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 user experience from both design (Artifact Design) and science (Human Computer Interaction) perspectives. Tony’s expertise includes Tangible UI, Adaptive Artifact, Adaptive Computing, Interactive Prototyping and User Experience Methodology (Qualitative). For the past three years, he conducted many interesting design and research works. His design productions were demonstrated in CES, Computex and CeBIT. Research findings were published in CHI, TEI and HCI International. Interactive Art installations were exhibited in Taiwan Designer’s Week and 2011 International Taipei Flora Expo.

Prior to ASUS Design Center, Tony was a designer, a researcher and an inventor, working in the COmputational DEsign Lab of Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Design Informatics of Harvard, and Graduate School of Architecture of National Chiao Tung University. He holds a Master of Computation Design from Carnegie Mellon University, a Master of Applied Art from National Chiao Tung University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Fung Chia University.

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 School of Architecture, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

1994-1999 Intern Designer, YJ Interior Design, Taiwan

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, W.W., Lin, S.T., and Liu, Y.P.: 2011, Virtual Mouse: A Low Cost Proximity Based Gestural Pointing Device. HCI International 2011.

03. Tang, S.K., Tzeng, W.C., Chiu, K.C., Luo, W.W., Lin, S.T., and Liu, Y.P.: 2011, Virtual Mouse: A Low Cost Proximity Based Gestural Pointing Device. TEI2011 Workshop.

04. Tang, S.K. and Tang, W. Y.: 2010, Adaptive Mouse: A Computer Mouse Achieving Form-Function Synchronization. In Proceeding of CHI 2010, p2785-2792.

05. Tang, S.K. and Tang, W. Y.: 2009, Calligraphic Brush: An Intuitive Tangible User Interface for Interactive Algorithmic Design, In Proceedings of The Fourteenth Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia 2009.
<Best Paper Award in CAADRIA 2009>

06. Tang, W.Y. and Tang, S.K.: 2006, A development of tactile modeling interface, In Proceedings of The Eleventh Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia 2006.

07. Tang, S.K. and Liu, Y.T.: 2002, A digital reconstruction procedure for a disappeared city space and its activities, In Proceedings of the twentieth Conference on Education in Computer Aided Architecture Design in Europe 2002, p598-603.
<Best Presentation Prize Award in eCAADe 2002>

08. Tang, S.K., Liu, Y.T. and Fan, Y.C.: 2002, How to simulate and realize a disappeared city and city life? — A VR cave simulation, In Proceedings of The seventh Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia 2002, p301-308.

09. Lee, H.L., Liu, Y.T., Chen, S.C and Tang, S.K.: 2002, A Comparative study of protocol analysis for Spatiality of a Text-based Cyberspace, In Proceedings of the twentieth Conference on Education in Computer Aided Architecture Design in Europe 2002, p262-266.

10. Tang, S.K. and Liu, Y.T.: 2001, The visual harmony between new and old materials in the restoration of historical architecture, In Proceedings of The sixth Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia 2001, p205-210.

Others

01. Tang, S.K. and Liu, Y.T.: 2001, The digital reconstruction procedure of Chi-Chi Station, in the magazine of Construction News Record 2002, p205-210.

02. Liu, Y.T. and Tang, S.K.: 2001, Virtual Chan An City: the combinational presentation of culture, art and technology, in the national palace museum monthly of Chinese art 231, p4-23.

03. 林緯婷, 唐聖凱, 陳立杰: 2010, 觸碰介面模式下之視覺配置與操作流程的設計迷思, 第十七屆人因工程研討會.

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 Designer’s Week 2010, Taipei, Taiwan (ASUS, Designer)

2010 Object, Human and Space, Interactive Design Exhibition, Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan (YZU, Instructor)

2010 ASUS Dream Flight, Cebit 2010, Hannover, Germany (ASUS, Principle Designer)

2010 Waveface, Cebit 2010, Hannover, Germany (ASUS, Designer and Researcher)

2010 Waveface, CES 2010, Las Vagas, USA (ASUS, Designer and Researcher)

2009 Seamless Mobility, Computex 2009, Taipei, Taiwan (ASUS, Principle Designer)

2008 Fold-Unfold, Cebit 2008, Hannover, Germany (ASUS, Technical Support)

2006 Storytelling Cubes, HCII 12th Anniversary Celebration, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA

2005 The Future House, Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA

2003 Virtual Chang-An, The French "science en fête’’ fest of science, Nancy, France

2002 Digital Castle in the Air, Feidad Award Exhibition,Taipei Museum of Arts, Taiwan

2002 Virtual Chang-An Representing High Tang, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 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 Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan

2011 Innovative Computing Technology Based on User Experience,
Department of Computer Science, Tung Hai University, Taichung, Taiwan

2011 Next Generation Artifact Design (more than 1400 audiences),
General Computing Education, Tung Hai University, Taichung, Taiwan

2011 Effective, Adaptive and Affective Artifact Design,
Young Designer Workshop, 2011 Taipei World Design Expo, Taipei, Taiwan

2011 Emotional Artifact,
Design Forum, 2011 Taiwan Designers’ Week, Taipei, Taiwan

2011 More Than Interaction Design,
Lian Yuan Underground, Taipei, Taiwan

2011 User Experience Design and Research,
Department of Graphic Arts and Communications, National Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

2011 Designing Affordances,
OpenHCI Workshop, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

2011 Everywhere is User Experience Design,
EMBA Program, Tung Hai University, Taichung, Taiwan

2011 Tangible Interaction Workshop,
Department of Digital Media Design, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan

