Human Computer Integration Lab
Computer Science Department, University of Chicago
This page highlights the impact of our lab's research beyond just paper citations and direct impact in the HCI community.
Live (TV/radio/podcasts) press
Big Brains podcast episode about the future of wearables, covers our lab's work in an in-depth interview with Pedro
VIDEO
PBS/WTTW interview with Pedro Lopes, Yun Ho and Yudai Tanaka (as well as others from the lab) about how computers will integrate with our bodies—includes live demo of muscle stimulation by Yun Ho and Yudai Tanaka (this piece has received a LISAGOR award )
Fox32 interview with Pedro about Sloan Fellowship Award 2022
World Haptics 20th Anniversary marked with interviews with researchers, including Pedro Lopes (video interview with Lynette Jones)
VIDEO
Our work on integrating living organisms inside of interactive devices (Jasmine Lu) is discussed on Live TV ("3 BRILLIANT MINUTES: Unusual but true news")
CBS exclusive with Kim Stenger, (likely) the only living person born without the sense of touch or pain, and neuroscientist Peggy Mason, shows an experiment conducted in our lab with Kim, with Yudai Tanaka, Romain Nith and Pedro Lopes
Full story on NPR's "Points North" titled "My little slime" about Jasmine's work (includes interview with her and participant)
Interview with Jasmine Lu and Jas Brooks at the Podcast "Haptics Club"
Interview with Jasmine Lu about Chemical Haptics for ABC, on the Podcast Future Tense with Antony Funnell
BYU radio interviews Jas on trigeminal stereo-smell!
Pedro and Jun give a live demo at CNBC of the muscle stimulation wearables (here's a small video snippet (on Twitter) of that demo )
BBC Click did a live piece about our our Wearable Microphone Jammer
TV Show, Planète Techno talked about our Wearable Microphone Jammer
Pedro Lopes interviewed at the Haptics Club Podcast
VIDEO
Fox 32 Chicago talked about our Wearable Microphone Jammer
NHK (Japan) covered our Preemptive Action work live on TV
TV Show, Voice of America (interview with Jun about HandMorph)
TV Asahi in Japan covers our preemptive action work (film crew came to lab)
Peter Joosten interviews Pedro about to the ACM Augmented Humans 2021 conference, on which Pedro was the general co-chair
VIDEO
Interview with Pedro Lopes on using muscle stimulation for virtual reality by HPI-Digitalblog (filmed at UIST conference)
Pedro's keynote at NODE'15 on Human Computer Integration
Highlight of other awards (non-paper)
Pedro Lopes Honored with 2025 IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Significant New Researcher Award
Jasmine Lu received SIGCHI Award 2025 (Special Recognition), read the official ACM SIGCHI post
Written interviews with us
Jasmine Lu received special recognition from the 2025 ACM SIGCHI Awards for pioneering research in ecological HCI through novel hardware interfaces and fostering communities around sustainable computing. An interview with Miranda Redenbaugh
Interview with Pedro about Metaverse and Haptics, for SIGGRAPH blog
Interview with Pedro, Jasmine, Shan-Yuan and Romain about our 3-day wearable workshop for high schoolers from Chicago Public Schools
Interview with Jas Brooks about their olfactory interfaces work (by SlowDown TV)
Article and Interview with lead author Jasmine Lu, by Cassidy Ward for SyFy
Full article about Smell in VR by Jude Stewart for WIRED magazine, which covers also our stereo smell and trigeminal illusions work, including interview with Jas Brooks
Interview with Jas Brooks about LGBTQ+ people's struggle in science & technology and their work on chemical interfaces, olfactory research, and more!
Short interview/blurb for Technical University of Lisbon (Pedro's alma mater) about Sloan Fellowship Award
Short interview/blurb for Hasso Plattner Institute (Pedro's PhD alma mater) about Sloan Fellowship Award
Interview by Stephen Gossett for BuiltIn magazine with Jas Brooks on Smell interfaces (their future, how the Smell-o-vision legacy fares today, and our olfactory interfaces)
Interview with Jun and Pedro for UchicagoCS
Crain's article on Michael Franklin's plan for UChicago CS, includes interview with Pedro
Interview with Pedro about his PhD Thesis Award from the University of Potsdam, Germany
World records (apparently we made the Guiness book twice!)
