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04/13/2026 Wearable, printed electronics
Circuit2Yarn: From Planar Circuits to Electronic Yarns for Textile-Based Interactions
Zhechen Zhao, Jingyi Liu, Tianhong Catherine Yu, Jiaqing Liu, Zeyu Yan, Huaishu Peng, Yiyue Luo, Zhihan Zhang, Tingyu Cheng. CHI 2026. PDF | Project Page
04/13/2026 Sustainability, fabrication
3D Printing Soap: Exploring New Biodegradable Materials and Creative Possibilities
Jing Xie, Yingting Gao, Jin Yu, Tingyu Cheng, HyunJoo Oh.
CHI 2026. PDF | Project Page
04/11/2026 Sustainability, life-cycle assessment
Sustainability assessment using multimodal AI agents
Zhihan Zhang, Alexander Metzger, Yuxuan Mei, Felix Hähnlein, Zachary Englhardt, Tingyu Cheng, Gregory D. Abowd, Shwetak Patel, Adriana Schulz, Vikram Iyer. Nature Electronics (2026). In press
04/01/2026 Printed electronics, soft robotics
Zero-Shot Deformation Reconstruction for Soft Robots Using a Flexible Sensor Array and Cage-Based 3D Gaussian Modeling
Linrui Shou, Zilang Chen, Wenjia Xu, Yiyue Luo, Tingyu Cheng.
In submission (arXiv)
09/05/2025 Sustainability, printed electronics
DissolvPCB: Fully Recyclable 3D-Printed Electronics with Liquid Metal Conductors and PVA Substrates
Zeyu Yan, SuHwan Hong, Josiah Hester, Tingyu Cheng, Huaishu Peng.
UIST 2025. PDF | Open source
Best Paper
09/02/2025 Sustainability, soft robotics
BIOGEM: A Fully Biodegradable Gelatin-Based McKibben Actuator with Embedded Sensing
Gaolin Ge, Haoran Lu, Yingting Gao, Qifeng Yang, Josiah Hester, Tingyu Cheng, Yiyue Luo. UIST 2025. PDF | Project Page
07/06/2025 Sustainability, interaction, AI
Living Sustainability: In-Context Interactive Environmental Impact Communication
Zhihan Zhang, Pu Thavikulwat, Alexander Metzger, Yuxuan Mei, Felix Hähnlein, Zachary Englhardt, Gregory D. Abowd, Shwetak Patel, Adriana Schulz, Tingyu Cheng, Vikram Iyer. ACM IMWUT 2025. PDF | DOI
06/16/2025 Sustainability, life-cycle assessment
From Component to System: Rethinking Edge Computing Design Through a Carbon-Aware Lens
Xuesi Chen, Ariel Goldner, Eren Yildiz, Ilan Mandel, Tingyu Cheng, Josiah Hester, Udit Gupta. HotCarbon 2025. PDF
04/26/2025 Sustainability, smart material, computer vision
Bioinspired Camouflage Fibers with Computer Vision-Guided Chromatic Adaptation ​
Luyao Huang, Tingyu Cheng, Xianzhe Zhang, Haichao Zhang, Tejonidhi Deshpande, Yuanqiao Li, Zhi Xu, Gregory D. Abowd, Yun Fu, Yongmin Liu, Josiah Hester, Jun Li, and Hongli Zhu. ACS Nano 2025. PDF | DOI
11/05/2023 Inclusive computing, education, toolkit
Making computing visible & tangible: A paper-based computing toolkit for codesigning inclusive computing education activities
​Oh, HyunJoo, Sherry Hsi, Noah Posner, Colin Dixon, Tymirra Smith, Tingyu Cheng. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction (IJCCI 2023)
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04/19/2023 Sensing, fabrication, accessibility
SwellSense: Creating 2.5D interactions with micro-capsule paper​Tingyu Cheng, Zhihan Zhang, Bingrui Zong, Yuhui Zhao, Zekun Chang, Ye Jun Kim, Clement Zheng, Gregory D. Abowd, Hyunjoo. Proc. ACM CHI 2023. (2023 Core 77 Design Award Honoree for interaction and emerging technology categories) PDF | DOI | VIDEO
04/19/2023 Sustainability, sensing, fabrication
Functional Destruction: Utilizing Sustainable Materials’ Physical Transiency for Electronics Application
Tingyu Cheng, Taylor Tabb, Jung Wook Park, Eric M Gallo, Aditi Maheshwari, Gregory D. Abowd, Andreea Danielescu. Proc. ACM CHI 2023. (Best paper Honorable mention, 2023 Core 77 Design Award sustainability category winner) PDF | DOI | VIDEO
01/22/2022 Sensing, fabrication, smart material
Flexible computational photodetectors for self-powered activity sensing
Zhang, Dingtian, Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Raaghesh Vijayan, Yang Zhang, Yunzhi Li, Jung Wook Park, Yiyang Wang, Yuhui Zhao, Nivedita Arora, Ali Mirzazadeh, Youngwook Do, Tingyu Cheng, Saiganesh Swaminathan, Thad Starner, Trisha L. Andrew, Gregory D. Abowd. npj Flexible Electronics 2022
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09/14/2021 Sensing, fabrication, interaction
Duco: Autonomous Large-Scale Direct-Circuit-Writing (DCW) on Vertical Everyday Surfaces Using A Scalable Hanging Plotter
Tingyu Cheng, Bu Li, Yang Zhang, Yunzhi Li, Charles Ramey, Eui Min Jung, Yepu Cui, Sai Ganesh Swaminathan, Youngwook Do, Manos Tentzeris, Gregory Abowd, Hyunjoo Oh. (ACM IMWUT 2021, 2022 Fast Company Innovation by Design Award Finalist) PDF | DOI | VIDEO
03/18/2020 Sensing, fabrication, interaction
Silver Tape: Inkjet Printed Circuits Peeled-and-Transferred on Versatile Substrates
Tingyu Cheng*, Koya Narumi*, Youngwook Do, Yang Zhang, Tung D. Ta, Takuya Sasatani, Eric Markvicka, Yoshiiro Kawahara, Lining Yao, Gregory D. Abowd, and Hyunjoo Oh. ACM IMWUT 2020. PDF | DOI | VIDEO
04/09/2020 Sensing, fabrication, interaction
SPIN (Self-powered Paper interfaces): Bridging Triboelectric Nanogenerator with Folding Paper Creases
Chris Chen, David Howard, Steven Zhang, Youngwook Do, Sienna Sun, Tingyu Cheng, Zhong Lin Wang, Gregory D. Abowd, and Hyunjoo Oh. ACM TEI 2020
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