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. Fox32 interview with Pedro about Sloan Fellowship Award 2022
  2. Our work on integrating living organisms inside of interactive devices (Jasmine Lu) is discussed on Live TV ("3 BRILLIANT MINUTES: Unusual but true news")
  3. CBS exclusive with Kim Stenger, 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
  4. Interview with Jasmine Lu and Jas Brooks at the Podcast "Haptics Club"
  5. Interview with Jasmine Lu about Chemical Haptics for ABC, on the Podcast Future Tense with Antony Funnell
  6. BYU radio interviews Jas on trigeminal stereo-smell!
  7. 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)
  8. BBC Click did a live piece about our our Wearable Microphone Jammer
  9. TV Show, Planète Techno talked about our Wearable Microphone Jammer
  10. Fox 32 Chicago talked about our Wearable Microphone Jammer
  11. NHK (Japan) covered our Preemptive Action work live on TV
  12. TV Show, Voice of America (interview with Jun about HandMorph)
  13. TV Asahi in Japan covers our preemptive action work (film crew came to lab)
  14. Peter Joosten interviews Pedro about to the ACM Augmented Humans 2021 conference, on which Pedro was the general co-chair
  15. Interview with Pedro Lopes on using muscle stimulation for virtual reality by HPI-Digitalblog (filmed at UIST conference)
  16. Pedro's keynote at NODE'15 on Human Computer Integration

    17. Written interviews with us

  17. Interview with Pedro, Jasmine, Shan-Yuan and Romain about our 3-day wearable workshop for high schoolers from Chicago Public Schools
  18. Interview with Jas Brooks about their olfactory interfaces work (by SlowDown TV)
  19. Article and Interview with lead author Jasmine Lu, by Cassidy Ward for SyFy
  20. 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
  21. Interview with Jas Brooks about LGBTQ+ people's struggle in science & technology and their work on chemical interfaces, olfactory research, and more!
  22. Short interview/blurb for Technical University of Lisbon (Pedro's alma mater) about Sloan Fellowship Award
  23. Short interview/blurb for Hasso Plattner Institute (Pedro's PhD alma mater) about Sloan Fellowship Award
  24. 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)
  25. Interview with Jun and Pedro for UchicagoCS
  26. Crain's article on Michael Franklin's plan for UChicago CS, includes interview with Pedro
  27. Interview with Pedro about his PhD Thesis Award from the University of Potsdam, Germany

    28. World records (apparently we made the Guiness book twice!)

  28. DextrEMS was considered the most precise bionic hand controller (for output, i.e., moving individual fingers) by experts at the Guiness World Records
  29. Our Preemptive Action work was considered the "Fastest artificially-assisted reaction times" by experts at the Guiness World Records

    30. Press on our Haptic Intervention (Ubicomp 2023, collaboration with Tanzeem Choudhury at Cornell)

  30. Article on New Atlas by Ben Coxworth about our work

    31. Press on our Interactive Devices Integrated with Living Organisms (UIST 2022, by Jasmine Lu)

  31. Article on Forbes Magazine by Jennifer Kite-Powell about our work
  32. Full article by Cassidy Ward (includes interview with Jasmine Lu and Pedro Lopes)
  33. Our work is discussed on Live TV (WBAY) by reporter Brad Spakowitz for the segment "3 BRILLIANT MINUTES: Unusual but true news"
  34. Full article by Nick Bild for HacksterIO
  35. Full article by Andrew Liszewski for Gizmodo
  36. 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
  37. Article at Futurity (using Cassandra Belek's article)
  38. David Pescovitz wrote about our work for Boinb Boing
  39. Full article by Yuki Yamashita for ITMedia / Shiropen
  40. Full article by Arya Voronova for Hackaday
  41. Our work was featured in the Newsletter of the Artificial Life journal (Nov 2022 edition)
  42. Article by Tech Explore
  43. Article on Uchicago News
  44. Article at Futurism about by Frank Landymore
  45. Global News shares our work
  46. Article on Yahoo News
  47. Article on Uchicago CS News by Rob Mitchum
  48. Article about our work at Tech-e-Blog
  49. ">Article about our work at News8
  50. Article by Tim Hayes for healthcare+
  51. Article about our work at World Energy
  52. Article at GovTech
  53. We love seeing some people discussing our work at Hacker News
  54. Article at Arena Pública (in Spanish)
  55. Article for PlayTech by Ozana Mazilu (in Romanian)
  56. Article by Malik Habchi for L'Usine Nouvelle (in French)
  57. Article by Nathalie Kleczinski for Neo Zone (in French)
  58. Article by Gustavo Minari for Terra (in Portuguese)
  59. Article by Emre Rona / Translation: Deniz Candaş for Kurious Magazine
  60. Article at Gadget Advisor
  61. Featured on "Mind Blowing Science"
  62. A user board of discussions about our work on MetaFilter's community forum
  63. Article by Rupendra Brahambhatt for ZME
  64. Article by Nidhi Goyal for Industry Tap
  65. Article by Eleanor Higgs for IFL science

