Sensing the Physical World & Human Behaviour


Exploring the Use of Capacitive Sensing to Externally Measure Liquid Level in Fluid Containers

Mingming Fan, Khai N. Truong, Abhishek Ranjan
Knowledge Media Design Institute Technical Report, University of Toronto, 2016

SoQr: Sonically Quantifying the Content Level inside Containers

Mingming Fan, Khai N. Truong
In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3-14. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2750858.2804264
Best Paper Honarable Mention Award

Public Restroom Detection on Mobile Phone via Active Probing

Mingming Fan, Alexander T. Adams, Khai N. Truong
In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 27-34. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2634317.2634320

From Health-Persona to Societal Health

Ramesh Jain, Laleh Jalali, Mingming Fan
In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW '13 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1329-1334. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2488171

Augmenting Gesture Recognition with Erlang-Cox Models to Identify Neurological Disorders in Premature Babies

Mingming Fan, Dana Gravem, Dan Cooper, Donald J Patterson
In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 411-420. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2370216.2370278

Understanding Interactions & Mobile and Wearable Interactions

Comparing Mid-air Finger Motion with Touch for Small Target Acquisition on Wearable Devices

Mingming Fan, Anuruddha Hettiarachchi, Zhicong Lu, Seyong Ha, and Priyank Gupta
ACM CHI EA 2017
In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1593-1600. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053092

Smart Toy Car Localization and Navigation using Projected Light

Mingming Fan, Qiong Liu, Shang Ma, Patrick Chiu
 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), Miami, FL, 2015, pp. 399-402.

POLI: Interactive Multimedia Authoring and retrieval on Mobile Phone by Leveraging Its Audio Channel and Coded Light

Mingming Fan, Qiong Liu, Hao Tang, Patrick Chiu
2015 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW), Turin, 2015, pp. 1-6.

HiFi: Hide and Find Digital Content Associated with Physical Objects via Coded Light

Mingming Fan, Qiong Liu, Hao Tang, Patrick Chiu
In Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 6 , 6 pages.

Multi-Perspective Multi-Layer Interaction on Mobile Devices

Maryam Khademi, Mingming Fan, Hossein Mousavi Hondori, Cristina Videira Lopes
In Proceedings of the adjunct publication of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '13 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 65-66. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2508468.2514712

When Camera Meets Accelerometer: A Novel Way for 3D Interaction of Mobile Phone

Mingming Fan, Donald J Patterson, Yuanchun Shi
In Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services companion (MobileHCI '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 131-136. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2371664.2371689

Surprise Grabber: a Co-located Tangible Social Game based on Phone Hand Gestures.

Mingming Fan, Xin Li, Yu Zhong, Li Tian, Yuanchun Shi, Hao Wang.
In Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 625-628. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1958824.1958930

Back-to-Back: A Novel Approach for Real Time 3D Hand Gesture Interaction

Mingming Fan, Yuanchun Shi
ACHI'11: Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. pp101-105.

Pull and Push: Proximity-Aware User Interface for Navigating in 3D Space Using a Handheld Camera

Mingming Fan, Yuanchun Shi
In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 133-140. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.

Doodle Space: Painting on A Public Display by Cam-Phone

Yu Zhong, Xin Li,Mingming Fan, Yuanchun Shi
In Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on Ambient media computing (AMC '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13-20. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1631005.1631010

Painting in Public Doodle Space with Cam-Phone Brush

Yuanchun Shi, Mingming Fan, Yu Chun, Yu Zhong, Xin Li, Yue Suo, Chenjun Wu, Xin Yang
UbiComp'09 Adjunction: ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Demo)

Hand's 3D Movement Detection with One Handheld Camera

Mingming Fan,Liang Zhang, Yuanchun Shi
In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology (VRST '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 255-256. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1450579.1450640

UCam: Direct Manipulation using Handheld Camera for 3D Gesture Interaction

Liang Zhang, Yuanchun Shi, Mingming Fan
In Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia (MM '08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 801-804. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1459359.1459491

Enhancing Target Selection on GUI

The Satellite Cursor: Achieving MAGIC Pointing without Gaze Tracking using Multiple Cursors

Yu Chun, Yuanchun Shi, Ravin Balakrishnan, Xiangliang Meng, Yue Suo, Mingming Fan, Yongqiang Qin
In Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 163-172. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1866029.1866056

Understanding Crowd-generated Data

Predicting a Business‘ Review Star in Yelp from Its Reviews Text Alone

Mingming Fan,Maryam Khademi
arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.0864 [cs.IR]