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icon  A paper accepted to IMWUT (UbiComp 205)
Apr 3 2025
Our paper "UltraBoard: Always-Available Wearable Ultrasonic Mid-air Haptic Interface for Responsive and Robust VR Inputs" led by Changhyeon and Yubin is accepted to Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).
icon  Two Honorable Mention Award for CHI 2025
Mar 28 2025
Our papers "ChoreoCraft: In-situ Crafting of Choreography in Virtual Reality through Creativity Support Tool" led by Kyungeun & Hyunyoung and "T2IRay: Design of Thumb-to-Index based Indirect Pointing for Continuous and Robust AR/VR Input" led by Jina win Honorable Mention Award for CHI 2025!'
icon  New Lab Logo
Feb 20 2025
Our lab got a new logo designed by Changheyon Park! Thanks all members for the feedback!
icon  2025 Graduation
Feb 14 2025
Hyung Il, Soyeong, Dongkyu, Min-yung, Junghoon, Kyungeun, Kyungjin, and Nicha graudated. Congrats!
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icon  KSC 2024 Outstanding Paper Presentation Award
Feb 3 2025
Kun-woo, Youngrae, and Kyoungwhan received KSC 2024 Outstanding Paper Presentation Award!
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icon  A paper accepted to IEEE TVCG
Jan 26 2025
Our paper "Neck Goes VRrr: Reducing Rotation-Induced Virtual Reality Sickness through Neck Muscle Vibrations" led by Kun-Woo is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).
icon  Four papers accepted to CHI 2025
Jan 17 2025
Four papers from HCI Tech Lab and collaborators have been accepted to CHI 2025. Congratulations to Hyunyoung Han, Kyungeun Jung, Jina Kim, and Youjin Sung!
icon  Interns
Jan 1 2025
Welcome our winter interns Rachel Jungmin Kim, Eun Ho Kim, and Hyunwook Jung!
icon  KSC 2024 Participation
Dec 20 2024
Out lab participated in KSC 2024. Dongkyu and Kun-Woo presented papers.
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icon  Student Research Prize
Dec 16 2024
Hojeong received the College of Liberal Arts and Convergence Science Research Prize for 2024!
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icon  NeurIPS 2024 Participation
Dec 10 2024
Our lab participated in NeurIPS 2024 held in Vancouver. Kyungjin, Junghoon, Hanseok presented a paper!
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icon  Lab Activity (Community Service)
Nov 22 2024
Our lab participated in community service.
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icon  Winter 2025 Undergraduate Research Internship
Nov 12 2024
We are looking for research interns (including 1 URP) for 2024 Winter. Application deadline is Nov 24th.
icon  ISMAR 2024 Participation
Oct 21 2024
Our lab participated in ISMAR 2024 held in Bellevue. HyungIl presented a paper!
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icon  UbiComp/ISWC 2024 Participation
Oct 9 2024
Our lab participated in UbiComp/ISWC 2024 held in Melbourne. Youjin & Hojeong presented their papers!
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icon  A paper accepted to NeurIPS 2024
Sep 26 2024
Our paper "Posture-Informed Muscular Force Learning for Robust Hand Pressure Estimation" led by Kyungjin and Junghoon is accepted to NeurIPS2024.
icon  Graduate Students
Aug 26 2024
Welcome our new Ph.D. students Kyungeun Jung, Kyungjin Seo and MS student Dohui Lee!
icon  KHC 2024 Participation
Aug 21 2024
Our lab participated in the 2nd Korea Haptics Conference. Our lab received the Poster Presentation Award (Kyungjin, Junghoon, Hanseok)! Check here for more detail.
icon  A paper accepted to IMWUT (UbiComp 2024)
Aug 10 2024
Our paper "EStatiG: Wearable Haptic Feedback with Multi-Phalanx Electrostatic Brake for Enhanced Object Perception in VR" led by Nicha and Hojeong is accepted to Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).
icon  A paper accepted to ISMAR 2024
Aug 10 2024
Our paper "ThermicVib: Enabling Dynamic Thermal Sensation with Multimodal Haptic Glove for Thermal-Responsive Interaction" led by Hyung Il is accepted to IEEE ISMAR2024.
icon  KCC 2024 Participation
Jul 1 2024
Our lab participated in KCC 2024. Hanseok received Outstanding Paper Award.
