@nytimes
on our Wearable Microphone Jammer (see it in action here: ). it uses ultrasound to disable surrounding microphones from recording you; lead by Heather Zheng &
@ravenben
with Yuxin Chen, Huiying Li,
@tengshanyuan
, Steven Nagels and I ->
#chi2020
1/N
Potential applicants: you do **not** need publications to apply. I know this is becoming the norm, but this is **not** how my lab works. You need to enjoy research.
Proof: Many of my PhDs had no papers prior to applying and they are rocking it!
All info:
Come work with these amazing people in the Human Computer Integration lab at
@UChicagoCS
. We are recruiting PhD students (fully funded). Learn more at and apply to
@UChicagoPSD
until Dec 18th! Here's our last five projects:
I've been selected as a
#SloanFellow
, deeply humbling and also a deep personal reminder that I could not have done any of this without the support of my students and of
@UChicagoCS
&
@UChicagoPSD
A thanks & congrats to these people👇(read about them at )
Introducing… the winners of this year’s Sloan Research Fellowship! These extraordinary researchers represent some of the most exciting young minds working today—and we are thrilled to support them. Meet the winners here:
#SloanFellow
Best
#CHI2022
news! I cannot express into words (nem sequer em português) how excited I am for my postdoc Jun Nishida (
@JunNishidaLab
) who will be an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland (
@UofMaryland
). おめでとうございます. 1/3
our
#chi2020
Trigeminal-based Temperature Illusions! video: an illusion of hot/cold using scents that stimulate the trigeminal nerve (e.g. mint). It uses 52x less power than a Peltier. First
@sig_chi
paper of
@jas_x_flowers
and we got a Best Paper award!
Now live for everyone!
Cyberpunk Ultrasonic Microphone Jammer- with
@JLCPCB
!
I also show off the new
@Creality3dprint
LD-006 4K LCD Printer using
@esun3dfilament
resin
My videos get hidden- retweets and shares help. Thank you!
#CHI2023
just released the list of awarded papers for this year's
@acm_chi
conference 🎊 (click on tab to see honorable mentions too). Congratulations to all authors (including those not on the awards list, because everyone is advancing
#hci
knowledge!)🎊
Hardest part is saying goodbye! Soon three amazing students graduating (left2right): Joyce (undergrad->PhD at UCSB), Arata (intern->PhD at Saarland), and Yujie (Master student->PhD at Stanford). We are super proud & excited for their next journey; let me tell you about them 1/5
This analysis of our work on integrating living organisms inside of interactive devices (e.g. a smartwatch with a slime mold that the user must care for) is really on point! Work by
@xjasminelu
:
#CHI2023
reviewers requesting studies in 5-weeks. I'm all in favor of intellectual debate but you might consider that some authors might be in a place where the **institutional review board** that approves user studies needs way (!) more time than that = out of authors' control
I know everyone is celebrating
#chi2024
papers and maybe we should be too, but, the thrill of a class sending off their PCBs to the factory is too amazing. 95% of these students never made a circuit and look at six weeks later! Thanks to
@tengshanyuan
and
@romainnith
#electronics
Took me 365 days but... it's live: UIST 2022 Ask-Me-Anything on "Being a new faculty/starting a new lab". Thanks everyone who kept asking for this, finally, I found courage to write it and posted the video on youtube:
#AcademicTwitter
1/3
My first four months at
@UChicago
have been incredible. In January, we started the human computer integration lab at
@UChicagoCS
. At first it was just me and
@jas_x_flowers
. Now, I'm surrounded by 11 brilliant minds: ! We are bound to our first
#chi2019
!
Come work with these amazing people in the Human Computer Integration lab at
@UChicagoCS
. We are recruiting PhD students (fully funded). Learn more at and apply to
@UChicagoPSD
until Dec 18th! Here's our last five projects:
dear
#chi2018
@sig_chi
@sigchi
community, thanks all for your support during my PhD years working on interactive electrical muscle stimulation...Happy to announce I'll be faculty at
@UChicago
(from Jan'19). I will build a group dedicated to investigating wearables&body, join us!
New
#DIS2024
paper: "Designing
#Plant
Driven Actuators for Robots to Grow, Age, and Decay". We collaborated with Yuhan Hu (lead author),
@xjasminelu
(presenting), Nathan Scinto-Madonich, Miguel Alfonso Pineros and
@guyhoffman
from
@Cornell
! What a fun exploration & team
#HRI
1/5
Excited about
#UIST2023
! Our lab's contributions are all demo'd here:
These include five papers:
#haptic
feedback with supermagnets, interactive taste illusions ,
#VR
feedback for feet, and two
#fabrication
tools (for recycling & heat!) at
@ACMUIST
1/4
Hey
#chi2024
/
@sigchi
community, help us welcome our new PhD student Yun Ho to our community and to our lab! Yun has a background in psychology and loves proprioception, movement and more! (She's the one on the left next to
@romainnith
, her coauthor in our Split body paper).