DextrEMS was considered the most precise bionic hand controller (for output, i.e., moving individual fingers) by experts at the Guiness World Records
Our Preemptive Action work was considered the "Fastest artificially-assisted reaction times" by experts at the Guiness World Records
Press on the Center for Organic Batteries (COBI, led by Prof. Shrayesh Patel)
"Center for Organic Batteries (COBI) is launched at UChicago
Press on our Embodied AI / Generative Muscle Stimulation work (CHI 2026 by Yun Ho and Romain Nith)
Article by Sadie Harley for TechXplore
Article by Omar Kardoudi for News Atlas
Article by Sam Draper for Wearable Technologies
OBS news
News Bytes
News Medical
UChicago Neuroscience News
UChicago CS News
Article at Mindplex by Giulio Prisco
Press on our VR side effects work (UIST 2025 by Antonin Cheymol)
"Users Feeling 'Stuck in Virtual Reality' After Removing Their Headset is a Rare but Real Phenomenon" by ben Lang for Road to VR
Press on our Vestibular Stimulation for Hand Redirection/Retargeting (UIST 2025 by Kensuke Katori)
Article about our galvanic vestibular stimulation for VR
Press on our Seeing with Hands paper (CHI 2025 By Shan-Yuan Teng)
Sensory Substitution Device Tingles Back Of Your Hand by Arya Voronova for Hackaday
Article "Hands-on vision" by Miranda Redenbaugh
A New Way to See the World by Nick Bild for Hackster.io
Article at Gigazine (in japanese) (translated version )
Press on our Augmented Breating paper (UIST 2024 by Jas Brooks)
Article about Augmented Breathing by Claire Fu
Press on our TMS work (CHI 2024 by Yudai Tanaka)
Article "A Mind-Bending VR Experience" by Nick Bild
Article at Mixed News by Tomislav Bezmalinovic
Article for Phone arena by Abdullah Asim
Press on our Split Body (CHI 2024 Best Paper by Romain Nith)
Article at IEEE by Evan Ackerman
Article at Uchicago News by Claire Fu
Press on our Haptic Permeability (CHI 2024 by Shan-Yuan Teng)
Recap of Haptics Symposium 2024 (where Haptic Permeability was shown as a demo) by the Titan Haptics company highlights our demo
Press on our ecoEDA and ProtoPCB, our electronics design tools that helps people recycle electronic components (UIST 2023, by Jasmine Lu; Honorable Mention Award and CHI 2025 also by Jasmine Lu)
ProtoPCB on hacksterIO
featured at the UChicago Climate Institute, apropos Jasmine's new exploration
Article on ecoEDA at Hackaday
Article at HacksterIO about ecoEDA by Nick Bild
Article on ecoEDA by Natalia Toczkowska for TS2
Article by Wisse Hettinga for EE News Europe
Mention in the Adafruit Blog
Jasmine Lu's expert opinion on this NewScientist article about dissolving PCBs
Press on our ThermalRouter, a fabrication design tool that helps people improve the thermal performance of their 3D designs (UIST 2023, by Alex Mazursky)
Article at Hackster IO
Press on our FeetThrough, a foot haptics device (UIST 2023, by Keigo Ushiyama)
Article at New Atlas
Article by Nick Bild for HacksterIO
UChicago PSD News
Article by Dean Murray via SWNS
Article at Talker News
FeetThrough is discussed in the "All about haptics" newsletter
Article at NBC "right now"
Article at the Courier Times
Article at Arisez
Griffin Daily News
Press on our Back of the hand tactile stimulation (CHI 2023, by Yudai Tanaka)
Article by Alex Wilkins for NewScientist , including a video prepared by NewScientist about the work
Article at the IEEE spectrum magazine by Evan Ackerman
Back of the Hand tactile stimulation featured in the "All Things Haptics" newsletter by Ashley Huffman
Article about our work at TecheBlog
Article at HacksterIO about our work by Nick Bild
Article by Donald Papp for Hackaday
Article at Shining Science
Great to see users at Reddit discussing this work
Great to see users at Linkedin discussing this work
Press on our JumpMod (CHI 2023, by Romain Nith)
Article at Newscientist by Alex Wilkins
Article at Engadged by Andrew Tarantola, includes interview with Pedro and Romain
Article on HacksterIO by Nick Bild
Youtuber & VR reviewer VoodooVR discusses JumpMod in his channel
