A pleasure to host Jun Rekimoto at the Human-Computer Integration Lab (lab.plopes.org) where he gave a talk about "Human-AI Integration". Inspiring as always and thanks for staying for a full day of demos and giving insightful feedback to many of our lab members. (thanks Romain for co-organizing!)

“Seeing with the Hands” is the latest #CHI25 research from our lab (@pedrolopes.org) with Gene S-H Kim and Xuanyou Liu. We explore a sensory substitution that enables a flexible way of seeing (vision-to-electrotactile), e.g., hover an object and feel its shape before grasping if one cannot see.

I am excited to announce that I will defend my PhD next week on March 24th 11:00 am (Chicago Time). You are welcome to join on Zoom, and learn about my PhD work on innovating haptic devices (2019-2025)! Event info: defense.tengshanyuan.info

really enjoyed being interviewed for this profile! was nice to reflect on addressing e-waste in research and building community 🥹 cs.uchicago.edu/news/jasmine...

Robotic hand helps pianists overcome “ceiling effect." Passive training with robotic exoskeleton hand even led to motor improvements in the untrained hand. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

🎉 Workshop at #CHI2025: "Sensorimotor Devices: Coupling Sensing and Actuation to Augment Bodily Experience" If you’re passionate about sensorimotor interaction, wearables, or motion-coupled feedback, join us! 🗓️ Deadline: Feb 13, 2025 AoE 🔗 sensorimotordevices.github.io

Who better to review Jason Puskar's The Switch: An On + Off History of Digital Humans than @rachelplotnick.bsky.social, philosopher of the push button?!

Being an HCI researcher is not easy! It was nice hosting a panel at UChicago CS and hearing from our kind faculty members about cultivating culture, volunteering, dealing with failure, and more.

Join us for people and technology seminar on Friday with a fun group and topic! Thanks @tengshanyuan.info for coming up with this one!

What if you could learn to play a new musical piece in just a few practice sessions? In my new paper, we show that using haptic gloves to passively rehearse piano pieces can speed up learning by 49.7%, and negating forgetting between practice sessions.

A fresh start on Bluesky: I am Shan-Yuan, a PhD candidate passionate about "haptics" (touch, texture, force), which we have mostly given up with touchscreens & VR/AR headsets. I re-envision and build new hardware that enables fun and dexterous computing interactions (hoping to start a new lab!).

A really fun day with many new friends in the #Chicago area who do #hardware based #HCI #research! Nivedita Arora Karan Ahuja Ken Nakagaki Craig Schultz and their respective amazing teams! (Thanks Yudai Tanaka for organizing us at UChicagoCS)