Multimodal Embodied Interaction
for
Magical Experiences and Interfaces

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

About MEI Lab

Multimodal and Embodied Interaction (MEI) Laboratory is a Human-Computer-Interaction research group in the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

MEI, 美 in Chinese, means beautiful and elegant. In MEI lab, we aim to create, innovate, and enhance the beauty in human-computer interaction through multimodal and emobided interfaces.

MEI also resembles Magical Experiences and Interfaces. Therefore, with Multimodal and Embodied Interaction, we also aim to provide a magic experiences in digital media. This vision echoes with the famous quote by Arthur C. Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

While the computer interfaces today are mainly visual and auditory, in MEI, we further envision a “touchable” future for our society. Our research interests include tangible user interfaces, wearable user interfaces, mobile user interfaces, virtual and augmented reality, and the application of these interfaces/technologies in education, entertainment, accessibility, and so on.



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Latest News

Please refer to our projects and publications page for more details.

Paper Publication

Our paper "ThreadTessel: A Modularized Tangible Toolkit Leveraging Origami Tessellation for Designing Thread-actuated Shape-changing Structures" was accepted by ACM TEI 2024 as a full paper. Congrats to Lina!

Awards

Congrats to Tianpei on receiving the Research Tuition Scholarship from the university!

Paper Publication

Our paper "ThermOuch: A Wearable Thermo-Haptic Device for Inducing Pain Sensation in Virtual Reality through Thermal Grill Illusion " was accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 as a conference-track technical paper. Congrats to Haichen, Shaoyu, and Yuhong!

Paper Publication

Our paper "ViboPneumo: A Vibratory-Pneumatic Finger-Worn Haptic Device for Altering Perceived Texture Roughness in Mixed Reality" was accepted by IEEE TVCG. Congrats to Shaoyu!

Paper Presentation

Ningchang and Qingqin attended IEEE VR 2024 in Orlando, USA, and presented their paper "PetPresence: Investigating the Integration of Real-World Pet Activities in Virtual Reality".


New PhD Students

Congrats to Zhang Qi and Qingqin on receiving the offers of CityU&HKPC PhD Program!


More previous news here.


INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS

Huawei
Koding Kingdom
MAD Gaze
Hong Kong Martime Museum


FUNDING SOURCES

UGC
RGC
NSFC
Department of Science Technology of Guangdong Province

ECC
ECF
Drs. Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Charitable Foundation
SCM ACIM

Contact Us

Address

M7095, Level 7, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Office Number

+852-34424616