Shan-Yuan Teng

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 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.

[ tengshanyuan@uchicago.edu ] [ CV ] [ google scholar ] [ ORCID ]

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2024-10-16 Shan-Yuan’s co-authored paper Can a smartwatch move your fingers? won an Honorable Mention Award at UIST 2024!
2024-09-27 Shan-Yuan will gave a talk at UCLA (2pm, Engineering Bldg IV, Shannon Room 54-134). Thanks Yang Zhang for hosting me!
2024-06-17 Shan-Yuan gave a talk at Cornell Tech (Matter of Tech lab). Thanks Thijs Roumen for hosting and touring me the campus!

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PhD research: enabling haptic experiences anywhere, anytime

My research question is: What fundamental restrictions are limiting wearable 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:

lead author publications (ACM CHI & UIST)

Haptic permeability: adding holes to tactile devices improves dexterity
Shan-Yuan Teng, Aryan Gupta, Pedro Lopes

CHI 2024 Paper

[paper] [doi]
Prolonging VR haptic experiences by harvesting kinetic energy from the user
Shan-Yuan Teng, K. D. Wu, Jacqueline Chen, Pedro Lopes

UIST 2022 Paper

🏅 Honorable Mention Award

[paper] [doi] [video] [more info]
Touch&Fold: a foldable haptic actuator for rendering touch in mixed reality
Shan-Yuan Teng, Pengyu Li, Romain Nith, Joshua Fonseca, Pedro Lopes

CHI 2021 Paper, SIGGRAPH 2021 Emerging Technologies, World Haptics 2023 Demo

🏅 Honorable Mention Award

[paper] [doi] [video] [more info]
PuPoP: pop-up prop on palm for virtual reality
Shan-Yuan Teng, Tzu-Sheng Kuo, Chi Wang, Chi-huan Chiang, Da-Yuan Huang, Liwei Chan, Bing-Yu Chen

UIST 2018 Paper

[paper] [doi] [video] [more info]

collaborated papers (ACM CHI & UIST)

Can a smartwatch move your fingers? Compact and practical electrical muscle stimulation in a smartwatch
Akifumi Takahashi, Yudai Tanaka, Archit Tamhane, Alan Shen, Shan-Yuan Teng, Pedro Lopes

UIST 2024 Paper

🏅 Honorable Mention Award

[paper] [doi]
Altering perceived softness of real rigid objects by restricting fingerpad deformation
Yujie Tao, Shan-Yuan Teng, Pedro Lopes

UIST 2021 Paper

🏆 Best Paper Award
🏆 Best Demo Award (Jury's Choice)

[paper] [doi] [video]
dextrEMS: increasing dexterity in electrical muscle stimulation by combining it with brakes
Romain Nith, Shan-Yuan Teng, Pengyu Li, Yujie Tao, Pedro Lopes

UIST 2021 Paper

🏆 Best Demo Award (People's Choice)

[paper] [doi] [video]
MagnetIO: passive yet interactive soft haptic patches anywhere
Alex Mazursky, Shan-Yuan Teng, Romain Nith, Pedro Lopes

CHI 2021 Paper

[paper] [doi] [video]

more publications (ACM CHI, UIST & Science Advances)

ThermalRouter: enabling users to design thermally-sound devices
Alex Mazursky, Borui Li, Shan-Yuan Teng, Daria Shifrina, Joyce E. Passananti, Svitlana Midianko, Pedro Lopes

UIST 2023 Paper

[paper] [doi] [video]
A stretchable and strain-unperturbed pressure sensor for motion-interference-free tactile monitoring on skins
Qi Su, Q. Zou, Yang Li, Yuzhen Chen, Shan-Yuan Teng, Jane Tunde Kelleher, Romain Nith, Ping Cheng, Nan Li, Wei Liu, Shilei Dai, Youdi Liu, Alex Mazursky, Jie Xu, Lihua Jin, Pedro Lopes, Sihong Wang

Science Advances 2021

[paper] [doi]
Stereo-smell via electrical trigeminal stimulation
Jas Brooks, Shan-Yuan Teng, Jingxuan Wen, Romain Nith, Jun Nishida, Pedro Lopes

CHI 2021 Paper

[paper] [doi] [video]
Elevate: a walkable pin-array
Seungwoo Je, Hyunseung Lim, Kongpyung Moon, Shan-Yuan Teng, Jas Brooks, Pedro Lopes, and Andrea Bianchi

CHI 2021 Paper

[paper] [doi] [video]
HandMorph: a passive exoskeleton that miniaturizes grasp
Jun Nishida, Soichiro Matsuda, Hiroshi Matsui, Shan-Yuan Teng, Ziwei Liu, Kenji Suzuki, Pedro Lopes

UIST 2020 Paper

🏆 Best Paper Award

[paper] [doi] [video]
Wearable microphone jamming
Shan-Yuan Teng*, Yuxin Chen*, Huiying Li*, Steven Nagels, Zhijing Li, Pedro Lopes, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng (*equal contribution)

CHI 2020 Paper

🏅 Honorable Mention Award

[paper] [doi] [video] [patent]
TilePoP: tile-type pop-up prop for virtual reality
Shan-Yuan Teng, Cheng-Lung Lin, Chi-huan Chiang, Tzu-Sheng Kuo, Liwei Chan, Da-Yuan Huang, Bing-Yu Chen

UIST 2019 Paper

🏅 Honorable Mention Award

[paper] [doi] [video] [more info]
Aarnio: passive kinesthetic force output for foreground interactions on an interactive chair
Shan-Yuan Teng, Da-Yuan Huang, Chi Wang, Jun Gong, Teddy Seyed, Xing-Dong Yang, Bing-Yu Chen

CHI 2019 Paper

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Outside-In: visualizing out-of-sight regions-of-interest in a 360 video using spatial picture-in-picture previews
Yung-Ta Lin, Yi-Chi Liao, Shan-Yuan Teng, Yi-Ju Chung, Liwei Chan, Bing-Yu Chen

UIST 2017 Paper

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professional services

Program Committee: ACM UIST 2024, SUI 2024/2023, ISWC 2022, Augmented Humans 2024/2023
Demo Chair: ACM Augmented Humans 2021
Video Preview Chair ACM UIST 2024
Paper Session Chair: ACM UIST 2024, CHI 2023/2022
Paper Reviewer: ACM CHI, UIST, IMWUT, TEI, DIS, IMX, SIGGRAPH (Technical Paper), IEEE ISMAR, IEEE VR, IEEE Haptics, IEEE World Haptics, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Shan-Yuan Teng鄧善元