Pedro speaks at RIT's HCI colloquium (hosted by Roshan Peiris) and visits Michelle Carr at Roschester University.
January 9 2020
Chris Hill (Boulder) visits the lab!
December 16 2019
Haijun Xia (UCSD) visits the lab (hosted by Ravi)!
December 12 2019
Michael Polsky visits the lab!
December 9 2019
Nicolai Marquardt (UCL) visits the lab!
November 12 2019
Lab hangout!
October 29 2019
Alexandra Ion (ETH) visits the lab!
October 28 2019
David Lindlbauer (ETH) visits the lab!
October 25 2019
Our collaborator Rei Konno (KEIO sfc) came to visit!
October 25 2019
Physical Sciences Division council comes to the lab for demos and a talk!
October 24 2019
Cedric Honnet visiting our lab and giving a talk!
October 23 2019
Wow! Shan-Yuan Teng also got the Honorable mention for best talk at UIST! Double award on his paper, yay!
October 22 2019
Shan-Yuan Teng presents his UIST paper on a shape changing floor (with collaborators from NTU) and gets honorable mention award for Best Paper! Watch video here.
October 21 2019
We presented our haptic device, aeroplane, at at UIST's demo session, also on next day in the paper track! Thanks to Andrea Bianchi and his team at KAIST for this collaboration! Watch video here.
October 15 2019
Akifumi Takahashi (Electro-Communications Tokyo) joined the lab as intern! Welcome!
October 11 2019
Fadel Adib (MIT) was visiting our department today.
October 11 2019
Doga Dogan (MIT CSAIL) was visiting our lab today and gave a talk.
September 30 2019
Joint lab meeting with Sihong Wang's Lab
September 27 2019
Pedro serves as jury for Futures Design Challenge 2019
September 26 2019
Pedro gives a talk for REPLICA (Berlin's art & science project)
Jingxuan Wen (predoctoral student) arrived in the lab! Welcome!
September 20 2019
Celebrate CHI submissions!
September 3 2019
Zoe Liu (predoctoral student) arrived in the lab! Welcome!
September 1 2019
We had to say goodbye to Romain! New PhD students Jasmine and Alex arrived in Chicago.
August 27 2019
Aaron last day! We made a custom made board game for Aaron's goodbye (also our first board game night!)
August 23 2019
Mayhem, laser cutter arrived and lab construction is underway.
August 20 2019
Hang out and work session with Ka Moamoa (Josiah's group at Northwestern) and Nabil!
August 19 2019
Japanese TV came all the way to interview Jun!
August 16 2019
Home made lunch (by Marco and Pedro) for Michael's last day! Happy Michael's day.
August 9 2019
We are sad to see Lydia and Eva go, but they will rock the CS World!
August 2 2019
We got the Grand Prize for Revolution Research at SIGGRAPH 2019 (eTech), for our work on Preemptive Action, which was awarded by Laval virtual in partnership with SIGGRAPH.
August 1 2019
We are sad to see Elliot Kahn go, but he will be having lots of fun overseas! Thanks for all the help! In the meantime, we welcome Pengyu Li and Zhehao Li to the lab!
July 31 2019
Jun and Daniel are at SIGGRAPH demo'ing Preemptive Action (together with our collaborator Shunichi Kasahara from Sony CSL)!
July 26 2019
Gizmodo wrote this article about our work on agency, in particular Preemptive Action (CHI'19).
July 26 2019
UChicago News wrote a piece about our Cerebral Cortex and CHI papers.
July 19 2019
IEEE Spectrum wrote a piece about our Preemptive Action paper (CHI'19).
July 10 2019
Lab outing for (dumpling) dinner with Fred Chong's EPIQ lab!
July 9 2019
CDAC Internships are all underway! Welcome Medha too!
July 6 2019
Our Preemptive Action paper (CHI'19) was selected to the Best of CHI'19 event in Mumbai, organized by the Indian HCI community.
July 1 2019
Medha Goyal (CDAC intern) joins the lab for this summer! Welcome!
June 26 2019
Pedro receives best PhD dissertation award at University of Potsdam, Germany. Award handed by Oliver Günther (President of the University) and Jann Jakobs (former-mayor of Potsdam).
June 21 2019
Shan-Yuan Teng's first day in the lab. Followed by ping pong celebration and dinner.
June 19 2019
Pedro and Jun invited to the Neuro ICU by Dr. Fernando (UChicago), thanks for the visit!
June 17 2019
Romain Nith (McGill) and Ted Kim (UChicago, CDAC) joined the lab!
June 7 2019
Simeon and Aaron defend their practicum with style and fantastic live demos.
June 5 2019
Peggy Mason visits the lab!
