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

  1. Big Brains podcast episode about the future of wearables, covers our lab's work in an in-depth interview with Pedro
  2. 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
  3. Fox32 interview with Pedro about Sloan Fellowship Award 2022
  4. World Haptics 20th Anniversary marked with interviews with researchers, including Pedro Lopes (video interview with Lynette Jones)
  5. Our work on integrating living organisms inside of interactive devices (Jasmine Lu) is discussed on Live TV ("3 BRILLIANT MINUTES: Unusual but true news")
  6. 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
  7. Full story on NPR's "Points North" titled "My little slime" about Jasmine's work (includes interview with her and participant)
  8. Interview with Jasmine Lu and Jas Brooks at the Podcast "Haptics Club"
  9. Interview with Jasmine Lu about Chemical Haptics for ABC, on the Podcast Future Tense with Antony Funnell
  10. BYU radio interviews Jas on trigeminal stereo-smell!
  11. 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)
  12. BBC Click did a live piece about our our Wearable Microphone Jammer
  13. TV Show, Planète Techno talked about our Wearable Microphone Jammer
  14. Pedro Lopes interviewed at the Haptics Club Podcast
  15. Fox 32 Chicago talked about our Wearable Microphone Jammer
  16. NHK (Japan) covered our Preemptive Action work live on TV
  17. TV Show, Voice of America (interview with Jun about HandMorph)
  18. TV Asahi in Japan covers our preemptive action work (film crew came to lab)
  19. Peter Joosten interviews Pedro about to the ACM Augmented Humans 2021 conference, on which Pedro was the general co-chair
  20. Interview with Pedro Lopes on using muscle stimulation for virtual reality by HPI-Digitalblog (filmed at UIST conference)
  21. Pedro's keynote at NODE'15 on Human Computer Integration
  22. Highlight of other awards (non-paper)

  23. Pedro Lopes Honored with 2025 IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Significant New Researcher Award
  24. Jasmine Lu received SIGCHI Award 2025 (Special Recognition), read the official ACM SIGCHI post
  25. Written interviews with us

  26. 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
  27. Interview with Pedro about Metaverse and Haptics, for SIGGRAPH blog
  28. Interview with Pedro, Jasmine, Shan-Yuan and Romain about our 3-day wearable workshop for high schoolers from Chicago Public Schools
  29. Interview with Jas Brooks about their olfactory interfaces work (by SlowDown TV)
  30. Article and Interview with lead author Jasmine Lu, by Cassidy Ward for SyFy
  31. 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
  32. Interview with Jas Brooks about LGBTQ+ people's struggle in science & technology and their work on chemical interfaces, olfactory research, and more!
  33. Short interview/blurb for Technical University of Lisbon (Pedro's alma mater) about Sloan Fellowship Award
  34. Short interview/blurb for Hasso Plattner Institute (Pedro's PhD alma mater) about Sloan Fellowship Award
  35. 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)
  36. Interview with Jun and Pedro for UchicagoCS
  37. Crain's article on Michael Franklin's plan for UChicago CS, includes interview with Pedro
  38. Interview with Pedro about his PhD Thesis Award from the University of Potsdam, Germany
  39. World records (apparently we made the Guiness book twice!)

  40. DextrEMS was considered the most precise bionic hand controller (for output, i.e., moving individual fingers) by experts at the Guiness World Records
  41. Our Preemptive Action work was considered the "Fastest artificially-assisted reaction times" by experts at the Guiness World Records
  42. Press on the Center for Organic Batteries (COBI, led by Prof. Shrayesh Patel)

  43. "Center for Organic Batteries (COBI) is launched at UChicago
  44. Press on our Embodied AI / Generative Muscle Stimulation work (CHI 2026 by Yun Ho and Romain Nith)

  45. Article by Sadie Harley for TechXplore
  46. Article by Omar Kardoudi for News Atlas
  47. OBS news
  48. News Bytes
  49. News Medical
  50. UChicago Neuroscience News
  51. UChicago CS News
  52. Press on our VR side effects work (UIST 2025 by Antonin Cheymol)

  53. "Users Feeling 'Stuck in Virtual Reality' After Removing Their Headset is a Rare but Real Phenomenon" by ben Lang for Road to VR
  54. Press on our Vestibular Stimulation for Hand Redirection/Retargeting (UIST 2025 by Kensuke Katori)

