Media

HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN SAFE-TO-TOUCH DRONE CAGE

Learn how to build your own safe-to-touch drone cage in a blog post written by Parastoo.

tutorials, research

Happy End of 2018!

shape lab’s second THP (Traditional Holiday Party) party! We spent it building gingerbread houses by a warm cozy 4k fireplace. Happy Holidays!

activities, holiday party

shapeShift honorable mention at the 2018 Fastco Design Awards

shapeShift was recognized with an Honorable Mention at the 2018 Fastco Innovation by Design Awards student category!

Read the article here

media, shapeShift

2018 Retreat

We went to Arnold, CA for our annual shape lab retreat. We had a lot of fun hiking, swimming in the river, wine tasting, cooking, and discussing new research directions and how we might make it more accessible and meaningful for a broader audience!

activities, brainstorming

CHI 2018

We had a great time attending CHI 2018, presenting our work, meeting other HCI researchers, exploring Montréal, eating delicious French/Canadian food! Parastoo, Alexa, and Yiwei presented papers from our lab:

Inrak and Evan presented and demoed work they did as interns at Microsoft Research:

  • Inrak Choi, Eyal Ofek, Hrvoje Benko, Mike Sinclair, Christian Holz. 2018. CLAW: A Multifunctional Handheld Haptic Controller for Grasping, Touching, and Triggering in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘18). ACM, New York, NY, USA. DOI: //doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174228

  • Evan Strasnick, Christian Holz, Eyal Ofek, Mike Sinclair, Hrvoje Benko. 2018. Haptic Links: Bimanual Haptics for Virtual Reality Using Variable Stiffnes Actuation. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘18). ACM, New York, NY, USA. DOI: //doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174218

shape lab lunch around Vieux Montréal

demos, papers, chi, awards, publications

Archives