Sang Ho Yoon

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Associate Professor
Graduate School of Culture Technology
School of Computing
KAIST

I am an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Culture Technology at KAIST, and leading the HCI Tech Lab (Human-centered Interactive Technologies Lab). ​I am also affiliate with the School of Computing, the Graduate School of Metaverse, and the KAIST Robotics Program.

My research focuses on enabling natural user interactions that overcome physical, mental, and social barriers. The research scope would be in the field of Human-Computer Interaction(HCI) enabling novel interactions for XR interfaces. I explore sensing techniques & haptics with the aid of AI technologies. Before joining KAIST, I was a principal engineer at Samsung Research and research engineer at Microsoft Applied Sciences Group. I received my Ph.D. from Purdue University, and M.S. and B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University.

If you are interested in working with me at KAIST, please read this page.

Travels & Talks

Oct 8-12 2025
ISMAR 2025. 2 TVCG Papers, 2 Posters & 1 Workshop.
Oct 12 2025
KAMRR’25. Invited Speaker.
Sep 26-Oct 1 2025
UIST 2025 & Pre-UIST. 3 Demos.
Sep 26 2025
APMAR 2025. Keynote Speaker.
Aug 10-16 2025
International Elite Summer School in Robotics & Entrepreneurship. Invited Speaker.
Jul 12 2025
KSSiS Symposium. Invited Speaker.
Jul 7-11 2025
WHC & KHC 2025. 1 Paper & 1 Workshop Paper.
Jul 2-4 2025
KCC 2025. 2 Papers & 2 Workshop.
Jun 26 2025
Samsung Global Research CX Forum. Invited Speaker.
Jun 18-20 2025
ISMAX2025@NYU. Invited Speaker.
Apr 26-May 1 2025
CHI 2025. 4 Full Papers, 1 Workshop.
Mar 27 2025
GIST AI Graduate School. Invited Speaker.
Feb 17 2025
3rd Korea Haptics Society PI Symposium. Guest Speaker.
Dec 20 2024
KSC2024 CG&I Society Workshop. Guest Speaker.
Dec 19 2024
Kyung Hee University (Graduate School of Metaverse). Invited Speaker.
Nov 1 2024
Microsoft Research. Invited Speaker.
Oct 30 2024
NYU HCI Seminar. Invited Speaker.
Oct 28-29 2024
KAIST-NYU Workshop on MetaMuseum.
Oct 20-26 2024
ISMAR 2024. 1 Conference Paper & 1 Workshop Paper.
Oct 4-9 2024
UbiComp 2024. 2 IMWUT Papers.

News (More News)

Nov 25 2025
Honored to receive the Research Award at KAIST Q-Day in recognition of my contributions to HCI research.
Nov 5 2025
Serving as a sponsorship co-chair for AsiaHaptics 2026.
Nov 4 2025
Serving as an AC for UIST 2026.
Nov 2 2025
Serving as an AC for AHs 2026.
Oct 15 2025
A paper is accepted to IMWUT.
Oct 1 2025
Serving as a Program Committee for KSC 2025.
Oct 1 2025
Serving as a Demo Co-Chair for UIST 2026.
Jul 12 2025
Serving as a Publication Co-Chair for WHC 2027.
May 10 2025
Serving as a Program Committee for KCC 2025.
May 1 2025
We are looking for undergrad research interns for the summer.
May 1 2025
Serving as an AC for CHI 2026.
Apr 19 2025
A paper is accepted to WHC2025.
Apr 3 2025
A paper is accepted to IMWUT.
Mar 19 2025
Serving as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) for ISWC 2025.
Mar 14 2025
Joined KAIST Robotics Program as Adjunct Professor.
Mar 7 2025
Serving as a Scientific Program Co-Chair for EuroXR 2025.
Mar 7 2025
Serving as a Program Chair for 3rd Korea Haptics Conference.
Mar 7 2025
Serving as a Publication Co-Chair for Korea Haptics Society.
Feb 5 2025
Serving as an Associate Editor for IMWUT.
Feb 1 2025
Serving as an AC for UIST 2025.
Jan 26 2025
A paper is accepted to TVCG.
Jan 24 2025
Four papers are conditionally accepted to CHI2025.
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Jan 22 2025
Serving as an AC for AHs 2025.
Jan 15 2025
Our workshop is accepted to CHI2025.
Dec 4 2024
Honored to receive Outstanding Research Innovation Prize from KAIST College of Liberal Arts and Convergence Science
Nov 1 2024
Serving as a Publication Co-Chair for VR 2026.
Oct 24 2024
Serving as a Financial Co-Chair for ISMAR 2025.
Sep 26 2024
Serving as a Program Committee for IUI 2025.
Sep 26 2024
Our paper "Posture-Informed Muscular Force Learning for Robust Hand Pressure Estimation" has been accepted to NeurIPS2024.
Aug 23 2024
Serving as a Publication Co-Chair for WHC 2025.
Aug 23 2024
Serving as a Demo Co-Chair for UIST 2025.
Aug 15 2024
Serving as an AC for CHI 2025.
Aug 10 2024
Our paper "EStatiG: Wearable Haptic Feedback with Multi-Phalanx Electrostatic Brake for Enhanced Object Perception in VR" has been accepted to IMWUT.
Aug 10 2024
Our paper "ThermicVib: Enabling Dynamic Thermal Sensation with Multimodal Haptic Glove for Thermal-Responsive Interaction" has been accepted to ISMAR2024.
May 16 2024
Our lab demo received Popular Choice Winner!
Mar 20 2024
Serving as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) for ISWC 2024.

Highlighted Publications

UltraBoard: Always-Available Wearable Ultrasonic Mid-air Haptic Interface for Responsive and Robust VR Inputs

AUTHORS Changhyeon Park, Yubin Lee, Sang Ho Yoon
IMWUT | Project Website

Neck Goes VRrr: Reducing Rotation-Induced Virtual Reality Sickness through Neck Muscle Vibrations

AUTHORS Kun-woo Song, Sang Ho Yoon
IEEE TVCG (ISMAR2025) | Project Website

ChoreoCraft: In-situ Crafting of Choreography in Virtual Reality through Creativity Support Tool

AUTHORS Hyunyoung Han*, Kyungeun Jung*, Sang Ho Yoon
CHI2025 | Project Website

T2IRay: Design of Thumb-to-Index based Indirect Pointing for Continuous and Robust AR/VR Input

AUTHORS Jina Kim, Yang Zhang, Sang Ho Yoon
CHI2025 | Project Website

HapticGen: Generative Text-to-Vibration Model for Streamlining Haptic Design

AUTHORS Youjin Sung*, Kevin John*, Sang Ho Yoon**, Hasti Seifi**
CHI2025

Posture-Informed Muscular Force Learning for Robust Hand Pressure Estimation

AUTHORS Kyungjin Seo*, Junghoon Seo*, Hanseok Jeong, Sangpil Kim, Sang Ho Yoon
NeurIPS 2024 | DOI Project Website VIDEO
EStatiG: Wearable Haptic Feedback with Multi-Phalanx Electrostatic Brake for Enhanced Object Perception in VR
AUTHORS Nicha Vanichvoranun*, Hojeong Lee*, Seoyeon Kim, Sang Ho Yoon
ACM IMWUT (UbiComp2024) | DOI VIDEO PDF