  55. Article about our galvanic vestibular stimulation for VR
  56. Press on our Seeing with Hands paper (CHI 2025 By Shan-Yuan Teng)

  57. Sensory Substitution Device Tingles Back Of Your Hand by Arya Voronova for Hackaday
  58. Article "Hands-on vision" by Miranda Redenbaugh
  59. A New Way to See the World by Nick Bild for Hackster.io
  60. Article at Gigazine (in japanese)(translated version)
  61. Press on our Augmented Breating paper (UIST 2024 by Jas Brooks)

  62. Article about Augmented Breathing by Claire Fu

    Press on our TMS work (CHI 2024 by Yudai Tanaka)

  63. Article "A Mind-Bending VR Experience" by Nick Bild
  64. Article at Mixed News by Tomislav Bezmalinovic
  65. Article for Phone arena by Abdullah Asim
  66. Press on our Split Body (CHI 2024 Best Paper by Romain Nith)

  67. Article at IEEE by Evan Ackerman
  68. Article at Uchicago News by Claire Fu
  69. Press on our Haptic Permeability (CHI 2024 by Shan-Yuan Teng)

  70. Recap of Haptics Symposium 2024 (where Haptic Permeability was shown as a demo) by the Titan Haptics company highlights our demo
  71. 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)

  72. ProtoPCB on hacksterIO
  73. featured at the UChicago Climate Institute, apropos Jasmine's new exploration
  74. Article on ecoEDA at Hackaday
  75. Article at HacksterIO about ecoEDA by Nick Bild
  76. Article on ecoEDA by Natalia Toczkowska for TS2
  77. Article by Wisse Hettinga for EE News Europe
  78. Mention in the Adafruit Blog
  79. Jasmine Lu's expert opinion on this NewScientist article about dissolving PCBs
  80. Press on our ThermalRouter, a fabrication design tool that helps people improve the thermal performance of their 3D designs (UIST 2023, by Alex Mazursky)

  81. Article at Hackster IO
  82. Press on our FeetThrough, a foot haptics device (UIST 2023, by Keigo Ushiyama)

  83. Article at New Atlas
  84. Article by Nick Bild for HacksterIO
  85. UChicago PSD News
  86. Article by Dean Murray via SWNS
  87. Article at Talker News
  88. FeetThrough is discussed in the "All about haptics" newsletter
  89. Article at NBC "right now"
  90. Article at the Courier Times
  91. Article at Arisez
  92. Griffin Daily News
  93. Press on our Back of the hand tactile stimulation (CHI 2023, by Yudai Tanaka)

  94. Article by Alex Wilkins for NewScientist, including a video prepared by NewScientist about the work
  95. Article at the IEEE spectrum magazine by Evan Ackerman
  96. Back of the Hand tactile stimulation featured in the "All Things Haptics" newsletter by Ashley Huffman
  97. Article about our work at TecheBlog
  98. Article at HacksterIO about our work by Nick Bild
  99. Article by Donald Papp for Hackaday
  100. Article at Shining Science
  101. Great to see users at Reddit discussing this work
  102. Great to see users at Linkedin discussing this work
  103. Press on our JumpMod (CHI 2023, by Romain Nith)

  104. Article at Newscientist by Alex Wilkins
  105. Article at Engadged by Andrew Tarantola, includes interview with Pedro and Romain
  106. Article on HacksterIO by Nick Bild
  107. Youtuber & VR reviewer VoodooVR discusses JumpMod in his channel
  108. Article by Bryan Cockfield for Hackaday
  109. Article by Bobby Carlton for VR Scout
  110. Article by Jackson Chung for TechE blog
  111. Article by Miranda Redenbaugh for UChicago CS News (includes interview with Pedro and Romain)
  112. Article by Gianluca Riccio for FuturuProssimo (in EN and IT)
  113. Article by Benjamin Danneberg and Martin Schwarz for MR news
  114. JumpMod featured in the "All Things Haptics" newsletter by Ashley Huffman
  115. JumpMod featured (again!) on another "All Things Haptics" newsletter
  116. Article by Annabelle Stephenson for Game is Hard blog
  117. Article by Stanislav Serbezov for Phone Arena
  118. Article by Jackson Chung for Teche Blog
  119. Article by Nicole Rodrigues for Design Taxi Webzine
  120. Article by Simon Smith for ISP
  121. Article by Roy Wright for Gillet News
  122. Article by Daniel Fraser for US today
  123. Article for Tech Plugged
  124. Article by XingLangVR on ZhiHu (in Chinese)
  125. Article at WeCanAR (in Chinese)
  126. Article by Hite about JumpMod for the technabob blog
  127. Article by Tobias Költzsch (in German)
  128. Article at VR blog (in Chinese)
  129. Article at Sohu (in Chinese)
  130. Article at OMG VR (in Chinese)
  131. Article by Brian Rotter at Digital Pioneers (in German)
  132. Article at Illusive Daily
  133. Article at ナゾロジ (in Japanese)
  134. Article by William for 93913 XR Blog (in Chinese)
  135. Article at AR in China
  136. Article in Sina-VR Blog (in Chinese)
  137. Press on our LipIO (CHI 2023, by Arata Jingu and Yudai Tanaka)

