Ting-Han Lin

schoolUniversity of Chicagobar_chart#4593 Global Rank

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Role-Playing with Robot Characters: Increasing User Engagement through Narrative and Gameplay Agency

Live entertainment is moving towards a greater participatory culture, with dynamic narratives told through audience interaction. Robot characters offer a unique opportunity to mitigate the challenges of creating personalized entertainment at scale. However, robots often cannot react to audience responses, limiting opp…

CHI '232nd AuthorAgent Personality & Anthropomorphism +1

Ice-Breaking Technology: Robots and Computers Can Foster Meaningful Connections between Strangers through In-Person Conversations

Despite the clear benefits that social connection offers to well-being, strangers in close physical proximity regularly ignore each other due to their tendency to underestimate the positive consequences of social connection. In a between-subjects study (N = 49 pairs, 98 participants), we investigated the effectiveness…

CHI '231st AuthorShape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials +1

ThrowIO: Actuated TUIs that Facilitate "Throwing and Catching" Spatial Interaction with Overhanging Mobile Wheeled Robots

We introduce ThrowIO, a novel style of actuated tangible user interface that facilitates throwing and catching spatial interaction powered by mobile wheeled robots on overhanging surfaces. In our approach, users throw and stick objects that are embedded with magnets to an overhanging ferromagnetic surface where wheele…

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