Human Computer Integration Lab

Computer Science Department, University of Chicago


News about our lab (a long list below)

  • Mar 21 2025

    (update: this course is sold out) Yudai & Pedro are teaching a hands-on course/tutorial at CHI 2025 on Electrical Stimulation (includes hands-on experience with hardware). Register for our course.

  • Feb 25 2025

    Jasmine Lu receives SIGCHI Special Recognition "for pioneering research in ecological HCI through novel hardware interfaces and fostering communities around sustainable computing." See all 2025 awards from SIGCHI.

  • Feb 9 2025

    PBS/WTTW interview with Pedro Lopes, Yun Ho and Yudai Tanaka about how computers will integrate with our bodies—includes live demo of muscle stimulation. Watch it.

  • Jan 7 2025

    Gene Kim (Stanford, our collaborator in summer) received the CRA Outstanding Undergrad Award Check the winners.

  • Nov 22 2024

    Welcoming the recent technical HCI hires in Chicagoland: Karan, Craig, Nivedita, and Ken—joint lab lunch & boba!

  • Oct 16 2024

    Honorable Mention Award for our Source-Effector Demo at UIST 2024—Jury's choice. This demo was done by PhD student Yudai, undergrdad Jacob and star-high school student Hunter! Check out the video of this paper.

  • Sep 28 2024

    Pedro gave a keynote at VR Summit, arguing that VR's "Ultimate Display" will need integration with human body. Watch the keynote.

  • Jul 4 2024

    Jasmine Lu is presenting our newest work on plant actuators, in behalf of Yuhan Hu (1st author)—work done in collaboration with Guy Hoffman's lab at Cornell. Check out the HRC2's lab work.

  • Jul 1 2024

    Summer friends welcome: Gang Yu (Tsinghua), Gene Sung-Ho Kim (Stanford), Rishi Boddu (Berkeley), Kim Woosang (UEC Tokyo), Zed Liu (PennState), Archit Tamhane (highschool!), Kensuke Katori (UTsukuba).

  • Jun 15 2024

    Romain is working at Meta this summer!

  • May 21 2024

    Kentaro Yasu (NTT) and Kim (!) were visiting the lab

  • May 3 2024

    Jasmine presents ecoEDA at the Open Hardware summit in Montreal! Watch her talk!

  • Apr 15 2024

    Jasmine and Pedro participating in NSF Sustainability in Computing workshop

  • Apr 5 2024

    UIST has received over 600 submissions—an all time record (Pedro is UIST's paper co-chair, and Jasmine and Yudai are helping!) Check out UIST.

  • Jan 4 2024

    Jacob received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (URA)! Check out Jacob's work!

  • Nov 17 2023

    Shan-Yuan passed his PhD candidacy, with Prof. Sean Follmer (Stanford) and Prof. Ken Nakagaki on the committee. Check his work here.

  • Nov 9 2023

    Jas is part of the EECS rising stars 2023 which takes place in Georgia Tech. See the full cohort.

  • Sep 29 2023

    Happy + sad day: Alan Shen + Antonin Cheymol just finished their stay with us, but also our colleague Jin Ryong Kim (UTDallas) is visiting, lots to celebrate over food! Check out Jin Ryong's work.

  • Apr 22 2023

    Jas is running the "Smell Taste and Temperature" workshop at CHI. See the workshop.

  • Mar 17 2023

    Pedro gave a talk at the CS dep. about the last 4 years of the lab's work.

  • Mar 7 2023

    VR game night!

  • Feb 23 2023

    Printed Circuit Boards class is over, incredible final demos! Class info here.

  • Feb 6 2023

    New paper with Yiran Zhao, Yujie Tao & Tanzeem Choudhury (Cornell) at Ubicomp 2023 on haptic interventions. Read our paper.

  • Feb 3 2023

    Four papers accepted to CHI 2023, see you in Hamburg! here

  • Nov 22 2022

    Thanksgiving potluck!

  • Sep 6 2022

    Apparently we made the Guiness world records with DextrEMS (world's most precise bionic hand controller) and Preemptive Action (world's fastest assisted reaction time!) Check out the Guiness World Records.

  • Jul 5 2022

    Jasmine Lu was interviewed about Chemical Haptics by ABC for the Podcast Future Tense with Antony Funnell Listen!

  • May 5 2022

    Yudai Tanaka wins Best Demo Award (people's choice) at CHI 2022 Watch the video.

  • Apr 19 2022

    Hard to say goodbye to three students, but they are going to amazing places: Arata Jingu (PhD at Saarland), Yujie Tao (PhD at Stanford), Joyce Passananti (PhD at UCSB)! Goodbye! here

  • Apr 5 2022

    Article about Chemical Haptics (Jasmine, Zoe & Jas) at NewScientist (also picked up by SIGCHI news) Read it (sadly, paywall).

