YUYU LIN 林堉育
Hi, I‘m a third-year Ph.D. student at the interactive structures lab at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) advised by Prof. Alexandra Ion.
My current research focuses on the design, customization and fabrication of wearables. I broadly explore active materials and passive structures with adaptive properties that respond to the user's dynamic requirements and body movements. I further propose simulation and customization pipelines to enable end users to personalize their wearables.
Before joining CMU, I pursued my master's degree in Computer Science at Stanford University. I did my undergrad in Industrial Design at Zhejiang University, where I'm honored to be one of the Morningside Cultural China Scholars.
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Publications
Wearable Material Properties (CHI'25)
Yuyu Lin, Hatice Gokcen Guner, Jianzhe Gu, Sonia Prashant, Alexandra Ion
Users interact with static objects daily, but their preferences and needs may vary. Making the objects dynamic or adaptable requires updating all objects. Instead, we propose a novel wearable interface that empowers users to adjust perceived material properties.
ConeAct: A Multistable Actuator for Dynamic Materials (CHI'24)
Yuyu Lin, Jesse T. Gonzalez, Zhitong Cui, Yash Rajeev Banka, Alexandra Ion
In this paper, we propose ConeAct, a cone-shaped actuator that can extend, contract, and bend in multiple directions to support rich expression in dynamic materials. A key benefit of our actuator is that it is self-contained and portable as the whole system. We designed our actuator’s structure to be multistable to hold its shape passively, while we control its transition between states using active materials, i.e., shape memory alloys.
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