Article by Bryan Cockfield for Hackaday
Article by Bobby Carlton for VR Scout
Article by Jackson Chung for TechE blog
Article by Miranda Redenbaugh for UChicago CS News (includes interview with Pedro and Romain)
Article by Gianluca Riccio for FuturuProssimo (in EN and IT)
Article by Benjamin Danneberg and Martin Schwarz for MR news
JumpMod featured in the "All Things Haptics" newsletter by Ashley Huffman
JumpMod featured (again!) on another "All Things Haptics" newsletter
Article by Annabelle Stephenson for Game is Hard blog
Article by Stanislav Serbezov for Phone Arena
Article by Jackson Chung for Teche Blog
Article by Nicole Rodrigues for Design Taxi Webzine
Article by Simon Smith for ISP
Article by Roy Wright for Gillet News
Article by Daniel Fraser for US today
Article for Tech Plugged
Article by XingLangVR on ZhiHu (in Chinese)
Article at WeCanAR (in Chinese)
Article by Hite about JumpMod for the technabob blog
Article by Tobias Költzsch (in German)
Article at VR blog (in Chinese)
Article at Sohu (in Chinese)
Article at OMG VR (in Chinese)
Article by Brian Rotter at Digital Pioneers (in German)
Article at Illusive Daily
Article at ナゾロジ (in Japanese)
Article by William for 93913 XR Blog (in Chinese)
Article at AR in China
Article in Sina-VR Blog (in Chinese)
Press on our LipIO (CHI 2023, by Arata Jingu and Yudai Tanaka)
Article at Engadget by Lawrence Bonk
Article on HacksterIO by Nick Bild
Article by Pranav Dixit for Business Today
Article by Lawrence Bonk for Yahoo Finance
Article by Jorge Jimenez for PC Gamer
Article by Aditya Tiwari for NeoWin
LipIO featured in the "All Things Haptics" newsletter by Ashley Huffman
Article at Samaa Web
Article by Paulo Montenegro for Ubergizmo
Article by Usama Anjum for PhoneWorld
Article at Tech Smart
Article at GVS
Article by Jace Dela Cruz for the Tech Times
LipIO highlighted at Microsoft MSN
Article by Michael Cram for the Droid Gazette
Press on our Smell and Paste (CHI 2023, by Jas Brooks)
Article at HacksterIO by Cameron Coward
Smell and Paste featured in the "All Things Haptics" newsletter by Ashley Huffman
Press on our Haptic Intervention (Ubicomp 2023, collaboration with Tanzeem Choudhury at Cornell)
Article on NewScientist by Grace Wade about our work
Article on New Atlas by Ben Coxworth about our work
Press on our Interactive Devices Integrated with Living Organisms (UIST 2022, by Jasmine Lu)
Article on Forbes Magazine by Jennifer Kite-Powell about our work
Full article by Cassidy Ward (includes interview with Jasmine Lu and Pedro Lopes)
Our work is discussed on Live TV (WBAY) by reporter Brad Spakowitz for the segment "3 BRILLIANT MINUTES: Unusual but true news"
Full article by Nick Bild for HacksterIO
Full article by Andrew Liszewski for Gizmodo
Full article by Renée Canrinus-Moezelaar C2W International, which included a in-person visit by Renée who tried our demo live and writes about it
Article by Lewin Day for Hackaday
Article at Futurity (using Cassandra Belek's article)
David Pescovitz wrote about our work for Boinb Boing
Full article by Yuki Yamashita for ITMedia / Shiropen
Full article by Arya Voronova for Hackaday
Article by Maureen Searcy for Uchicago Magazine
Our work was featured in the Newsletter of the Artificial Life journal (Nov 2022 edition)
Article by Tech Explore
Article on Uchicago News
Article at Futurism about by Frank Landymore
Global News shares our work
Article on Yahoo News
Article on Uchicago CS News by Rob Mitchum
Article about our work at Tech-e-Blog
Article about our work at News8
Article by Tim Hayes for healthcare+
Article about our work at World Energy
Article at GovTech
We love seeing some people discussing our work at Hacker News
COvered at TechBriefs
Article by Maksim Panasovskyi for Gagadget
Covered by Oddity Central
Article by Michael Lozina for Ten Pieces of Eight magazine
Reflection article by Oliver Bendel for Robot Philosophy blog
Article at Arena Pública (in Spanish)
Article for PlayTech by Ozana Mazilu (in Romanian)