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icon  Kyungjin, Kyungeun, and Nicha successfully defended their M.S. Theses
Jun 11 2024
Kyungjin Seo, Kyungeun Jung, Nicha Vanichvoranun successfully defended their M.S. Theses. Congrats! Kyungjin and Kyungeun will continue as Ph.D. students in HCI Tech Lab.
icon  CHI 2024 Participation
May 16 2024
Our lab participated in CHI'24 in Hawaii. Our lab demo received Popular Choice Winner!
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icon  Summer 2024 Undergraduate Research Internship
May 6 2024
We are looking for research interns (including URP) for 2024 Summer. Application deadline is May 20th.
  Student Fellowship
Apr 15 2024
Kunwoo & Hyunyoung are selected for 'Master's Student Research Grant' from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
  Venture Research Program
Apr 1 2024
Youjin's Venture Research Proposal on 'Generative Haptic for VR Experience Design' was selected.
icon  VR 2024 Participation
Mar 18 2024
Our lab participated in IEEE Virtual Reality 2024.
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icon  Graduate Students
Mar 1 2024
Welcome our new Ph.D. student Jina Kim and MS students Hanseok Jeong, Yubin Lee, Changhyeon Park, and Kyoungwhan Mheen!
icon  Graduation
Feb 16 2024
Jina & Youjin graduated. Congrats!
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icon  HCI Korea 2024 Participation
Feb 1 2024
Our lab participated in HCI Korea 2024.
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icon  Research Collaboration
Jan 26 2024
HMC Research Team visited HCI Tech Lab for potential research collaboration.
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icon  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.
icon  KHC 2023 Participation
Nov 25 2023
Our lab participated in the 1st Korea Haptics Conference. Our lab received the Best Paper Award (Hyung IL), Best Demo Award (Kyungeun), Young Researcher Award (Prof. Yoon) and many other awards (Dongkyu, Hyunyoung, Soyeong, Youjin)! Check here for more detail.
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icon  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.
icon  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!
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icon  ISMAR 2023 Participation
Oct 20 2023
Our lab participated in IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality held in Sydney.
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icon  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 to Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).
icon  SUI 2023 Participation
Oct 13 2023
Our lab participated in ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction Conference held in Sydney. Jina presented a paper!
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icon  A paper accepted 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).
  📣 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.
icon  Graduate Students
Sep 1 2023
Welcome our new Ph.D. student Youjin Sung and MS students Hyunyoung Han, Kun-Woo Song, Hojeong Lee, Fangqing Li, and Hyung Wook Yi!
icon  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.
icon  A demo accepted 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.
icon  Research Collaboration
Aug 24 2023
ETRI & 1Million visited HCI Tech Lab for research collaboration.
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icon  Research Collaboration on Press Release
Jul 19 2023
KAIST CT, 1Million, and EBS sign a Dance Education Technology Development Agreement (Press Release).
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icon  WHC 2023 Participation
Jul 10 2023
Our lab participated in IEEE World Haptics Conference held in Delft for oral presentation & demo!
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icon  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'.
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icon  Recruiting Graduate 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.
icon  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.
icon  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.
icon  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.
icon  Summer 2023 Undergraduate Research Internship
May 10 2023
We are looking for research interns for 2023 Summer. Application deadline is May 17th.
icon  VR 2023 Participation
Mar 25 2023
Jina, Kyungeun, Nicha participated in IEEE VR conference held in Shanghai to present posters!
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  Venture Research Program
Mar 20 2023
Jina & Min-yung's Venture Research Proposal on 'Interaction improvement using sensing technology' was selected!
icon  New Research Project
Mar 17 2023
Outstanding Young Scientist Grants (NRF) on 'A wearable multimodal sensing framework for adaptive interaction in extended reality' selected.
icon  Recruiting Graduate 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.
icon  Graduate Students & Intern
Mar 6 2023
Welcome our new Ph.D. student Seo Young Oh (Co-advising), and spring intern Hyunyoung Han!
icon  Graduate Students
Feb 27 2023
Welcome our new MS students Dong Kyu, Min-yung, Hyung Il, Soyeong, and Junghoon!
icon  Graduation
Feb 17 2023
Minjae successfully defended his M.S. Thesis & graduated.
