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  1. EchoMotion: Towards Full-Body Pose Tracking with a Single Smartwatch Using Active Acoustic Sensing

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, September 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang

  2. Exploring the Impact of Emotional Voice Integration in Sign-to-Speech Translators for Deaf-to-Hearing Communication

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang, Ianip Sit

  3. Beyond Sound: The First Workshop on Intelligent Acoustic Sensing on Wearables

    Article • October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chi-Jung Lee, Xiaoran Fan, Cheng Zhang

  4. Intelligent Soft Wearables

    Article • October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang, Cedric Honnet

  5. EchoForce: Continuous Grip Force Estimation from Skin Deformation Using Active Acoustic Sensing on a Wristband

    Article • October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chi-Jung Lee, Cheng Zhang

  6. Grab-n-Go: On-the-Go Microgesture Recognition with Objects in Hand

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, August 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chi-Jung Lee, Cheng Zhang

  7. SeamFit: Towards Practical Smart Clothing for Automatic Exercise Logging

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, March 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chi-Jung Lee, Cheng Zhang

  8. SonicID: User Identification on Smart Glasses with Acoustic Sensing

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ke Li, Cheng Zhang

  9. Ring-a-Pose: A Ring for Continuous Hand Pose Tracking

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chi-Jung Lee, Ke Li, Cheng Zhang

  10. ActSonic: Recognizing Everyday Activities from Inaudible Acoustic Wave Around the Body

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ke Li, Cheng Zhang

  11. Democratizing Intelligent Soft Wearables

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cedric Honnet, tingyu cheng, Andreea Danielescu, Cheng Zhang

  12. SeamPose: Repurposing Seams as Capacitive Sensors in a Shirt for Upper-Body Pose Tracking

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chi-Jung Lee, Cheng Zhang

  13. EchoGuide: Active Acoustic Guidance for LLM-Based Eating Event Analysis from Egocentric Videos

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ke Li, Cheng Zhang

  14. MunchSonic: Tracking Fine-grained Dietary Actions through Active Acoustic Sensing on Eyeglasses

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang

  15. GazeTrak: Exploring Acoustic-based Eye Tracking on a Glass Frame

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ke Li, Cheng Zhang

  16. EchoWrist: Continuous Hand Pose Tracking and Hand-Object Interaction Recognition Using Low-Power Active Acoustic Sensing On a Wristband

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ke Li, Cheng Zhang, Chi-Jung Lee, Boao Dong

  17. EyeEcho: Continuous and Low-power Facial Expression Tracking on Glasses

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ke Li, Cheng Zhang

  18. C-Auth: Exploring the Feasibility of Using Egocentric View of Face Contour for User Authentication on Glasses

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang

  19. EchoNose: Sensing Mouth, Breathing and Tongue Gestures inside Oral Cavity using a Non-contact Nose Interface

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ke Li, Cheng Zhang, Sam Tilsen, Rujia Sun, Shengzhang Wu

  20. HPSpeech: Silent Speech Interface for Commodity Headphones

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ke Li, Cheng Zhang

  21. PoseSonic

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang, Ke Li

  22. ReMotion: Supporting Remote Collaboration in Open Space with Automatic Robotic Embodiment

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang, Malte Jung

  23. EchoSpeech: Continuous Silent Speech Recognition on Minimally-obtrusive Eyewear Powered by Acoustic Sensing

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang, Ke Li

  24. D-Touch: Recognizing and Predicting Fine-grained Hand-face Touching Activities Using a Neck-mounted Wearable

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jeyeon Jo, Cheng Zhang

  25. Understanding How People with Visual Impairments Take Selfies: Experiences and Challenges

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang

  26. EatingTrak

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang

  27. BodyTrak

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang

  28. EarIO

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ke Li, Cheng Zhang

  29. SpeeChin

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, December 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang

  30. HandyTrak: Recognizing the Holding Hand on a Commodity Smartphone from Body Silhouette Images

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang

  31. ThumbTrak: Recognizing Micro-finger Poses Using a Ring with Proximity Sensing

    Article • September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang

  32. NeckFace

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang

  33. TeethTap: Recognizing Discrete Teeth Gestures Using Motion and Acoustic Sensing on an Earpiece

    Article • April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang

  34. C-Face

    Article • October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang

  35. VibroSense

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, September 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang, JIAYI ZHENG

  36. FingerTrak

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Cheng Zhang