Article by Malik Habchi for L'Usine Nouvelle (in French)
Article by Nathalie Kleczinski for Neo Zone (in French)
Article by Gustavo Minari for Terra (in Portuguese)
Article by Emre Rona / Translation: Deniz Candaş for Kurious Magazine
Article at Gadget Advisor
Featured on "Mind Blowing Science"
A user board of discussions about our work on MetaFilter's community forum
Article by Rupendra Brahambhatt for ZME
Article by Nidhi Goyal for Industry Tap
Article by Eleanor Higgs for IFL science
Press on our Harvesting Kinetic Energy to Prolong VR Haptics (UIST 2022)
Ashley Huffman discusses our work on the "All Tings Haptics"
Press on our Integrating Distractions in VR (UIST 2022)
Full article on Livewire (By Sascha Brodsky) including quotes from Pedro
Press on our Electrical Head Actuation (CHI 2022)
Full article by Paul Marks (includes interview with Yudai Tanaka)
Full article by Cassidy Ward (includes interview with Yudai Tanaka and Pedro Lopes)
Full article by Bobby Carlton for VRScout (includes interview with Yudai Tanaka)
Article in Gizmodo by Andrew Liszewski
Our CHI22 talk is featured on Adafruit
Article in Tech News Crypt
Press on our Stretchable Sensor (Science Advances 2021, led by Sihong Wang at PME and his wonderful team)
Full article by Emily Ayshford for UChicago News including quotes from Sihong
Press on our Chemical Haptics (UIST 2021)
Full article by Victoria Woollaston about Chemical Haptics for NewScientist (includes quotes from Jasmine Lu)
Interview with Jasmine Lu about Chemical Haptics for ABC, on the Podcast Future Tense with Antony Funnell
Full article by Andrew Liszewski for Gizmodo
Piece on "A Revolution in Haptics" for the Communications of the ACM, by Paul Marks, featuring Chemical Haptics!
TechLinked covers Chemical Haptics on their channel (video has >500K views)
Youtuber Steve Knows covers Chemical Haptics on their channel (video >15k views)
Article and Interview with lead author Jasmine Lu, by Cassidy Ward for SyFy
Full article by Rob Thubron for TechSpot
SIG CHI newslatter highlights chemical haptics!
Full article by David Matthews for Digital Trends
Article at Tech News Inc.
Full article by Cabe Caldwell for HacksterIO
article by Nadeem Sarwar for Screen Rant
Article by Matthew Hart for Nerdist's Science and Tech features
Article from 3Neel
Article at FleflyNews
Article at Tech To See
Article from Feedy News
Article at Hi Tech Glitz
Article at GeniusShark
Article at Nerd Shala
Article at Greeley Tribune
Full article about Chemical Haptics from Nicola Dixon at ProGamer
PC gamer features an article on Chemical Haptics
Full article about Chemical Haptics from the Hindu Business Tech
Full article about Chemical Haptics from Mixed Reality website (in German)
Full article at the Halal Times
Article about our Chemical Haptics from the UIST Medium Blog
Chemical Haptics featured in the Haptics Newsletter
Press on our DextrEMS work (UIST 2021, Best Demo Award People's Choice)
Full article at Hackaday on our DextrEMS exoskeleton
Full article at QR code Press on our DextrEMS exoskeleton's potential for sign language
Full article by Nick Bild for HacksterIO on our DextrEMS exoskeleton
Full article by IT Media News (JP) on our DextrEMS exoskeleton
Full article on our DextrEMS exoskeleton
Article on MyScience
CS news article about our DextrEMS exoskeleton
Press on our Altering Softness work (UIST 2022, Best Paper Award, Best Demo Award Jury)
Full article by Nick Bild for HacksterIO on our wearable that alters touch perception
UChicago CS article on our work
Press on our Touch and Fold work (CHI 2021, Honorable Mention Award, by Shan-Yuan Teng)
Full article about our Touch and Fold device from HacksterIO
Full article about our Touch and Fold device from ElectronicsLab
PRNewswire adds our device to the overview of SIGGRAPH21 demos to come
Computer Graphics World adds our device to the highlights/preview of SIGGRAPH21
PSD article on Touch and Fold
Press on our Elevate work (CHI 2021, in collaboration with Andrea Bianchi's group at KAIST)