  138. Article at Engadget by Lawrence Bonk
  139. Article on HacksterIO by Nick Bild
  140. Article by Pranav Dixit for Business Today
  141. Article by Lawrence Bonk for Yahoo Finance
  142. Article by Jorge Jimenez for PC Gamer
  143. Article by Aditya Tiwari for NeoWin
  144. LipIO featured in the "All Things Haptics" newsletter by Ashley Huffman
  145. Article at Samaa Web
  146. Article by Paulo Montenegro for Ubergizmo
  147. Article by Usama Anjum for PhoneWorld
  148. Article at Tech Smart
  149. Article at GVS
  150. Article by Jace Dela Cruz for the Tech Times
  151. LipIO highlighted at Microsoft MSN
  152. Article by Michael Cram for the Droid Gazette
  153. Press on our Smell and Paste (CHI 2023, by Jas Brooks)

  154. Article at HacksterIO by Cameron Coward
  155. 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)

  156. Article on NewScientist by Grace Wade about our work
  157. Article on New Atlas by Ben Coxworth about our work
  158. Press on our Interactive Devices Integrated with Living Organisms (UIST 2022, by Jasmine Lu)

  159. Article on Forbes Magazine by Jennifer Kite-Powell about our work
  160. Full article by Cassidy Ward (includes interview with Jasmine Lu and Pedro Lopes)
  161. Our work is discussed on Live TV (WBAY) by reporter Brad Spakowitz for the segment "3 BRILLIANT MINUTES: Unusual but true news"
  162. Full article by Nick Bild for HacksterIO
  163. Full article by Andrew Liszewski for Gizmodo
  164. 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
  165. Article by Lewin Day for Hackaday
  166. Article at Futurity (using Cassandra Belek's article)
  167. David Pescovitz wrote about our work for Boinb Boing
  168. Full article by Yuki Yamashita for ITMedia / Shiropen
  169. Full article by Arya Voronova for Hackaday
  170. Article by Maureen Searcy for Uchicago Magazine
  171. Our work was featured in the Newsletter of the Artificial Life journal (Nov 2022 edition)
  172. Article by Tech Explore
  173. Article on Uchicago News
  174. Article at Futurism about by Frank Landymore
  175. Global News shares our work
  176. Article on Yahoo News
  177. Article on Uchicago CS News by Rob Mitchum
  178. Article about our work at Tech-e-Blog
  179. Article about our work at News8
  180. Article by Tim Hayes for healthcare+
  181. Article about our work at World Energy
  182. Article at GovTech
  183. We love seeing some people discussing our work at Hacker News
  184. COvered at TechBriefs
  185. Article by Maksim Panasovskyi for Gagadget
  186. Covered by Oddity Central
  187. Article by Michael Lozina for Ten Pieces of Eight magazine
  188. Reflection article by Oliver Bendel for Robot Philosophy blog
  189. Article at Arena Pública (in Spanish)
  190. Article for PlayTech by Ozana Mazilu (in Romanian)
  191. Article by Malik Habchi for L'Usine Nouvelle (in French)
  192. Article by Nathalie Kleczinski for Neo Zone (in French)
  193. Article by Gustavo Minari for Terra (in Portuguese)
  194. Article by Emre Rona / Translation: Deniz Candaş for Kurious Magazine
  195. Article at Gadget Advisor
  196. Featured on "Mind Blowing Science"
  197. A user board of discussions about our work on MetaFilter's community forum
  198. Article by Rupendra Brahambhatt for ZME
  199. Article by Nidhi Goyal for Industry Tap
  200. Article by Eleanor Higgs for IFL science
  201. Press on our Harvesting Kinetic Energy to Prolong VR Haptics (UIST 2022)

