I am a 2nd-year PhD student at HCI Institute in Carnegie Mellon University. Here, I am having a nice journey to explore new touch input and human pose tracking technologies with Professor Chris Harrison in the Future Interfaces Group. I completed my Masters at KAIST HCIL, where I had a great opportunity to work with Professor Geehyuk Lee. My research goal is to invent technologies that could change the interaction paradigm as if the invention of "mouse" paved the way for the world of GUIs. I believe that preferable devices by users could decide next decades of interaction paradigm. To do so, I care about the tangled relationship between what humans are already familiar with, feel comfortable with, and emotionally attracted to, and what kind of technological / design problems to solve. Some demonstrations of this idea are published - explored novel sensing principles of segmenting effortless finger touch (AtaTouch) and shifting the form factor of the micro-gesture sensing device to a wristband from a ring (EtherPose). I presented papers at ACM CHI , UIST, and ISS, and have received two Honorable Mention awards at CHI.
Updates
• Nov 7: WorldPoint presentation at ISS.
• Oct 31: Pantoenna presentation at UIST and Apple park. Live demo!
• Oct 9: First scuba diving. Dived 10 m under Caribbean Sea 🤿
• Aug 18: Wrapped up my internship at Meta Reality Labs. Amazing folks. I will miss this a lot!
• Aug 4: Pantœnna is accepted to UIST23. We added an easter egg. If you find it, ping me at the conference. I will get you a coffee :)
• Jul 8: Yosemite! Star catching!
PUBLICATIONS
WorldPoint: Finger Pointing as a Rapid and Natural Trigger for In-the-Wild Mobile Interactions
ISS 2023: ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces.
Pantœnna: Mouth Pose Estimation for VR/AR Headsets Using Low-Profile Antenna and Impedance Characteristic Sensing
UIST 2023: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
OmniSense: Exploring Novel Input Sensing and Interaction Techniques on Mobile Device with Omni-Directional Camera
CHI 2023: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
EtherPose: Continuous Hand Pose Tracking with Wrist-Worn Antenna Impedance Characteristic Sensing
UIST 2022: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
TriboTouch: Micro-Patterned Surfaces for Low Latency Touchscreens
CHI 2022: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Honorable Mention Award (Top 5%)
AtaTouch: Robust Finger Pinch Detection for a VR Controller Using RF Return Loss
CHI 2021: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Honorable Mention Award (Top 5%)
OddEyeCam: A Sensing Technique for Body-Centric Peephole Interaction Using WFoV RGB and NFoV Depth Cameras
UIST 2020: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
MagTouch: Robust Finger Identification for a Smartwatch Using a Magnet Ring and a Built-in Magnetometer
CHI 2020: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
AWARDS & HONORS
Mar 2022
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%), ACM CHI 2022
Paper Title: "TriboTouch: Micro-Patterned Surfaces for Low Latency Touchscreens"
Mar 2021
Honorable Mention Award (top 5%), ACM CHI 2021
Paper Title: "AtaTouch: Robust Finger Pinch Detection for a VR Controller Using RF Return Loss"
Feb 2021
Outstanding M.S. Thesis Award, KAIST School of Computing
Thesis Title: "OddEyeCam: A Sensing Technique for Body-Centric Peephole Interaction Using WFoV RGB and NFoV Depth Cameras"
FUN PROJECTS
Shadow 3D scanner (2022)
AudioHero (2019)
VRone (2018)
System Light @ ETRI (2018)
Finger Joystick Interaction (2017)
TUIT Android Lecture (2016)
MEDIA ART
My age 22 - Travel to Europe with a Drone (2018)
Travel Film
Town Where Engineers Live (2015)
Web Drama
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