Full article about our work at the Arduino News Blog
Article about our work at the ACM Interactions Magazine
Article about our work at DevStyler
Press on our MagnetIO work (CHI 2021 by Alex Mazursky)
Article about MagnetIO by HacksterIO
Auror Design writes a blog post about our work (in japanese)
Press on our Electrical Stereo Smell work (CHI 2021, by Jas Brooks)
Full article about Smell in VR by Jude Stewart for WIRED magazine, which covers also our stereo smell and trigeminal illusions work, including interview with Jas Brooks
Full article about our stereo smell on IEEE Spektrum
Interview by Stephen Gossett for BuiltIn magazine with Jas Brooks on Smell interfaces (their future, how the Smell-o-vision legacy fares today, and our olfactory inyterfaces)
Full article about our stereo smell at Hackster.io
Honorable mention award in the best experimental design of 2021 of Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design Awards (see article with all winners too!)
Full article (in japanese) by IT Media
BYU radio interviews Jas on trigeminal stereo-smell!
Full article our stereo smell at Digital Trends
Full article our stereo smell at BoingBoing
Full article our stereo smell at Tech Thirsty
Article our stereo smell at HiTech Glitz
Gianluca Riccio's article about Jas work (includes interview quotes with Jas)
Highlight by NewsPicks (japanese)
Article at chizaizukan (japanese)
PSD article on Stereo Smell
Press on our Trigeminal Temperature Illusions for VR (CHI Best Paper 2020)
IEEE Spektrum full article about our Trigeminal Illusions
Full article about Smell in VR by Jude Stewart for WIRED magazine, which covers also our stereo smell and trigeminal illusions work, including interview with Jas Brooks
Article at Hackaday by Dan Maloney
Boing Boing article: Digital synesthesia: Tricking your brain into experiencing smell as temperature in virtual reality
DigitalTrends article on our hot cold illusion
Article by UploadVR
Article by Shiropen / IT media (also known as Seamless, in JP)
InterestingEngineering covers our device
Yahoo Finance covers our device
HackesterIO full article about out device
LabE's full article about out device
VRroom's article on our hot cold illusion
Geekologie article on our hot cold illusion
Selected by
Virtual Reality Pulse (link )
N-O-D-E discusses our project and Jas CHI2020 talk
Software Focus covers our work
Free News article
MakeMagazine covers open hardware projects, including our smell device
Lab digital covers our device
Robert Mcgrath's writes an article on their blog discussing our work
Future of Smell covers our paper
XR beat covers our temperature via trigeminal work
VRuse covers our temperature via trigeminal work
WhattsNew covers our temperature via trigeminal work (in ES)
VR Journal covers our temperature via trigeminal work (in RU)
Press on our HandMorph exoskeleton (UIST Best Paper 2020)
Full article about Handmorph at Hackster.io
Full article about Handmorph (Shiropen/ITMedia, japan)
Interview with Jun and Pedro (UchicagoCS)
Article by Futurity
Article about Handmorph by CoolWearable.com
Article about Handmorph by RobotEnthusiast Website
Medium Article by Jun about HandMorph and his other projects
Article about Handmorph by Robotic Gizmos
Press on our EMS-based authentication (work with Heather Zheng and Ben Zhao )
Full article about our EMS-based authentication (Shiropen/ITMedia, japan)
Article by University of Chicago PSD News
Article by Biometric Update
Press on our privacy bracelet (CHI Honorable Mention 2020; work with Heather Zheng and Ben Zhao )
New York Times piece about our jammer
The Atlantic's interview with Mike Pondsmith (creator of Cyberpunk) mentions our wearable jammer
Youtuber Linus Tech features our paper (3:15) in his popular 2024 video about ultrasonic jammers
Our jammer is a finalist in the 2020 Innovation By Design Awards, given out by Fast Company magazine. The project was one of the 8 finalists chosen in the Experimental category.
