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

  Jina successfully defended her M.S. Thesis
Dec 5 2023
Jina Kim successfully defended her M.S. Thesis. Congrats! Jina will continue as a Ph.D. student in HCI Tech Lab.
  Winter 2024 Undergraduate Research Internship
Nov 17 2023
We are looking for research interns (including 1 URP) for 2024 Winter. Application deadline is Nov 24th.
  UIST 2023 Participation
Nov 1 2023
Our lab participated in ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) in San Francisco. Kyungeun received People's Choice Demo Award!
  ISMAR 2023 Participation
Oct 20 2023
Our lab participated in IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Realityheld in Sydney.
  A paper accepted to IMWUT (UbiComp 2024)
Oct 15 2023
Our paper "HapticPilot: Authoring In-situ Hand Posture-Adaptive Vibrotactile Feedback for Virtual Reality" led by Youjin is accepted (pending minor revision) to Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).
  SUI 2023 Participation
Oct 13 2023
Our lab participated in ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction Conference held in Sydney for oral presentation!
  A paper accepated to Virtual Reality (Springer VR)
Oct 9 2023
Our paper "HapMotion: Motion-to-Tactile Framework with Wearable Haptic Devices for Immersive VR Performance Experience" led by Kyungeun is accepted to Virtual Reality (Springer).
đź“Ł  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.
  A paper accepted to 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.
  A demo accpeted to UIST 2023
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 on Press Release
Jul 19 2023
KAIST CT, 1Million, and EBS sign a Dance Education Technology Development Agreement (Press Release).
  WHC 2023 Participation
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
  New Graduate Students & Intern
Mar 6 2023
Welcome our new Ph.D. student Seo Young Oh (Co-advising), and spring intern Hyunyoung Han!
  New 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 Participation
Feb 3 2023
Our lab participated in HCI Korea 2023!
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Research Highlights

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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

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