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🎉 Our paper on multimodal e-skin and haptic interfaces has been accepted for publication in Nature Electronics!

🎉 Two projects have been accepted as posters at UIST 2026!

🎓 Adil Rahman successfully defended his PhD dissertation!

🎓 Erzhen Hu successfully defended her PhD dissertation!

🔬 Our lab is participating in UNIST’s InnoCORE research initiative on AI-based approaches to blood cancer.!

🎉 Our paper on the effects of physical surfaces on touch interactions has been accepted for publication in IJHCS!

🏆 Erzhen Hu received the UVA CS Excellence in Research Award!

📍 Ultimate Interface Lab has moved from UVA to UNIST!

🎉 Four papers by Ultimate Interface Lab members have been accepted for CHI 2026!

🏆 CustomSight received the Best Poster Award at UIST 2025!

🌟 Erzhen Hu has been selected for Rising Stars in EECS 2025!

🎉 SpaceShare and CustomSight have been accepted as posters at UIST 2025!

🎓 Hyeongjin Kim successfully defended his master's thesis!

🎉 Thing2Reality and DialogLab have been accepted for UIST 2025!

🎓 Ajwa Shahid successfully defended her master's thesis!

🎖️ Our paper on detecting perception manipulation received an Honorable Mention Paper Award at CHI 2025!

🌟 Adil Rahman has been selected as a 2025 UVA Raven Fellow!

🎉 Our work on older adults' perceptions of LLM-powered conversational companions has been accepted for CHI 2025 Late-Breaking Work!

🎉 ThingMoji has been accepted for CSCW 2025!

🎖️ MoiréTag received an Honorable Mention Award at ISS 2024!

🏆 Ajwa Shahid received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the UVA Research Symposium 2024!

🎖️ Our VR Sketching paper received an Honorable Mention Best Paper Award at VRST 2024!

🌟 Adil Rahman has been selected for the 2024–25 Copenhaver Charitable Bicentennial Fellowship, a UVA SEAS Engineering Endowed Graduate Fellowship!

🌟 Erzhen Hu has been selected for the Google PhD Fellowship!

🎉 Our VR Sketching paper has been accepted for VRST 2024!

🔬 Our collaborative project with Virginia Tech on remote haptic guidance for Parkinson’s disease rehabilitation has received funding from the Commonwealth Health Research Board!

🔬 Our research with VSU on mixed reality interfaces for human-robot collaboration has received funding from the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative!

🎓 Aashik Azim succesfully defended his PhD dissertation!

🔬 Our lab has received 4-VA funding to develop an interactive shape physicalization platform!

🔬 We received 4-VA funding to develop LLM-based voice interfaces for older adults!

🎉 VRScroll has been accepted for CHI 2024 Demo!

🔬 The White Ruffin Byron Center for Real Estate is supporting our research on spatial interfaces for fluid remote communication in real estate!

🏆 Frappe receives the Best Paper Award at MobileHCI 2023!

🔬 Our lab has received Commonwealth Cyber Initiative funding to develop vision-based subtle movement sensing method for telehealth!

🎉 Two papers accepted for MobileHCI 2023!

🏆 Adil received the UVA CS Graduate Teaching Award!

🎓 Joe Spaeth successfully defended his master's thesis!

🎓 Spencer Keefer successfully defended his master's thesis!

🏆 Take My Hand received the Best Paper Award at CHI 2023!

🏆 VRScroll received the Best Poster Award at IEEE VR 2023!

🎉 Three papers accepted for CHI 2023!