    66. Press on our Harvesting Kinetic Energy to Prolong VR Haptics (UIST 2022)

  66. Ashley Huffman discusses our work on the "All Tings Haptics"

    67. Press on our Integrating Distractions in VR (UIST 2022)

  67. Full article on Livewire (By Sascha Brodsky) including quotes from Pedro

    68. Press on our Electrical Head Actuation (CHI 2022)

  68. Full article by Paul Marks (includes interview with Yudai Tanaka)
  69. Full article by Cassidy Ward (includes interview with Yudai Tanaka and Pedro Lopes)
  70. Full article by Bobby Carlton for VRScout (includes interview with Yudai Tanaka)
  71. Article in Gizmodo by Andrew Liszewski
  72. Our CHI22 talk is featured on Adafruit
  73. Article in Tech News Crypt

    74. Press on our Stretchable Sensor (Science Advances 2021, led by Sihong Wang at PME and his wonderful team)

  74. Full article by Emily Ayshford for UChicago News including quotes from Sihong

    75. Press on our Chemical Haptics (UIST 2021)

  75. Full article by Victoria Woollaston about Chemical Haptics for NewScientist (includes quotes from Jasmine Lu)
  77. Interview with Jasmine Lu about Chemical Haptics for ABC, on the Podcast Future Tense with Antony Funnell
  78. Full article by Andrew Liszewski for Gizmodo
  79. Piece on "A Revolution in Haptics" for the Communications of the ACM, by Paul Marks, featuring Chemical Haptics!
  80. TechLinked covers Chemical Haptics on their channel (video has >500K views)
  81. Youtuber Steve Knows covers Chemical Haptics on their channel (video >15k views)
  82. Article and Interview with lead author Jasmine Lu, by Cassidy Ward for SyFy
  83. Full article by Rob Thubron for TechSpot
  84. SIG CHI newslatter highlights chemical haptics!
  85. Full article by David Matthews for Digital Trends
  86. Article at Tech News Inc.
  87. Full article by Cabe Caldwell for HacksterIO
  88. article by Nadeem Sarwar for Screen Rant
  89. Article by Matthew Hart for Nerdist's Science and Tech features
  90. Article from 3Neel
  91. Article at FleflyNews
  92. Article at Tech To See
  93. Article from Feedy News
  94. Article at Hi Tech Glitz
  95. Article at GeniusShark
  96. Article at Nerd Shala
  97. Article at Greeley Tribune
  98. Full article about Chemical Haptics from Nicola Dixon at ProGamer
  99. PC gamer features an article on Chemical Haptics
  100. Full article about Chemical Haptics from the Hindu Business Tech
  101. Full article about Chemical Haptics from Mixed Reality website (in German)
  102. Full article at the Halal Times
  103. Article about our Chemical Haptics from the UIST Medium Blog
  104. Chemical Haptics featured in the Haptics Newsletter

    105. Press on our DextrEMS work (UIST 2021, Best Demo Award People's Choice)

  105. Full article at Hackaday on our DextrEMS exoskeleton
  106. Full article at QR code Press on our DextrEMS exoskeleton's potential for sign language
  107. Full article by Nick Bild for HacksterIO on our DextrEMS exoskeleton
  108. Full article by IT Media News (JP) on our DextrEMS exoskeleton
  109. Full article on our DextrEMS exoskeleton
  110. Article on MyScience<
  111. CS news article about our DextrEMS exoskeleton

    112. Press on our Altering Softness work (UIST 2022, Best Paper Award, Best Demo Award Jury)

  112. Full article by Nick Bild for HacksterIO on our wearable that alters touch perception
  113. UChicago CS article on our work

