Selected Publications

2025

Slip Casting as a Machine for Making Textured Ceramic Interfaces
CHI 2025 (Honorable Mention). Han Bo, Jared Lim, Kianne Lim, Adam Choo, Ching-Chiuan Yen, Genevieve Ang, Clement Zheng.

Crafting Interactive Paper Composites through Ancient Papermaking Techniques
CHI 2025. Qian Ye, Sheryl Teng, E Ian Siew, Ching-Chiuan Yen, Clement Zheng.

2024

PaperTouch: Tangible Interfaces through Paper Craft and Touchscreen Devices
CHI 2024. Qian Ye, Zhen Zhou Yong, Bo Han, Ching Chiuan Yen, Clement Zheng.

E-Acrylic: Electronic-Acrylic Composites for Making Interactive Artifacts
CHI 2024. Bo Han, Xin Liu, Ching Chiuan Yen, Clement Zheng.

2023

Crafting Interactive Circuits on Glazed Ceramic Ware
CHI 2023. Clement Zheng, Bo Han, Xin Liu, Laura Devendorf, Hans Tan, and Ching Chiuan Yen.

Marking Material Interactions with Computer Vision
CHI 2023. Peter Gyory, S. Sandra Bae, Ruhan Yang, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, and Clement Zheng.

2022

Shape-Haptics: Planar & Passive Force Feedback Mechanisms for Physical Interfaces
CHI 2022. Clement Zheng, Zhen Zhou Yong, Hongnan Lin, HyunJoo Oh, and Ching Chiuan Yen.

Making Data Tangible: A Cross-disciplinary Design Space for Data Physicalization
CHI 2022. S. Sandra Bae, Clement Zheng, Mary Etta West, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Samuel Huron, and Danielle Albers Szafir.

Earlier

Tangible Interfaces with Printed Paper Markers
DIS 2020 (Honorable Mention). Clement Zheng, Peter Gyory, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do.

RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots
CHI 2020. Ryo Suzuki, Hooman Hedayati, Clement Zheng, James L Bohn, Daniel Szafir, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D Gross, and Daniel Leithinger.

Shapebots: Shape-changing swarm robots
UIST 2019. Ryo Suzuki, Clement Zheng, Yasuaki Kakehi, Tom Yeh, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D Gross, and Daniel Leithinger.

Sensing Kirigami
DIS 2019 (Best Pictorial). Clement Zheng, HyunJoo Oh, Laura Devendorf, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do.

Mechamagnets: Designing and Fabricating Haptic and Functional Physical Inputs with Embedded Magnets
TEI 2019. Clement Zheng, Jeeeun Kim, Daniel Leithinger, Mark D. Gross, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do.

Combining Practices in Craft and Design
TEI 2017. Clement Zheng and Michael Nitsche.

We explore how everyday materials and common making processes can shape new interactive systems. Through design research and hands-on experimentation, we expand material possibilities for more creative, inclusive, and sustainable interactions.

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