ESC

Selected publications

See Google Scholar for the full list. * denotes co-first authors; underlined names denote supervised/mentored students.

  1. 2026
    Swift: Turning Your Hand into a Writing Pad with Unmodified Smartwatches

    Swift: Turning Your Hand into a Writing Pad with Unmodified Smartwatches

    Wentao Xie, Yankai Zhao, Chi Xu, Zhengyan Lambo Qin, Yixuan Liu, Jin Zhang, Qian Zhang
    IMWUT/UbiComp 2026: to appear in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
    PDF
    @article{swift2026,
      title = {Swift: Turning Your Hand into a Writing Pad with Unmodified Smartwatches},
      author = {Xie, Wentao and Zhao, Yankai and Xu, Chi and Qin, Zhengyan Lambo and Liu, Yixuan and Zhang, Jin and Zhang, Qian},
      year = {2026},
      journal = {to appear in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies}
    }
    
  2. 2026
    FingerBar: A Mid-Air Touch Bar Interface for Earphones Using Finger-Generated Acoustics

    FingerBar: A Mid-Air Touch Bar Interface for Earphones Using Finger-Generated Acoustics

    Yankai Zhao*, Wentao Xie*, Haorui Li, Jiao Li, Tao Sun, Qian Zhang, Jin Zhang
    CHI 2026: Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    DOI
    @inproceedings{fingerbar2026,
      title = {FingerBar: A Mid-Air Touch Bar Interface for Earphones Using Finger-Generated Acoustics},
      author = {Zhao, Yankai and Xie, Wentao and Li, Haorui and Li, Jiao and Sun, Tao and Zhang, Qian and Zhang, Jin},
      year = {2026},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
      doi = {10.1145/3772318.3790462}
    }
    
  3. 2025
    Decoding Your Body with Ubiquitous Sensing - Wearable and Contactless Perception for Health and Beyond

    Decoding Your Body with Ubiquitous Sensing - Wearable and Contactless Perception for Health and Beyond

    Wentao Xie
    ECCAI 2025: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Edge-Cloud Collaboration for AI
    DOI
    @inproceedings{eccai2025,
      title = {Decoding Your Body with Ubiquitous Sensing - Wearable and Contactless Perception for Health and Beyond},
      author = {Xie, Wentao},
      year = {2025},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Edge-Cloud Collaboration for AI },
      doi = {10.1145/3769696.3771221}
    }
    
  4. 2025
    EasySpiro: Assessing Lung Function via Arbitrary Exhalations on Commodity Earphones

    EasySpiro: Assessing Lung Function via Arbitrary Exhalations on Commodity Earphones

    Chi Xu*, Wentao Xie*, Baichen Yang, Yizhen Zhang, Yanbin Gong, Jin Zhang, Wei Li, Shifang Yang and Qian Zhang
    MobiCom 2025: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

    Gold medal with jury congratulations, Geneva Inventions Expo (with DeepBreath)

    DOI
    @inproceedings{easyspiro2025,
      title = {EasySpiro: Assessing Lung Function via Arbitrary Exhalations on Commodity Earphones},
      author = {Xu, Chi and Xie, Wentao and Yang, Baichen and Zhang, Yizhen and Gong, Yanbin and Zhang, Jin and Li, Wei and Yang, Shifang and Zhang, Qian},
      year = {2025},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking},
      doi = {10.1145/3680207.3723489}
    }
    
  5. 2025
    Home-based Dry Eye Assessment via Blink Kinematics Using mmWave and Clinical Knowledge Distillation

    Home-based Dry Eye Assessment via Blink Kinematics Using mmWave and Clinical Knowledge Distillation

