Research Papers

Full Paper

ACM CHI2025

Shape-Kit: A Design Toolkit for Crafting On-Body Expressive Haptics

Ran Zhou, Jianru Ding, Chenfeng (Jesse) Gao, Wanli (Michael) Qian, Benjamin Erickson, Madeline Balaam, Daniel Leithinger, Ken Nakagaki
Honorable Mention
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ACM UIST2024

SHAPE-IT: Exploring Text-to-Shape-Display for Generative Shape-Changing Behaviors with LLMs

Chenfeng (Jesse) Gao*, Wanli (Michael) Qian*, Anup Sathya, Ryo Suzuki, Ken Nakagaki
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ACM UIST2024

MobilePoser: Real-Time Full-Body Pose Estimation and 3D Human Translation from IMUs in Mobile Consumer Devices

Vasco Xu, Chenfeng (Jesse) Gao, Henry Hoffmann, Karan Ahuja
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ACM CHI2023

AeroRigUI: Actuated TUIs for Spatial Interaction using Rigging Swarm Robots on Ceilings in Everyday Space

Chenfeng (Jesse) Gao*, Lilith Yu*, David Wu, Ken Nakagaki
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Poster & SIC

ACM UIST2024 POSTER

Towards Multimodal Interaction with AI-Infused Shape-Changing Interfaces

Chenfeng (Jesse) Gao*, Wanli (Michael) Qian*, Richard Liu, Rana Hanocka, Ken Nakagaki
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ACM UIST2022 SIC

ShadowAstro: Levitating Constellation Silhouette for Spatial Exploration and Learning

Chenfeng (Jesse) Gao*, Jiatong Li*, Ken Nakagaki
Jury Honorable Mention
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