Honghao Deng (zh:邓鸿浩) is a Chinese computational designer and entrepreneur who resides in San Francisco. He earned a Master of Design Technology with Distinction at Harvard University.[1] He is founder and CEO of Butlr Technologies and formerly was a researcher at City Science Group, MIT Media Lab.[2][3] His latest project with Jiani Zeng Illusory Material: 3D Printed Optical Textiles[4][5] was selected "The best experimental design project of 2020" by Fast Company[6] and won the 2020 Red Dot: Best of the Best, selected from 4170 entries from 52 countries.[7]
During COVID-19 pandemic, Honghao led his team at Butlr to develop sensors to help combat the disease. These sensors are ceiling-mounted to detect body heat and track people's movements indoors.[8] They are thought to help business understand how clients navigate their stores.[9]
Publications
2019 - Diffusive Geometries: Vapor as a Tectonic Element to Sculpt Microclimates in Architectural Space.[10][11]
2019 - Hypercept: Speculating the Visual World Intervened by Digital Media.[12]
2018 - Twinkle: A Flying Lighting Companion for Urban Safety.[13][14]
2018 - Transvision: exploring the state of the visual field in the age of extreme augmentation.[15]
2017 - CatEscape: An Asymmetrical Multiplatform Game Connecting Virtual, Augmented and Physical World.[16]
2017 - MagicTorch: A Context-aware Projection System for Asymmetrical VR Games.[17]
^Li, Jiabao; Deng, Honghao; Michalatos, Panagiotis (2019-05-02). "Hypercept". Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI EA '19. Glasgow, Scotland Uk: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1–4. doi:10.1145/3290607.3313282. ISBN978-1-4503-5971-9. S2CID144207355.
^Deng, Honghao; Li, Jiabao; Sayegh, Allen; Birolini, Sebastian; Andreani, Stefano (2018-03-18). "Twinkle". Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. TEI '18. Stockholm, Sweden: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 567–573. doi:10.1145/3173225.3173309. ISBN978-1-4503-5568-1. S2CID3869229.
^Li, Jiabao; Deng, Honghao; Michalatos, Panagiotis (2018-10-08). "Transvision". Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. ISWC '18. Singapore, Singapore: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 284–289. doi:10.1145/3267242.3267293. ISBN978-1-4503-5967-2. S2CID52944695.
^Li, Jiabao; Deng, Honghao; Michalatos, Panagiotis (2017-10-15). "CatEscape". Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. CHI PLAY '17 Extended Abstracts. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 585–590. doi:10.1145/3130859.3130860. ISBN978-1-4503-5111-9. S2CID7341344.
^Li, Jiabao; Deng, Honghao; Michalatos, Panagiotis (2017-10-15). "MagicTorch". Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. CHI PLAY '17 Extended Abstracts. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 431–436. doi:10.1145/3130859.3131341. ISBN978-1-4503-5111-9. S2CID2339775.