Welcome to HCI Tech Lab!

We are a multidisciplinary research group working on physical computing, natural user interface, and socially acceptable interactions. Our research focuses on enabling novel interactions for Extended Reality (XR) through sensing/haptic feedback technology and wearable interface with the aid of applied machine learning while supporting intelligent authoring systems.

We envision natural user interactions that overcome physical, mental, and social barriers. To achieve this, we will focus on

Embedding Interactive Technologies

Advancing Interaction Techniques

Authoring User Interface & Experience

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News

📣 HCI Tech lab in the MERRIC News Letter

Sep 6 2023

HCI Tech Lab has been featured on Merric (Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research Information Center) news letter.

SUI 2023

Aug 25 2023

Our paper "VibAware: Context-Aware Tap and Swipe Gestures Using Bio-Acoustic Sensing" led by Jina is accepted to SUI2023.

UIST 2023 Demo

Aug 25 2023

Our demo "Mo2Hap: Rendering performer’s Motion Flow to Upper-body Vibrotactile Haptic Feedback for VR performance" will be presented at UIST 2023.

Research Collaboration

Aug 24 2023

ETRI & 1Million visited HCI Tech Lab for research collaboration.

Research Collaboration

Jul 19 2023

KAIST CT, 1Million, and EBS sign a Dance Education Technology Development Agreement.

WHC 2023

Jul 10 2023

Our lab participated in IEEE World Haptics Conference held in Delft for oral presentation & demo!

Research Collaboration

Jul 7 2023

HCI Tech Lab participated summer workshop with Korea University & KETI on "4D Content Generation and Copyright Protection with Artificial Intelligence".

Recruiting Graudate Students

Jun 14 2023

We have positions for M.S. & Ph.D for Spring 2024 (Graduate School of Culture Technology & Metaverse Program). Please check Open Positions.

Youjin successfully defended her M.S. Thesis

Jun 13 2023

Youjin Sung successfully defended her M.S. Thesis. Congrats! Youjin will continue as a Ph.D. student in HCI Tech Lab.

New Research Project

Jun 1 2023

New research project on "Real-time virtual convergence-based performing arts education platform technology" collaborated with ETRI, 1Million, and EBS.

New Research Project

Jun 1 2023

New research project on "In-camera based interactive digital VFX content production pipeline technology" collaborated with KETI, DexterStudios, Studio EON, and Metalocat.

Summer 2023 Undergraduate Research Internship

May 10 2023

We are looking for research interns for 2023 Summer. Application deadline is May 17th.

VR 2023 Participation

Mar 25 2023

Jina, Kyungeun, Nicha participated in IEEE VR conference held in Shanghai to present posters!

Venture Research Program Kick-off

Mar 20 2023

Jina & Minyung's Venture Research Proposal on "Interaction improvement using sensing technology" selected!

New Research Project

Mar 17 2023

Outstanding Young Scientist Grants (NRF) on "A wearable multimodal sensing framework for adaptive interaction in extended reality" selected.

Recruiting Graudate Students

Mar 10 2023

We have positions for M.S. & Ph.D for Spring 2023. Please register for information session for Graduate School of Culture Technology

Graduate Students & Intern

Mar 6 2023

Welcome our new Ph.D. student Seo Young Oh (Co-advising), and spring intern Hyunyoung Han!

Graduate Students

Feb 27 2023

Welcome our new MS students Dong Kyu, Min-yung, Hyung Il, Soyeong, and Junghoon!

Graduation

Feb 17 2023

Minjae successfully defended his M.S. Thesis & graduated.

HCI Korea 2023

Feb 3 2023

Our lab participated in HCI Korea 2023!

More News

Join Us

**Note: We currently have openings for Ph.D. and M.S.**

We are excited to talk to strong candidates whose backgrounds or interests overlap with

Software engineering: Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual/Augmented Reality, Machine Learning

Hardware engineering: Sensors, Embedded systems, Mechanical Design, Signal processing,

HCI related topics: UX/UI Design, Human Factors, User/Design Study

For prospective students, please check below.

