Professional Activities
Invited Talks and Seminars
"Beyond Reality: Create, Enhance, and Transform Reality Experience,” at:
International VR/AR Researcher Seminars, Korea University, Seoul, S. Korea | Jul 5, 2022
xR Lab Seminars, Pusan National University, Pusan, S. Korea | Jul 4, 2022
BK21 Invited Seminars, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, S. Korea | Jul 4, 2022
"Increasing Social Presence with Interactive Virtual Agents in eXtended Reality," at:
Empathic Computing Lab Seminar Series, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Online | May 3, 2022
Guest Lecture Series at CSCE 681: Graduate Seminar, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA - Online | Feb 23, 2022
KAIST CT-AR Seminars, KAIST, Daejeon, S. Korea - Online | Feb 15, 2022
"Beyond Being Together: Social Interaction with an Embodied Virtual Agent and Human Augmentation in XR" at:
iLab Guest Lecture Series, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada - Online | Oct 28, 2021
Distinguished Lecture Series, BK21 AI Convergence Human Resource Education and Research Center, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, S. Korea - Online | Apr 5, 2021
SIGAI/NLP Workshop, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA - Online | Feb 24, 2021
Hanyang University, Seoul, S. Korea - Online | Feb 24, 2021
"Perception Issues in XR—Focusing on the Use of Virtual Humans" at Search for Extraordinary Experiences Division (SEED), Electronic Arts (EA), Playa Vista, CA, USA | Jul 2018
"Introduction to Mixed Reality and Its Perceptual Aspects in Social Context" at Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA), Orlando Chapter Orlando, FL, USA | Feb 2018
"Human–Surrogate Interaction and Human Perceptions" at VR/AR Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), Seoul, S. Korea | May 2017
"Human Perceptions and Social Influence in Human–Surrogate Interactions" at Augmented Reality Research Center (ARRC), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, S. Korea | May 2017
"Understanding of Human Perceptions in Human–Surrogate Interactions" at Hanyang University, Seoul, S. Korea | May 2017
Editors
Guest Editor, MDPI Electronics: Special Issue on "Recent Advances in eXtended Reality" (with Drs. Myungho Lee, Dongsik Jo, Gun A. Lee, and Hanhoon Park) | 2022–Present
Guest Associate Editor (Topic Editor), Frontiers in Virtual Reality: Virtual Reality and Human Behaviour – Research Topic on "Beyond Touch: Free Hand Interaction in Virtual Environments" (with Dimitar Valkov, Robert J. Teather, Florian Daiber, Anıl Ufuk Batmaz) | 2022–Present
Guest Associate Editor (Topic Editor), Frontiers in Virtual Reality: Virtual Reality and Human Behaviour – Research Topic on "Multi-user Collaboration and Learning in Extended Reality: Evaluating User Experience and Performance" (with Dr. Sungchul Jung, Dr. Charles Hughes, and Dr. Heide Lukosch)| 2021–Present
Review Editor, Frontiers in Virtual Reality: Augmented Reality | 2020–Present
Guest Editor, MDPI Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI): Special issue on "Social Interaction and Psychology in XR" (with Dr. Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn and Dr. Gerd Bruder) | 2020–2021
Guest Editor, Springer Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces: Special issue on "Multimodal Interfaces and Communication Cues for Remote Collaboration" (with Dr. Seungwon Kim and Dr. Mark Billinghurst) | 2020
Review Editor, Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Virtual Environments | 2019
Program Chairs and Organizers
Session Chair, Paper Session: Virtual Humans & Agents at IEEE International Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR), Christchurch, New Zealand - Online | 2022
Workshop Organizer, The 1st International Workshop on eXtended Reality for Industrial and Occupational Supports (XRIOS) at IEEE International Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) - Online | 2022
Poster and Work-In-Progress Chair, IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Virtual Reality (AIVR) - Online | 2020
Demo Chair, International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (ICAT-EGVE) - Online | 2020
Panel Organizer & Moderator, "Social XR – The Future of Social Interaction 2020 in the New Normal?" (Panelists: Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, Henry Huchs, Aleshia Hayes, Anthony Steed) at ICAT-EGVE Online | 2020
Posters, Demos, and Interaction Chair, ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) - Online| 2020
Panelists
Panelist, IEEE VR 2022 Workshop: Socially Intelligent Virtual Agents (SIVA), Christchurch, New Zealand - Online | 2022
Program Committees
Program Committee, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS): Main Track | 2023
Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR) | 2022
International Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR): Conference Track | 2022–2023
Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR): Poster Track | 2021–2023
International Program Committee, IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR): Conference Paper Track| 2020–2023
International Program Committee, ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST): Papers Track | 2022–2023
Program Committee, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) | 2020–2023
International Program Committee, ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) | 2020–2022
International Program Committee, IEEE VR 2022 Workshop: Socially Intelligent Virtual Agents (SIVA) | 2022
International Program Committee, ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) | 2019–2021
International Program Committee, International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) | 2020
Peer-Reviews
Wiley Book Proposal Review | 2019
Wiley Journal of the Society for Information Display (SID) | 2020
Frontiers in Virtual Reality | 2020–Present
Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Virtual Environments | 2019–2020
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) | 2019–Present
Springer Journal - Virtual Reality (VIRE) | 2019–Present
MDPI Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI) | 2019–Present
MDPI Applied Sciences | 2019–Present
Elsevier Journal - Computers in Human Behavior (CHB) | 2019
PLOS ONE | 2018
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia | 2021
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) | 2021
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) | 2020
IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR) | 2020–2022
ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) | 2019–2022
ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) | 2019–2022
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) | 2019–2020
ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP) | 2019
ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) | 2017–2021
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) | 2017–2022
IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI) | 2017
ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) | 2016–2021
ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) | 2020
International Conference on Culture and Computing (C&C) | 2022
IEEE VR 2022 Workshop: eXtended Reality for Industrial and Occupational Supports (XRIOS) | 2022
IEEE VR 2022 Workshop: Socially Intelligent Virtual Agents (SIVA) | 2022
Student Volunteers
IEEE Virtual Reality (VR), Orlando, FL, USA | 2013
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Atlanta, GA, USA | 2012
International Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality (ISUVR), Gwangju, S. Korea | 2008
Academic Memberships
Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines | Apr 2015 – Present
IEEE Member | Aug 2015 – Present
ACM Member | Apr 2015 – Present
Eurographics (EG) Member | Sep 2015 – Dec 2019