Cheng Yao

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DreamDirector: Designing a Generative AI System to Aid Therapists in Treating Clients' Nightmares

Nightmares can adversely affect individuals' mental health and well-being, necessitating timely psychological intervention. Current nightmare therapy has set high requirements for therapists, appeared abstract to clients, and showed poor interaction between them, due to its extensive information input, lack of sensory…

UIST '242nd AuthorDesktop 3D Printing & Personal Fabrication +1

E-Joint: Fabrication of Large-Scale Interactive Objects Assembled by 3D Printed Conductive Parts with Copper Plated Joints

The advent of conductive thermoplastic filaments and multi-material 3D printing has made it feasible to create interactive 3D printed objects. Yet, challenges arise due to volume constraints of desktop 3D printers and high resistive characteristics of current conductive materials, making the fabrication of large-scale…

DIS '245th+ AuthorShape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials +2

KiPneu: Designing a Constructive Pneumatic Platform for Biomimicry Learning in STEAM Education

Biomimicry, a methodology adapted from nature, always inspires optimum solutions and innovative technologies in human history. To get children interested in, excited about, and inspired by biomimicry, we introduce KiPneu, a robotic platform that facilitates biomimicry education through hands-on, solution-oriented lear…

CHI '232nd AuthorLaser Cutting & Digital Fabrication +1

MechCircuit: Augmenting Laser-Cut Objects with Integrated Electronics, Mechanical Structures and Magnets

Laser cutting revolutionizes the creation of personal-fabricated prototypes. These objects can have transformable properties by adopting different materials and be interactive by integrating electronic circuits. However, circuits in laser-cut objects always have limited movements, which refrains laser cutting from ach…

CHI '23CorrespondingK-12 Digital Education Tools +2

MathKingdom: Teaching Children Mathematical Language Through Speaking at Home via a Voice-Guided Game

The amount and quality of mathematical language in the family are positively associated with promoting children’s mathematical abilities. However, mathematical language in many families is poor. Through need-finding investigation, we developed MathKingdom, a voice-agent-based game that helps children aged 4–7 learn an…

CHI '222nd AuthorConversational Chatbots +2

StoryDrawer: A Child-AI Collaborative Drawing System to Support Children's Creative Visual Storytelling

Visual storytelling is a new approach to creative expression based on verbal and figural creativity. The keys to visual storytelling are narrating and drawing over a period of time, which can be beneficial but also demanding on creativity for children. Informed by need-finding investigations, we developed StoryDrawer,…

CHI '225th+ AuthorShape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials

PneuMesh: Pneumatic-driven Truss-based Shape Changing System

From cross-sea bridges to large-scale installations, truss structures have been known for their structural stability and shape complexity. In addition to the advantages of static trusses, truss structure has a large degree of freedom to change shape when equipped with rotatable joints and retractable beams. However, i…

DIS '205th+ AuthorSpecial Education Technology +1

Comparing the Tangible Tutorial System and the Human Teacher in Intangible Cultural Heritage Education

Computer-supported digital-physical tutorial systems have been widely used in the field of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) education for their advances in conveying multimodal contents. However, there is limited work in comparing strengths and weaknesses of the teaching effects between the human teachers and the no…

CHI '204th AuthorCreative Collaboration & Feedback Systems +1

It Is Your Turn: Collaborative Ideation With a Co-Creative Robot through Sketch

Co-creative systems have been widely explored in the field of computational creativity. However, existing AI partners of these systems are mostly virtual agents. As sketching on paper with embodied robots could be more engaging for designers' early-stage ideation and collaborative practices, we envision the possibilit…

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