  202. Ashley Huffman discusses our work on the "All Tings Haptics"
  203. Press on our Integrating Distractions in VR (UIST 2022)

  204. Full article on Livewire (By Sascha Brodsky) including quotes from Pedro
  205. Press on our Electrical Head Actuation (CHI 2022)

  206. Full article by Paul Marks (includes interview with Yudai Tanaka)
  207. Full article by Cassidy Ward (includes interview with Yudai Tanaka and Pedro Lopes)
  208. Full article by Bobby Carlton for VRScout (includes interview with Yudai Tanaka)
  209. Article in Gizmodo by Andrew Liszewski
  210. Our CHI22 talk is featured on Adafruit
  211. Article in Tech News Crypt
  212. Press on our Stretchable Sensor (Science Advances 2021, led by Sihong Wang at PME and his wonderful team)

  213. Full article by Emily Ayshford for UChicago News including quotes from Sihong
  214. Press on our Chemical Haptics (UIST 2021)

  215. Full article by Victoria Woollaston about Chemical Haptics for NewScientist (includes quotes from Jasmine Lu)
  216. Interview with Jasmine Lu about Chemical Haptics for ABC, on the Podcast Future Tense with Antony Funnell
  217. Full article by Andrew Liszewski for Gizmodo
  218. Piece on "A Revolution in Haptics" for the Communications of the ACM, by Paul Marks, featuring Chemical Haptics!
  219. TechLinked covers Chemical Haptics on their channel (video has >500K views)
  220. Youtuber Steve Knows covers Chemical Haptics on their channel (video >15k views)
  221. Article and Interview with lead author Jasmine Lu, by Cassidy Ward for SyFy
  222. Full article by Rob Thubron for TechSpot
  223. SIG CHI newslatter highlights chemical haptics!
  224. Full article by David Matthews for Digital Trends
  225. Article at Tech News Inc.
  226. Full article by Cabe Caldwell for HacksterIO
  227. article by Nadeem Sarwar for Screen Rant
  228. Article by Matthew Hart for Nerdist's Science and Tech features
  229. Article from 3Neel
  230. Article at FleflyNews
  231. Article at Tech To See
  232. Article from Feedy News
  233. Article at Hi Tech Glitz
  234. Article at GeniusShark
  235. Article at Nerd Shala
  236. Article at Greeley Tribune
  237. Full article about Chemical Haptics from Nicola Dixon at ProGamer
  238. PC gamer features an article on Chemical Haptics
  239. Full article about Chemical Haptics from the Hindu Business Tech
  240. Full article about Chemical Haptics from Mixed Reality website (in German)
  241. Full article at the Halal Times
  242. Article about our Chemical Haptics from the UIST Medium Blog
  243. Chemical Haptics featured in the Haptics Newsletter
  244. Press on our DextrEMS work (UIST 2021, Best Demo Award People's Choice)

  245. Full article at Hackaday on our DextrEMS exoskeleton
  246. Full article at QR code Press on our DextrEMS exoskeleton's potential for sign language
  247. Full article by Nick Bild for HacksterIO on our DextrEMS exoskeleton
  248. Full article by IT Media News (JP) on our DextrEMS exoskeleton
  249. Full article on our DextrEMS exoskeleton
  250. Article on MyScience
  251. CS news article about our DextrEMS exoskeleton
  252. Press on our Altering Softness work (UIST 2022, Best Paper Award, Best Demo Award Jury)

  253. Full article by Nick Bild for HacksterIO on our wearable that alters touch perception
  254. UChicago CS article on our work
  255. Press on our Touch and Fold work (CHI 2021, Honorable Mention Award, by Shan-Yuan Teng)

  256. Full article about our Touch and Fold device from HacksterIO
  257. Full article about our Touch and Fold device from ElectronicsLab
  258. PRNewswire adds our device to the overview of SIGGRAPH21 demos to come
  259. Computer Graphics World adds our device to the highlights/preview of SIGGRAPH21
  260. PSD article on Touch and Fold
  261. Press on our Elevate work (CHI 2021, in collaboration with Andrea Bianchi's group at KAIST)