M.S./Ph.D. Students

Highlighted Publications

HapSense: A Soft Haptic I/O Device with Uninterrupted Dual Functionalities of Force Sensing and Vibrotactile Actuation

AUTHORS Sang Ho Yoon, Woo Suk Lee, Shantanu Thakurdesai, Di Sun, Flávio P. Ribeiro, James D. Holbery

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST), 2019
DOI PDF VIDEO PRESENTATION

iSoft: A Customizable Soft Sensor with Real-time Continuous Contact and Stretching Sensing

AUTHORS Sang Ho Yoon, Ke Huo, Yunbo Zhang, Guiming Chen, Luis Paredes, Subramanian Chidambaram, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST), 2017
DOI PDF VIDEO PRESENTATION MEDIA

TRing: Instant and customizable interactions with objects using an embedded magnet and a finger-worn device

AUTHORS Sang Ho Yoon, Ke Huo, Yunbo Zhang, Guiming Chen, Luis Paredes, Subramanian Chidambaram, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST), 2016
DOI PDF VIDEO PRESENTATION

Sound-Guided Semantic Image Manipulation

AUTHORS Seunghyun Lee, Wonseok Roh, Wonmin Byeon, Sang Ho Yoon, Chanyoung Kim, Jinkyu Kim*, Sangpil Kim*

TO APPEAR Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022

SurfaceFlow: Large Area Haptic Display via Compliant Liquid Dielectric Actuators

AUTHORS Yitian Shao, Siyuan Ma, Sang Ho Yoon, Yon Visell, James Holbery

IN PROCEEDINGS IEEE Haptics Symposium, 2020
DOI PDF

iMold: Enabling Interactive Design Optimization for In-Mold Electronics

AUTHORS Jonathan Ting, Yunbo Zhang, Sang Ho Yoon, James D Holbery, Siyuan Ma

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Late Breaking Work (CHI LBW), 2020
DOI PDF

Stress Monitoring using Multimodal Bio-sensing Headset

AUTHORS Joong Hoon Lee, Hannes Gamper, Ivan Tashev, Steven Dong, Siyuan Ma, Jacquelin Remaley, James D Holbery, Sang Ho Yoon

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Late Breaking Work (CHI LBW), 2020
DOI PDF

MultiSoft: Soft Sensor Enabling Real-Time Multimodal Sensing with Contact Localization and Deformation Classification

AUTHORS Sang Ho Yoon, Luis Paredes, Ke Huo, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2018
DOI PDF VIDEO

Scenariot: Spatially mapping smart things within augmented reality scenes

AUTHORS Ke Huo, Yuanzhi Cao, Sang Ho Yoon, Zhuangying Xu, Guiming Chen, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2018
DOI PDF VIDEO

BikeGesture: user elicitation and performance of micro hand gesture as input for cycling

AUTHORS Yanke Tan*, Sang Ho Yoon*, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Late Breaking Work (CHI LBW), 2017
DOI PDF

Robust hand pose estimation during the interaction with an unknown object

AUTHORS Chiho Choi, Sang Ho Yoon, Chin-Ning Chen, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017
DOI PDF

TMotion: Embedded 3D Mobile Input using Magnetic Sensing Technique

AUTHORS Sang Ho Yoon, Ke Huo, Vinh P. Nguyen, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI), 2016

AWARD ACM UIST Best Poster Award (1st Place, 2015)
DOI PDF VIDEO

Wearable textile input device with multimodal sensing for eyes-free mobile interaction during daily activities

AUTHORS Sang Ho Yoon, Ke Huo, Karthik Ramani

IN Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2016 (SCIE)
DOI PDF

TIMMi: Finger-worn Textile Input Device with Multimodal Sensing in Mobile Interaction

AUTHORS Sang Ho Yoon, Ke Huo, Vinh P. Nguyen, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI), 2015
DOI PDF VIDEO

BendID: Flexible interface for localized deformation recognition

AUTHORS Vinh P. Nguyen, Sang Ho Yoon, Ansh Verma, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM international joint conference on pervasive and ubiquitous computing (UBICOMP), 2014
DOI PDF VIDEO

Welcome to HCI Tech Lab!

