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pedrolopes

@pedrolopes@hci.social

Associate Prof. at @uchicago & @uchicagocs. Lead of the Human Computer Integration Lab -- https://lab.plopes.org/ Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, HCI, VR, haptics, hardware, Neuroscience

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pedrolopes, to random
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Photo from last night's Javanese #gamelan performance at constellation. (Sounded beautiful, especially the one piece I was not playing in :D which is the one shown below). More about our group at https://www.chicagogamelan.org/

pedrolopes,
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@andresmh yesterday I played sauron and demung (I don't know how familiar you are with gamelan, but for those that aren't, these are akin to xylophones). In past concerts I have played gong and Kenong. I'm hoping to keep learning so I can play bonang and maybe even drums, but I'm still very far from it right now.

axz, to random
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Congrats to Nouran Soliman on a fantastic talk on her best paper awarded work on meronimity (mitigating barriers to engaging in public conversations with partial, self-selected, and verified identity signals)! 👏👏 We also deployed a system for it right here in Mastodon at @LiTweeture a while back 😌 Read the paper here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642241 #chi2024

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@axz @LiTweeture congrats!

pedrolopes, to random
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Missed
@xjasminelu 's talk about recycling electronics at the
@oshwassociation you can watch it here: https://youtube.com/live/4bsVuTCxmaQ?si=wPkDGcYYKxRCP6Gw&t=24380

(demo of the with
@kicad plugin she and our team made: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XYMRXMVBfNg)

pedrolopes, to vr
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Shan-Yuan Teng (https://tengshanyuan.info/) presenting his body of work on challenges in #haptics for #VR and #AR and asking the question how to move them into everyday life! (Photo by Bryan Wang, at U Toronto)

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Make cute word clouds with data from your Google scholar page :) https://shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/scholargoggler7/ (for those who would imagine I would write the word integration all that often, I don't :) ) very fun tool! Try it! #academicchatter

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Alexandra Ion and I just opened the #UIST2024 submissions on PCS! All details and call-for-papers at: https://uist.acm.org/2024/ cc Lining Yao & @mynkgoel @sigchi @acmuist

upol, to academia
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There's probably a special place in hell for academic publishers. Academics, esp in CS, do all the hard labor of typesetting and formatting, but then have to deal with the publisher's BS during cam ready submission.

The rudeness I've gotten from them is next level.

#academia

pedrolopes,
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@DrSuzanne @upol yeah, folks in many scientific fields do not (e.g., Nature, Journal of Neuroscience), they submit in arbitrary formats. Also they pay 3k for a paper in a journal, no talk, no conference.
IMHO long live the CS/HCI conference model, which I find much more fair (oh yeah those fields don't have anonymous submissions, they have extreme desk reject rates) and more community based (our conferences are incredible, and in it the students get lots of recognition, unlike in other fields).

pedrolopes,
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@upol obviously this is just em celebrating our conferences which does not discount that people should be kind always including during camera ready! Sorry to hear about your experience with it. :(

pedrolopes, to academicchatter
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@sigchi community: we have an open volunteer form if you want to apply to be a AC (associate chair) of the @acmuist program committee for 2024 (I heard it will be the coolest UIST?).

Apply here: https://forms.gle/taoP66EcCxf8YdV37

(RT #UIST2024 #CHI2024 @sigchi @academicchatter & spread the word folks!)

pedrolopes,
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@sigchi @acmuist @sigchi @academicchatter we got over 100 submissions already. Thanks everyone! (And yes, keep them coming)

pedrolopes, to random
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@hackster_io wrote a nice article about our fabrication tool that improves 3D prints! UIST paper by Alex Mazursky of @uchicagocs: "As 3D-printed enclosures heat up, they can melt or degrade the performance of internal electronics. ThermalRouter helps dissipate that heat." https://www.hackster.io/news/can-you-take-the-heat-6a1fd89ac2c9

