We are very happy that Actuating Geometry in Design Workshop has finished successfully!! In order to demonstrate the concept and signal transformation from physical simulation in Grasshopper to geometry calculation in Processing to physical actuation via Arduino, TsungHsien, Shih Yuan and I had a pre-workshop…
Tangible Pixels (Pixelbot) is cited in Mark’s article of ACM Interactions!

Prof. Mark Gross of Carnegie Mellon publishes an article "Architectural Robotics Inevitably" in the latest ACM Interactions magazine, where the "Tangible Pixels" project of 2011 Taiwan Designers’ Week is cited as one of the examples!
Actuating Geometry Workshop

"Actuating Geometry in Design" workshop will be held in 2012/02/11(Sat.) and 2012/02/12(Sun.) in Taipei (might borrow classroom of TKU). This workshop is organized and will be leaded by Tsung-Hsien Wang, Shih-Yuan Wang and Sheng Kai Tang…
Statement of Adaptive Artifact V1

In one discussion I had with Professor Scott Hudson in a class at CMU in 2007, I brought up my first idea of Adaptive Artifact, which is an Adaptive Mouse. The discussion inspired my strong interest…
Bio
Sheng Kai Tang (Tony) is currently the founder and principle researcher of Adaptive Artifact, a non-profit lab dedicating in the discovery and development of artifacts with adaptive abilities. He was a User Experience Design Specialist in ASUS Design Center and an adjunct lecturer in National Chiao Tung University. He focuses on the development of innovative [...]
Education
2005-2008 Ph.D. Study and M.S. Degree in Computational Design, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 2002-2003 Visiting Researcher, Center for Design Informatics, Harvard University, USA 1999-2002 Ph.D. Study and M.S. Degree in Applied Art, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan 1994-1999 B.S. Degree in Architecture, Fung Chia University, Taiwan
Experience
2011-now Founder, Adaptive Artifact, Taiwan 2008-2011 User Experience Design Specialist, ASUS Design Center, ASUS Computer Inc., Taiwan 2008-now Adjunct Lecturer, Graduate School of Architecture, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan 2005-2008 Research and Teaching Assistant, COmputational DEsign Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 2002-2003 Adjunct Project Coordinator, Center for Design Informatics, Harvard University, USA 1999-2002 Project Coordinator, Graduate [...]
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Publication
Journal Paper 01. Liu, Y.T. and Tang, S.K.: 2003, Space, Place and Digital Media– Towards a Better Simulation for a Disappeared City, International Journal of Architectural Computing. Conference Paper 01. Liu, Y.P., Lin, S.T. and Tang, S.K.: 2011, Effects of Character Size and Grayscale Contrast On Legibility for the Elderly, EAEFS 2011(upcoming). 02. Tang, S.K., Tzeng, W.C., Chiu, K.C., Luo, [...]
Award
2009 Best Paper Award, CAADRIA2009, Taiwan 8/2006~8/2008 Studying Abroad Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan 8/2005~6/2007 Full Funded Assistantship, Carnegie Mellon University, PA 2002 Ivan Petrovic Prize, eCAADe, UK 1999 Annual Prize for Outstanding Student Design, The National Association of Architect, Taiwan
Exhibition
2011 Tangible Pixels, Taiwan Designer’s Week 2011, Taipei, Taiwan (Adaptive Artifact Inc., Principle Designer and Researcher) 2011 Senses Remix, Milan Design Week 2011, Milan, Italy (ASUS Inc, Technical Support) 2011 The Insight, Jimmy’s Corner of the World, Taipei, Taiwan (ASUS, Exhibition Design) 2010 Florabot, Taipe International Flora Expo 2010i, Taipei, Taiwan (ASUS, Principle Designer and Researcher) 2010 Den Nau, Taiwan [...]
Invited Talk
2011 Tangible Interaction Design, Department of Digital Media Design, Ming Chuan University, Taoyuan, Taiwan 2011 Effective, Adaptive and Affective Artifact Design, Department of Industrial Design, Ming Chi University Of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan 2011 Next Generation Artifact Design, Master Program of Digital Content, National [...]
Patent
ERGONOMIC ADAPTIVE MOUSE WITHOUT ORIENTATION LIMITATION United States Patent Application 20100295787 Inventors: Sheng Kai Tang An adaptive mouse is disclosed. In the adaptive mouse, a cover layer made of a moldable material covers a mouse body, and a plurality of sensors is disposed between the mouse body and the cover layer. The sensors are used to sense [...]
Course
Offer 2012 Interactive Aesthetics, Department of Computer Science, Tung Hai University 2012 Innovative Tangible Interaction Design, Department of Computer Science, Tung Hai University 2012 Tangible Interaction Design, Department of Art and Design, Yuan Ze University 2012 Interactive Architecture, Graduate Institute of Architecture, National Chiao Tung University 2011 Introduction of Computational Design, Graduate Institute [...]
Tangible Pixels Video V1
Although it’s about two months since the end of the 2011 Taiwan Designers’ Week, Tangible Pixels project is still far from done. There are many research issues and implementation techniques that require more time to address and discovery after all. However, a video consisted of…
2nd Stage of Tangible Pixels

After 1 month pretty low intensive working, I got a bit progress on the project of Tangible Pixels which is to realize the software and hardware module of handshaking and communicating. Based on this module more complicated and interesting interactive mechanisms could be developed…
Meet Prof. Michael Fox

Due to Vincent (Prof. Yun Shang Chiou)’s arrangement, I joined a small talk in Prof. Shen Guan Shih’s course given by Prof. Michael Fox. Prof. Fox is a pioneer in the field of Interactive Architecture…
Meet Prof. Chiaki Murata

I was so happy to be invited by Prof. Yinghsiu Huang to have a talk at Young Designer Workshop (YDW), one of the side activities of 2011 Taiwan World Design Expo, and met Prof. Chiaki Murata who is now a Professor and Director of KYOTO UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN and…
Final Review of 2011 Fundamental of Computational Design

This is my first official course, Introduction of Computational Design, offered in the Graduate School of Architecture of National Chiao Tung University. This course…
Meet Frankie at my booth

Thanks Frankie Fan, CEO of XtraLab, visiting my booth at 2011 Taiwan Designers’ Week!!