research
My research interest is still not fully concrete (the case
with all undergraduate students considering graduate studies). But generally, I am interested
in
methods that humans can use to interact with computers that
are frictionless and covert.
For example:
- Wearable systems that you can't distinguish from clothing or normal accessories.
- Removing handheld controllers from existence.
- Eg. EMG, BCI, gesture based controls that don't need traditional button inputs.
- Hidden wearable haptics + sensors (basically ubiquitous computing)
- How can we embed haptic devices into clothing or everyday wearables?
- How can these devices be used for XR interactions that are non-perceptible and seamless?
- Covert smartglasses or XR devices
- Meta's recent Rayban Displays are a good attempt, especially with the EMG wristband.
research awards
Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award '25 - Honorable Mention
Computing Research Association (CRA)
Best Paper - Honorable Mention
ACM CHI 2025
publications
SplatOverflow: Asynchronous Hardware Troubleshooting
Amritansh Kwatra, Tobias Wienberg, Ilan Mandel, Ritik Batra, Peter He, Francois Guimbretiere, Thijs Roumen
Honorable Mention at ACM CHI 2025
SeamPose: Repurposing Seams as Capacitive Sensors in a Shirt for Upper-Body Pose Tracking
Tianhong Catherine Yu, *Manru Mary Zhang, *Peter He, Chi-Jung Lee, Cassidy Cheesman, Saif Mahmud, Ruidong Zhang, Francois Guimbretiere, Cheng Zhang
*Co-Second Author on the Paper for contributions (Freshman Year)