Yuanchun Shi

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 …

tengxiang-zhang

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 …

tengxiang-zhang

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 …

tengxiang-zhang

ViVo: Video-Augmented Dictionary for Vocabulary Learning

Research on Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has shown that the use of multimedia materials such as images and videos can facilitate interpretation and memorization of …

yeshuang-zhu

Float: One-Handed and Touch-Free Target Selection on Smartwatches

Touch interaction on smartwatches suffers from the awkwardness of having to use two hands and the \"fat finger\" problem. We present Float, a wrist-to-finger input approach that …

ke-sun

SkinMotion: What Does Skin Movement Tell Us?

With the increasing popularity of wearable computing, emerging techniques allow novel interaction modalities to be transferred from portable devices to the human body itself. One …

yuntao-wang

BodyRC: Exploring Interaction Modalities Using Human Body as Lossy Signal Transmission Medium

With the increasing popularity of wearable computing devices, new sensing techniques that enable always-available interaction are highly demanded. In this paper, we propose Body …

yuntao-wang

FOCUS: Enhancing Children’s Engagement in Reading by Using Contextual BCI Training Sessions

Reading is an important aspect of a child's development. Reading outcome is heavily dependent on the level of engagement while reading. In this paper, we present FOCUS, an …

jin-huang

Defining and Analyzing a Gesture Set for Interactive TV Remote on Touchscreen Phones

In this paper, we recruited 20 participants preforming user-defined gestures on a touch screen phone for 22 TV remote commands. Totally 440 gestures were recorded, analyzed and …

yuntao-wang

Understanding Performance of Eyes-Free, Absolute Position Control on Touchable Mobile Phones

Many eyes-free interaction techniques have been proposed for touchscreens, but few researches have studied human's eyes-free pointing ability on mobile phones. In this research, we …

yuntao-wang