Published in Interactions, 2025
This article reports an upper-division undergraduate course I designed and taught in Summer 2023, where students were tasked to re-create a Sci-Fi UI in real life.
Recommended citation: Victor Cheung. 2025. Re-Creating Sci-Fi Computer User Interfaces in Real Life. interactions 32, 3 (May - June 2025), 8–9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3721088
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Published in IEEE Pervasive Computing, Special Issue on Flexible and Shape-Changing Interfaces, 2017
This paper describes the iterative design process of a deformable device prototype - Typhlex, with strategically placed grooves to elicit bend gestures—and lessons learned from two user studies.
Recommended citation: M. Ernst, T. Swan, V. Cheung and A. Girouard/ "Typhlex: Exploring Deformable Input for Blind Users Controlling a Mobile Screen Reader". In IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 28-35, October-December 2017, doi: 10.1109/MPRV.2017.3971123.
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Published in Graphics Interfaces, 2024
This paper proposes deformable interaction, specifically bend, added alongside touch to support working with text on mobile.
Recommended citation: A. E. Eady, A. Guerrero, V. Cheung, D. Thue, A. Girouard. 2024. "BendAide: A Deformable Interface to Augment Touchscreen Mobile Devices". In Proceedings of Graphics Interaces (GI'24). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/1234567890
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Published in Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2020
This paper presents three techniques for creating a hybrid tangible-augmented reality enabling technology platform for early childhood learning: visual marker-based, computer-vision & machine learning, and capacitive touches.
Recommended citation: V. Cheung, A. N. Antle, S. Sarker, M. Fan, J. Fan, and P. Pasquier. 2020. "Techniques for augmented-tangibles on mobile devices for early childhood learning". In Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC'20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 589–601. https://doi.org/10.1145/3392063.3394412
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Published in Tangible, Embedded, and Embedded Interaction, 2020
This paper examines how tangible objects in Sci-Fi movies illustrate Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) and discuss design implications on future TUIs.
Recommended citation: V. Cheung and A. N. Antle. 2020. "Tangible Interfaces and Interactions in Sci-Fi Movies: A Glimpse at the Possible Future of TUIs through Fictional Tangible Systems". In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI'20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 393–401. https://doi.org/10.1145/3374920.3374942
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Published in Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2019
This paper explored the mobile gameplay context by implementing an interface that uses rotatory gestures from a magnetic ring as input, and compared with some other typical ways of input.
Recommended citation: V. Cheung and A. Girouard. 2019. "Tangible Around-Device Interaction Using Rotatory Gestures with a Magnetic Ring". In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI'19). ACMachinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 26, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3338286.3340137
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Published in Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, 2019
This poster presents a digitally augmented version of Twister, a popular party game, by introducing the element of time and score via a pressure-senitive mat that communicates with a projected screen. It’s based on a student project in a course I taught.
Recommended citation: A. Singh, J. Ouellet, and V. Cheung. 2019. "Re-Twist: Evaluating Engagement in a Digitally Augmented Traditional Game". In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI'19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 181–187. https://doi.org/10.1145/3294109.3300976
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