Welcome to the Small Artifacts Lab, a.k.a. SMART Lab.

We advance interactive technologies by designing, prototyping, and evaluating novel artifacts that are personal, hands-on, and often small when it comes to the form factors.

Our interests span the methods of building these personal artifacts (through design and interactive fabrication), the scenarios in which they're used (in virtual and augmented reality), and the users who can benefit from them (via assistive and enabling technology).

Publications

CSCW 2025 NEW

Verisimilitude as Boon and Bane: How People Initiate Opportunistic Interactions at Professional Events in Social VR

Victoria Chang, Caro Williams-Pierce, Huaishu Peng, Ge Gao

DIS 2025 NEW

Cybernetic Marionette: Channeling Collective Agency Through a Wearable Robot in a Live Dancer-Robot Duet

Anup Sathya, Jiasheng Li, Zeyu Yan, Adriane Fang, Bill Kules, Jonathan David Martin, Huaishu Peng

CHI 2025 | Best Paper Honorable Mentions Award NEW

PCB Renewal: Iterative Reuse of PCB Substrates for Sustainable Electronic Making

Zeyu Yan, Advait Vartak, Jiasheng Li, Zining Zhang, Huaishu Peng

CHI 2025 NEW

Make Making Sustainable: Exploring Sustainability Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities in Making Activities

Zeyu Yan, Mrunal Dhaygude, Huaishu Peng

CHI 2025 NEW

Datamancer: Bimanual Gesture Interaction in Multi-Display Ubiquitous Analytics Environments

Biswaksen Patnaik, Marcel Borowski, Huaishu Peng, Clemens N. Klokmose, Niklas Elmqvist

IEEE VR 2025 NEW

Comparing Vibrotactile and Skin-Stretch Haptic Feedback for Conveying Spatial Information of Virtual Objects to Blind VR Users

Jiasheng Li, Zining Zhang, Zeyu Yan, Yuhang Zhao, Huaishu Peng

HRI 2025 NEW

The Design of On-Body Robots for Older Adults

Victor Nikhil Antony, Clara Jeon, Jiasheng Li, Ge Gao, Huaishu Peng, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, and Chien-Ming Huang

UIST 2024

JetUnit: Rendering Diverse Force Feedback in Virtual Reality Using Water Jets

Zining Zhang, Jiasheng Li, Zeyu Yan, Jun Nishida, Huaishu Peng

UIST 2024

Rhapso: Automatically Embedding Fiber Materials into 3D Prints for Enhanced Interactivity

Daniel Ashbrook, Wei-Ju Lin, Nicholas Bentley, Diana Soponar, Valkyrie Savage, Zeyu Yan, Lung-Pan Cheng, Huaishu Peng, Hyunyoung Kim

SUI 2024

Social VR for Professional Networking: A Spatial Perspective

Victoria Chang*, Ge Gao*, Huaishu Peng*

*indicates equal contribution

Social VR for Professional Networking: A Spatial Perspective

CHI 2024 | Research with Sustainable Impact Award | Winner

SolderlessPCB: Reusing Electronic Components in PCB Prototyping through Detachable 3D Printed Housings

Zeyu Yan, Jiasheng Li, Zining Zhang, Huaishu Peng

CHI 2024

VisTorch: Interacting with Situated Visualizations using Handheld Projectors

Biswaksen Patnaik, Huaishu Peng, Niklas Elmqvist

UIST 2023

3D Printing Magnetophoretic Displays

Zeyu Yan, Hsuanling Lee, Liang He, Huaishu Peng

CHI 2023 | Best Paper Honorable Mentions Award

Toucha11y: Making Inaccessible Public Touchscreens Accessible

Jiasheng Li, Zeyu Yan, Arush Shah, Jonathan Lazar, Huaishu Peng

IEEE TVCG 2022

Sensemaking Sans Power: Interactive Data Visualization Using Color-Changing Ink

Biswaksen Patnaik, Huaishu Peng, Niklas Elmqvist

UIST 2022 | UIST Best Demo Award | Core77 Design Award Notable

Fibercuit: Prototyping High-Resolution Flexible and Kirigami Circuits with a Fiber Laser Engraver

Zeyu Yan*, Anup Sathya*, Sahra Yusuf, Jyh-Ming Lien, Huaishu Peng

*indicates equal contribution

Fibercuit: Prototyping High-Resolution Flexible and Kirigami Circuits with a Fiber Laser Engraver

UIST 2022

TangibleGrid: Tangible Web Layout Design for Blind Users

Jiasheng Li, Zeyu Yan, Ebrima Jarjue, Ashrith Shetty, Huaishu Peng

ACM IMWUT, Vol. 6 No. 3, September 2022

Calico: Relocatable On-cloth Wearables with Fast, Reliable, and Precise Locomotion

Anup Sathya, Jiasheng Li, Tauhidur Rahman, Ge Gao, Huaishu Peng

UIST 2022

Kinergy: Creating 3D Printable Motion using Embedded Kinetic Energy

Liang He, Xia Su, Huaishu Peng, Jeffry I. Lipton, Jon E. Froehlich

UIST 2021

FabHydro: Printing Interactive Hydraulic Devices with an Affordable SLA 3D Printer

Zeyu Yan, Huaishu Peng

Front. Virtual Real., 29 November 2021

Telelife: The Future of Remote Living

Jason Orlosky, Misha Sra, Kenan Bektas, Huaishu Peng, Jeeeun Kim, Nataliya Kos’myna, Tobias Hollerer, Anthony Steed, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Kaan Aksit

UIST 2020

MechanoBeat: Monitoring Interactions with Everyday Objects using 3D Printed Harmonic Oscillators and Ultra-Wideband Radar

Md. Farhan Tasnim Oshim, Julian Killingback, Dave Follette, Huaishu Peng, Tauhidur Rahman

TEI 2019