Chicago Tribune's article
Mashable article
Engadget article
The Times article
Full article about our wearable jammer (Shiropen/ITMedia, japan)
Slashdot article
Hackaday article about our jammer
Adafruit features our work on their blog
Freethink article about our jammer
hartford courant's article
Futurism article
Techgenyz article
Ycombinator discussion
Daily Mail's article
Reddit discussion
Slashdot article
Times of India article
Input mag article
Ulyces article (In french)
Ubergizmo article
Newsbreak article
Todo Noticias Article (in Argentinian Spanish)
Web Razzi Article (in Turkish)
Yanko Design Article
IoT Report article
Seattle TimesActivate This 'Bracelet of Silence,' and Alexa Can't Eavesdrop
The Mirror UK: Alexa owners can stop her eavesdropping using this 'bracelet of silence'
Yahoo Finance: Ultrasonic bracelet jams the microphones around you
National Law Review: Privacy Fashion: Profit from the Surveillance State
Yahoo News: Activate This 'Bracelet of Silence,' and Alexa Can't Eavesdrop
Business Insider Spain: Crean una pulsera con ultrasonidos que anula los microfonos e impide que las tecnologicas te espien
CNet France: Ce bracelet brouilleur empeche les enceintes connectees de vous ecouter
Paris Match: Un <> pour empecher Siri et Alexa de vous ecouter
CTV News: Tech with Todd , start at 6:10
RFI Podcast (France): Bracelet of Silence
Independent (Ireland): Listen up: Your life is too boring for Alexa to spy on you
Techtudo (Brazil): Pulseira digital bloqueia microfones proximos e evita espionagem
TJournal (Russia): Bracelet of silence: how a pair of scientists came up with a device for suppressing microphones of "smart" speakers
Baltijas Balss (Latvia): As a couple of scientists came up with a device for suppressing microphones of "smart" speakers, "Anti-clocks"
emit ultrasound that interferes with speech recognition
UberGizmo: This Ultrasonic Bracelet Jams Microphones Around You
Jezebel: I Thought Dystopic Fashion Would Be Cuter
UChicago Magazine: A computer science expert on the data privacy crisis
Termometro (Mexico): Crean pulsera con ultrasonidos que impide que las tecnologicas te espien
TechGenyz: 'Bracelet of Silence': A device to jam smart speakers' ability to spy on conversations
Uncrate: ALEXA & SIRI MICROPHONE JAMMING BRACELET
Le Numeriques (France): Ce bracelet empeche les objets connectes et smartphones de vous ecouter
Muy Interesante (Spain): Este 'brazalete del silencio' impide que Alexa te espie
Welt (Germany): Dieses Armband verhindert, dass Alexa und Siri dich belauschen
Sina Tech (China): Scientists Invent "Bracelet of Silence" that can disable surrounding microphones
TechOrange (China): American University Invents "Anti-surveillance" Bracelet, Uses Ultrasonic Signals to Block Smart Speakers and Smartphones
Unwire (Hong Kong): American Researchers Invent Anti-surveillance Bracelet; Uses Ultrasonic Signals to Disrupt Nearby Microphones
Technews (Taiwan): American Researchers Invent Anti-surveillance Bracelet; Uses Ultrasonic Signals to Disrupt Nearby Microphones
Tech Insane Youtube Channel (Hindi): Tech Insane Youtube Channel (Hindi)
Week in Rap Youtube Channel: Week in Rap Youtube Channel
Guardian piece on IoT security mentions our device
Featured on UChicago News: Monday, February 17, 2020
Featured on PSD Academics Newsletter (by PSD Dean Angela Olinto): February 28, 2020
Press on our haptic learning via muscle stimulation work
Full article at Chicago Magazine on our work.
