• Dec 16 2020

    Jun wins Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship (only four awarded) at UChicago!


  • Dec 15 2020

    Dasha receives an honorable mention from CRA as Outstanding Undergrad 2021 See all winners here.


  • Dec 2 2020

    Alex gave a talk on ongoing work at the MRS Fall Meeting


  • Nov 30 2020

    Hiroshi Ishii Distinguished HCI Lecture at UChicago! Watch the keynote here.


  • Nov 10 2020

    Ken Nakagaki presenting at the HCI club Join the HCI club here.


  • Nov 9 2020

    Cathy Fang presenting at the lab More info here.


  • Oct 29 2020

    Tanzeem Choudhury Distinguished HCI Lecture at UChicago! More info here.


  • Oct 26 2020

    Karrie Karahalios Distinguished HCI Lecture at UChicago! More info here.


  • Oct 22 2020

    UIST 2020 is over, thanks Jasmine, Shan-Yuan and Yujie for SV service! More info here.


  • Oct 21 2020

    UIST 2020 is happening: our HandMorph paper received Best Paper Award (Jun, Shan-Yuan, Zoe and Pedro) More info here.


  • Oct 19 2020

    Pedro is a mentor in the ACM UIST Doctoral Symposium More info here.


  • Oct 1 2020

    Yudai Tanaka, Romain Nith, Pengyu Li and Yujie Tao join the lab!


  • Oct 16 2020

    Day 4 (last one!) of our Ada Lovelace Week! See full schedule here.


  • Oct 15 2020

    Day 3 of our Ada Lovelace Week! See full schedule here.


  • Oct 14 2020

    Day 2 of our Ada Lovelace Week! See full schedule here.


  • Oct 14 2020

    Lab outing by the lake: celebrating CHI deadline and everyone being safe!


  • Oct 13 2020

    Day 1 of our Ada Lovelace Week! See full schedule here.


  • Oct 12 2020

    Anind Dey Distinguished HCI Lecture at UChicago!


  • Oct 5 2020

    Chris Harrison Distinguished HCI Lecture at UChicago!


  • Oct 1 2020

    Jas is talking at Chicago SIGCHI local chapter!


  • Sep 29 2020

    HCi Club #11 Helen Huang (guest talk) on "EMG-based Human-machine Interface" Join the HCI club here.


  • Sep 1 2020

    HCI club#10: Sara Sebo talk on HRI (see instructions at Join the HCI club here.


  • Aug 18 2020

    HCI club#9: Critical Race Theory in HCI (Invited Talk) Join the HCI club here.


  • Aug 4 2020

    HCI club#8: Robert Kovacs guest talk Join the HCI club here.


  • Jul 8 2020

    Skill share with Romain continues!


  • Jul 6 2020

    Pedro is giving a mini lecture at Sowmya's SENG 310


  • Jun 30 2020

    Jas and Pedro present: CHI 2020 Smell, Taste, & Temperature Symposium See all talks here.


  • Jun 26 2020

    SkillShare with Romain continues!


  • Jun 25 2020

    Haptics Symposium is underway! (Pedro serving as Social Media Chair)


  • Jun 19 2020

    Pedro and Jun at UIST PC meeting


  • Jun 16 2020

    SkillShare with Romain continues!


  • Jun 5 2020

    ChicagoCHI (Shan-Yuan & Yuxin present) Chicago's SIGCHI ACM Chapter


  • Jun 3 2020

    SkillShare with Romain!


  • May 27 2020

    Pedro presents at GermanCHI (CHI 20 replacement event) Talks here.


  • May 26 2020

    Jas, Shan-Yuan, Pedro and all other CHI20 papers from UChicago are presented in the CHIcago Symposium! Watch here.


  • May 20 2020

    Pedro presents the "Human Computer Integration" paper at CHI Down Under (CHI2020 replacement event).


  • April 19 2020

    Romain teaching a SkillShare on PCBs! It was amazing! Thanks everyone for attending.


  • May 13 2020

    Pedro presents the "Human Computer Integration" paper at CHIcambridge (CHI2020 replacement event). Video of talk Watch here.


  • May 7 2020

    CHI2020 viewing party (virtual)


  • April 28 2020

    First ever UChicago HCI CLUB! Topic: what makes a good thesis! If you want to stay tuned to the next one, learn more and subscribe More info here.


  • April 16 2020

    Tea Time: Lab hangout! (virtual)


  • April 14, 2020

    Kailin teaching a SkillShare on sketching! It was amazing! Thanks everyone for attending.


  • Apr 2 2020

    Final presentations of HCI Class (Emergent Interface Technologies 2020). Thanks all the students for the amazing projects and talks.


  • March 31 2020

    Pedro teaching a SkillShare on audio procesing and signal processing! Thanks everyone for attending.


  • March 18 2020

    Yu She is remote visiting too!


  • March 17 2020

    Pedro hands the Special Recognition Award to Prof. Jun Rekimoto for Possessed Hand paper at Augmented Human 2020 Conference!


  • March 12 2020

    For the safety of everyone, Pedro preemptively closed the lab for social distancing! Stay safe!


  • March 12 2020

    Alex Ion is speaking at UChicago (welcome back Alex!)


  • March 2 2020

    David Lindlbauer is speaking at UChicago (welcome back David!)


  • February 26 2020

    UChicago is filming at our lab!


  • February 13 2020

    New York Times came to take pictures of our CHI 2020 Wearable Microphone Jammer.


  • February 11 2020

    Triple trouble: visits to Jaeger Lab; (2) Irvine Lab; and our lab! Thanks Baudoin and Severine for hosting us!


  • February 6 2020

    Romain Nith (McGill) gave a talk at our lab!


  • February 6 2020

    Pedro gave a talk at Triple Helix.


  • January 30 2020

    Yudai Tanaka (UofTokyo) gave a talk at our lab!


  • January 28 2020

    Terra Edwards passed by our lab!


  • January 25 2020

    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)


  • September 25 2019

    Jaeyeon Lee visited the lab (remotely!)


  • September 24 2019

    Jun and Pedro demo at CNBC! Watch video here.


  • September 23 2019

    Yang Zhang (CMU) visited the Lab!


  • September 23 2019

    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).