Tengxiang Zhang

Easily-add battery-free wireless sensors to everyday objects: system implementation and usability study

The trend of IoT brings more and more connected smart devices into our daily lives, which can enable a ubiquitous sensing and interaction experience. However, augmenting many …

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ThermalRing: Gesture and Tag Inputs Enabled by a Thermal Imaging Smart Ring

The heterogeneous and ubiquitous input demands in smart spaces call for an input device that can enable rich and spontaneous interactions. We propose ThermalRing, a thermal imaging …

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MoveVR : Enabling Multiform Force Feedback in Virtual Reality using Household Cleaning Robot

Haptic feedback can significantly enhance the realism and immersiveness of virtual reality (VR) systems. In this paper, we propose MoveVR, a technique that enables realistic, …

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Facilitating Temporal Synchronous Target Selection through User Behavior Modeling

Temporal synchronous target selection is an association-free selection technique: users select a target by generating signals (e.g., finger taps and hand claps) in sync with its …

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FlexTouch: Enabling Large-Scale Interaction Sensing Beyond Touchscreens Using Flexible and Conductive Materials

In this paper, we present FlexTouch, a technique that enables large-scale interaction sensing beyond the spatial constraints of capacitive touchscreens using passive low-cost …

yuntao-wang

Tap-to-Pair: Associating Wireless Devices with Synchronous Tapping

Ad-hoc wireless device pairing enables impromptu interactions in smart spaces, such as resource sharing and remote control. The pairing experience is mainly determined by the …

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TouchPower: Interaction-Based Power Transfer for Power-as-Needed Devices

The trend toward ubiquitous deployment of electronic devices demands novel low maintenance power schemes to decrease the burden of maintaining such a large number of devices. In …

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BitID: Easily Add Battery-Free Wireless Sensors to Everyday Objects

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are becoming increasingly used within smart environments. In this paper, we propose BitID, a passive Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) RFID …

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