Video of our #uist2023 paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbasORkPn5w&feature=youtu.be

pedrolopes, to vr
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What if interfaces could transform the taste of the food you are eating? This could open up food props for #VR that change dynamically or even allow for dietary interventions. Jas Brooks presents a new approach: chemical interfaces #UIST2023 https://youtu.be/_9Wefip1K5s

pedrolopes, to sustainability
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Super excited about our #UIST2023 paper "ecoEDA: Recycling E-waste During Electronics Design". Huge team effort lead brilliantly by
@xjasminelu / @xjasminelu Come to her talk at
@acmuist : 4PM "Green Machine" session on the #sustainability of #electronics & #fabrication (Venetian Room) 1/7

pedrolopes,
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In the previous photo I am holding an electronic conference badge that is 100% made from recycled components using @xjasminelu 's ecoEDA tool. While designing the circuit, her tool recommends you different components that you could re-use from old projects or discarded devices! 2/7

pedrolopes, to vr
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😍 Excited about #UIST2023! Our lab's contributions are all demonstrated in one go (also an improvised explanation) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV_QqeN1wKo

These include five papers: #haptic feedback with supermagnets, interactive taste illusions , #VR feedback for feet, and two #fabrication tools, one for helping with recycling electronics, and the other for dealing with thermal issues with 3D printing.

All coming out at @ACMUIST 1/4

pedrolopes,
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You can find all five papers and their individual videos in our lab website: https://lab.plopes.org/. All the team will be at #UIST2023 and we are excited to share these findings & new ideas with the HCI community! 2/4

pedrolopes,
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Here's a direct link to our #UIST2023 video playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkEUUZu2RQOtdAyqsFIhWJxgtr9vepBTg&si=QS3QoX6Ir6OUEJGR which contains all our videos for these new works, we hope you enjoy them as much as we did! 3/4

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If you are a student at #UIST2023 who's looking for PhDs or other research opportunities and think that our lab's focus & concepts fits with your vision, come talk to us about it (me or anyone in image)!
More info about applying to join our team at: https://lab.plopes.org/#apply 4/4

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😎 New paper out at #UIST2023 "FeetThrough: Electrotactile Foot Interface that Preserves Real-World Sensations". This haptic device for feet was done with my intern Keigo Ushiyama.

Watch video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lMln8FFJ4KA

... or come see this #haptics talk it at ACM UIST soon!
1/6

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In the quest to better interfaces for guidance while walking, we noticed that vibrations (the cannon for #haptics) propagate too much on the sole of the foot, which can lead to the user confusing real ground features and the haptic guidance = danger! (e.g., on uneven ground)! 2/6

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If you are at #Ubicomp2023 this week, please check this #haptics device that uses affective touch for mitigating in-the-moment anxiety! Tremendous team led by the brilliant Titan Zhao in collab with Yujie Tao and Tanzeens's amazing group at Cornell!

Paper: https://lab.plopes.org/published/2023-Ubicomp-WearableIntervention.pdf

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Our #UIST23 Sustainable Making workshop is almost here! We will be giving away a few workshop registration vouchers for those who need them. If that's you, please email me so we can follow up with details. More info about the workshop here: sustainablemaking.com #UIST2023

pedrolopes, to random
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#SIGGRAPH2023 amazing emergent technologies program (I've tried some impressive demos today, I'll post more later). In meantime, come try out JumpMod demo (https://youtube.com/watch?v=57izT0UZ77M&feature=share9) at @siggraph with @romainnith @tengshanyuan & @tao_yujie

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New article about JumpMod (a project my PhD student Romain Nith ) that creates a sense of vertical acceleration (e.g., jumping higher) at @engadget: https://www.engadget.com/the-jumpmod-haptic-backpack-makes-virtual-leaps-more-realistic-160003718.html apropos our demo at #SIGGRAPH2023 (starting Sunday, come try it if you are in LA for the conference)

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