Projects

Soft Grasp-Assist Exoskeleton for Spinal Cord Injury

Yili Wen, Ceci Verbaarschot, Liang He

CHI '26 Workshop · "From Intention to Action"

A wearable soft exoskeleton that restores grasping to people with spinal cord injury, driven by the wearer's own decoded intent.

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PACER: Cable-Driven Wearable for Independent Blind & Low-Vision Running

Yili Wen, Liang He

Manuscript in preparation

Blind and low-vision runners depend on a sighted volunteer guide holding a tether, and what limits their running is guide availability rather than fitness. PACER is a cable-driven wearable that delivers the same directional pull on the runner's own body, so the run no longer requires a second person.

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PufFab: Making Shape Transformable Rice Paper for Playful Food Fabrication

Yili Wen, Yafei Ge, Xin Tong, Liang He

TEI '26 · Poster

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"I Want to Use Technology to Help Farmers in the Future": Enhancing Children's Understanding of Farming through TUI and Embodied Interaction

Yili Wen, Jiaxin Wang, Hongni Ye, Liang He, Min Fan, Xin Tong

IDC '25 · Full Paper

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Accessible Adaptive Gaming Controllers for People with Motor Disabilities

Georgia Loewen, Karen Anne Cochrane, Yili Wen, Audrey Girouard

GI '26 · Poster · my role: controller hardware

DIY reconfigurable game controllers for people with upper-limb motor disabilities. I designed and built the controller hardware that served as the study platform.

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