2011 User Experience Design and Research,
Department of Graphic Arts and Communications, National Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

2011 Adaptive and Interactive Space Design,
Department of Architecture, Ming Chuan University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

2011 Computer, Computing and Design (more than 1400 audiences),
General Computing Education, Tung Hai University, Taichung, Taiwan

2011 Interaction Design Workshop,
Department of Art and Design, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

2011 The Leonardo Model of Creation,
Master Program of Digital Content, National Cheng Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan

2010 Pratical Methodologies of User Experience Study,
Institue of Communication Studies, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

2010 Adaptive Artifact Design (English Talk for International Program),
Graduate School of Architecture, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

2010 Artifact Design Getting Rid of Fitts’ Law,
Graduate School of Design, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

2010 Interaction Design Workshop,
Department of Art and Design, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

2010 Human Computer Interaction and Adaptive User Interface,
Department of Digital Design, Ming Dao University, ChangHua, Taiwan

2009 Tangible Interaction Workshop,
Department of Spatial Design, Kung Shan University, Tainan, Taiwan

2009 Adaptive Interface Design,
Department of Digital Media Design, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan

2009 Space Design in the Robotics Era,
Department of Architecture, Lan Yang Institue of Technology, ILan, Taiwan

2009 From User Experience to Adaptive Artifact Design,
Department of Information Communication, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

2009 Interactive Form Creating Dynamic User Experience,
Octobor Section: Smart Space, UI Gathering(UPA Taiwan), Taipei, Taiwan

2009 Media, Design and Adaptive Thinking,
April Section: Prototyping, UI Gathering(UPA Taiwan), Taipei, Taiwan

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 a hand shape of a user when the user holds the cover layer. The sensors under the left and right finger predicting areas are defined as a left button and a right buttons to allow the user to operate the mouse normally. Then, the displacement signal of the mouse is adjusted. The adaptive mouse may increase comfortableness and relieve fatigue, and it also may be adapted to any holding states without orientation limitation.

METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TOUCH CONTROL MODULE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF

United States Patent Application 20110134032

Inventors: Sheng Kai Tang, Kuo Chung Chiu, Wei-Wen Luo, Wen-Chieh Tseng

A method for controlling a touch control module and an electronic device are provides. The electronic device includes a display and a host. The host includes a sensing module, a touch control module and a control unit. The sensing module includes a sensing unit for detecting the gesture and generating the corresponding sensing signal. The control unit determines whether the gesture complies with a preset condition according to the sensing signal. When the determining result is yes, the control unit controls the touch control module to enter the first control mode. On the contrary, if the determining result is no, the control unit controls the touch control module to enter the second control mode.

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 of Architecture, National Chiao Tung University

2011 Tangible Interaction Technology, Department of Art and Design, Yuan Ze University

2010 Tangible Interaction Technology, Department of Art and Design, Yuan Ze University

Taken

2008 Applied Gadgets, Sensors and Activity Recognition - Prof. Scott Hudson, HCI, CMU

2008 Design Perspective in HCI - Prof. Jodi Forlizzi, HCI, CMU

2008 Computational Beauty of Nature - Prof. Ramesh Krishnamurti, Computational Design, CMU

2007 Fun with Robot, Stuco, CMU

2007 HCI Method for Technology Executive - Prof. Brad Myers, HCI, CMU

2007 Principle of Programming, CS, CMU

2006 Software Engineering for Design System - Prof. Omer Akin, Computational Design, CMU

2006 Data Structure and Algorithm, CS, CMU

2006 Physical Computing - Prof. Pamela Jennings, HCI, CMU

2006 Data Structure in JAVA - Prof. Ramesh Krishnamurti, Computational Design, CMU

2006 Architectural Robotics - Prof. Mark D Gross, Computational Design, CMU

2006 Design Computing Theory and Method - Prof. Mark D Gross and Prof. Ellen Do, Computational Design, CMU

2005 Object Oriented CAD - Prof. Mark D Gross, Computational Design, CMU

2005 Computational Toy - Prof. Ellen Do, Computational Design, CMU

2005 Sensors and Interfacing, ECE, NCTU

2005 Data Structure, ECE, NCTU

2005 Linear Algebra, ECE, NCTU

2005 Basic Electronics, ECE, NCTU

2003 Interactive Space (audit) - Prof. Jeffery Huang, GSD, Harvard

2003 Internet and Architecture (audit), GSD, Harvard

2003 Design Technology (audit) - Prof. Spiro N. Pollalis, GSD, Harvard

2001 Expert System In Architectural Design - Prof. Den Wen Chang, Architecture, NCTU

2001 Media Design Studio: Free Form, Web-Space and VR - Prof. Yu Tung Liu, Architecture, NCTU

2001 Future Technology - Prof. Li Hua Yeh, Architecture, NCTU

2000 Digital Architecture Media - Prof. Yu Tung Liu, Applied Art, NCTU

2000 Architectural Design and Computational Thinking - Prof. Yu Tung Liu, Applied Art, NCTU

2000 Contemporary Design Research and Methodology - Prof. Yu Tung Liu, Applied Art, NCTU

2000 Artificial Intelligence in Design - Prof. Yu Tung Liu, Applied Art, NCTU

1999 Design Thinking: Media Cognition and Computation - Prof. Yu Tung Liu, Applied Art, NCTU

1999 Fundamentals of Computer-Aided Design - Prof. Yu Tung Liu, Applied Art, NCTU

1999 Artificial Intelligence, CS, NCTU

1999 Evolutionary Computing, CS, NCTU