Ruhan Yang

Ruhan Yang is a design engineer who never stops exploring and creating. She has been designing educational toys and tools for many years and hopes to bring opportunities to more children through her designs. Ruhan received her Master of Science degree in Creative Technology and Design and Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from CU Boulder.

Projects

• Touching Trends
• DIY Interactive Information Physicalization for Children
• Paper Play

Publications

Ruhan Yang and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2024. "Building Locker Mini-Worlds: A CAD Course with a Semester-Long Project". In: 2024 Rocky Mountain Section Conference. (Boulder, CO, May 15-17 2024).

Ruhan Yang and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2024. "Fabricating Haptic Paper Interface". In: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference(SIGGRAPH '24). (Denver, CO, July 27 - August 1 2024).

Ruhan Yang and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2024. "Empowering Non-Technical Users: Building Paper Circuit Boards with Zone-Based Circuit Stickers". In: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference(SIGGRAPH '24). (Denver, CO, July 27 - August 1 2024).

Ruhan Yang. 2024. "Paper Modular Robot: Circuit, Sensation Feedback, and 3D Geometry". In: Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction(TEI '24). (Cork, Ireland, February 11-24 2024).

Ruhan Yang and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2024. "PaBo Bot: Paper Box Robots for Everyone". In: Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1158–1162. 

Ruhan Yang and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2024. "Let's Build a Traffic Light: Teaching Physical Computing to Children with EdBoard". In: Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2 (SIGCSE 2024). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1929.

Ruhan Yang and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. "Enhancing Accessibility in Soft Robotics: Exploring Magnet-Embedded Paper-Based Interactions". In: ACM DIS 2023 Workshop 02: Soft Robotics and Programmable Materials for Human-Computer Interaction(DIS2023). (Pittsburgh, PA, July 10 2023).

Peter Gyory, S. Sandra Bae, Ruhan Yang, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, and Clement Zheng. 2023. “Marking Material Interactions with Computer Vision”. In: CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).  

Ruhan Yang, Krithik Ranjan, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023. “Fabricating Paper Circuits with Subtractive Processing”. In: CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).

S. Sandra Bae, Rishi Vanukuru, Ruhan Yang, Peter Gyory, Ran Zhou, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Danielle Albers Szafir. 2022. "Cultivating Visualization Literacy for Children Through Curiosity and Play". In: Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2022. (Oct.16-21, 2022—Oklahoma City, Oklahoma).

Sandra Bae, Ruhan Yang, Peter Gyory, Julia Uhr, Danielle Albers Szafir, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2021. "Touching Information with DIY Paper Charts & AR Markers". In: IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children. (June 2021).

Ruhan Yang, Cody Candler, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2020. "EdBoard: An Educational Breadboard". In: Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference 2020 (IDC'20). (London, England (virtual)–June 17-24, 2020).