Shan-Yuan Teng
鄧善元
[ CV ]
Shan-Yuan Teng is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Chicago advised by Prof. Pedro Lopes. Shan-Yuan’s research aims at advancing a new generation of haptic interfaces (e.g., those that can create the sense of touch, forces, etc.) that exhibit properties that we become used to expecting from our mobile phones & wearables, such as extreme mobility, availability anytime, etc. To advance haptics into this new territory, Shan-Yuan engineers custom-made interactive devices that, for instance: allow us to feel touch in Augmented/Mixed Reality (AR/MR/XR) without encumbering our fingerpads, or offer rich force feedback with virtually infinite battery life. Shan-Yuan has published this work as 16 papers (7 as the first author) at top Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) conferences including ACM CHI & UIST, with two Best Paper Awards & five Honorable Mention Awards, and demonstrated at SIGGRAPH, IEEE Haptics.
Shan-Yuan was born in Taiwan and received Master’s degree in Computer Science & Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University.
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Highlights
- I served on Program Committee and as Video Preview Chair for UIST 2024.
- My co-authored paper Can a smartwatch move your fingers? won an Honorable Mention Award at UIST 2024.
- I co-organize HCI seminars (People and Tech) at the University of Chicago Computer Science.
- I gave a talk at a guest seminar at UCLA ECE. Thanks Yang Zhang for hosting me!
- I was invited to talk on Haptics Club podcast.
PhD Research: Enabling haptic experiences anywhere, anytime
Haptics, while highly developed in labs (sense of touch & forces), are left to a minimum in our daily computing devices (vibration in phones). My research asks: What fundamental restrictions are limiting haptic devices from integrating into our lives, and, more importantly, can we tackle these? I wrote articles on this overarching idea in CHI Doctoral Consortium, IEEE VR Workshop, ACM XRDS, and published papers at prestigious HCI conferences:Lead author publications (ACM CHI & UIST)
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Prolonging VR haptic experiences by harvesting kinetic energy from the userUIST 2022 Paper🏅 Honorable Mention Award
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Touch&Fold: a foldable haptic actuator for rendering touch in mixed realityCHI 2021 Paper, SIGGRAPH 2021 Emerging Technologies, World Haptics 2023 Demo🏅 Honorable Mention Award
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Collaborated papers (ACM CHI & UIST)
More publications (ACM CHI, UIST & Science Advances)
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TilePoP: tile-type pop-up prop for virtual realityUIST 2019 Paper🏅 Honorable Mention Award
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Aarnio: passive kinesthetic force output for foreground interactions on an interactive chairCHI 2019 Paper
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Outside-In: visualizing out-of-sight regions-of-interest in a 360 video using spatial picture-in-picture previewsUIST 2017 Paper
Professional services
- I served on Program Committee for ACM UIST 2024, SUI 2024/2023, ISS 2024 Editorial Board, ISWC 2022, Augmented Humans 2024/2023. I served as a Demo Chair for ACM Augmented Humans 2021, Video Preview Chair for ACM UIST 2024, and Paper Session Chair for ACM UIST 2024, CHI 2023/2022.
- I regularly review papers for ACM CHI, UIST, IMWUT, TEI, DIS, IMX, SIGGRAPH (Technical Paper), IEEE ISMAR, IEEE VR, IEEE Haptics, IEEE World Haptics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
- I help organizing XR meetup at ACM SIGGRAPH & CHI.