Weighted Walking: Propeller-based On-leg Force Simulation of Walking in Fluid Materials in VR

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All 19 presentations are accessible on-demand in the virtual platform from 6 December 2021 to 11 March 2022.
Out of which, 13 Emerging Technologies will have physical exhibits onsite in Hall E, Tokyo International Forum from 15 - 17 December 2021.
Live demonstrations and Q&As for the respective presentations will be taking place at the specified Date/Time below.

Description: Weighted Walking is a wearable device with ducted fans on the user's calf. The fans can generate powerful thrust to simulate the forces caused by the user's lower limbs moving in different fluid materials. It can also simulate the walking experience in different gravity conditions, such as in another planet.

Presenter(s):
Pingchuan Ke, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Shaoyu Cai, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Lantian Xu, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kening Zhu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Ke Pingchuan (Patrick) is a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Kening Zhu at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. His current projects focus on Virtual and Augmented Reality(VR/AR), User Interface(UI) and other areas of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). At the same time, he is also interested in research areas of new media art, interaction design, game and animation design.

Shaoyu Cai is a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Kening Zhu at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. His research interest lies in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), especially for Cross-modal Learning (e.g., from vision to touch) and Multi-modal Interaction through Deep Learning methods.

Lantian Xu (Alston) is currently a first year Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Alvaro Cassinelli and Dr. Kening Zhu at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong where he also obtained his BSc degree in 2020. His current research focuses on remote collaboration and sense of presence in mixed reality.

Kening Zhu is an Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media, and jointly appointed by the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. He leads the Multimodal and Embodied Interaction Lab (MEI Lab). He received his PhD degree from the National University of Singapore, and his bachelor degree on Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.

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