estimates camera position and fly trajectory to help locate detected facilities

DIAM: Drone-based Indoor Accessibility Mapping

2024 – Present

Papers

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FlyMeThrough: Human-AI Collaborative 3D Indoor Mapping with Commodity Drones

Xia Su, Ruiqi Chen, Jingwei Ma, Chu Li, Jon E. Froehlich

Proceedings of UIST 2025 | Acceptance Rate: 22.2% (210 / 947)

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A Demo of DIAM: Drone-based Indoor Accessibility Mapping

Xia Su, Ruiqi Chen, Richard Weiye Zhang, Jingwei Ma, Jon E. Froehlich

Extended Abstract Proceedings of UIST 2024

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Videos

A Demo of DIAM: Drone-based Indoor Accessibility Mapping

YouTube Paper DIAM: Drone-based Indoor Accessibility Mapping Oct 13, 2024