Pin-Sung Ku

Ph.D. Student
Information Science, Cornell University

[On-skin Interface, Prototyping Toolkit, Weaving]

pk537@cornell.edu

ABOUT

Pin-Sung Ku is a Ph.D. student in Information Science at Cornell University. His research is focused on human-computer interaction, On-skin Interface, and wearable technologies.
Prior to Cornell, he earned a Master's degree in Computer Science; and a Bachelor's degree in Physics, all from National Taiwan University.

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • [C12] Pin-Sung Ku, Kunpeng Huang, and Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao. 2022. “Patch-O: Deformable Woven Patches for On-body Actuation.” In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22).

  • [C11] Pin-Sung Ku, Md. Tahmidul Islam Molla, Kunpeng Huang, Priya Kattappurath, Krithik Ranjan, and Hsin-Liu Cindy Kao. 2022. “SkinKit: Construction Kit for On-Skin Interface Prototyping.” Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5, 4, Article 165 (Dec 2021), 23 pages.

  • [C10] Kunpeng Huang, Md. Tahmidul Islam Molla, Kat Roberts, Pin-Sung Ku, Aditi Galada, and Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao. 2021. “Delocalizing Strain in Interconnected Joints of On-Skin Interfaces.” In 2021 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC ’21).

  • [C9] Yu-Wei Wang, Yu-Hsin Lin, Pin-Sung Ku, Yoko Miyatake, Yi-Hsuan Mao, Po Yu Chen, Chun-Miao Tseng, and Mike Y. Chen. 2021. “JetController: High-speed Ungrounded 3-DoF Force Feedback Controllers using Air Propulsion Jets.” In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21).

  • [C8] Yu-Hsin Lin, Yu-Wei Wang, Pin-Sung Ku, Yun-Ting Cheng, Yuan-Chih Hsu, Ching-Yi Tsai, Mike Y Chen. 2021. “HapticSeer: A Multi-channel, Black-box, Platform-agnostic Approach to Detecting Video Game Events for Real-time Haptic Feedback.” Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21).

  • [C7] Pin-Sung Ku, Jun Gong, Te-Yen Wu, Shiyu Zhang, Ziyan Zhu, Barrett Ens, Xing-Dong Yang. 2020. “Zippro: The Design and Implementation of An Interactive Zipper.” Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20).

  • [C6] Pin-Sung Ku, Qijia Shao, Jun Gong, Te-Yen Wu, Ziyan Zhu, Xia Zhou, Xing-Dong Yang. 2020. “ThreadSense: Locating Touch on an Extremely Thin Interactive Thread” Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20).

  • [C5] Pin-Sung Ku, Yu-Chih Lin, Yi-Hao Peng, Mike Y. Chen. 2019. “PeriText: Utilizing Peripheral Vision for Reading Text on Augmented Reality Smart Glasses.” 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR). IEEE, 2019.

  • [C4] Yi-Hao Peng, Muh-Tarng Lin, Yi Chen, TzuChuan Chen, Pin-Sung Ku, Paul Taele, Chin Guan Lim, Mike Y Chen. 2019. “PersonalTouch: Improving Touchscreen Usability by Personalizing Accessibility Settings based on Individual User’s Touchscreen Interaction.” Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19).

  • [C3] Yu-Chian Wu, Te-Yen Wu, Paul Taele, Bryan Wang, Jun-You Liu, Pin-Sung Ku, Po-En Lai, Mike Y Chen. 2018. “Activeergo: Automatic and personalized ergonomics using self-actuating furniture.” Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18).

  • [C2] Te-Yen Wu, Hao-Ping Shen, Yu-Chian Wu, Yu-An Chen, Pin-Sung Ku, Ming-Wei Hsu, Jun-You Liu, Yu-Chih Lin, Mike Y Chen. 2017. “CurrentViz: Sensing and Visualizing Electric Current Flows of Breadboarded Circuits.” Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’17).

  • [C1] Te-Yen Wu, Bryan Wang, Jiun-Yu Lee, Hao-Ping Shen, Yu-Chian Wu, Yu-An Chen, Pin-Sung Ku, Ming-Wei Hsu, Yu-Chih Lin, Mike Y Chen. 2017. “CircuitSense: Automatic Sensing of Physical Circuits and Generation of Virtual Circuits to Support Software Tools.” Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’17).


POSTERS AND DEMOS

  • [D2] Yu-Wei Wang, Yu-Hsin Lin, Pin-Sung Ku, Yoko Miyatake, Po-Yu Chen, Chun-Miao Tseng, Ching-Yi Tsai, Mike Y Chen. 2021. “Demonstration of JetController: High-speed Ungrounded Force Feedback Controllers Using Air Propulsion Jets” Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21).

  • [P1] Pin-Sung Ku, Te-Yen Wu, and Mike Y. Chen. 2018 “EyeExpress: Expanding Hands-free Input Vocabulary using Eye Expressions.” The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Adjunct Proceedings(UIST ’18).

  • [D1] Ming-Wei Hsu, Te-Yen Wu, Yu-Chian Wu, Yu-An Chen, Yu-Chih Lin, Pin-Sung Ku. 2017. “Party animals: Creating immersive gaming experience for physically co-present vr and non-vr players.” Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17).

 

AWARDS

  • CHI 2021 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award: “HapticSeer: A Multi-channel, Black-box, Platform-agnostic Approach to Detecting Video Game Events for Real-time Haptic Feedback.” Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21).