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
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
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
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
Projects
Facebook link: HCI Game Lab
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
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
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
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
Authors: Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang, Guan-wei Chen, Hao-Jen Chen, Yu-Hsien Lo
Time: Dec. 2016 - Jun. 2017
Category: Game
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