Yujie Tao
@tao_yujie
cs phd student @stanford, previously: @unc, @uchicago, @microsoft. human computer interaction, sensory augmentation
The sense of touch is innately private, but what if it could be shared across individuals? We @StanfordVR studied shared body sensations in VR and found it increases body illusion and empathy toward others and influences social behavior. #ISMAR2024 🔗vhil.stanford.edu/publications/s…
My supervisor @MadelineBalaam is hiring a new Post-doc at @KTHuniversity! 🤩 Our team is particularly interested in researchers with a psychology background, experience in quantitative studies, while also engaging with creative approaches. kth.se/lediga-jobb/82…
Conversation flows are shaped by subtle social cues—gaze, movement, group dynamics 🗣️📣. What if we could predict who speaks next in VR just by watching these signals? We built models that do just that across 77 classroom VR sessions. #cscw2025 vhil.stanford.edu/publications/m…
Join us for the #UIST2024 Social Media Challenge! Starting tomorrow! #UISTChallenge
🎉 Announcing #UIST2024 Social Media Challenge! Starting tomorrow, we’ll reveal 3 challenges each day. Complete one (or more) and post with @ACMUIST + #UISTChallenge to be entered in a raffle! 🎁 Check out the rules + task previews below. Let’s get creative! 🎨
Beautiful @ACMUIST conference! Thanks Sean Follmer (@dSeanMustard ) & Jeff Han, and, all the amazing organizing team uist.acm.org/2023/organizer… (from papers to SV chairs, web, and especially all the invisible yet critical stuff!). Our team (+ alumni) loved #UIST2023 ! #UISTrocks
I am at #Ubicomp2023 this week with this coauthored work on affective touch for mitigating in-the-moment anxiety! Amazing collaboration with @ZhaoYR_722 (who will present the paper too!) and mentorship from @tanzeemc @plopesresearch. Paper: doi.org/10.1145/3569484
Come Join us at ACM #UIST2023 in San Francisco! Registration and Hotel Rooms at the Fairmont hotel are now open for booking! Early registration is till September 8th uist.acm.org/2023/attending/
Attending @siggraph in LA (Aug. 6-10)? Join us for the UNC SIGGRAPH Reunion on August 7 at 12:15 pm PT — hybrid event. Register here ▶️ go.unc.edu/UNC-SIGGRAPH-2… #SIGGRAPH2023 #UNC #ComputerScience
Super honored to be selected as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar🌲! Excited to be part of this amazing community! @KnightHennessy
Meet the 2023 cohort of Knight-Hennessy scholars, the largest cohort to date. The 85 students represent 29 countries and are pursuing degrees in 38 graduate programs across all seven of @Stanford’s graduate schools. knight-hennessy.stanford.edu/news/knight-he…
🏅Our work won Honorable Mention Award at #CHI2023! @MSFTResearch @StanfordHCI With @twi_mar @Eyal_Ofek @ericwang0701 and Andy Wilson, we explored the duality of preserving realism in avatar motion and inducing a sense of embodiment in VR. Learn more: hci.st/embodiedPhysics
It was a blast working with @ZhaoYR_722 to investigate how affective touch could mitigate in-the-moment anxiety as a wearable intervention. Thanks to all collaborators and advisors of this work @tanzeemc @plopesresearch. Learn more our #Ubicomp2023 paper: doi.org/10.1145/3569484
@tao_yujie and I were curious: what bodily pathways can mitigate anxiety with minimal attention? We evaluated affective touch and found that it facilitate emotion regulation and hence mitigate in-the-moment anxiety! Read more: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35… #Ubicomp2023
I’m co-chairing visit days for Stanford CS this year again! 🎉🥳 This year we (@lindsaypopowski, @tao_yujie, @sw2pnil ) wanted to create a code of conduct for the in-person weekend! Does your department already do this? Advice, resources, and RTs appreciated 🙏
Thank you so much, Mar! I feel so grateful to work with you over the past summer. Thanks for being such an amazing mentor! Stay tuned to our new work coming up at #CHI2023!
Congrats @tao_yujie for your acceptance to #CHI2023 🎉 It is a pleasure to work with self-driven people and hard coders like you! 🙏🥇 A sneak peak of what we did in this post: linkedin.com/posts/margonza…
Our department mourns the loss of its founder, Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., a pioneer in computer science and recipient of the A.M. Turing Award, National Medal of Technology & numerous others. He was kind, humble & a friend and mentor to all. go.unc.edu/o2QKd
How can we prevent breaks in immersion while in VR? Our #uist2022 work @plopesresearch @UChicagoCS explored a new concept, in which we "integrate" real-world distractions (e.g., noises, accidental touch, smell) into virtual reality. Learn more here at lab.plopes.org/#vr-distraction!
"I understand the gravity of being a woman and now a #Nobel laureate in the sciences. There aren't that many of us—yet." Prof. @CarolynBertozzi on chemistry, mentorship and representation ⬇️
so glad to see our work on softness illusion at uist last year is making its way to an actual class👀 check out more here lab.plopes.org/#altersoftness
Plan to introduce some fun facts about haptics in next week’s design class. Testing the low-fi prototypes of the softness illusion, and it really works!! Thanks to @tao_yujie’s guidance and open-source files! Amazing work! ✏️🪙
Yay!! Congrats @JunNishidaLab ㊗️
I’m thrilled to announce that I will be joining University of Maryland, College Park as an Assistant Professor this Fall. I will start my lab on assistive/wearable devices for computing our subjectivity and perspective. Looking forward to working with you all!
Glad to share that I will join @Stanford to pursue CS Ph.D. this fall! Grateful for all the support during this application process. I look forward to the coming years @StanfordHCI! Special thanks to my advisor, the one and only @plopesresearch, and the HCI family @UChicagoCS.