Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang

Research Interest: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Mixed Reality, Human Perception (e.g. Illusion, Dream), Game

Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang is a Ph.D. candidate at the Exertion Games Lab, Monash University, Australia. His current research interests revolve around interactive technologies that facilitate playful sleeping experiences, with a particular focus on lucid dreaming. Prior to chasing his “dream”, Cosmos conducted research on illusions, games, augmented reality, and virtual reality. He earned his Master’s degree from the Computational Physicality Lab, National Taiwan University, Taiwan and worked with Liwei Chan at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

In addition to his academic pursuits, Cosmos is an indie game developer/designer at the HCI Game Lab. He is currently cooking up a storm with a Chinese Chess rouge-lite game called Chexel: the caterers’ checkmate. In his spare time, he is an otaku who not only watches anime but also plays tons of video games. He wishes one day he could put on the NervGear and dive into Sword Art Online.

“Your limitation (in lucid dreams) is only your imagination.”

Publications


DreamCeption: Towards Understanding the Design of Targeted Lucid Dream Mediation

Publication: CHI '24 Video Showcase

Authors: Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang, Rohit Rajesh, Nathaniel Lee Yung Xiang, Antony Smith Loose, Nathalie Overdevest, Nathan Semertzidis, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller

Time: Mar. 2023 - Jan. 2024

Category: Research

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LuciEntry: A Lucid Dreaming Induction System

Publication:

Authors: Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang*, Nathaniel Lee Yung Xiang*, Rohit Rajesh, Antony Smith Loose, Nathan Semertzidis, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller

Time: Mar. 2023 - Jan. 2024

Category: Research

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Game Illusionization: a workflow for applying optical illusions to video games

Publication: UIST’21

Authors: Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang, Cong-He (Eden) Xu, Ping-Yi Wang, Hsin-Yu Huang, Jen-Hao Cheng, Yu-Wei Chang, Yu-Hsin Lin, Lung-Pan Cheng

Database: http://hci.csie.ntu.edu.tw/illusiondb

Editors: https://github.com/PoYaoCosmosWang/Game-Illusionization

Time: Mar. 2020 - Apr. 2021

Category: Research

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Impossible Staircase: Vertical Real Walking in an Infinite Virtual Tower

Publication: IEEE VR '21

Authors: Jen-Hao Cheng, Yi Chen, Ting-Yi Chang, Hsu-En Lin, Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang, and Lung-Pan Cheng

Time: May. 2020 - Sep. 2020

Category: Research

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Haptic-go-round: A Surrounding Platform for Encounter-type Haptics in Virtual Reality Experiences

Publication: ACM CHI '20

Authors: Hsin-Yu Huang, Chih-Wei Ning, Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang, Jen-Hao Cheng, and Lung-Pan Cheng

Time: Aug. 2019 - Jan. 2020

Category: Research

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Projects


Chexel: the Caterees' Checkmates

Facebook link: HCI Game Lab

Game Demo: Itch.io, video

Authors: Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang, Cong-He (Eden) Xu, Ting-Yi Chang, Paulpork, Yun-Ting Cheng, Po-Yu Chen, Chun-Miao Tseng, Yu-Po Liao

Time: In Progress

Category: Game

Ruminating

Game Link: https://joanxia.itch.io/ruminating

Award: Best Art Design Prize in 2019 Drunk Game Jam

Authors: Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang, Meng-Ju Chung, Xuan (Joan) Xia, Hsin-Yu Huang, Guan-Wei Chen, Hao-Jen Chen

Time: Sep. 2019

Category: Game

Snowball AR

Award: Bachelor's scholarship funded by Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)

Authors: Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang, Meng-Zheng Lin, Wen-Wei (Neil) Cheng

Time: 2018 - Feb. 2019

Category: Research

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VR Fisher

Award: Best Interactive Design Prize in 2018 NCTU ARVR Festival

Authors: Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang, Wen-Wei (Neil) Cheng

Time: Mar. 2018 - Jun. 2018

Category: Game

Eternal Melody

Authors: Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang, Guan-wei Chen, Hao-Jen Chen, Yu-Hsien Lo

Time: Dec. 2016 - Jun. 2017

Category: Game

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Intelligent Eye-Screen Protector

Award: 1st prize of smart life group in 2016 HackNTU

Authors: Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang, Yu-Hsuan Huang, An-Fong Hwu, Yong-Xuan Wang, Pin-Ren Huang

Time: Aug. 2016

Category: Hackathon