Zhihan Zhang

Circuit2Yarn: From Planar Circuits to Electronic Yarns for Textile-based Interactions

Smart yarns hold the potential to transform everyday textiles into functional platforms, yet current methods remain constrained. These include conductive yarns, made from silver or stainless steel, which retain the feel of conventional yarns but offer limited functions, and PCB-based solutions, which add capability at…

Incorporating Sustainability in Electronics Design: Obstacles and Opportunities

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a methodology for holistically measuring the environmental impact of a product from initial manufacturing to end-of-life disposal. However, the extent to which LCA informs the design of computing devices remains unclear. To understand how this information is collected and applied, we int…

DeltaLCA: Comparative Life-Cycle Assessment for Electronics Design

LabelAId: Just-in-time AI Interventions for Improving Human Labeling Quality and Domain Knowledge in Crowdsourcing Systems

Crowdsourcing platforms have transformed distributed problem-solving, yet quality control remains a persistent challenge. Traditional quality control measures, such as prescreening workers and refining instructions, often focus solely on optimizing economic output. This paper explores just-in-time AI interventions to…

SwellSense: Creating 2.5D interactions with micro-capsule paper

In this paper, we propose SwellSense, a fabrication technique to screen print stretchable circuits onto a special micro-capsule paper, creating localized swelling patterns with sensing capabilities. This simple technique will allow users to create a wide range of paper-based tactile interactive devices, which are most…