Ching-Yi Tsai

2026

Paper CHI’26 Full Paper

Uncertain Pointer: Situated Feedforward Visualizations for Ambiguity-Aware AR Target Selection

BY CHING-YI TSAI, NICOLE TACCONI, ANDREW D. WILSON, AND PARASTOO ABTAHI
Paper CHI’26 Full Paper

Gesturing Toward Abstraction: Multimodal Convention Formation in Collaborative Physical Tasks

BY KIYOSU MAEDA, WILLIAM P. MCCARTHY, CHING-YI TSAI, JEFFREY MU, HAOLIANG WANG, ROBERT D. HAWKINS, JUDITH E. FAN, AND PARASTOO ABTAHI
Poster CHI’26 Poster

SorryIMissedThis: Leveraging Conversation History to Support Sustained Remote Communication

BY JULES ORESTE MPANO, ISHAAN JAVALI, MAYAN WASU, ESHAAN GOVIL, CHING-YI TSAI, LAUREN W. WANG, AND PARASTOO ABTAHI
Poster CHI’26 Poster

Reducing Entry-Point Friction in Review Interface Design: Combating Extreme Review Polarization

BY AUSTIN LI, SHANNON YEOW, STEPHANIE OH, ISHAAN BHAGAT, LAUREN W. WANG, CHING-YI TSAI, AND PARASTOO ABTAHI

Poster CogSci’25 Poster

Using Gesture and Language to Establish Multimodal Conventions in Collaborative Physical Tasks

BY KIYOSU MAEDA, CHING-YI TSAI, JUDITH E. FAN, AND PARASTOO ABTAHI

Paper UIST’24 Full Paper

Gait Gestures: Examining Stride and Foot Strike Variation as an Input Method While Walking

BY CHING-YI TSAI, RYAN YEN, DAEKUN KIM, AND DANIEL VOGEL
Paper UIST’24 Full Paper

SpinShot: Optimizing Both Physical and Perceived Force Feedback of Flywheel-Based, Directional Impact Handheld

BY CHIA-AN FAN, EN-HUEI WU, CHIA-YU CHENG, YU-CHENG CHANG, ALVARO LOPEZ, YU CHEN, CHIA-CHEN CHI, YI-SHENG CHAN, CHING-YI TSAI, AND MIKE Y. CHEN
Paper CHI’24 Full Paper

RoomDreaming: Generative-AI Approach to Facilitating Iterative, Preliminary Interior Design Exploration

BY SHUN-YU WANG, WEI-CHUNG SU, SERENA CHEN, CHING-YI TSAI, MARTA MISZTAL, KATHERINE M. CHENG, ALWENA LIN, YU CHEN, AND MIKE Y. CHEN
Paper CHI’24 Full Paper

VeeR: Exploring the Feasibility of Deliberately Designing VR Motion that Diverges from Mundane, Everyday Physical Motion to Create More Entertaining VR Experiences

BY PIN-CHUN LU, CHE-WEI WANG, YU LUN HSU, ALVARO LOPEZ, CHING-YI TSAI, CHIAO-JU CHANG, WEI TIAN MIREILLE TAN, LI-CHUN LU, AND MIKE Y. CHEN

Paper UIST ’23 Full Paper

AirCharge: Amplifying Ungrounded Impact Force by Accumulating Air Propulsion Momentum

BY PO-YU CHEN*, CHING-YI TSAI*, WEI-HSIN WANG*, CHAO-JUNG LAI, CHIA-AN FAN, SHIH CHIN LIN, CHIA-CHEN CHI, AND MIKE Y. CHEN
Preprint arXiv Preprint

Clonemator: Composing Spatiotemporal Clones to Create Interactive Automators in Virtual Reality

BY YI-SHUO LIN, CHING-YI TSAI, AND LUNG-PAN CHENG

Best Paper Award CHI ’22 Full Paper

AirRacket: Perceptual Design of Ungrounded, Directional Force Feedback to Improve Virtual Racket Sports Experiences

BY CHING-YI TSAI, I-LUN TSAI, CHAO-JUNG LAI, DERREK CHOW, LAUREN WEI, LUNG-PAN CHENG, AND MIKE Y. CHEN
Best SIC Award (People’s Choice) UIST ’22 Student Innovation Contest

Garnish into Thin Air

BY CHING-YI TSAI, CHEN-KUO SUN, AND LUNG-PAN CHENG

Honorable Mention Award CHI ’21 Full Paper

HapticSeer: A Multi-Channel, Black-Box, Platform-Agnostic Approach to Detecting Video Game Events for Real-Time Haptic Feedback

BY YU-HSIN LIN, YU-WEI WANG, PIN-SUNG KU, YUN-TING CHENG, YUAN-CHIH HSU, CHING-YI TSAI, AND MIKE Y.CHEN CHEN
Demo CHI EA ’21 Interactivity

Demonstration of JetController: High-Speed Ungrounded Force Feedback Controllers Using Air Propulsion Jets

BY YU-WEI WANG, YU-HSIN LIN, PIN-SUNG KU, YŌKO MIYATAKE, PO-YU CHEN, CHUN-MIAO TSENG, CHING-YI TSAI, AND MIKE Y. CHEN
Demo SIGGRAPH ’21 Lab Installation

JetController: High-Speed Ungrounded 3-DoF Force Feedback Controllers Using Air Propulsion Jets

BY YU-WEI WANG, YU-HSIN LIN, YOKO MIYATAKE, CHING-YI TSAI, PIN-SUNG KU, AND MIKE Y. CHEN