Research

2025

  1. PPGEarring
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    PPG Earring: Wireless Smart Earring for Heart Health Monitoring
    Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue , Dilini Nissanka , Jiachen Yan , Ruiqing Wang , Shwetak Patel , and Vikram Iyer
    Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    2025
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  2. ECGNecklace
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    ECG Necklace: Low-power Wireless Necklace for Continuous ECG monitoring
    Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue , Eric Martin , Jiaqing Liu , Ruiqing Wang , Antonio Glenn , Richard Li , Shwetak Patel , and Vikram Iyer
    Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    2025
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2024

  1. ThermalEarring
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    Thermal Earring: Low-power Wireless Earring for Longitudinal Earlobe Temperature Sensing
    Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue , Yujia Liu , Joseph Breda , Mastafa Springston , Vikram Iyer , and Shwetak Patel
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
    2024
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    Design of Thermal Earring: A Low-Power Wireless Earring for Longitudinal Temperature Monitoring
    Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue , Yujia Liu , Vikram Iyer , and Shwetak Patel
    UbiComp ’24: The 2024 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
    2024
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2022

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    LuckyChirp: Opportunistic Respiration Sensing Using Cascaded Sonar on Commodity Devices
    Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue , D Shin , Anupam Pathak , Jake Garrison , Jonathan Hsu , Mark Malhotra , and Shwetak Patel
    2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)
    2022
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2020

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    Airdropping sensor networks from drones and insects
    Vikram Iyer* , Maruchi Kim* , Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue* , Anran Wang , and Shyamnath Gollakota
    Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
    2020
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    UbiquiTouch: Self sustaining ubiquitous touch interfaces
    Anandghan Waghmare , Qiuyue Shi(Shirley)rley Xue , Dingtian Zhang , Yuhui Zhao , Shivan Mittal , Nivedita Arora , Ceara Byrne , Thad Starner , and Gregory D Abowd
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
    2020
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2019

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    Jack Watson: Addressing contract cheating at scale in online computer science education
    Rocko Graziano , David Benton , Sarthak Wahal , Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue , P Tim Miller , Nick Larsen , Diego Vacanti , Pepper Miller , Khushhall Chandra Mahajan , Deepak Srikanth , and others
    Proceedings of the Sixth (2019) ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale
    2019
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    Surface++ A Scalable and Self-sustainable Wireless Sound Sensing Surface (poster)
    Nivedita Arora , Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue , Dhruva Bansal , Peter McAughan , Ryan Bahr , Diego Osorio , Xiaomeng Ma , Alanson P Sample , Thad E Starner , and Gregory D Abowd
    Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
    2019
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2018

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    FingerPing: Recognizing fine-grained hand poses using active acoustic on-body sensing
    Cheng Zhang , Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue , Anandghan Waghmare , Ruichen Meng , Sumeet Jain , Yizeng Han , Xinyu Li , Kenneth Cunefare , Thomas Ploetz , Thad Starner , and Gregory D Abowd
    Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    2018
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2017

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    Soundtrak: Continuous 3d tracking of a finger using active acoustics
    Cheng Zhang , Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue , Anandghan Waghmare , Sumeet Jain , Yiming Pu , Sinan Hersek , Kent Lyons , Kenneth A Cunefare , Omer T Inan , and Gregory D Abowd
    Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
    2017
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    Bioacoustics-based human-body-mediated communication
    Cheng Zhang , Sinan Hersek , Yiming Pu , Danrui Sun , Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue , Thad E Starner , Gregory D Abowd , and Omer T Inan
    Computer
    2017
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Patents

2024

  1. Wearable devices for detecting events using external ear and ambient temperature, including examples of earrings
    Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue , Yujia Liu , Vikram Iyer , and Shwetak Patel
    2024

2023

  1. Systems, methods and devices for gesture recognition
    Cheng Zhang , Gregory D Abowd , Omer T Inan , Pranav Kundra , Thomas Ploetz , Yiming Pu , Thad Starner , Anandghan Waghmare , Xiaoxuan Wang , Kenneth A Cunefare , and Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue
    2023

2022

  1. Opportunistic sonar monitoring of vital signs
    Dongeek Shin , Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue , and Shwetak Patel
    2022

2021

  1. Thin and flexible self-powered vibration transducer employing triboelectric nanogeneration
    Nivedita Arora , Gregory Abowd , Mohit Gupta , Diego Osorio , Seyedeh Fereshteh Shahmiri , Thad Starner , Yi-Cheng Wang , Zhengjun Wang , Zhong Lin Wang , Steven L Zhang , Peter McAughan , Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue , Dhruva Bansal , Ryan Bahr , and Emmanouil Tentzeris
    2021