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Selected papers
MorphingSkin: A Skin-like Platform that Integrates Multimodal Hydraulic Actuators Based on Flexible Electroosmotic Pumps
Tianyu Yu, Peisheng He, Bob Tianqi Wei, Chenyuheng Wang, Xueqing Li, Xuezhu Wang, Yao Lu, Wei Yue, Megan Teng, Zihan Wang, Liwei Lin, Haipeng Mi, Qi Lu, Lining Yao. Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST ’25)
🏆 Best Paper Award
A Card-based Co-Design Toolkit for Exploring Smart Material Applications with Multiple Stakeholders: A Case Study on Automotive Interior Design
Tianyu Yu, Xuezhu Wang*, Yao Lu*(equally contribute), Kejin Yu, Xiwen Yao, Wenjing Deng, Zhiyu Li, Xueqing Li, Xiao Xue, Yue Yang, Yijie Guo, Yuan Yao, Guanhong Liu, Haipeng Mi. Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (ACM DIS ’25)
Thermochromorph: Dynamic Relief Printing with Thermochromic Inks
Ticha Sethapakdi, Paris Myers, Tianyu Yu, Juliana Covarrubias, Mackenzie Leake, Stefanie Mueller. SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Art Papers (ACM SA Art Papers ’24)
Sustainflatable: Harvesting, Storing and Utilizing Ambient Energy for Pneumatic Shape-changing Interfaces.
Qiuyu Lu, Tianyu Yu, Semina Yi, Yuran Ding, Haipeng Mi, Lining Yao. Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (ACM UIST ’23)
🏅️ Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
Thermotion: Design and Fabrication Design and Fabrication of Thermofluidic Composites for Animation Effects on Object Surfaces.
Tianyu Yu, Weiye Xu, Haiqing Xu, Guanhong Liu, Chang Liu, Guanyun Wang, Haipeng Mi. Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI ’23)
Tactile Compass: Enabling Visually Impaired People to Follow a Path with Continuous Directional Feedback
Guanhong Liu*, Tianyu Yu*(equally contribute), Chun Yu, Haiqing Xu, Shuchang Xu, Ciyuan Yang, Feng Wang, Haipeng Mi, and Yuanchun Shi. Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI ’21)
LightGuide: Directing Visually Impaired People along a Path Using Light Cues
Ciyuan Yang*, Shuchang Xu*(equally contribute), Tianyu Yu, Guanhong Liu, Chun Yu, and Yuanchun Shi. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. (ACM IMWUT ’21)
Venous Materials: Towards Interactive Fluidic Mechanisms
Hila Mor, Tianyu Yu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, and Hiroshi Ishii. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI ’20)
Demo and workshop
FlexEOP: Flexible Shape-changing Actuator using Embedded Electroosmotic Pumps
Tianyu Yu, Yang Liu, Yujia Liu, Qiuyu Lu, Teng Han, and Haipeng Mi. Adjunct Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’24 Adjunct) | DOI
Thermaterial: Program Ambient Heat Transfer Behaviors on Objects through Fluidic Composites.
Tianyu Yu, Yige Fan, Zhixiang Zhang, Qingyu Hu, Weiye Xu, Haipeng Mi, Stefanie Mueller. Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24) | Project page | DOI
Demonstrating Sustainflatable: Harvesting, Storing and Utilizing Ambient Energy for Pneumatic Morphing Interfaces
Qiuyu Lu, Semina Yi, Tianyu Yu, Yuran Ding, Haipeng Mi, and Lining Yao. Adjunct Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’23 Adjunct) | DOI
Demonstrating Thermotion: Design and Fabrication of Thermofluidic Composites for Animation Effects on Object Surfaces
Tianyu Yu, Weiye Xu, Haiqing Xu, Guanhong Liu, Chang Liu, Guanyun Wang, Haipeng Mi. Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23) | DOI
Prototyping Interactive Fluidic Mechanisms
Hila Mor, Ken Nakagaki, Tianyu Yu, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, and Hiroshi Ishii. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’20) | DOI
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