Yeonsu Kim

Ph.D. Student in KAIST HCIL (Advisor: Geehyuk Lee)

We envision a future where user input does not rely on visual attention. Imagine how drivers can feel a button click without needing to see it – that's the power of touch. Similar to how drivers rely on tactile feedback to confirm button presses without looking, we can offload visually dependent information to haptic feedback. 

As a first step, we present the STButton, which utilizes 2D spatio-temporal haptics to convey system state and user input state, thereby minimizing the need for visual focus.


Research Interests: Haptics, Eyes-free Interaction, Accessibility

|  yeonsu.kim@kaist.ac.kr  |  CV (Dec 2020)  |  Google Scholar  |  

Latest News

Oct 2024 | Presented Pro-Tact on UIST '24.

May 2024 | Demonstrated STButton on CHI '24. 🏆 Jury Honorable Mentions

Sep 2022 | Starting Ph.D. at KAIST HCIL

Selected Publications

Pro-Tact: Hierarchical Synthesis of Proprioception and Tactile Exploration for Eyes-Free Ray Pointing on Out-of-View VR Menus
Yeonsu Kim, Jisu Yim, Kyunghwan Kim, Yohan Yun, and Geehyuk Lee.
UIST 2024.
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STButton: Exploring Opportunities for Buttons with Spatio-Temporal Tactile Output
Yeonsu Kim, Jisu Yim, Jaehyun Kim, Kyunghwan Kim, and Geehyuk Lee.
CHI 2024 Interactivity. 🏆 Jury Honorable Mentions Demo
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ThroughHand: 2D Tactile Interaction to Simultaneously Recognize and Touch Multiple Objects
Jingun Jung, Sunmin Son, Sangyoon Lee, Yeonsu Kim, and Geehyuk Lee.
CHI 2021. 🏆 Honorable Mention Award
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MetaSense: Few-Shot Adaptation to Untrained Conditions in Deep Mobile Sensing
Taesik Gong, Yeonsu Kim, Jinwoo Shin, and Sung-Ju Lee.
SenSys 2019.
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Awards

Jury Honorable Mentions (Demo), CHI 2024
Title: "STButton: Exploring Opportunities for Buttons with Spatio-Temporal Tactile Output"

Honorable Mention Award, CHI 2021
Title: "ThroughHand: 2D Tactile Interaction to Simultaneously Recognize and Touch Multiple Objects"

Student Travel Grant, ACM SIGMOBILE
Awarded ACM SenSys/BuildSys19 Student Travel Grant by SIGMOBILE ($1,000)


Academic services

Publicity Chair, ASSETS 2023

Mentoring Session Chair, Fall in HCI@KAIST Social event 2021

Presentation & Interaction Chair, HCI@KAIST Pre-CHI Workshop 2021

Social Events Student Volunteer, MobiSys 2019

Teaching

Fall 2022 | CS584 Human-Computer Interaction  (Teaching Assistant)
Spring 2021 | CS300 Introduction to Algorithms  (Teaching Assistant)
Fall 2020 |  CS300 Introduction to Algorithms (Teaching Assistant)

Projects

Pro-Tact (UIST '24)

 

ThroughHand
(CHI '21)

 

MetaSense
(SenSys '19)