  262. Full article about our work at the Arduino News Blog
  263. Article about our work at the ACM Interactions Magazine
  264. Article about our work at DevStyler
  265. Press on our MagnetIO work (CHI 2021 by Alex Mazursky)

  266. Article about MagnetIO by HacksterIO
  267. Auror Design writes a blog post about our work (in japanese)
  268. Press on our Electrical Stereo Smell work (CHI 2021, by Jas Brooks)

  269. 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
  270. Full article about our stereo smell on IEEE Spektrum
  271. 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)
  272. Full article about our stereo smell at Hackster.io
  273. 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!)
  274. Full article (in japanese) by IT Media
  275. BYU radio interviews Jas on trigeminal stereo-smell!
  276. Full article our stereo smell at Digital Trends
  277. Full article our stereo smell at BoingBoing
  278. Full article our stereo smell at Tech Thirsty
  279. Article our stereo smell at HiTech Glitz
  280. Gianluca Riccio's article about Jas work (includes interview quotes with Jas)
  281. Highlight by NewsPicks (japanese)
  282. Article at chizaizukan (japanese)
  283. PSD article on Stereo Smell
  284. Press on our Trigeminal Temperature Illusions for VR (CHI Best Paper 2020)

  285. IEEE Spektrum full article about our Trigeminal Illusions
  286. 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
  287. Article at Hackaday by Dan Maloney
  288. Boing Boing article: Digital synesthesia: Tricking your brain into experiencing smell as temperature in virtual reality
  289. DigitalTrends article on our hot cold illusion
  290. Article by UploadVR
  291. Article by Shiropen / IT media (also known as Seamless, in JP)
  292. InterestingEngineering covers our device
  293. Yahoo Finance covers our device
  294. HackesterIO full article about out device
  295. LabE's full article about out device
  296. VRroom's article on our hot cold illusion
  297. Geekologie article on our hot cold illusion
  298. Selected by Virtual Reality Pulse (link)
  299. N-O-D-E discusses our project and Jas CHI2020 talk
  300. Software Focus covers our work
  301. Free News article
  302. MakeMagazine covers open hardware projects, including our smell device
  303. Lab digital covers our device
  304. Robert Mcgrath's writes an article on their blog discussing our work
  305. Future of Smell covers our paper
  306. XR beat covers our temperature via trigeminal work
  307. VRuse covers our temperature via trigeminal work
  308. WhattsNew covers our temperature via trigeminal work (in ES)
  309. VR Journal covers our temperature via trigeminal work (in RU)
  310. Press on our HandMorph exoskeleton (UIST Best Paper 2020)

  311. Full article about Handmorph at Hackster.io
  312. Full article about Handmorph (Shiropen/ITMedia, japan)
  313. Interview with Jun and Pedro (UchicagoCS)
  314. Article by Futurity
  315. Article about Handmorph by CoolWearable.com
  316. Article about Handmorph by RobotEnthusiast Website
  317. Medium Article by Jun about HandMorph and his other projects
  318. Article about Handmorph by Robotic Gizmos
  319. Press on our EMS-based authentication (work with Heather Zheng and Ben Zhao)

  320. Full article about our EMS-based authentication (Shiropen/ITMedia, japan)
  321. Article by University of Chicago PSD News
  322. Article by Biometric Update
  323. Press on our privacy bracelet (CHI Honorable Mention 2020; work with Heather Zheng and Ben Zhao)