    114. Press on our Touch and Fold work (CHI 2021, Honorable Mention Award, by Shan-Yuan Teng)

  114. Full article about our Touch and Fold device from HacksterIO
  115. Full article about our Touch and Fold device from ElectronicsLab
  116. PRNewswire adds our device to the overview of SIGGRAPH21 demos to come
  117. Computer Graphics World adds our device to the highlights/preview of SIGGRAPH21
  118. PSD article on Touch and Fold

    119. Press on our Elevate work (CHI 2021, in collaboration with Andrea Bianchi's group at KAIST)

  119. Full article about our work at the Arduino News Blog
  120. Article about our work at the ACM Interactions Magazine
  121. Article about our work at DevStyler

    122. Press on our MagnetIO work (CHI 2021 by Alex Mazursky)

  122. Article about MagnetIO by HacksterIO
  123. Auror Design writes a blog post about our work (in japanese)

    124. Press on our Electrical Stereo Smell work (CHI 2021, by Jas Brooks)

  124. 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
  125. Full article about our stereo smell on IEEE Spektrum
  126. 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)
  127. Full article about our stereo smell at Hackster.io
  128. 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!)
  129. Full article (in japanese) by IT Media
  130. BYU radio interviews Jas on trigeminal stereo-smell!
  131. Full article our stereo smell at Digital Trends
  132. Full article our stereo smell at BoingBoing
  133. Full article our stereo smell at Tech Thirsty
  134. Article our stereo smell at HiTech Glitz
  135. Highlight by NewsPicks (japanese)
  136. PSD article on Stereo Smell

    137. Press on our Trigeminal Temperature Illusions for VR (CHI Best Paper 2020)

  137. IEEE Spektrum full article about our Trigeminal Illusions
  138. 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
  139. Boing Boing article: Digital synesthesia: Tricking your brain into experiencing smell as temperature in virtual reality
  140. DigitalTrends article on our hot cold illusion
  141. Article by UploadVR
  142. Article by Shiropen / IT media (also known as Seamless, in JP)
  143. InterestingEngineering covers our device
  144. Yahoo Finance covers our device
  145. HackesterIO full article about out device
  146. LabE's full article about out device
  147. VRroom's article on our hot cold illusion
  148. Geekologie article on our hot cold illusion
  149. Selected by Virtual Reality Pulse (link)
  150. N-O-D-E discusses our project and Jas CHI2020 talk
  151. Software Focus covers our work
  152. Free News article
  153. MakeMagazine covers open hardware projects, including our smell device
  154. Lab digital covers our device
  155. Robert Mcgrath's writes an article on their blog discussing our work
  156. Future of Smell covers our paper
  157. XR beat covers our temperature via trigeminal work
  158. VRuse covers our temperature via trigeminal work
  159. WhattsNew covers our temperature via trigeminal work (in ES)
  160. VR Journal covers our temperature via trigeminal work (in RU)

    161. Press on our HandMorph exoskeleton (UIST Best Paper 2020)

  161. Full article about Handmorph at Hackster.io
  162. Full article about Handmorph (Shiropen/ITMedia, japan)
  163. Interview with Jun and Pedro (UchicagoCS)
  164. Article by Futurity
  165. Article about Handmorph by CoolWearable.com
  166. Article about Handmorph by RobotEnthusiast Website
  167. Medium Article by Jun about HandMorph and his other projects
  168. Article about Handmorph by Robotic Gizmos

    169. Press on our EMS-based authentication (work with Heather Zheng and Ben Zhao)

  169. Full article about our EMS-based authentication (Shiropen/ITMedia, japan)
  170. Article by University of Chicago PSD News
  171. Article by Biometric Update

