梁容豪 Rong-Hao Liang

Rong-Hao (Howie) is a Human-Computer Interaction researcher on enabling technologies of tangible, wearable, and natural user interfaces. He has a passion in his life, as the way he researches, runs, sings, and improvises with guitar. On his journey, his wonderful family and lovely wife give him invaluable support. He just obtained a Ph.D. degree from the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia in National Taiwan University. Now he is an assistant research fellow in the Intel-NTU Center of Connected Context Computing, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

PhD Thesis Topic

GaussTUIKit: Designing Portable and Seamless Tangible Interactions Using Magnetics

WonderLens - ACM CHI 2015

GaussStones - ACM UIST 2014

GaussBricks - ACM CHI 2014 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award & People's Choice Best Talk Award

FingerPad - ACM UIST 2013

GaussBits - ACM CHI 2013

GaussSense - ACM UIST 2012

GaussBrush - ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Emerging Technologies Emerging Technologies Prize

Selected Publications

Conference proceedings

Rong-Hao Liang, Chao Shen, Yu-Chien Chan, Guan-Ting Chou, Liwei Chan, De-Nian Yang, Mike Y. Chen, Bing-Yu Chen

WonderLens: Optical Lenses and Mirrors for Tangible Interactions on Printed Paper

ACM CHI 2015, 4 pages, Seoul, Korea.
Liwei Chan, Chi-Hao Hsieh, Yi-Ling Chen, Shuo Yang, Da-Yuan Huang, Rong-Hao Liang, Bing-Yu Chen

Cyclops: Wearable and Single-Piece Full-Body Gesture Input Devices

ACM CHI 2015, 10 pages, Seoul, Korea.
Rong-Hao Liang, Han-Chih Kuo, Liwei Chan, De-Nian Yang, Bing-Yu Chen

GaussStones: Shielded Mangetic Tangibles for Multi-Token Interactions on Portable Displays

ACM UIST 2014, pp.365--372, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Rong-Hao Liang, Liwei Chan, Hung-Yu Tseng, Han-Chih Kuo, Da-Yuan Huang, De-Nian Yang, Bing-Yu Chen

GaussBricks: Magnetic Building Blocks for Constructive Tangible Interactions on Portable Displays

ACM CHI 2014, pp.3153--3162, Toronto, ON, Canada.

** CHI 2014 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award **

** CHI 2014 People's Choice Best Talk Award **
Liwei Chan, Rong-Hao Liang, Ming-Chang Tsai, Kai-Yin Cheng, Chao-Huai Su, Mike Y. Chen, Wen-Huang Cheng, Bing-Yu Chen

FingerPad: Private and Subtle Interaction Using Fingertips

ACM UIST 2013, pp.255--260, St Andrews, United Kingdom.
Rong-Hao Liang, Kai-Yin Cheng, Liwei Chan, Chuan-Xhyuan Peng, Mike Y. Chen, Rung-Huei Liang, De-Nian Yang, Bing-Yu Chen

GaussBits: Magnetic Tangible Bits for Portable and Occlusion-Free Near-Surface Interactions

ACM CHI 2013, pp.1391--1400, Paris, France.
Chao-Huai Su, Liwei Chan, Chien-Ting Weng, Rong-Hao Liang, Kai-Yin Cheng, Bing-Yu Chen

NailDisplay: Bringing an Always-Available Visual Display To Fingertips

ACM CHI 2013, pp.1461--1464, Paris, France.

