Kyunghwan Kim | 김경환
” I connect Humans with Computers through novel Input Devices and Physical Interaction techniques!! “
Hi! 👋 This is Kyunghwan, a Ph.D. student in School of Computing, KAIST. I am part of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL), advised by Professor Geehyuk Lee.
I am highly interested in discovering physical input methods and devices to better assist input for AR devices.
Please refer to my CV for more information and the various extracurricular activities I have organized, including GDSC (Google Developer Student Clubs), two Toastmasters clubs (International Association to Develop Public Speaking Skills), G.OnNaRae (GIST Student Ambassador), and many more!! 🙌
News
| 2026 Jan | ✈️ Heading to CES 2026 and also visiting universities and companies around Los Angeles and the Bay Area, as an extension of the MSIT Minister’s Award (과기부장관상) at ICT Challenge 2025. Excited to explore the latest in HCI/XR and meet amazing people on-site! |
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| 2025 Sep | 🙋♂️ I’m coming to UIST ‘25 and IEEE ISMAR ‘25 as a Student Volunteer (SV)!! I also designed the SV t-shirt for UIST, so please stay tuned! |
| 2025 Aug | 🎉 Team Geppetto won the MSIT Minister’s Award (과기부장관상) at ICT Challenge 2025 — one of only five teams out of 206 (Top 2.4%)!!! The ICT Challenge is a nationwide arena for graduate research, prototypes, and startup idea pitches, hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and organized by IITP. |
| 2025 Jul | 🚆 KAIST HCI Lab is coming to Suwon for the IEEE World Haptics (WHC) ‘25! |
| 2025 Apr | 🛫 Flying to Yokohama for CHI ‘25 to present our LBW paper Ball20 and attend the Beyond Glasses Workshop! |
| 2025 Mar | 📚 Thrilled to continue my research as a Ph.D. student at KAIST HCIL! |
| 2024 Oct | 🛫 Excited to attend UIST ‘24 in Pittsburg to demo our Pro-Tact project and attend the Intelligent Soft Wearables workshop! |
| 2024 Aug | 👨🏫 Proud to share that I won the Outstanding TA of the Semester Award for the Wearable User Interface (CS486) lecture at KAIST! (22 out of 154 TAs selected) |
| 2024 Jul | 👉 Pro-Tact was accepted to UIST ‘24! It combines rapid rough pointing via Pro-prioception with fine-grain adjustments via Tact-ile feedback, enhancing eyes-free pointing accuracy in VR. |
| 2024 May | 🏅 STButton won the Honorable Mention: Jury’s Best Demo Recognition award at CHI ‘24 Interactivity! |
| 2024 Apr | 🎉 Our team’s work on evaluating multimodal attractors for RDW (Redirected Walking) in VR was accepted to Springer Virtual Reality! |
| 2024 Feb | 🎊 Can we make passive buttons to talk back to us through the tactile channel? STButton was accepted to CHI ‘24 Interactivity! |
| 2023 Oct | 🌉 Excited to attend UIST ‘23 in San Francisco to demo my Virtual Rolling Temple (VRT) project and attend the GenAI workshop. |
| 2023 Aug | 😎 How can we overcome the thin nature of the smart glasses touchpad? Virtual Rolling Temple (VRT) was accepted to UIST ‘23 Demo! |
| 2023 Mar | 🍀 Began a new journey as an M.S. student at KAIST HCIL! |
| 2022 Dec | 🎓 Won the Best B.S. Thesis Poster Presentation Award (1st place) from the School of EECS, GIST!! Enormous thanks to HCIS Lab. |
| 2022 Feb | 🎉 Our team’s work on evaluating multimodal attractors for RDW (Redirected Walking) in VR was accepted to CHI ‘22 LBW! |