Junwoo Kim

Ph.D. Student in CSE, POSTECH, South Korea
Interaction Lab (Advisor: Prof. Seungmoon Choi)
B.S. in Electronics Engineering (EE), PNU, South Korea

I am an HCI researcher studying haptic perception and rendering techniques that provide physically grounded sensations in virtual and immersive environments. My research focuses on leveraging signal processing and AI-based methods to translate digital content into meaningful haptic feedback.

# HCI # Haptics # AI # XR / VR / AR

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Research Areas

touch_app Haptic Perception & Rendering

Designing psychophysics-based tactile rendering algorithms to enhance realism in virtual environments.

smart_toy AI

Utilizing AI techniques to creating haptic signals from multimodal data automatically.

view_in_ar VR / AR / XR

Designing and evaluating immersive applications to enhance user experience.

campaign News

Dec 2025

Passed Ph.D. Candidacy exam.

Nov 2025

Paper published in npj Flexible Electronics.

Jan 2025

Paper conditionally accepted to CHI 2025.

Jun 2024

Selected for NRF Ph.D. Fellowship.

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Zero-Shot Audio-to-Haptic Generation via Diffusion Models

Junwoo Kim, Co-author Name, Seungmoon Choi

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2026

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Egocentric Tactile Space: Mapping Spatial Coordinates on the Torso

Junwoo Kim, Co-author Name, Seungmoon Choi

ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2025

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Research on Flexible Tactile Actuators for VR

Junwoo Kim, Co-author Name, Seungmoon Choi

npj Flexible Electronics, 2025

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