Hwan Kim

An Interaction Designer for Virtual/Augmented Reality + Haptic Interactions
iamhwankim@gmail.com


Hwan Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of Service and Design Engineering
Sungshin Women’s University

Hello. I am a design researcher with an interest in virtual/augmented reality + haptic interactions. I’ve been designing various I/O interfaces — such as wearable haptic devices, VR/AR controllers, physical user interfaces — that are involved in human haptic perception, and exploring the novel possibilities of the haptic interactions. My research focuses on developing novel I/O interfaces that provide rich haptic information to users who want natual interaction with VR/AR.

Before joining Sungshin Women’s University, I was a senior UX designer at Samsung Electronics, and designed One UI of Samsung Galaxy Watch series (Galaxy Watch Active 2, Galaxy Watch 3, and Galaxy Watch 4). I completed my Ph.D. in Department of Industrial Design at KAIST in 2019, advised by Prof. Woohun Lee (Wonder Lab). 

Experience

  • Assistant Professor (Sep. 2023 — Present)
    Department of Service and Design Engineering, Sungshin Women’s University (Seoul, South Korea)
  • Research Assistant Professor (Sep. 2021 — Aug. 2023)
    Department of Interior Architecture Design, Hanyang University (Seoul, South Korea)
  • Senior Designer (Mar. 2019 — Aug. 2021)
    Wearable UX part, Samsung Electronics (Seoul, South Korea)
  • Internship (Jun. 2008 — Jul. 2008)
    LG Electronics (Seoul, South Korea)

Education

  • Ph.D., Department of Industrial Design, KAIST (Mar. 2013 — Feb. 2019)
    Thesis: “Developing a small-size wearable tactile device to simulate friction, compliance, and texture”
    Advisor: Woohun Lee, Ph.D.
  • M.S., Department of Industrial Design, KAIST (Mar. 2011 — Feb. 2013)
    Thesis: “Touchable Spotlight”
    Advisor: Woohun Lee, Ph.D.
  • B.S., Department of Industrial Design, KAIST (Mar. 2006 — Feb. 2011)

Awards

  • ACM SIGCHI 2018 Honorable Mention Award
    “HapCube: A Wearable Tactile Device to Provide Tangential and Normal Pseudo-Force Feedback on a Fingertip”
  • ACM SIGCHI 2013 Honorable Mention Award
    “TapBoard: Making a Touch Screen Keyboard More Touchable”

Publications

  • Seung Won Lee* , Hwan Kim* , Taeha Yi* & Kyung Hoon Hyun. (Oct, 2023) BIGaze: An Eye-Gaze Action-Guided Bayesian Information Gain Framework for Information Exploration. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 58: 102159.
    *They are co-first authors.
    [   DOI   |   VIDEO   ]
  • Hwan Kim & Kyung Hoon Hyun. (Apr, 2023) The Effect of Haptic Device on Product Evaluation in VR Store - Focused on Sofa Purchase Case -. Korean Institute of Interior Design (KCI). 
    [   DOI   ]
  • Hwan Kim & Kyung Hoon Hyun. (Apr, 2023) HAPmini: 2D Haptic Feedback Generation Using Single Actuator Device. PLoS ONE, 18(4).
    [   DOI   ]
  • Taeha Yi*, Hwan Kim* & Ji-Hyun Lee. (Nov, 2022) Predicting Museum Visitors’ Artwork Preference through Deep Learning. Archives of Design Research, 35(4), 309-323.
    *Hwan Kim and Taeha Yi are co-first authors.
    [   DOI   ]
  • Hwan Kim, Taeha Yi, Hyoung-June Park & Kyung Hoon Hyun. (Oct, 2022) Enhancing Design Activity and Review Experience Through Hybridizing Desktop and Virtual Environments. Journal of Interior Design, 48(1).
    [   DOI   ]
  • Hwan Kim, Jongbum Woo & Kyung Hoon Hyun. (Aug, 2022) PlicAR: Enhancing Online Product Evaluation and Shopping Experience through Augmented Reality Based 3D Model Visualization Service. Archives of Design Research, 35(3), 145-159.
    [   DOI   ]
  • Hwan Kim & Kyung Hoon Hyun. (Apr, 2022) Understanding Design Experience in Virtual Reality for Interior Design Process. In Proceedings s of CAADRIA 2022.
    [       DOI   ]
  • HyeonBeom Yi, Jiwoo Hong, Hwan Kim, & Woohun Lee. (Nov, 2019). DexController: Designing a VR Controller with Grasp-Recognition for Enriching Natural Game Experience. In 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (pp. 1-11). ACM.
    [   PDF   |   DOI   |   VIDEO   ]
  • Hwan Kim, HyeonBeom Yi, Chulwoo R. Park, & Woohun Lee. (Aug, 2018). HapCube: A Tactile Actuator Providing Tangential and Normal Pseudo-Force Feedback on a Fingertip. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies (pp. 1-2). ACM.
    [   PDF   |   DOI   |   VIDEO   ]
  • Hwan Kim, HyeonBeom Yi, Hyein Lee, & Woohun Lee. (Apr, 2018). HapCube: A Wearable Tactile Device to Provide Tangential and Normal Pseudo-Force Feedback on a Fingertip. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13). ACM.
    [   PDF   |   DOI   |   VIDEO   ]
  • Hwan Kim, HyeonBeom Yi, Hyein Lee, and Woohun Lee. (Apr, 2018). HapCube: A Fingertip-Sized Tactile Device Providing 2+1 Dimensional Pseudo-Force Feedback. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp.1-4). ACM.
    [   PDF  |   DOI   ]
  • Hwan Kim, Minhwan Kim, & Woohun Lee. (May, 2016). HapThimble: A Wearable Haptic Device towards Usable Virtual Touch Screen. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 3694-3705). ACM.
    [   PDF   |   DOI   |   VIDEO   ]
  • Jonggi Hong, Hwan Kim, Woohun Lee, & Geehyuk Lee. (May, 2016). TouchRoller: A Touch-sensitive Cylindrical Input Device for GUI Manipulation of Interactive TVs. Interacting with Computers, 28(3), 293-310.
    [   PDF   |   DOI   |   VIDEO   ]
  • Hyosun Kwon, Hwan Kim, & Woohun Lee. (Mar, 2014). Intangibles wear materiality via material composition. Personal and ubiquitous computing, 18(3), 651-669.
    [   PDF   |   DOI   ]
  • Chulwoo R. Park, Hyunjae Lee, Hwan Kim, & Woohun Lee. (Jun, 2014). The previewable switch: a light switch with feedforward. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems (pp. 191-194). ACM.
    [   PDF   |   DOI   ]
  • Sunjun Kim, Jeongmin Son, Geehyuk Lee, Hwan Kim, & Woohun Lee. (Apr, 2013). TapBoard: making a touch screen keyboard more touchable. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 553-562). ACM.
    [  PDF   |   DOI   |   VIDEO   ]
  • Hwan Kim, Yekyung Row, & Geehyuk Lee. (May, 2012). Back Keyboard: A Physical Keyboard on Backside of Mobile Phone using QWERTY. In Proceedings of CHI’12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1583-1588). ACM.
    [  PDF   |   DOI   ]
  • Hyosun Kwon, Sukhyung Bae, Hwan Kim, & Woohun Lee. (Feb, 2012). Inflated roly-poly. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (pp. 189-192). ACM.
    [   PDF  |   DOI   |   VIDEO   ]