    Meng Xue*, Wentao Xie*, Zuohuizi Yi, Zhilong Zhang, Shumao Wu, Yinan Zhu, Qian Zhang, and Changzheng Chen
    MobiCom 2025: Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
    DOI
    @inproceedings{blinic2025,
      title = {Home-based Dry Eye Assessment via Blink Kinematics Using mmWave and Clinical Knowledge Distillation},
      author = {Xue, Meng and Xie, Wentao and Yi, Zuohuizi and Zhang, Zhilong and Wu, Shumao and Zhu, Yinan and Zhang, Qian and Chen, Changzheng},
      year = {2025},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking},
      doi = {10.1145/3680207.3765268}
    }
    
  6. 2024
    DeepBreath: Breathing Exercise Assessment with a Depth Camera

    DeepBreath: Breathing Exercise Assessment with a Depth Camera

    Wentao Xie*, Chi Xu*, Yanbin Gong, Yu Wang, Yuxin Liu, Jin Zhang, Qian Zhang, Zeguang Zheng, and Shifang Yang
    IMWUT/UbiComp 2024: Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

    Gold medal with jury congratulations, Geneva Inventions Expo (with EasySpiro)

    DOI Video
    @article{deepbreath2024,
      title = {DeepBreath: Breathing Exercise Assessment with a Depth Camera},
      author = {Xie, Wentao and Xu, Chi and Gong, Yanbin and Wang, Yu and Liu, Yuxin and Zhang, Jin and Zhang, Qian and Zheng, Zeguang and Yang, Shifang},
      year = {2024},
      journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies},
      doi = {10.1145/3678519}
    }
    
  7. 2023
    RimSense: Enabling Touch-based Interaction on Eyeglass Rim Using Piezoelectric Sensors

    RimSense: Enabling Touch-based Interaction on Eyeglass Rim Using Piezoelectric Sensors

    Wentao Xie, Huangxun Chen, Jing Wei, Jin Zhang, Qian Zhang
    IMWUT/UbiComp 2023: Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
    DOI Video
    @article{rimsense2023,
      title = {RimSense: Enabling Touch-based Interaction on Eyeglass Rim Using Piezoelectric Sensors},
      author = {Xie, Wentao and Chen, Huangxun and Wei, Jing and Zhang, Jin and Zhang, Qian},
      year = {2023},
      journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies},
      doi = {10.1145/3631456}
    }
    
  8. 2023
    EarSpiro: Earphone-based Spirometry for Lung Function Assessment

    EarSpiro: Earphone-based Spirometry for Lung Function Assessment

    Wentao Xie, Qingyong Hu, Jin Zhang, Qian Zhang
    IMWUT/UbiComp 2023: Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
    DOI Video
    @article{earspiro2023,
      title = {EarSpiro: Earphone-based Spirometry for Lung Function Assessment},
      author = {Xie, Wentao and Hu, Qingyong and Zhang, Jin and Zhang, Qian},
      year = {2023},
      journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies},
      doi = {10.1145/3569480}
    }
    
  9. 2021
    Acoustic-based Upper Facial Action Recognition for Smart Eyewear

    Acoustic-based Upper Facial Action Recognition for Smart Eyewear

    Wentao Xie, Qian Zhang, Jin Zhang
    IMWUT/UbiComp 2021: Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
    DOI Talk Video
    @article{fasense2021,
      title = {Acoustic-based Upper Facial Action Recognition for Smart Eyewear},
      author = {Xie, Wentao and Zhang, Qian and Zhang, Jin},
      year = {2021},
      journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies},
      doi = {10.1145/3448105}
    }
    
  10. 2020
    Noncontact Respiration Detection Leveraging Music and Broadcast Signals

    Noncontact Respiration Detection Leveraging Music and Broadcast Signals

    Wentao Xie, Runxin Tian, Jin Zhang, Qian Zhang
    IoTJ 2020: IEEE Internet of Things Journal
    PDF
    @article{rhythm2020,
      title = {Noncontact Respiration Detection Leveraging Music and Broadcast Signals},
      author = {Xie, Wentao and Tian, Runxin and Zhang, Jin and Zhang, Qian},
      year = {2020},
      journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal}
    }