** CHI 2013 Best Paper Award **
Rong-Hao Liang, Kai-Yin Cheng, Chao-Huai Su, Chien-Ting Weng, Bing-Yu Chen, De-Nian Yang

GaussSense: Attachable Stylus Sensing Using Magnetic Sensor Grid

ACM UIST 2012, pp.319--326, MA, USA.
Shu-Yang Lin, Chao-Huai Su, Kai-Yin Cheng, Rong-Hao Liang, Tzu-Hao Kuo, Bing-Yu Chen

PUB - Point Upon Body: Exploring Eyes-Free Interaction and Methods on an Arm

ACM UIST 2011, pp.481--488, Santa Barbara, USA.
Kai-Yin Cheng, Rong-Hao Liang, Bing-Yu Chen, Rung-Huei Liang, Sy-Yen Kuo

iCon: Utilizing Everyday Objects as Additional, Auxiliary and Instant Tabletop Controllers

ACM CHI 2010, pp.1155--1164, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Doctoral symposium paper, Demo papers, and Posters

Chi-Chiang Huang, Rong-Hao Liang, Liwei Chan, Bing-Yu Chen

Dart-It: Interacting with a Remote Display by Throwing Your Finger Touch

ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Emerging Technologies Demo & Posters, Vancouver, Canada.
Rong-Hao Liang, Liwei Chan, Hung-Yu Tseng, Han-Chih Kuo, Da-Yuan Huang, De-Nian Yang, Bing-Yu Chen

GaussBricks: Magnetic Building Blocks for Constructive Tangible Interactions on Portable Displays

ACM CHI 2014 Interactivity Demo & Video Showcase, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Rong-Hao Liang

Augmenting the Input Space of Portable Displays Using Add-On Hall-Sensor Grid

ACM UIST 2013 Doctoral Symposium, St Andrews, United Kingdom.
Rong-Hao Liang, Kai-Yin Cheng, Liwei Chan, Chuan-Xhyuan Peng, Mike Y. Chen, Rung-Huei Liang, De-Nian Yang, Bing-Yu Chen

GaussBits: Magnetic Tangible Bits for Portable and Occlusion-Free Near-Surface Interactions

ACM CHI 2013 Interactivity Demo & Video Showcase, Paris, France.
Rong-Hao Liang, Kai-Yin Cheng, Liwei Chan, Chuan-Xhyuan Peng, Mike Y. Chen, Rung-Huei Liang, De-Nian Yang, Bing-Yu Chen
Tracking Magnetics Above Portable Displays

ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Posters, CA, USA.
Rong-Hao Liang, Chao-Huai Su, Chien-Ting Weng, Kai-Yin Cheng, Bing-Yu Chen, De-Nian Yang

GaussBrush: Drawing with Magnetic Stylus

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Emerging Technologies Demo, Article 11, Singapore.

** SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Emerging Technologies Prize **
Rong-Hao Liang, Kai-Yin Cheng, Bing-Yu Chen, De-Nian Yang

GaussSketch: Add-On Magnetic Sensing for Natural Sketching on Smartphones

ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Posters, CA, USA.
Rong-Hao Liang, Shu-Yang Lin, Chao-Huai Su, Kai-Yin Cheng, Bing-Yu Chen, De-Nian Yang

SonarWatch: Appropriating the Forearm as a Slider Bar

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Emerging Technologies Demo, Article 5, Hong Kong, China.
Kai-Yin Cheng, Rong-Hao Liang, Hung-Jung Lin, Bing-Yu Chen, Rung-Huei Liang, Ming-Yang Yu, Hao-Hua Chu, Yu-Ming Chu, Sy-Yen Kuo

MemoIcon: Using Everyday Objects as Physical Icons

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Emerging Technologies Demo, page.78, Yokohama, Japan.

Selected Awards

1st Prize (1st place of 167, USD $85K cash prize), GaussToys, FITI Innovation and StartUps Contest, 2014.
1st Prize (1st place of 155, USD $65K cash prize), GaussToys, the 8th Acer Long-Term Smile Innovation Contest, 2014.
CHI 2014 People's Choice Best Talk Award, GaussBricks: Magnetic Building Blocks for Constructive Tangible Interactions on Portable Displays, ACM CHI 2014, 2014.
CHI 2014 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, GaussBricks: Magnetic Building Blocks for Constructive Tangible Interactions on Portable Displays, ACM CHI 2014, 2014.
3rd Prize, Wrack-em-More: Your Coffee Table is More Than an Arcade Machine, Asus Xtion Programming Contest, 2014.
CHI 2013 Best Paper Award, NailDisplay: Bringing Always-Available Visual Display to Fingertips, ACM CHI 2013, 2013.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Emerging Technologies prize, GaussBrush: Drawing with Magnetic Stylus, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012, 2012.
2nd Prize (1st place of 130, USD $32K cash prize), ArmTech: Your Arm is the Controller, the 7th Acer Long-Term Smile Innovation Contest, 2012.
Excellent Work, MCC-Live: Enriching your mobile life, the 3rd Chung-Hwa Telecom Mobile Application Contest, 2006.