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Research Highlights

Join Us

We are excited to talk to strong candidates whose backgrounds or interests overlap with

Software engineering: Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual/Augmented Reality, Machine Learning

Hardware engineering: Sensors, Embedded systems, Mechanical Design, Signal processing,

HCI related topics: UX/UI Design, Human Factors, User/Design Study

For prospective students, please check below.

Highlighted Publications

HapSense: A Soft Haptic I/O Device with Uninterrupted Dual Functionalities of Force Sensing and Vibrotactile Actuation

AUTHORS Sang Ho Yoon, Woo Suk Lee, Shantanu Thakurdesai, Di Sun, Flávio P. Ribeiro, James D. Holbery

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST), 2019

iSoft: A Customizable Soft Sensor with Real-time Continuous Contact and Stretching Sensing

AUTHORS Sang Ho Yoon, Ke Huo, Yunbo Zhang, Guiming Chen, Luis Paredes, Subramanian Chidambaram, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST), 2017

TRing: Instant and customizable interactions with objects using an embedded magnet and a finger-worn device

AUTHORS Sang Ho Yoon, Ke Huo, Yunbo Zhang, Guiming Chen, Luis Paredes, Subramanian Chidambaram, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST), 2016

Sound-Guided Semantic Image Manipulation

AUTHORS Seunghyun Lee, Wonseok Roh, Wonmin Byeon, Sang Ho Yoon, Chanyoung Kim, Jinkyu Kim*, Sangpil Kim*

TO APPEAR Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022

SurfaceFlow: Large Area Haptic Display via Compliant Liquid Dielectric Actuators

AUTHORS Yitian Shao, Siyuan Ma, Sang Ho Yoon, Yon Visell, James Holbery

IN PROCEEDINGS IEEE Haptics Symposium, 2020

iMold: Enabling Interactive Design Optimization for In-Mold Electronics

AUTHORS Jonathan Ting, Yunbo Zhang, Sang Ho Yoon, James D Holbery, Siyuan Ma

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Late Breaking Work (CHI LBW), 2020

Stress Monitoring using Multimodal Bio-sensing Headset

AUTHORS Joong Hoon Lee, Hannes Gamper, Ivan Tashev, Steven Dong, Siyuan Ma, Jacquelin Remaley, James D Holbery, Sang Ho Yoon

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Late Breaking Work (CHI LBW), 2020

MultiSoft: Soft Sensor Enabling Real-Time Multimodal Sensing with Contact Localization and Deformation Classification

AUTHORS Sang Ho Yoon, Luis Paredes, Ke Huo, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2018

Scenariot: Spatially mapping smart things within augmented reality scenes

AUTHORS Ke Huo, Yuanzhi Cao, Sang Ho Yoon, Zhuangying Xu, Guiming Chen, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2018

BikeGesture: user elicitation and performance of micro hand gesture as input for cycling

AUTHORS Yanke Tan*, Sang Ho Yoon*, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Late Breaking Work (CHI LBW), 2017

Robust hand pose estimation during the interaction with an unknown object

AUTHORS Chiho Choi, Sang Ho Yoon, Chin-Ning Chen, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017

TMotion: Embedded 3D Mobile Input using Magnetic Sensing Technique

AUTHORS Sang Ho Yoon, Ke Huo, Vinh P. Nguyen, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI), 2016

AWARD ACM UIST Best Poster Award (1st Place, 2015)

Wearable textile input device with multimodal sensing for eyes-free mobile interaction during daily activities

AUTHORS Sang Ho Yoon, Ke Huo, Karthik Ramani

IN Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2016 (SCIE)

TIMMi: Finger-worn Textile Input Device with Multimodal Sensing in Mobile Interaction

AUTHORS Sang Ho Yoon, Ke Huo, Vinh P. Nguyen, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI), 2015

BendID: Flexible interface for localized deformation recognition

AUTHORS Vinh P. Nguyen, Sang Ho Yoon, Ansh Verma, Karthik Ramani

IN PROCEEDINGS ACM international joint conference on pervasive and ubiquitous computing (UBICOMP), 2014

AUTHORS Seunghyun Lee, Wonseok Roh, Wonmin Byeon, Sang Ho Yoon, Chanyoung Kim, Jinkyu Kim, Sangpil Kim

AUTHORS Yanke Tan, Sang Ho Yoon, Karthik Ramani