Publication

Design and Simulation Tool for Sequentially and Conditionally Programmable Waxpaper Morphing Interfaces.

Emily Guan, Di Wu, Qiuyu Lu, and Lining Yao. 2024. In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '24).

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Waxpaper Actuator: Sequentially and Conditionally Programmable Wax Paper for Morphing Interfaces.

Di Wu, Emily Guan, Yunjia Zhang, Hsuanju Lai, Qiuyu Lu, and Lining Yao. 2024. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24)

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Fold It: Creating Foldable 3D Volumes From Planar 2D Surfaces.

Emily Guan and Yibo Fu. 2023. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF '23).

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Under Review

Drop-to-deploy Mechanism with Bistable Cap and Scissors Structures [title modified to ensure blind review]

Anonymous Authors. Under Review for CHI ‘25

This is a new class of deployable structures that harness the locomotion of a single bistable cap to drive the expansion of attached scissor mechanism structures.

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Lightweight Wristband for Sensing Micro-gesture [title modified to ensure blind review]

Anonymous Authors. Under Review for CHI ‘25

This is a lightweight wrist-worn electrical impedance sensing device for micro-gesture recognition and continuous pinch force estimation.

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Portable Reprogrammer for Photochromic Material [title modified to ensure blind review]

Anonymous Authors. Under Review for CHI ‘25

This is a handheld surface reprogrammer that creates high-resolution images by stamping on reprogrammable photochromic surfaces.

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Personal / On-going Projects

Morphology

Morphology is the study of form, pattern, and geometry found in nature, which may inspire human-made structures to become stronger, more efficient, and more sustainable. I took an interest in minimum surfaces, studying ways to aggregate and morph them.

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X-Bamboo

Deployable Reed Structure for emergency shelter

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