  324. New York Times piece about our jammer
  325. The Atlantic's interview with Mike Pondsmith (creator of Cyberpunk) mentions our wearable jammer
  326. Youtuber Linus Tech features our paper (3:15) in his popular 2024 video about ultrasonic jammers
  327. 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.
  328. Chicago Tribune's article
  329. Mashable article
  330. Engadget article
  331. The Times article
  332. Full article about our wearable jammer (Shiropen/ITMedia, japan)
  333. Slashdot article
  334. Hackaday article about our jammer
  335. Adafruit features our work on their blog
  336. Freethink article about our jammer
  337. hartford courant's article
  338. Futurism article
  339. Techgenyz article
  340. Ycombinator discussion
  341. Daily Mail's article
  342. Reddit discussion
  343. Slashdot article
  344. Times of India article
  345. Input mag article
  346. Ulyces article (In french)
  347. Ubergizmo article
  348. Newsbreak article
  349. Todo Noticias Article (in Argentinian Spanish)
  350. Web Razzi Article (in Turkish)
  351. Yanko Design Article
  352. IoT Report article
  353. Seattle TimesActivate This 'Bracelet of Silence,' and Alexa Can't Eavesdrop
  354. The Mirror UK: Alexa owners can stop her eavesdropping using this 'bracelet of silence'
  355. Yahoo Finance: Ultrasonic bracelet jams the microphones around you
  356. National Law Review: Privacy Fashion: Profit from the Surveillance State
  357. Yahoo News: Activate This 'Bracelet of Silence,' and Alexa Can't Eavesdrop
  358. Business Insider Spain: Crean una pulsera con ultrasonidos que anula los microfonos e impide que las tecnologicas te espien
  359. CNet France: Ce bracelet brouilleur empeche les enceintes connectees de vous ecouter
  360. Paris Match: Un <> pour empecher Siri et Alexa de vous ecouter
  361. CTV News: Tech with Todd, start at 6:10
  362. RFI Podcast (France): Bracelet of Silence
  363. Independent (Ireland): Listen up: Your life is too boring for Alexa to spy on you
  364. Techtudo (Brazil): Pulseira digital bloqueia microfones proximos e evita espionagem
  365. TJournal (Russia): Bracelet of silence: how a pair of scientists came up with a device for suppressing microphones of "smart" speakers
  366. 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
  367. UberGizmo: This Ultrasonic Bracelet Jams Microphones Around You
  368. Jezebel: I Thought Dystopic Fashion Would Be Cuter
  369. UChicago Magazine: A computer science expert on the data privacy crisis
  370. Termometro (Mexico): Crean pulsera con ultrasonidos que impide que las tecnologicas te espien
  371. TechGenyz: 'Bracelet of Silence': A device to jam smart speakers' ability to spy on conversations
  372. Uncrate: ALEXA & SIRI MICROPHONE JAMMING BRACELET
  373. Le Numeriques (France): Ce bracelet empeche les objets connectes et smartphones de vous ecouter
  374. Muy Interesante (Spain): Este 'brazalete del silencio' impide que Alexa te espie
  375. Welt (Germany): Dieses Armband verhindert, dass Alexa und Siri dich belauschen
  376. Sina Tech (China): Scientists Invent "Bracelet of Silence" that can disable surrounding microphones
  377. TechOrange (China): American University Invents "Anti-surveillance" Bracelet, Uses Ultrasonic Signals to Block Smart Speakers and Smartphones
  378. Unwire (Hong Kong): American Researchers Invent Anti-surveillance Bracelet; Uses Ultrasonic Signals to Disrupt Nearby Microphones
  379. Technews (Taiwan): American Researchers Invent Anti-surveillance Bracelet; Uses Ultrasonic Signals to Disrupt Nearby Microphones
  380. Tech Insane Youtube Channel (Hindi): Tech Insane Youtube Channel (Hindi)
  381. Week in Rap Youtube Channel: Week in Rap Youtube Channel
  382. Guardian piece on IoT security mentions our device
  383. Featured on UChicago News: Monday, February 17, 2020
  384. Featured on PSD Academics Newsletter (by PSD Dean Angela Olinto): February 28, 2020
  385. Press on our haptic learning via muscle stimulation work

  386. Full article at Chicago Magazine on our work.
  387. Press on our agency in haptics work

  388. CNBC full feature on our work
  389. Gizmodo (full press article about Preemptive Action)
  390. IEEE Spectrum (full press article about Preemptive Action)
  391. Boing Boing (article about Preemptive Action)
  392. Tech Xplore (full press article about Preemptive Action)
  393. Business Today article about our EMS work with agency
  394. Spektrum (German) article about our agency work
  395. SIGCHI Medium (article by Pedro Lopes about the research questions behind our two 2019 CHI papers)
  396. HiTecher (press article about Preemptive Action)
  397. Medical Gadget (press article about Preemptive Action)
  398. My24 online newspaper (article about Preemptive Action)
  399. MobiGeek (article about Preemptive Action)
  400. UChicago News (full article about agency in EMS, including our Cerebral Cortex and two 2019 CHI papers)
  401. UChicago CS (full article about agency in EMS, including our Cerebral Cortex and two 2019 CHI papers)
  402. Reddit Thread (no research can be complete without people on reddit discussing it!)
  403. Press on our agency in haptics work

