Yuxiang Cheng

Yuxiang Cheng

Researcher and Designer of Human-Computer Interaction

Yuxiang is graduating from NYU's Interactive Media Arts program and joining the Master in Design Studies at Harvard Guraduate School of Design. Building upon his foundation in industrial design and years of dedicated practice, he expanded into interactive experience design, combining expertise across engineering and media technology throughout his undergraduate studies.

His tech stacks involves:
‍Design/Fabrication of mechatronic and embedded systems with a industrial design mindset
Advanced manufacturing with novel materials and mechanics (e.g. compliant)
Web development in the context of media arts and ubiquitous computing

Research Areas:

Tangible Intelligence and Human Augmentation

Integrating mechatronic-computational-linguistic automation and intelligence in fabricated tangible/embodied interaction, and how (human) inputs and (tangible) outputs can be modulated by such systems

Perceptual Computing and Interactive Sensing

Designing tools for human augmentation with a focus on high-performance and non-visual assistance

Critical Making and Personal Computing

Fabrication and design techniques that translates the digital into the physical (open hardware, crowdsourcing, remix, makerspace culture)

In more standard terms, he navigates Tangible Interface (TUI), Fabrication, Assistive Technology, HRI, UbiComp, XR, and NIME, XR and machine perception.

AimBot
Integrating Assistive and Informative Haptics through Field-Oriented Controlled (FOC) Motor Force Dynamics_{Capstone Project, Work In Progress
#HCI #Haptics #Tangible #I/O #Assistive #Mechatronics}

Data Nomad
A Ubiquitous Cooperative Data Acquisition Infrastructure based around Open Hardware Enabling the Private Production of Collective data_{Open Project, Long Term
#UbiComp #Crowdsourcing #Data #OpenHardware #Infrastructure}

Project Parallax
A Speculative Detour around the First Person Dominance in the Extended Reality ‍_{Individual Project, Summer 2024
#XR #Speculative #Wearable #Mechatronics}

ChatITP: Creative Biosphere
An Interaction-Centered LLM Workspace Powered by Creativity from the Past_{Research Group Project, Long Term
#Human-CenteredAI #Creativity #LLM #UI/UX #FrontEnd}

Here's a link for a PDF version of my featured research projects.

Contribution & Collaboration

with Project Mjolnir

An Open-source adaptive mountain bike for wheelchair users with distributive manufacturability

_(Bio)mechanical User research of Adaptive Cycling: Utilizing Telemetry and On-Bike Sensor Networks to Study Riders with Diverse Physical Abilities _Project Website and Online Source Distribution

for Agnieszka Pilat _Automated paint/marker loading system for art practice
(w/ Boston Dynamics Arm Team) _Promotional Media: short film for TED Talk

Media Arts

Fabrication Studies

Transparent FDM Printing and Its Applications