    172. Press on our privacy bracelet (CHI Honorable Mention 2020; work with Heather Zheng and Ben Zhao)

  172. New York Times piece about our jammer
  173. The Atlantic's interview with Mike Pondsmith (creator of Cyberpunk) mentions our wearable jammer
  174. 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.
  175. Chicago Tribune's article
  176. Mashable article
  177. Engadget article
  178. The Times article
  179. Full article about our wearable jammer (Shiropen/ITMedia, japan)
  180. Slashdot article
  181. Hackaday article about our jammer
  182. Adafruit features our work on their blog
  183. Freethink article about our jammer
  184. hartford courant's article
  185. Futurism article
  186. Techgenyz article
  187. Ycombinator discussion
  188. Daily Mail's article
  189. Reddit discussion
  190. Slashdot article
  191. Times of India article
  192. Input mag article
  193. Ulyces article (In french)
  194. Ubergizmo article
  195. Newsbreak article
  196. Todo Noticias Article (in Argentinian Spanish)
  197. Web Razzi Article (in Turkish)
  198. Yanko Design Article
  199. IoT Report article
  200. Seattle TimesActivate This 'Bracelet of Silence,' and Alexa Can't Eavesdrop
  201. The Mirror UK: Alexa owners can stop her eavesdropping using this 'bracelet of silence'
  202. Yahoo Finance: Ultrasonic bracelet jams the microphones around you
  203. National Law Review: Privacy Fashion: Profit from the Surveillance State
  204. Yahoo News: Activate This 'Bracelet of Silence,' and Alexa Can't Eavesdrop
  205. Business Insider Spain: Crean una pulsera con ultrasonidos que anula los microfonos e impide que las tecnologicas te espien
  206. CNet France: Ce bracelet brouilleur empeche les enceintes connectees de vous ecouter
  207. Paris Match: Un <> pour empecher Siri et Alexa de vous ecouter
  208. CTV News: Tech with Todd, start at 6:10
  209. RFI Podcast (France): Bracelet of Silence
  210. Independent (Ireland): Listen up: Your life is too boring for Alexa to spy on you
  211. Techtudo (Brazil): Pulseira digital bloqueia microfones proximos e evita espionagem
  212. TJournal (Russia): Bracelet of silence: how a pair of scientists came up with a device for suppressing microphones of "smart" speakers
  213. 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
  214. UberGizmo: This Ultrasonic Bracelet Jams Microphones Around You
  215. Jezebel: I Thought Dystopic Fashion Would Be Cuter
  216. UChicago Magazine: A computer science expert on the data privacy crisis
  217. Termometro (Mexico): Crean pulsera con ultrasonidos que impide que las tecnologicas te espien
  218. TechGenyz: 'Bracelet of Silence': A device to jam smart speakers' ability to spy on conversations
  219. Uncrate: ALEXA & SIRI MICROPHONE JAMMING BRACELET
  220. Le Numeriques (France): Ce bracelet empeche les objets connectes et smartphones de vous ecouter
  221. Muy Interesante (Spain): Este 'brazalete del silencio' impide que Alexa te espie
  222. Welt (Germany): Dieses Armband verhindert, dass Alexa und Siri dich belauschen
  223. Sina Tech (China): Scientists Invent "Bracelet of Silence" that can disable surrounding microphones
  224. TechOrange (China): American University Invents "Anti-surveillance" Bracelet, Uses Ultrasonic Signals to Block Smart Speakers and Smartphones
  225. Unwire (Hong Kong): American Researchers Invent Anti-surveillance Bracelet; Uses Ultrasonic Signals to Disrupt Nearby Microphones
  226. Technews (Taiwan): American Researchers Invent Anti-surveillance Bracelet; Uses Ultrasonic Signals to Disrupt Nearby Microphones
  227. Tech Insane Youtube Channel (Hindi): Tech Insane Youtube Channel (Hindi)
  228. Week in Rap Youtube Channel: Week in Rap Youtube Channel
  229. Guardian piece on IoT security mentions our device
  230. Featured on UChicago News: Monday, February 17, 2020
  231. Featured on PSD Academics Newsletter (by PSD Dean Angela Olinto): February 28, 2020

    232. Press on our haptic learning via muscle stimulation work

  232. Full article at Chicago Magazine on our work.

    233. Press on our agency in haptics work

  233. CNBC full feature on our work
  234. Gizmodo (full press article about Preemptive Action)
  235. IEEE Spectrum (full press article about Preemptive Action)
  236. Boing Boing (article about Preemptive Action)
  237. Tech Xplore (full press article about Preemptive Action)
  238. Business Today article about our EMS work with agency
  239. Spektrum (German) article about our agency work
  240. SIGCHI Medium (article by Pedro Lopes about the research questions behind our two 2019 CHI papers)
  241. HiTecher (press article about Preemptive Action)
  242. Medical Gadget (press article about Preemptive Action)
  243. My24 online newspaper (article about Preemptive Action)
  244. MobiGeek (article about Preemptive Action)
  245. UChicago News (full article about agency in EMS, including our Cerebral Cortex and two 2019 CHI papers)
  246. UChicago CS (full article about agency in EMS, including our Cerebral Cortex and two 2019 CHI papers)
  247. Reddit Thread (no research can be complete without people on reddit discussing it!)

