Huaxin Wei is an assistant professor in the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where she is involved in the teaching and curriculum development of the programs of BA in Interactive Media and MDes in Interaction Design. Her primary research explores the use of interactive technologies in narrative design for digital media. In her doctoral research, she established a descriptive framework for systematic analysis of video games using a variety of structural perspectives. She then demonstrated the use of the framework through case analyses in several published works. Her current teaching and research subjects lie in the intersection of user-centred design and interactive media, including game design and analysis, interaction design and evaluation, interactive and digital storytelling, user research and usability studies, interface design, information visualization, and human-computer interaction.

Huaxin Wei holds a PhD from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada and a M.Sc. in Computing Science from University of Alberta, Canada.