June 5 2019
Sam Volchenboum and Josiah Hester visit the lab!
May 31 2019
Marco and Pedro invited to Museum of Science and Industy's after hours event (current exhibit is on wearables, go hck it out!).
May 30 2019
Jas Brooks gives a lab tour to 5th graders from Day Star Academy!
May 22 2019
Akifumi Takahashi gives a talk a the lab about EMS!
May 21 2019
Fernando Goldenberg visits the lab!
May 20 2019
Best of CHI'19 selection by Pedro & Jun at our lab meeting!
May 19 2019
lab outing to mitsuwa: we might have gone overboard with japanese snacks! kudos to jas for organizing.
May 16 2019
Angelika Zissimopoulos visits the lab! Also, Marco and Pedro got a tour of Logan's Kiln by Amber Ginsburg!
May 15 2019
Pedro was a respondent at the lovely meeting Automatic Recognition and Analysis of American Sign Language organized by Diane Brentari (UChicago) and Karen Livescu (TTIC).
May 3 2019
Pedro received an Best Video Communication award at CHI 2019 for his work Trussformer which he co-authored with Robert Kovacs (primary investigator, HPI).
May 7 2019
Jun received an Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at CHI 2019 for his work at th University of Tsukuba that allows you to experience the view of a smaller person, with Kenji Suzuki.
May 6 2019
We just presented two CHI papers (and Jun presents his tomorrow as well!). Lukas presented our EEG/EMS paper and Shun presented our agency/EMS paper!
May 3 2019
Pedro received the Outstanding Dissertation Award 2019 by the University of Potsdam for his PhD thesis at the Hasso Plattner Institute.
May 2 2019
Two CHI'19 papers accepted, presentations ready for Glasgow! Also Jun will present this paper that he authored while at the University of Tsukuba.
May 1 2019
11 amazing VR demos in class, students rocked!
April 27 2019
Pedro teaches signal processing to over 100 middle school girls that take part in CompileHer 2019.
April 19 2019
SIGGRAPH eTech demo accepted, demo ready for LA!
April 19 2019
First sad day in the lab, Steven's visit is over. Lab made a home cooked meal and hand made zine for Steven! See you in Belgium!
April 15 2019
Three new PhD students next fall! Introducing: Jasmine (CS, Duke) and Shan-Yuan (CS, NTU) and Alex Mazursky (ME, Miami, OH).
April 15 2019
Michelle Carr visited the lab.
April 15 2019
Sihong Wang visited the lab.
April 8 2019
Lab outing to Thalia Hall/Dusek with Gierad Laput who visited UChicago.
April 3 2019
We started a new class: CMSC 23220: Inventing, Engineering and Understanding Interactive Devices!
March 21 2019
Lab outing to the Museum of Science and Indusry; opening of the wearables exhibit. We met Ivan Poupyrev, Anthony Banks and Behnaz Farahi.
March 15 2019
Aaron, Jake, Lydia and Simeon joined the lab.
March 15 2019
We organized our own PhD Visit Day for Alex Mazursky!.
March 14 2019
Ted Kim is visiting UChicago.
March 13 2019
Ludwig Wall is visiting our lab and gives a talk on his work on Laser Stacker and Metamaterials.
March 13 2019
Ed Wang is visiting UChicago.
March 12 2019
We are doing a stretchable and soft electronics hands-on workshop at our graduate class! First MADD and CS joint workshop.
March 9 2019
HCI lab hangout. Lunch at the plant and SAIC's MA closing show.
March 8 2019
PhD visit day at UCHicago CS! Jasmine and Shan-Yuan visited the lab. Many thanks to our colleague Ben Zhao for an amazing visit day.
March 5 2019
Garrett Johnson visited the lab.
March 1 2019
We met Kyle Jamieson who was visiting UChicago.
February 27 2019
David Freedman visited the lab.
February 25 2019
Steven and Pedro went to visit Josiah Hester at Northwestern.
February 22 2019
Andrey Rzhetsky visited the lab.
February 14 2019
We met Marshini Chetty who was visiting UChicago.
February 11 2019
Howard Nusbaum visited the lab.
February 8 2019
Leslie Kay visited the lab.
January 28 2019
Pedro speaks at MIT Media Lab (host by Pattie Maes and Michelle Carr)
January 25 2019
IEEE VR PC meeting.
January 10 2019
Folks from CAT visited the lab and our department.
January 8 2019
Hooray! This is Steven's first day at the lab. Nitesh also started working with us!
January 8 2019
We just started our new class Emergent Interface Technology (graduate level).
January 7 2019
Lab just started! This is Jas' first day (and Pedro's too).
