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 devices (e.g., those that can create a programmable sense of touch, forces, etc.) to exhibit properties that we became used to expect from our mobile & wearable devices, 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 dexterity in the real world; or support manual interactions for blind users. Shan-Yuan has published these works at top Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) conferences including ACM CHI & UIST (17 papers, 8 as the first author), with two Best Paper Awards & five Honorable Mention Awards. Shan-Yuan has also demonstrated works at SIGGRAPH & IEEE Haptics.

Shan-Yuan was born in Taiwan and holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science & Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University.

[ tengshanyuan@uchicago.edu ] [ CV ] [ Google Scholar ] [ Bluesky ] [ ORCID ]
* Shan-Yuan is my first name

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Highlights

I defended my PhD on March 24th! Thanks to my committee: Prof. Pedro Lopes, Prof. Ken Nakagaki (University of Chicago), Prof. Sean Follmer (Stanford University), and Prof. Kasper Hornbæk (University of Copenhagen)
I will present our paper at CHI 2025 in Yokohama: Seeing with the hands: a sensory substitution that supports manual interactions. Check out the project page.
I served on Program Committee for UIST 2024.
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)

Seeing with the hands: a sensory substitution that supports manual interactions
Shan-Yuan Teng*, Gene S-H Kim*, Xuanyou Liu*, Pedro Lopes (*equal contribution)

To appear at CHI 2025 Paper

[ Paper (PDF) ] [ Project website ]
Haptic permeability: adding holes to tactile devices improves dexterity
Shan-Yuan Teng, Aryan Gupta, Pedro Lopes

CHI 2024 Paper

[ Paper (PDF) (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

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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

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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 (PDF) (DOI) ] [ Video (YouTube) (MP4) ]
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 (PDF) (DOI) ] [ Video (YouTube) (MP4) ]
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 (PDF) (DOI) ] [ Video (YouTube) (MP4) ]
MagnetIO: passive yet interactive soft haptic patches anywhere
Alex Mazursky, Shan-Yuan Teng, Romain Nith, Pedro Lopes

CHI 2021 Paper

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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

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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

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

CHI 2021 Paper

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

CHI 2021 Paper

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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

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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 (PDF) (DOI) ] [ Video (YouTube) ]
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

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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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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

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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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Academic service

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.

Shan-Yuan Teng鄧善元