I don't know about you... but I am very exhausted and simultaneously very inspired for all the interactivity demos we had at
#CHI2022
today! Thanks to a lot of people for this special & heart warming event with our
#CHI2022nola
hands-on demos. 1/4
The lovely folks at
@StanfordHCI
invited me to speak this week (details below). Excited to see many brilliant HCI colleagues, meet new ones (at
@Stanford
all day Thursday for meetings) and especially catch up with our lab's brilliant alumni
@tao_yujie
We are ~150 people watching these awesome
#chi2020
talks on Smell, Taste and Temperature. We just started so you can still join us: (Q&A panel coming soon). All info on this symposium: THREAD on all papers & symposium moments! 1/N
@nytimes
@ravenben
@tengshanyuan
What happens when you activate the jammer and talk to someone while surrounded by microphones? Those microphones capture noise rather than your voice, but you don't hear any jamming (it's ultrasonic). This means you speak freely but speech recognizers will fail to spy on you.
@nytimes
@ravenben
@tengshanyuan
Here's how it works: The engineering behind it allows us to get an awesome jamming coverage by making it
#wearable
: (1) any small movement decreases the impact of the typical blind spots that ultrasonic jammers have; and, (2) it jams in many directions!
Thanks everyone at this
#ieeevr2024
workshop.
@tengshanyuan
was presenting on the challenges of bringing haptics into everyday interfaces (e.g. AR, VR and daily life) and got a best paper award for it! Congrats!
#chi2022
here we come! Excited to see you all and your demos/papers in person (and also virtually and hybrid-ly, come as you are!) Check our this year's conference program👇and make sure to come by the Interactivity opening to try
@Hoku5ai
's (Yudai Tanaka) 1st paper+demo!!! 1/3
We did it—hard work by
@romainnith
+
@tengshanyuan
(
@Hoku5ai
too!). 23 printed circuit boards verified, tweaked & sent to production. Students made these PCBs in the **1st week of class**—really proud of their work! This class () is for non-EE folks! 1/7
Excited to be in Finland for the PhD defense of the brilliant
@yichiliao
from
@oulasvirta
's group at Aalto! I got to read this incredible book in the past weeks and I highly recommend it! Stay tuned for the defense tomorrow. (Spoiler: they wear tailcoats for PhD defenses here)
Thanks
@ACMUIST
for the award! HandMorph is a passive exoskeleton that allows you to temporarily transform your grasp into that of a person with a smaller hand. We think it is useful for designing better products! Watch full video here:
#uist2020
1/N
@justinhj
That's the real test, when the machine starts moving the include files around into different subfolders, making random symlinks and typing "make" all the time at all possible paths, until it works = human level intelligence. Turing passed. :D
For younger HCI students (like myself) it's a pleasure to hit this wall, with the Rekimoto (& many others too) wall in place, we can do new things. Rather than stopping at our original idea, we can build on prior work and go further. It's more like the Rekimoto trampoline!
Jun Rekimoto’s Wall (暦本純一の壁)
Whenever we come up with an exciting new idea, we hit Jun Rekimoto’s Wall and realize
@rkmt
has already done over years, sometimes decades, ago.
(from the conversation with
@plopesresearch
at
#UIST2021
😅)
I'm officially now a
@chiwhobike
(Chicagoans who bike). I'm thrilled that Viktor has been doing these videos raising awareness of biking and bike infrastructure issues in Chicago! Kudos to him.
“This is my first electrical bike. I've always been riding single speed and fixed bikes, and I finally got a commute that was long enough that I had to consider another way to extend my leg range. And so I tried this bike, it's a very cheap electrical bike and it's wonderful.” 🧵
Our first
#chi2019
paper asks: can we mitigate agency lost when we are moved by an external force? Together with Jun Nishida and
@shn_kasa
(
@SonyCSL
) we found out that it is possible to speed up human reaction time without fully compromising agency! Video:
@ACMUIST
PC meeting over and decisions sent! Congratulations everyone! I dare to say congratulations even if your paper didn't make it to this year, submitting a work that you are proud of is the most important! See you all at
#uist2024
! cc the best co-chair
@alexiiion
!
@nytimes
@ravenben
@tengshanyuan
If you want to read all the details, I invite you to read our upcoming
#chi2020
paper (accessible at or my lab too: ). This would not have been possible without the great feedback from anonymous
@sig_chi
@sigchi
reviewers! Thanks!
