📣 I’m recruiting 1–2 #HCI PhD students interested in spatial computing, #AR, and #HRI. More information: https://parastooabtahi.com/applicants

If you’re interested, apply to Princeton CS by Dec 15 and mention my name in your application.

Most AI-driven AR for children casts them as consumers, not creators. That’s like being able to read but not write. How can we help them write with #AI and #AR? 🪄

In our #UIST2025 paper, we introduce Capybara, an authoring tool that empowers kids to build expressive, AI-enabled AR experiences.

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Most AI-driven AR for children casts them as consumers, not creators. That’s like being able to read but not write. How can we help them write with #AI and #AR? 🪄

In our #UIST2025 paper, we introduce Capybara, an authoring tool that empowers kids to build expressive, AI-enabled AR experiences.

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In #AR, using real-time on-device 3D Gaussian splatting, we create the illusion that physical changes occur instantaneously, while a hidden robot fulfills the “reality promise” moments later, updating the physical world to match what users already perceive visually. 🤖

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Check out Lauren Wang’s #UIST2025 poster on GhostObjects: life-size, world-aligned virtual twins for fast and precise robot instruction, with real-world lasso selection, multi-object manipulation, and snap-to-default placement.

This is the first piece in her ongoing work on #AR for #HRI 🤖👓 @hci

Want to work with one of the best thinkers out there, with endless creativity and super supportive environment in futuristic Taipei? 😎
My former PhD student, (now Prof.) Shan-Yuan Teng just started the Dexterous Interaction Lab @ NTU https://lab.tengshanyuan.info/#hci#VR #AR#haptics #phd#AcademicChatter 😍