Press on our agency in haptics work
CNBC full feature on our work
Gizmodo (full press article about Preemptive Action)
IEEE Spectrum (full press article about Preemptive Action)
Boing Boing (article about Preemptive Action)
Tech Xplore (full press article about Preemptive Action)
Business Today article about our EMS work with agency
Spektrum (German) article about our agency work
SIGCHI Medium (article by Pedro Lopes about the research questions behind our two 2019 CHI papers)
HiTecher (press article about Preemptive Action)
Medical Gadget (press article about Preemptive Action)
My24 online newspaper (article about Preemptive Action)
MobiGeek (article about Preemptive Action)
UChicago News (full article about agency in EMS, including our Cerebral Cortex and two 2019 CHI papers)
UChicago CS (full article about agency in EMS, including our Cerebral Cortex and two 2019 CHI papers)
Reddit Thread (no research can be complete without people on reddit discussing it!)
Press on our agency in haptics work
UChicago PSD article about our EMS as authentication work (with Ben Zhao and Heather Zheng)
News articles about the lab as a whole
Article about UChicago's 12 CHI 2023 papers (UChicago CS News)
Article by Miranda Redenbaugh about our undergraduate class on electronics/PCB design
We got the ACM CAREER award in 2021! (UChicago CS news article)
We have 7 papers at CHI 2021! (UChicago CS news article)
UChicago Magazine wrote a long feature about our lab, vision and research projects of the first few months
UChicago Short list (alumni, parents, families, and friends) features a story about our lab
UChicagoCS 5 awards at CHI 2020! (includes our best paper award and our honorable mention)
UChicago PSD article about Ada Lovelace Week 2020
Press on our new lab or Pedro joining UChicago or individual awards
Pedro receives the Sloan Fellowship 2022
Crain's article on Michael Franklin's plan for UChicago CS, includes interview with Pedro
UChicago news article about CS Department, includes news about our new lab (and images of our Graduate class)
UChicago CS article about Pedro joining
Scientia Article about Lopes' lab
Academic classes, books, etc that show our work
The book Perspectives on Wearable Enhanced Learning (WELL) by Buchem et al. (published by Springer Nature 2019), mentions our work on EMS!
The book The Ultimate Guide to Informed Wearable Technology by Christine Farion (Packt Publishing, 2022) mentions our work on EMS as well as the Wearable Jammer!
DIY/Maker Community using our projects
These folks have made their own openEMSstim and use it in their research
Other assorted press articles
Pedro interviewed by New York Times regarding Kseniia Palin's work on the astonishing typing speed seen on today's phone users
Pedro represents UChicago at CNBC Evolve event in Chicago 2019
Uchicago News (26th Sep 2019) on our demo at CNBC
Uchicago News (26th July 2019) on our EMS for VR work
Uchicago News (12th April 2019) on our workshops at MADD and lab space
UChicago Admissions Tumblr video about our artwork
Press on Pedro's PhD work
Science et Vie Junior Magazine discusses VR Walls on article about "City of the future on 2050"
TechXplore article on VR walls
VR Fittness article about EMS in AR
PC Mag article about EMS in VR
BGR article about Impacto
Microsoft Power User article about EMS in AR
Road to VR article about Impacto
Core77 Article about Metamaterial Mechanisms (led by Alexandra Ion, co-authored also by Pedro)
Techspot article about VR walls
The register article about haptic illusions, featuring Pedro on VR walls, Margaret Koehler, Jake Rubin (from HaptX), Sriram Subramanian and Jan Gugenheimer
H+ magazine article about Pedro's CHI15 papers
3Dprint magazine article about Trussformer (led by Rob Kovacs, co-authored also by Pedro)
El Diario article about Impacto
Japanese Gizmodo article about VR Walls
VICE article abotu VR walls
realovirtual article about VR walls
Inverse article about our VR walls
Hindu Business discusses developments in VR using our work
TweakTown article about Impacto
Dezeen article about Metamaterial Mechanisms (led by Alexandra Ion, co-authored also by Pedro)
Article by Creative Applications about Muscle Plotter
Article by Creative Applications about Constructable (led by Stefanie Mueller, co-authored also by Pedro)
PhysOrg article on Muscle Propelled Force Feedback
Wired Magazine's article on Constructable (led by Stefanie Mueller, co-authored also y Pedro Lopes)
Pedro demonstrates Ad Infinitum at Science Gallery in Dublin
Digital Trends article about Ad Infinitum
Article by the Irish Times about our artwork
Post by Ars electronica about our work
Article by Creative Applications about Ad Infinitum
Article by Mental floss about our artwork