Never thought I'd give this talk again but it's happening (!) during
@StanfordHCI
retreat -- thanks to the fabulous organization of the folks here! (No need to come up the mountain to watch it, it's video recorded by the lovely people who run
@ACMUIST
: )
Beautiful
@ACMUIST
conference! Thanks Sean Follmer (
@dSeanMustard
) & Jeff Han, and, all the amazing organizing team (from papers to SV chairs, web, and especially all the invisible yet critical stuff!). Our team (+ alumni) loved
#UIST2023
!
#UISTrocks
Make cute word clouds with data from your Google scholar page :) (for those who would imagine I would write the word integration all that often, I don't :) ) very fun tool! Try it!
#academicchatter
#AcademicTwitter
our
#CHI2021
"Stereo-Smell via Electrical Trigeminal Stimulation" is out:
We create a stereo-smell using electrical stimulation of the septum (fits like a nose clip)! Work led by
@jas_x_flowers
w/
@tengshanyuan
, Jingxuan Wen, Romain Nith, Jun Nishida 1/7
I just went to the best conference of all times [1]: the Jun Rekimoto Lab Open House :) Thanks
@rkmt
for the invitation. So many inspiring and provocative demos & posters! (incl. sneak peak into upcoming projects)
[1] sorry
#CHI2023
and
#UIST2023
and all other HCI confs :P hehe
Love to finally update this slide on my "Introduction to HCI" class to add
@jeffbigham
's
#UIST2023
lasting impact award on this!
Been showing this slide for the last four years (actually in multiple classes) and students always get inspired by this work!
Magnetic Muscle Stimulation (MMS): This year marks the 10th year that I started working on electrical muscle stimulation (EMS)... and Yudai Tanaka (
@Hoku5ai
) is at
#UIST2023
to improve one of the key limitations of EMS, by switching from electrical to MAGNETIC stimulation 1/9
Here's my lab's latest paper: handmorph. It is a hand exoskeleton that miniaturizes the wearer's grasp, allowing the user to test the ergonomics of tools, objects, UIs, etc, as if they had a smaller grasp! We are really honored with the best paper award from
@ACMUIST
!
#uist2020
Four new devices for
#CHI2023
, lots of hard work by
@jas_x_flowers
,
@romainnith
(& co-authors),
@Hoku5ai
(& co-authors), and
@artjng
(Alan is posing here with LipIO since Arata is doing his PhD in Germany now!). You can watch me try all four devices here:
Wanna watch 468
#chi2020
talks?
@sig_chi
has your back:
#HCI
thanks
@sig_chi
and all authors who put time in making these amazing talks! See you in 117h! (back of the envelop calc, probably wrong)
Thanks everyone who came to the talk & thanks to my students for all the work they did in the first 4 years of our lab! It's been fun & we got to celebrate it today!
p.s.: Finally got the most important of awards="best talk award from my students" :P (+ description in ALT text)
#UChicago
folks: I'm speaking tomorrow (Mar 31st) at 10:30 about our lab's research (mostly highlights from 2019-2023) at Crerar 390 (
@UChicagoCS
), talk info at
and feel free to join! 1/2
I wish I could say the sameTested everyday during
#CHI2022
and was always negative (n95 + 2x booster), but just had my test turn positive now. I already emailed everyone I could remember to directly interact with, but please do get tested and isolate to protect your community 1/4
I had the IMMENSE pleasure of co-organizing the (virtual) Doctoral Consortium at
#chi2024
. Look at these amazing researchers! We had a great day of discussions, AMA with
@parastooabtahi
and
@michinebeling
. thanks to co-chair Pawel Wozniak and to
@sigchi
for this important venue!
It is my pleasure to announce that Yudai (
@Hoku5ai
) has gone full mad scientist and created a new demo from scratch (that is not in paper nor video) that you can try at
#CHI2023
, it is all about helping this cat -- so come try it and wear our electrodes to feel touch sensations!
#CHI2023
is over but research goes on in
#haptics
with the upcoming
@ieeewhc
conference. I will be presenting at this amazing workshop "Touching the future" (org Hsin-Ni Ho & Lynette Jones) w/ my students Shan-Yuan
@tengshanyuan
and Yudai Tanaka
@Hoku5ai
"We talk about robots taking over jobs, but it's interesting to see technology that can help humans do our jobs better,"
@katerogers
discusses her experience using a robotic device that can control humans' muscles at
#CNBCEvolve
.
#CHI2023
workshop on smell taste and temperature was so insightful, thanks everyone from organizers and participants! You can learn more at or come talk to us at
@acm_chi
New paper out at
#UIST2023
"FeetThrough: Electrotactile Foot Interface that Preserves Real-World Sensations". This haptic device for feet was done with my intern Keigo Ushiyama (
@mowmowmw
).