Research Projects

  • Smart glasses UX design and usability test (Oct. 2014 — Jan. 2015)
    Project Manager / Consigned Research with ETRI
  • Usability test on Smart glasses interaction model and GUI menu (Oct. 2013 — Jan. 2014)
    Project Manager / Consigned Research with ETRI
  • Smart glasses interaction model and GUI menu design (Jan. 2013 — Apr. 2013)
    Project Manager / Consigned Research with ETRI
  • Developing and testing interaction technique for a desk-lamp-type projection computer (Jul. 2012 — Jan. 2013)
    Project Manager / Consigned Research with ETRI
  • Usability test of a projection computer (Sep. 2011 — Feb. 2012)
    Project Manager / Consigned Research with ETRI
  • Designing form factor and interaction model of a wearable projection computer (Jul. 2010 — Dec. 2010)
    Project Manager / Consigned Research with ETRI

Patents

  • 3차원 모델 자동 생성 인터페이스 제공 방법 및 시스템 / 11.25.2022 /KR Patent 10-2021-0191656 / Recon Labs.
  • 화상디자인이 표시된 디스플레이 패널 / 07.18.2022 /KR Patent 3011739070000 / Samsung Electronics Co., LTD.
  • 진동 액추에이터 및 이를 이용한 촉감 모사 방법(VIBRATING ACTUATOR AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING HAPTIC FEEDBACK USING THE SAME)/ 06.02.2022 / KR Patent 10-2406-7150000 / KAIST
  • 전자 장치 및 전자 장치에서 복수의 상태들의 우선 순위에 기반한 캐릭터 오브젝트 표시 방법 / 08.06.2021 / 10-2021-0103924 / Samsung Electronics Co., LTD.
  • 화면을 표시하는 방법 및 그 장치(APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING ALWAYS ON DISPLAY) / 07.31.2020 / PCT  WO/2022/025444 / Samsung Electronics Co., LTD.
  • 화상디자인이 표시된 디스플레이 패널 / 06.28.2021 / KR Patent 30-1116866 / Samsung Electronics Co., LTD.
  • 화상디자인이 표시된 디스플레이 패널 / 08.17.2021 / KR Patent 30-1124227 / Samsung Electronics Co., LTD.


Academic Services

  • Korean Institute of Interior Design (한국실내디자인학회) / 정보매체위원회 위원장
  • Archives of Design Research / Reviewer
  • TEI 2022 / Reviewer
  • IASDR 2021 / Reviewer
  • CHI 2020 / Reviewer
  • Eurohaptics 2018 / Reviewer
  • TEI 2015 /Reviewer

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