I am a Ph.D. student at Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), advised by Prof. Jeffrey Bigham. My current research focuses on designing and building accessible and assistive interactive tools to help users make sense of media.

Before joining CMU, I was a member of HCI Lab at National Taiwan University (NTU), advised by Prof. Mike Y. Chen and Prof. Lung-Pan Cheng. As an undergraduate research assistant, I explored and developed several different enabling and inclusive systems across mixed-reality, mobile and wearable interfaces (see publication page for details).


profile shot taken when Yi Hao presented at CHI 2019.

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Selected Research
A user hold the dumbbell up and down to control the virtual character movements in the game to avoid obstacles and get coins.
StrengthGaming: Enabling Dynamic Repetition Tempo in Strength Training-based Exergame Design


A novel approach to provide tempo variation to strength training in order to enable the design of more entertaining strength training-based exergames.

Full paper accepted to ACM MobileHCI 2020, Oldenburg, Germany

The vibration motors attached on two sides of the VR headset provide haptic feedback that is syncrhonized with user's virtual steps.
WalkingVibe: Reducing Virtual Reality Sickness and Improving Realism while Walking in VR using Unobtrusive Head-mounted Vibrotactile Feedback


An unobtrusive head-mounted vibro-tactile stimulation to reduce VR sickness and improve realism for VR navigation.

Full paper presented at ACM CHI 2020, Hawaii, USA

The optimal, personalized accessibility settings recommended by PersonalTouch enable users to move arbitrarily for 1.5 seconds before triggering the button on the mobile application.
PersonalTouch: Improving Touchscreen Usability by Personalizing Accessibility Settings based on Individual User’s Touchscreen Interaction


A recommendation pipeline which suggests personalized, optimal touchscreen accessibility settings based on individual touchscreen behavior.

Full paper presented at ACM CHI 2019, Glasgow, England

A user worn the VR headset coupled with our tapping devices near both of user's vestibular systems. The haptic cues are released and synchronized with every move user takes in VR.
PhantomLegs: Reducing Virtual Reality Sickness using Head-Worn Haptic Devices


A head-mounted haptic device which applies alternating haptic cues synchronized to users’ footsteps in virtual reality.

Full paper presented at IEEE VR 2019, Osaka, Japan

The overview of the an AR reading interface: PeriText, which provides real-time text information using rapid serial visual presentation, with words ('You' and 'Come') sequentially displayed below users' center gaze, represented by the red crosshair.
PeriText: Utilizing Peripheral Vision for Reading Text on Augmented Reality Smart Glasses


A multiword rapid-serial-visual-presentation (RSVP) AR interface which allows users to read virtual context with periphery meanwhile observe physical environment via central vision.

Full paper presented at IEEE VR 2019, Osaka, Japan

The live demo AR view that augments conversations between two people using bubble-like visualization anchored near the individual face. The bubble will rise once new utternaces are visualized.
SpeechBubbles: Enhancing Captioning Experiences for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People in Group Conversations


A real-time speech recognition AR interface aiming to provide desirable caption visualization for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) users during group conversations with hearing people.

Full paper presented at ACM CHI 2018, Montréal, Canada

A user perform simple swipe up gesture to turn on the volume for a video, which the button is tagged by user-controlled eye cursor.
GestureTag: Combining Gaze with Touch Gestures to Acquire Targets for People with Motor Impairments


A novel selection technique which aids motor impaired users to select targets on desktops by combining gaze pointing and simple touch swipe gestures for tagging and triggering.

Collaboroated project with CSE student Tony Tung and Prof. Jacob Wobbrock from University of Washington