We further let participants *choose* which tactile perspective to use for a handshaking task. All chose to *use both devices*, and most stated that the eyes' provides an overview, and the hands' provides details. We were really impressed by how they were able to fluently utilize these new senses!

Our user studies including Blind & Low Vision participants focus on daily tasks (e.g., grasping). Without extensive training (~15 min), most completed without touching unintended objects. Compared to using the eyes' perspective, participants found the hands' provides a more ergonomic way of seeing.

In contrast to the more traditional way of sensory substitution which captures vision from the *eyes’ perspective*, we propose seeing from the *hands' perspective*, and explore its unique benefits for manual tasks, e.g., hands are natural and easy to move around.

“Seeing with the Hands” is the latest #CHI25 research from our lab (@pedrolopes.org) with Gene S-H Kim and Xuanyou Liu. We explore a sensory substitution that enables a flexible way of seeing (vision-to-electrotactile), e.g., hover an object and feel its shape before grasping if one cannot see.

Being an HCI researcher is not easy! It was nice hosting a panel at UChicago CS and hearing from our kind faculty members about cultivating culture, volunteering, dealing with failure, and more.

A fresh start on Bluesky: I am Shan-Yuan, a PhD candidate passionate about "haptics" (touch, texture, force), which we have mostly given up with touchscreens & VR/AR headsets. I re-envision and build new hardware that enables fun and dexterous computing interactions (hoping to start a new lab!).