Peihan Zhong

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Peihan Zhong’s research lies at the intersection of human-robot interaction, remote navigation, and perceptual psychology, with a focus on enhancing how humans collaborate with robots in exploration and wayfinding tasks. Her work addresses critical challenges in tele-operation, particularly the cognitive difficulties operators face when maintaining orientation awareness—knowing their heading, location, and object positions relative to themselves—during remote navigation. Zhong’s major contributions include identifying three independent perceptual factors—scale perception, distance perception, and orientation awareness—that degrade performance in ground robotic tele-operation, and then designing, implementing, and evaluating targeted enhancements for each. Her dissertation, *Perception in Remote Navigation* (2013), laid the groundwork for these innovations, while her 2017 paper on human-robot collaborated exploration further refined orientation awareness strategies. Though her citation counts (ranging from 2 to 4) reflect a niche but emerging field, her systematic approach to solving fundamental perceptual bottlenecks has practical implications for search-and-rescue, space exploration, and assistive robotics. Zhong’s work is notable for bridging experimental psychology and engineering, offering concrete solutions to make remote navigation more intuitive and effective for human operators.