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  HCI Korea 2023
Feb 3 2023
Our lab participated in HCI Korea 2023!
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icon  VR 2023 Posters
Jan 30 2023
Three posters will be presented at VR 2023.
  HaptX Training!
Jan 20 2023
Our team had HaptX Gloves tutorial training provided by HaptX HQ.
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icon  Winter Research Kickoff Meeting
Jan 9 2023
Welcome our new winter interns (Dongkyu, Hyung Il, Soyeong, Min-yung, Kun-woo).
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icon  Winter 2023 Undergraduate Research Internship
Dec 7 2022
We are looking for research interns for 2023 Winter. Internship Application deadline is Dec 19th.
icon  VRST Best In-Person Poster/Demo Award
Dec 1 2022
Our Exploring Vibration Intensity Map Of Hand Postures poster wins the Best In-Person Poster/Demo Award Voted by Attendees at VRST 2022!
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icon  Recruiting Graduate Students
Sep 15 2022
We have positions for M.S. & Ph.D for Spring 2023. Please check Open Positions & KAIST Metaverse program.
icon  VRST 2022 Posters
Sep 7 2022
Youjin's work on vibration intensity map based on hand posture in collaboration with Technische Universität Dresden & Zofia's work (URP) on finger-worn haptic actuator will be presented at VRST2022.
icon  ISMAR 2022 Posters
Aug 22 2022
Three poster papers from CTP445 class will be presented at ISMAR2022.
icon  Graduate Students
Aug 29 2022
Welcome our new MS students Kyungjin and Kyungeun!
icon  SIGGRAPH 2022 Emerging Technologies
Jul 4 2022
Our SIGGRAPH 2022 Emerging Technologies paper Sense of Embodiment Inducement for People With Reduced Lower-body Mobility and Sensations With Partial-visuomotor Stimulation in collaboration with LAVA Lab & Visual Cognition Lab is highlighted on SIGGRAPH Blog!
icon  ECCV 2022
Jul 4 2022
Sound-Guided Semantic Video Generation in collaboration with Computer Vision Lab is accepted to ECCV2022!
icon  Summer Interns
June 24 2022
Welcome summer interns Dong Kyu, Min-yung, and Jungmin.
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icon  New Research Projects
June 1 2022
Research projects supported by Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) & National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).
icon  Undergraduate Research Internship
May 2022
We are looking for research interns for 2022 Summer.
  Lab Meeting & Lunch Gathering
Apr 29 2022
Kicked off regular research meeting!
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icon  Graduate Student
Mar 2 2022
Welcome our new MS student Youjin!
icon  CVPR 2022
Mar 2 2022
Sound-Guided Semantic Image Manipulation in collaboration with Computer Vision Lab is accepted to CVPR2022!
icon  Winter Interns
Jan 17 2022
Welcome KAIST undergraduate interns Nicha, Yoonseo, and Haebin.
  First Lab Meeting
Jan 13 2022
First Lab Meeting including Graduate Students & Undergraduate Interns.
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  Lab Opening!
Jan 3 2022
Officially opened the lab area. Work-in-progress setting up the lab with members.
  URP Individual Research Selected
Dec 21 2021
Individual Research Proposal by Zofia has been accepted. This is exploratory research to enable Novel Haptic Interface.
icon  Graduate Students
Dec 13 2021
Welcome our new MS student Minjae and Interns Zofia and Kyungeun.
icon  New Research Project
Dec 1 2021
Development of Open XR platform for high immersive collaboration supported by National Research Council of Science and Technology (NST) for 6 years.
icon  Graduate Student
Nov 4 2021
Welcome our new MS student Jina!
  Lab Website Open!
Sep 27 2021
Beta version website is open. The website will be actively updated.