Difeng Yu

Difeng Yu
University of Copenhagen

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Please refer to 'www.difeng.me' for my recent works. You can find the full text of my works on the website.
Additional affiliations
July 2019 - February 2023
University of Melbourne
Position
  • PhD Student
September 2014 - September 2018
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Position
  • Undergraduate Student

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Publications (40)
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Multi-object acquisition is indispensable for many VR applications. Commonly, users select a group of objects of interest to perform further transformation or analysis. In this paper, we present three multi-object selection techniques that were derived based on a two-dimensional design space. The primary design dimension concerns whether a techniqu...
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Target selection is a fundamental task in interactive Augmented Reality (AR) systems. Predicting the intended target of selection in such systems can provide users with a smooth, low-friction interaction experience. Our work aims to predict gaze-based target selection in AR headsets with eye and head endpoint distributions, which describe the proba...
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Smart speakers have become exceedingly popular and entered many people's homes due to their ability to engage users with natural conversations. Researchers have also looked into using smart speakers as an interface to collect self-reported health data through conversations. Responding to surveys prompted by smart speakers requires users to listen t...
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Non-invasive inspection and imaging techniques are used to acquire non-visible information embedded in samples. Typical applications include medical imaging, defect evaluation, and electronics testing. However, existing methods have specific limitations, including safety risks ( e.g. , X-ray), equipment costs ( e.g. , optical tomography), personnel...
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We present UbiNIRS, a software framework for rapid development and deployment of applications using miniaturized near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). NIRS is an emerging material sensing technology that has shown a great potential in recent work from the HCI community such as in situ pill testing. However, existing methods require significant program...
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Using virtual reality (VR) head-mounted displays (HMDs) can induce VR sickness. VR sickness can cause strong discomfort, decrease users' presence and enjoyment, especially in games, shorten the duration of the VR experience, and can even pose health risks. Previous research has explored different VR sickness mitigation methods by adding visual effe...
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Using virtual reality (VR) head-mounted displays (HMDs) can induce VR sickness. VR sickness can cause strong discomfort, decrease users' presence and enjoyment, especially in games, shorten the duration of the VR experience, and can even pose health risks. Previous research has explored different VR sickness mitigation methods by adding visual effe...
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Background: Hand hygiene is one of the most effective ways of preventing health care–associated infections and reducing their transmission. Owing to recent advances in sensing technologies, electronic hand hygiene monitoring systems have been integrated into the daily routines of health care workers to measure their hand hygiene compliance and qual...
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BACKGROUND Hand hygiene is one of the most effective ways of preventing health care–associated infections and reducing their transmission. Owing to recent advances in sensing technologies, electronic hand hygiene monitoring systems have been integrated into the daily routines of health care workers to measure their hand hygiene compliance and quali...
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Text entry is a common activity in virtual reality (VR) systems. There is a limited number of available hands-free techniques, which allow users to carry out text entry when users' hands are busy such as holding items or hand-based devices are not available. The most used hands-free text entry technique is DwellType, where a user selects a letter b...
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The presence of fully-occluded targets is common within virtual environments, ranging from a virtual object located behind a wall to a datapoint of interest hidden in a complex visualization. However, efficient input techniques for locating and selecting these targets are mostly underexplored in virtual reality (VR) systems. In this paper, we devel...
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Reaching towards out-of-sight objects during walking is a common task in daily life, however the same task can be challenging when wearing immersive Head-Mounted Displays (HMD). In this paper, we investigate the effects of spatial reference frame, walking path curvature, and target placement relative to the body on user performance of manually acqu...
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Understanding the endpoint distribution of pointing selection tasks can reveal the underlying patterns on how users tend to acquire a target, which is one of the most essential and pervasive tasks in interactive systems. It could further aid designers to create new graphical user interfaces and interaction techniques that are optimized for accuracy...
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Head-based interactions are very handy for virtual reality (VR) head-worn display (HWD) systems. A useful head-based interaction technique could help users to interact with VR environments in a hands-free manner (i.e., without the need of a hand-held de-vice). Moreover, it can sometimes be seamlessly integrated with other input modalities to provid...
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Developments of advanced textile manufacturing techniques—such as 3D body-forming knitwear machinery—allows the production of almost finalized garments, which require little to no further production steps to finalize the garment. Moreover, advanced knitting technology in combination with new materials enables the integration of localized functional...
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The relationship between visual appearance and structure and technical properties of a knitted fabric is subtle and complex. This is an area that has been traditionally problematic within the knitting sector, understanding between technologists and designers is hindered which limits the possibility of dialogues from which design innovation can emer...
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Presents corrections to author information for the paper, “RingText: Dwell-Free and Hands-Free Text Entry for Mobile Head-Mounted Displays Using Head Motions,” (Xu, W., et al), IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 1991–2001, May 2019.
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We present DMove, directional motion-based interaction for Augmented Reality (AR) Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) that is both hands-and device-free. It uses directional walking as a way to interact with virtual objects. To use DMove, a user needs to perform directional motions such as moving one foot forward or backward. In this research, we first in...
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This research explores the design and evaluation of visualization techniques of targets that reside outside of users' view or are occluded by other elements within a virtual reality environment (VE). We first compare four techniques (3DWedge, 3DArrow, 3DMinimap, and Radar) that can provide direction and distance information of targets. To give stru...
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Target selection is one of the most common and important tasks in interactive systems. Within virtual reality environments, target selection can pose extra challenges to users because targets can be located far away, clustered together, and occluded from view. Although selection techniques have been explored, it is often unclear which techniques pe...

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