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.
Latest News
Please refer to our projects and publications page for more details.
Award
ThermOuch received Silver Medal in the 50th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (IEIG). Congrats to Haichen and the team!
Paper Publication
Our paper "VirCHEW Reality: On-Face Kinesthetic Feedback for Enhancing Food-Intake Experience in Virtual Reality" was conditionally accepted by SIGGRAPH 2025 as a conference-track technical paper. Congrats to Qingqin and the team!
Paper Publication
We have three Late-Breaking-Work papers accepted in CHI 2025. Congrats to the team!
New Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Zeshui Li joins us as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He received his PhD degree from Nanjing University, China.
Paper Publication
Our paper "ThreadTessel: A Modularized Tangible Toolkit Leveraging Origami Tessellation for Designing Thread-actuated Shape-changing Structures" was accepted by ACM TEI 2025 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 "WhisperCup: A Design Exploration for Improving the Remote Communication between Chinese Parents and Their Adult Children through Digitally-Augmented Everyday Objects " was accepted by MobileHCI 2024. Congrats to Lina!
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