Watch video: or come see this
#haptics
talk it at
@ACMUIST
1/6
Researchers at
@UChicago
have developed a power-efficient technique for generating different temperature sensations in
#VR
by essentially hacking the user's nose.
Read more via
@IEEESpectrum
:
I'm super excited for a whole session just about **electrical stimulation** (and much of it is "muscle" stimulation)!
Really excited to chair this session at
#chi2024
and I invite you to join us for this one: Wed, 15 May, 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM, Room: 316A 1/2
really happy about our "make your own wearable from scratch" workshop for students of Chicago Public Schools (
@ChiPubSchools
), 3 days of fun & being in awe with these young minds! Big thanks to many people in this thread & some fun stories of what students made at
@UChicagoCS
1/
Today is the opening of the new
@UChicagoCS
building located at the Crerar Library, two floors of amazing facilities and a ground floor coming up later with emphasis on art & design! (Today 1pm)
#CHI2023
new 👄 paper "LipIO: Enabling Lips as both Input and Output Surface". We engineered a
#haptics
device for extreme situations in which the user's eyes, hands & ears are engaged with another task. In LipIO the lips act as both input & output surfaces (touch input +…
fellow
#uist2019
attendees looking for faculty positions (all levels): we at
@uchicago
are building a really exciting CS department with a remarkable interest in
#HCI
. Job posting: if you would like to know more about it come find me at
@ACMUIST
or DM
Excited to share our new
#UIST2021
paper "Chemical Haptics: Rendering Haptic Sensations via Topical Stimulants". In it,we propose a new approach to
#haptics
by applying CHEMICALS to the skin.
Video:
Work led by
@xjasminelu
w/
@ZoeZiwei
&
@jas_x_flowers
1/9
#UIST2023
researchers, we all know about demo stress, like chip shortage, soldering last minute, Bluetooth failures and all that, but this is a new one for us: **blackberry shortage** :P spent the morning hunting down blackberries for our Taste Retargeting demo by
@jas_x_flowers
Wow. Really appreciated all the feedback we got during the
#chi2023
interactivity session, this is why we love bringing demos to
@acm_chi
we love to hear your thoughts as you feel demos (I mean it's
#haptics
& that's as important as the paper!) Thanks everyone for your time! 1/2
Deeply humbling to have been invited for a "Ask me Anything" at
#UIST2022
on "Being a new faculty/starting a new lab", I really don't claim to know much but happy to share my adventure/mistakes, to start a much needed & open discussion on this! Join today at 13:30 at Cascade A/J
Wise and inspiring words of wisdom by
@landay
who received the
@sigchi
Lifetime Research Award on his talk titled "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Farm" ()
#haptics
&
#HCI
communities: join us on Mar 23, 10.30pm to 12pm (PT) for our
@ieeehaptics
cross cutting challenge on "Integrating Wearable Haptic Interfaces with Real-World Touch Interactions" (which I am organizing with
@YonVisell
(free livestream!) 1/7
Trip to Berlin to get the dissertation award but had no idea such a beautiful ceremony was to happen at the Sanssouci Castle! Thanks everyone
@unipotsdam
@HPI_DE
(and Patrick,
@ThijsRoumen
@katakurashohei
for cheering!)
#CambridgeCHI
is starting tomorrow at 11 am (EDT), which has 20 paper talks + 8 non-paper (e.g. LBW, Case studies) lightning talk. Register through our web for participating in live Q&A, and live-streaming on Youtube!
@sig_chi
#chi2020
My former postdoc
@JunNishidaLab
(who is starting his own lab soon at
@UofMaryland
/
@umdcs
) is presenting our new exoskeleton to allow users to **share** a hand pose, e.g., learning the piano together! Video:
... session "Beyond the Desktop" 2.30pm @ C/D
in anticipation of
#UIST2021
we did our
@ACMUIST
preview party, in which we watch all 30s previews + lightning talks. That was a lot of fun (it's also easier than
@sigchi
where we 1st need to curate a crowdsourced list!). Some (random & bad) photo moments 1/7
👇
#chi2024
new concept for
#haptics
called haptic permeability. Do not optimize tactile devices only for quality of virtual sensations, optimize for letting the user to also feel the real world with maximum dexterity, by
@tengshanyuan
our new
#UIST2021
paper "Altering Perceived Softness of Real Rigid Objects by Restricting Fingerpad Deformation". by
@tao_yujie
and
@tengshanyuan
. How can a piece of wood feel as soft as an eraser? Our device can make rigid objects feel softer: 1/8 👇