Education

Ph.D., Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, National Taiwan University, Sep. 2011 - Sep. 2014
Communications and Multimedia Lab, Mentor: Dr. Bing-Yu Chen
M.S., Department of Electrical Engineering - Computer Science, National Taiwan University, Sep. 2008 - Jun. 2010. Mentor: Dr. Sy-Yen Kuo
B.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chang Gung University, Sep. 2003 - Jun. 2007

Working Experiences

Assistant Research Fellow, Intel-NTU Center of Connected Context Computing, National Taiwan University, Dec. 2014 - Now
Co-Founder, GaussToys, Dec. 2014 - Now
Research Assistant, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Apr. 2010 - Dec. 2014
PI: Dr. De-Nian Yang
Consultant on Interaction Design & Engineering, Unison Art Association, Taiwan, Jul. 2009 - Sep. 2011
R&D Internship, Vpon Inc., Taiwan, Jul. 2009 - Oct. 2009

Professional Services

PC Member
ACE '14
Reviewer
CHI '15; TEI '15; ICPADS '14; ACE '14; IJHCS ('14); ACM SIGGRAPH Asia E-Tech '14,'13; ACM CHI '14, '13; Chinese CHI '14; CASA '14
Steering committee
OpenHCI 2013 Workshop, OpenHCI 2012 Workshop
Program co-Chair
OpenHCI 2011 Workshop

Other Publications and Exhibitions

Liwei Chan, Chien-Ting Weng, Rong-Hao Liang, and Bing-Yu Chen.AnyButton: Unpowered, Modeless and Highly Available Mobile Input Using Unmodified Clothing Buttons. Augmented Human 2014 Posters, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, 2014.
Rong-Hao Liang, Hsien-Hui Tang et. al. Non-PC User Interface, IDA Congress 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 22 - Oct. 30, 2011.
Rong-Hao Liang, Yu-Ming Chu, 14 interactive installations including Crimson Stormy Valley, Aiming High for a Low-Carbon Taiwan Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan, Mar 12—Apr 24, 2011. video
Rong-Hao Liang, Hsien-Hui Tang et. al. CommuniTable, 29th Young Designer Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan, May. 21—May. 24, 2010.
Rong-Hao Liang, Kai-Yin Cheng, and Yu-Ming Chu, 2 interactive installations including Touching-the-Stars Table, 400 years of Heaven Gazing Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan, Aug 8—Sep 13, 2009.
Chih-Ying Yang, Rung-Huei Liang, Wen-Jong Wu, Mang-Yang Lee, Kuo-Chun Tseng, Rong-Hao Liang, Hung-Jung Lin, Yi-Chu Lin, Yen-Hao Chen, Cheng-Dar Chiang, Bing-Yu Chen, Kai-Yin Cheng, Memory Bricolage Table for Elderly, International Workshop on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (DeSForM’09), Taipei, Taiwan. paper
梁毓珊, 梁容豪, 陳麒元, 郭斯彥, 何智祥, 最佳化IEEE 802.16j網路規劃之涵蓋問題, 2009海峽兩岸資訊科學與資訊技術學術交流會議, 宜蘭, 台灣, 2009. paper
郭冠宏, 何信億, 邱鈴媛, 林逸辰, 范惠婷, 黃怡靜, 梁容豪, BeanDoll: 翻箸, OpenHCI 2011 Workshop Proceedings, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011. paper