    248. Press on our agency in haptics work

  248. UChicago PSD article about our EMS as authentication work (with Ben Zhao and Heather Zheng)

    249. News articles about the lab as a whole

  249. We got the ACM CAREER award in 2021! (UChicago CS news article)
  250. We have 7 papers at CHI 2021! (UChicago CS news article)
  251. UChicago Magazine wrote a long feature about our lab, vision and research projects of the first few months
  252. UChicago Short list (alumni, parents, families, and friends) features a story about our lab
  253. UChicagoCS 5 awards at CHI 2020! (includes our best paper award and our honorable mention)
  254. UChicago PSD article about Ada Lovelace Week 2020

    255. Press on our new lab or Pedro joining UChicago or individual awards

  255. Pedro receives the Sloan Fellowship 2022
  256. Crain's article on Michael Franklin's plan for UChicago CS, includes interview with Pedro
  257. UChicago news article about CS Department, includes news about our new lab (and images of our Graduate class)
  258. UChicago CS article about Pedro joining
  259. Scientia Article about Lopes' lab

    260. Academic classes, books, etc that show our work

  260. The book Perspectives on Wearable Enhanced Learning (WELL) by Buchem et al. (published by Springer Nature 2019), mentions our work on EMS!
  261. 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!

    262. DIY/Maker Community using our projects

  262. These folks have made their own openEMSstim and use it in their research

    263. Other assorted press articles

  263. Pedro interviewed by New York Times regarding Kseniia Palin's work on the astonishing typing speed seen on today's phone users
  264. Pedro represents UChicago at CNBC Evolve event in Chicago 2019
  265. Uchicago News (26th Sep 2019) on our demo at CNBC
  266. Uchicago News (26th July 2019) on our EMS for VR work
  267. Uchicago News (12th April 2019) on our workshops at MADD and lab space
  268. UChicago Admissions Tumblr video about our artwork

    269. Press on Pedro's PhD work

  269. Science et Vie Junior Magazine discusses VR Walls on article about "City of the future on 2050"
  270. TechXplore article on VR walls
  271. VR Fittness article about EMS in AR
  272. PC Mag article about EMS in VR
  273. BGR article about Impacto
  274. Microsoft Power User article about EMS in AR
  275. Road to VR article about Impacto
  276. Core77 Article about Metamaterial Mechanisms (led by Alexandra Ion, co-authored also by Pedro)
  277. Techspot article about VR walls
  278. The register article about haptic illusions, featuring Pedro on VR walls, Margaret Koehler, Jake Rubin (from HaptX), Sriram Subramanian and Jan Gugenheimer
  279. H+ magazine article about Pedro's CHI15 papers
  280. 3Dprint magazine article about Trussformer (led by Rob Kovacs, co-authored also by Pedro)
  281. El Diario article about Impacto
  282. Japanese Gizmodo article about VR Walls
  283. VICE article abotu VR walls
  284. realovirtual article about VR walls
  285. Inverse article about our VR walls
  286. Hindu Business discusses developments in VR using our work
  287. TweakTown article about Impacto
  288. Dezeen article about Metamaterial Mechanisms (led by Alexandra Ion, co-authored also by Pedro)
  289. Article by Creative Applications about Muscle Plotter
  290. Article by Creative Applications about Constructable (led by Stefanie Mueller, co-authored also by Pedro)
  291. PhysOrg article on Muscle Propelled Force Feedback
  292. Wired Magazine's article on Constructable (led by Stefanie Mueller, co-authored also y Pedro Lopes)
  293. Pedro demonstrates Ad Infinitum at Science Gallery in Dublin
  294. Digital Trends article about Ad Infinitum
  295. Article by the Irish Times about our artwork
  296. Post by Ars electronica about our work
  297. Article by Creative Applications about Ad Infinitum
  298. Article by Mental floss about our artwork