Daehwa Kim

I am a 1st-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 and UIST and have received two Honorable Mention awards at CHI.

Updates

• May 13: Packed up. Flying to Seattle. Excited to meet new people <3

• May 11: Live demoed UIST work to Apple. Fulfilling moment.

• Apr 27: KAIST HCIL reunion at CHI!

• Apr 26: Live streamed Erwin's presentation to Yeo ;)

• Feb 21: OmniSense is accepted to CHI.

• Jan 17: Got my first DSLR camera as a winner prize of CV class!

• Dec 22: Visited Willa in Chicago :) She introduced AxLab's amazing gadgets!

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PUBLICATIONS

Hui-Shyong Yeo, Erwin Wu, Daehwa Kim, Juyoung Lee, Hyung-il Kim, Seo Young Oh, Luna Takagi, Woontack Woo, Hideki Koike, Aaron J Quigley

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.

Daehwa Kim, Chris Harrison

EtherPose: Continuous Hand Pose Tracking with Wrist-Worn Antenna Impedance Characteristic Sensing

UIST 2022: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.

Craig Shultz, Daehwa Kim, Karan Ahuja, Chris Harrison

TriboTouch: Micro-Patterned Surfaces for Low Latency Touchscreens

CHI 2022: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Honorable Mention Award (Top 5%)

Daehwa Kim, Keunwoo Park, Geehyuk Lee

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%)

Daehwa Kim, Keunwoo Park, Geehyuk Lee

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.

Keunwoo Park, Daehwa Kim, Seongkook Heo, Geehyuk Lee

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

The Plant "Melody": An interactive metal instrument

MIG/TIG Welding (2023)

Creating 3D scanner with shadow (Computational Photography)

Shadow 3D scanner (2022)

AudioHero: Sound-Based Danger Detection System Using VGGish Deep Learning Network

AudioHero (2019)

VRone: 3-Dimensional Force Feedback in VR Using a Personal and Commercial Drone

VRone (2018)

SmartHome Project: IoT Light Platform

System Light @ ETRI (2018)

VibCat : Vibration Categorization for Input & Interaction

VibCat (2017)

Finger Joystick Interaction Using Capacitive Touchscreen

Finger Joystick Interaction (2017)

Yoon Dong-Ju

잠詩(poem a moment) (2017)

Tashkent University of Information Technologies Lecture

TUIT Android Lecture (2016)

Bill split optimization algorithm and system

Mr.Bill (2016)

Calendar App Finding Common Available Time Slots

aYa Calendar (2016)


MEDIA ART

My age 22 - Travel to Europe with a Drone (2018)

Town Where Engineers Live (2015)

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