  • Mar 24 2022

    Article about our Elevate (CHI2021 paper with collaborators from KAIST) is out on the ACM Interactions magazine. Read it.

  • Mar 23 2022

    Pedro and Shan-Yuan organized the "Integrating Wearable Haptics with Real-World Touch Interactions" cross-cutting challenges at IEEE Haptics Symposium 2022, with keynotes by Mar Gonzalez (MSR), David Parisi (CoC) and Allison Okamura (Stanford). Watch the session.

  • Feb 15 2022

    We just kickstarted our guest talk series (HCI x Neuro), featuring John Veillette, Sliman Bensmaia, Peggy Mason, David Freedman and Jakub Limanowski! Check it.

  • Feb 1 2022

    Pedro gives distinguished talk at Accenture and Boston University Watch the talk!

  • Dec 20 2021

    Arata Jingu (UTokyo) is here for his in-person internship! ようこそ! here

  • Nov 8 2021

    Jasmine wrapped up a 2 part skillshare with the lab on how to grow slime mold.

  • Sep 28 2021

    Yudai gave an inspiring skill share! Thanks Yudai!

  • Sep 26 2021

    Jasmine Lu is the lead editor on ACM XRDS magazine's issue "Is Computing Toxic?" Read XRDS!

  • Sep 26 2021

    Jas & co-authors receive an Honorable Mention for "best experimental design of 2021" on our stereo-small work at Fast Company 2021 Innovation by Design Awards Check out the awardees!

  • Sep 23 2021

    Pedro is speaking at the Assistive Augmentation Symposium (apropos 10th anniversity of Augmented Human Lab) Watch Pedro's talk.

  • Sep 18 2021

    Jasmine is presenting Chemical Haptics at the Midwest Women in Science Conference Check out the program!

  • Sep 12 2021

    Pedro is speaking at U of Calgary & Advanced Technology Seminar at Sony here

  • Sep 6 2021

    Summer was so much fun with Boris, Jacqueline, Andy, and Mehreen! We miss you all! here

  • Aug 9 2021

    We have two demos accepted at SIGGRAPH21's Emergent Technologies (Touch and Fold by Shan-Yuan and MagnetIO by Alex) Check out the eTech program!

  • Jul 27 2021

    Jun is giving an invited seminar at the Empathic Computing Lab (Mark Billinghurst)! Check out Jun's work.

  • Jun 22 2021

    Andy is giving a skill share today!

  • Jun 12 2021

    Yujie will spend the summer with Tanzeem Choudhury at Cornell Tech, so we had our first post-covid goodbye lunch! (Also special guest Alan Shen who is already in chicago and will join us in the fall!) Check out Yujie's work.

  • May 25 2021

    Summer line up for Uchicago club is out, including Noura Howell, Roshan Peiris, Katia Vega, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Thijs Roumen and Mirela Alistar! Check all our guests and talks.

  • May 19 2021

    1st post-covid lab hangout by the lake (with special guest Ken Nakagaki too!)

  • Feb 12 2021

    We have 7 accepted papers at CHI 2021; pre-prints coming soon! Excited for CHI21.

  • Feb 2 2021

    Elevate video is out, this is a walkable pin-array for large shape-changing terrains (coming up at CHI21, a project by MAKinteract lab at KAIST in collab with our lab). Click to watch video.

  • Jan 11 2021

    Lab secret santa was a lot of fun!

  • Jan 4 2021

    Joyce, Arjun and Antony join the lab, welcome!

  • Dec 16 2020

    Jun wins Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship (only four awarded) at UChicago! Learn more about Jun.

  • Dec 15 2020

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

  • Nov 30 2020

    Hiroshi Ishii (MIT Media Lab) Distinguished HCI Lecture at UChicago! Watch the keynote.

  • Oct 29 2020

    Tanzeem Choudhury (Cornell) Distinguished HCI Lecture at UChicago! More info.

  • Oct 26 2020

    Karrie Karahalios (UIUC) Distinguished HCI Lecture at UChicago! More info.

  • Oct 22 2020

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

  • Oct 21 2020

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

  • Oct 19 2020

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

  • Oct 1 2020

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

  • Oct 14 2020

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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). See all talks.

  • May 26 2020

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

  • 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). Watch!

  • May 7 2020

    CHI2020 viewing party online.

  • April 28 2020

    First ever UChicago HCI CLUB! Topic: what makes a good thesis! More info.

  • April 16 2020

    Tea Time: Lab hangout!

  • 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 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. 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 24 2019

    Jun and Pedro demo at CNBC! Watch video.

  • 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).

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