Laboratory and research projects overview

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This portfolio presents research projects from our lab, spanning shape-changing interfaces, wearable computing, and computational fabrication. Each project is grounded in a human-centred design process, combining technical prototyping with user studies to evaluate real-world impact. Work has been exhibited at CHI, UIST, and international design festivals. Select a project below to read more.

RoboSkin interface demonstration

RoboSkin: A Soft Robotic Interface That Changes Shape in Response to Touch

Alice Chen, Bob Smith, Carol Williams, David Lee

Proceedings of CHI 2024, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

🏆 Best Paper Award — CHI 2024

FluidForm pneumatic display demo

FluidForm: Pneumatic Actuators for Programmable Shape Displays

Eve Martinez, Alice Chen, Frank Nguyen

Proceedings of UIST 2023, San Francisco, California, USA

KnitSense wearable sensor demo

KnitSense: Conductive Knitting Patterns for On-Body Gesture Recognition

Grace Kim, Henry Park, Alice Chen

Proceedings of CHI 2024, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

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PolyBend: A Continuous Morphological Transformation Framework for Bistable Lattice Structures in Computationally Actuated Furniture and Architectural Surface Systems Toward Seamless Physical Reconfiguration Without Mechanical Fasteners

Alice Chen, Bob Smith, Carol Williams, David Lee, Eve Martinez, Frank Nguyen, Grace Kim, Henry Park, Ivan Torres, Joan Liu, Kevin Zhang, Laura Patel, Michael Brown, Nancy Wilson, Oscar Garcia

In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 11–16, 2024. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/XXXXXXX.XXXXXXX