  404. UChicago PSD article about our EMS as authentication work (with Ben Zhao and Heather Zheng)
  405. News articles about the lab as a whole

  406. Article about UChicago's 12 CHI 2023 papers (UChicago CS News)
  407. Article by Miranda Redenbaugh about our undergraduate class on electronics/PCB design
  408. We got the ACM CAREER award in 2021! (UChicago CS news article)
  409. We have 7 papers at CHI 2021! (UChicago CS news article)
  410. UChicago Magazine wrote a long feature about our lab, vision and research projects of the first few months
  411. UChicago Short list (alumni, parents, families, and friends) features a story about our lab
  412. UChicagoCS 5 awards at CHI 2020! (includes our best paper award and our honorable mention)
  413. UChicago PSD article about Ada Lovelace Week 2020
  414. Press on our new lab or Pedro joining UChicago or individual awards

  415. Pedro receives the Sloan Fellowship 2022
  416. Crain's article on Michael Franklin's plan for UChicago CS, includes interview with Pedro
  417. UChicago news article about CS Department, includes news about our new lab (and images of our Graduate class)
  418. UChicago CS article about Pedro joining
  419. Scientia Article about Lopes' lab
  420. Academic classes, books, etc that show our work

  421. The book Perspectives on Wearable Enhanced Learning (WELL) by Buchem et al. (published by Springer Nature 2019), mentions our work on EMS!
  422. 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!
  423. DIY/Maker Community using our projects

  424. These folks have made their own openEMSstim and use it in their research
  425. Other assorted press articles

  426. Pedro interviewed by New York Times regarding Kseniia Palin's work on the astonishing typing speed seen on today's phone users
  427. Pedro represents UChicago at CNBC Evolve event in Chicago 2019
  428. Uchicago News (26th Sep 2019) on our demo at CNBC
  429. Uchicago News (26th July 2019) on our EMS for VR work
  430. Uchicago News (12th April 2019) on our workshops at MADD and lab space
  431. UChicago Admissions Tumblr video about our artwork
  432. Press on Pedro's PhD work

  433. Science et Vie Junior Magazine discusses VR Walls on article about "City of the future on 2050"
  434. TechXplore article on VR walls
  435. VR Fittness article about EMS in AR
  436. PC Mag article about EMS in VR
  437. BGR article about Impacto
  438. Microsoft Power User article about EMS in AR
  439. Road to VR article about Impacto
  440. Core77 Article about Metamaterial Mechanisms (led by Alexandra Ion, co-authored also by Pedro)
  441. Techspot article about VR walls
  442. The register article about haptic illusions, featuring Pedro on VR walls, Margaret Koehler, Jake Rubin (from HaptX), Sriram Subramanian and Jan Gugenheimer
  443. H+ magazine article about Pedro's CHI15 papers
  444. 3Dprint magazine article about Trussformer (led by Rob Kovacs, co-authored also by Pedro)
  445. El Diario article about Impacto
  446. Japanese Gizmodo article about VR Walls
  447. VICE article abotu VR walls
  448. realovirtual article about VR walls
  449. Inverse article about our VR walls
  450. Hindu Business discusses developments in VR using our work
  451. TweakTown article about Impacto
  452. Dezeen article about Metamaterial Mechanisms (led by Alexandra Ion, co-authored also by Pedro)
  453. Article by Creative Applications about Muscle Plotter
  454. Article by Creative Applications about Constructable (led by Stefanie Mueller, co-authored also by Pedro)
  455. PhysOrg article on Muscle Propelled Force Feedback
  456. Wired Magazine's article on Constructable (led by Stefanie Mueller, co-authored also y Pedro Lopes)
  457. Pedro demonstrates Ad Infinitum at Science Gallery in Dublin
  458. Digital Trends article about Ad Infinitum
  459. Article by the Irish Times about our artwork
  460. Post by Ars electronica about our work
  461. Article by Creative Applications about Ad Infinitum
  462. Article by Mental floss about our artwork