Xing-Dong Yang

Ph.D. Student
Department of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
T6G 2E8

Phone: (780) 492-3978
Email: xingdong (at) cs (dot) ualberta (dot) ca

I am a member of Advanced Man-Machine Interface Laboratory (AMMI) at the CS department at the University of Alberta. My research lies in the area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In particular, I am interested in novel input techniques and haptic user interfaces. My work is under the supervision of Dr. Pierre Boulanger and Dr. Pourang Irani (University of Manitoba).

News

May 18, 2012: Hit the road. Toronto-Winnipeg-Calgary-Edmonton: 3700Km / 5 days of driving.

May 8, 2012: Our paper "Experimental Evaluation of Different Mode Switching Techniques in Pen-based Handheld Devices" was accepted for presentation at APCHI'12 in Matsue, Japan.

May 6, 2012: I am attending CHI'12 in Austin, TX. I will present our A-coord input paper on behalf of Khalad Halson. This was a long-term project that we have worked on since 2010.

Apr 27, 2012: Our paper "How to Position the Cursor? An Exploration of Absolute and Relative Cursor Positioning for Back-of-Device Input" was accepted for presentation at MobileHCI'12 in San Francisco.

Dec 28, 2011: Driving to Toronto (3400km) for another internship at Autodesk Research with Dr. Tovi Grossman and Dr. George Fitzmaurice.

Dec 25, 2011:  We got 2 full papers conditionally accepted for presentation at CHI'12 in Austin.

Sep 28, 2011:  Back to Edmonton after a 3-month stay in Winnipeg.

May 5, 2011: I will present our TouchCuts&TouchZoom paper next week at CHI'11 in Vancouver.

May 1, 2011: I am back from a 3-month visit in the HCI lab at the University of Manitoba.

Experiments

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Publications

  Zhang, H., Yang, X. D., Ens, B., Liang, H. N., Boulanger, P., and Irani, P. (2012).
 See Me, See You: A Lightweight Method for Discriminating User Touches on Tabletop  Displays.
 Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'12), 2327 - 2336.
PDF (1.48 MB) youtubeimg Video

 

 

  Hasan, K., Yang, X. D., Bunt, A., and Irani, P. (2012).
 A-Coord Input: Coordinating Auxiliary Input Streams for Augmenting Contextual Pen- Based Interactions.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'12), 805 - 814.
PDF (1.42 MB) youtubeimg Video

 

 

Yang, X. D., Grossman, T., Irani, P., and Fitzmaurice, G.  (2011).
TouchCuts and TouchZoom: Enhanced Target Selection for Touch Displays using Finger Proximity Sensing.
Proceedings of the the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'11), 2585 - 2594.
PDF (1.65MB) youtubeimg Video

 

 

  Williams, C., Yang, X. D., Partridge, G., Usiskin-Miller, J., Major, A., Irani, P.  (2011).
 TZee: Exploiting the Lighting Properties of Multi-touch Tabletops for Tangible 3D Interactions.
 Proceedings of the the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing  Systems (CHI'11), 1363 - 1372.
  PDF (1MB) youtubeimg Video

 

 

Yang, X. D., Mak, E., McCallum, D., Irani, P., Cao, X., and Izadi, S. (2010).
LensMouse: Augmenting the mouse with an interactive touch display.
Proceedings of the the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'10), 2431-2440..
PDF (1.32MB) youtubeimg Video
HONORABLE MENTION AWARD

 

Yang, X.D., Mak, E., Irani, P., and Bischof, W. F. (2009).
Dual-Surface Input: Augmenting One-Handed Interaction with Coordinated Front and Behind-the-Screen Input.
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI'09).
PDF (370K)
nominee NOMINATED FOR BEST PAPER AWARD

 

Zarei-nia, K., Yang, X. D., Irani, P., Sepehri, N. (2009).
Evaluating Factors that Influence Path Tracing with Passive Haptic Guidance.
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID'09), 21-30.
PDF (395K)

 

 

Yang, X. D., Irain, P., Boulanger, P., and Bischof, W. F. (2009).
A Model for steering with haptic-force guidance.
Proceedings of the IFIP conference on Human-Computer interaction (INTERACT'09), 465-478.
PDF (448K)

 

Yang, X. D., Irani, P., Boulanger, P. and Bischof, W. F. (2009).
One-handed behind-the-display cursor input on mobile devices.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '09), 4501-4506.
PDF (581K) Video (34.2 M)

 

Kadaba, N., Yang, X.D. and Irani, P. (2009).
Facilitating Multiple Target Tracking using Semantic Depth of Field (SDOF).
Proceedings of the ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '09), 4375-4380.
PDF (1048K)

 

Yang, X. D., Bischof, W. F., and Boulanger, P. (2008).
The effects of hand motion on haptic perception of force direction.
Proceedings of Euro-haptics (EH'08), 355-360.
PDF (215K)

 

Yang, X. D., Bischof, W. F., and Boulanger, P. (2008).
Perception of haptic force magnitude during hand movements.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'08), 129-135.
PDF (1490K)

 

Yang, X. D., Bischof, W. F., and Boulanger, P.(2008).
Validating the performance of haptic motor skill training.
Proceedings of Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (HAPTICS'08), 129-135.
PDF (424K)

 

Yang, X. D. and Cheng, I. (2006).
 3D Skeletonization using an Enhanced Voxel Tree.
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH'06 Research Poster and Abstract.
PDF (409K)

 

Irani, P., Gutwin, C., and Yang, X. D. (2006).
Improving selection of off-screen targets with hopping.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'06), . 299-308
PDF (615K)

 

Cheng, I., Shen, R., Yang, X. D. and Boulanger, P (2006).
Perceptual Analysis of Level-of-Detail: The JND Approach.
Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM'06), 533-540.
PDF (419K)

 

Boulanger, P., Wu, G., Bischof, W. F. , and Yang, X. D. (2006).
Hapto-Audio-Visual Environments for Collaborative Training of Ophthalmic Surgery Over Optical Network.
Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and their Applications (HAVE'06), 21-26.
PDF (271K)

 

Scholarships

2010 - 2012
iCORE Graduate Student Scholarship in ICT
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS D3)
President's Doctoral Prize of Distinction

2009
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS D3)
President's Doctoral Prize of Distinction
Provost Doctoral Entrance Award

2008
Provost Doctoral Entrance Award

Professional Activities
Conference & journal reviewing:

CHI 2010 - 2012
InfoVis 2011
ITS 2011
IEEE 3DUI Symposium 2010, 2012
Graphics Interface 2009 - 2010
IROS 2010
Transactions on Haptics 2010