Shan-Yuan Teng
鄧善元

[ CV ]

Shan-Yuan Teng is an Assistant Professor (Yushan Young Fellow) leading Dexterous Interaction Lab in the Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering (CSIE) at National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan.

Shan-Yuan’s research aims at advancing a new generation of multimodal interactive devices, specifically, haptic devices (e.g., those that can create a programmable sense of touch, forces, etc.), to enhance users’ dexterity in a variety of interaction paradigms such as Virtual/Augmented Reality (VR/AR/XR), wearables, and assistive technologies. Shan-Yuan has published these works at top Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) conferences including ACM CHI & UIST. Shan-Yuan has also demonstrated works at SIGGRAPH & IEEE Haptics.

Shan-Yuan received their PhD in Computer Science at the University of Chicago advised by Prof. Pedro Lopes. Shan-Yuan holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science & Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University.

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* Shan-Yuan is my first name

Academic service

  • I serve as an Associate Chair for ACM CHI 2027, DIS 2026, UIST 2024, SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 & 2026 Emerging Technologies, Augmented Humans 2024 & 2026.
  • I regularly review papers for ACM CHI, UIST, DIS, SIGGRAPH (Technical Paper), IEEE ISMAR, IEEE VR, IEEE Haptics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

Teaching

PhD thesis

Publications

  • Next generation wearable haptics should balance virtual & real-world fidelity
    Shan-Yuan Teng, Yudai Tanaka, Alex Mazursky, Pedro Lopes
    CHI 2026 Paper
  • Generative muscle stimulation: providing users with physical assistance by constraining multimodal-AI with embodied knowledge
    Yun Ho*, Romain Nith*, Peili Jiang, Steven He, Bruno Felalaga, Shan-Yuan Teng, Rhea Seeralan, Pedro Lopes (*equal contribution)
    CHI 2026 Paper
    🏆 Best Paper Award
  • Seeing with the hands: a sensory substitution that supports manual interactions
    Shan-Yuan Teng*, Gene S-H Kim*, Xuanyou Liu*, Pedro Lopes (*equal contribution)
    CHI 2025 Paper
  • 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
  • Haptic permeability: adding holes to tactile devices improves dexterity
    Shan-Yuan Teng, Aryan Gupta, Pedro Lopes
    CHI 2024 Paper
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Stereo-smell via electrical trigeminal stimulation
    Jas Brooks, Shan-Yuan Teng, Jingxuan Wen, Romain Nith, Jun Nishida, Pedro Lopes
    CHI 2021 Paper
  • MagnetIO: passive yet interactive soft haptic patches anywhere
    Alex Mazursky, Shan-Yuan Teng, Romain Nith, Pedro Lopes
    CHI 2021 Paper
  • Elevate: a walkable pin-array
    Seungwoo Je, Hyunseung Lim, Kongpyung Moon, Shan-Yuan Teng, Jas Brooks, Pedro Lopes, and Andrea Bianchi
    CHI 2021 Paper
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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