A semi-transparent keyboard towards better document editing on touchscreen tablet computers   A new semi-transparent soft keyboard design interferes only minimally with overlapped text, and the keyboard’s novel interactions solve some inconveniences with traditional touchscreens.   Article  |  Spring 2017     Nowadays, powerful touchscreen tablet computers are widespr...

Furniture that learns to move by itself   A novel strategy for displacing large objects by attaching relatively small vibration sources. After learning how several random bursts of vibration affect an object’s pose, an optimization algorithm discovers the optimal sequence of vibration patterns required to (slowly but surely) move the object to a specified position.   Article  | ...

An implantable micro-robot without an actuator   A research team at KAIST has proposed the novel idea of generating propulsion for micro-robots through wireless power transfer, which can eliminate the use of separate actuators. Lorentz force is used as a source of propulsion, which is generated by the magnetic field and by induced current, which occurs when electrical energy is being transferred in the wirel...

Onion-like DNA-lipid nanoparticles for light harvesting   A novel strategy is developed for constructing efficient and multiscale light harvesting antennae by incorporation of DNA-templated chromophores into a larger onion-like lipid structure that mimics the unique membrane structure of natural photosystems.   Article  |  Fall 2017     Natural light-harvesting complexes (LH...

Self-gated cardiac cine MRI towards more comfortable clinical data acquisition   A novel self-gated cardiac cine magnetic resonance (MR) imaging method is proposed. After directly capturing time-resolved cardiac and respiratory motion information from MR signals, high-resolution cardiac cine images can be reconstructed without external motion-monitoring devices.   Article  |  Fall 20...

Grading without TAs: The Eliph system for peer evaluation   This article presents the Eliph system for improving peer evaluation of computer programs. Eliph is part of a larger platform for programming education and uses fine-grained data of code revision history collected by the platform. Eliph was evaluated in a real classroom, and the user study verified that using the system resulted in higher-quality pe...