Director

Dr. Seungwon Kim is an associate professor at Chonnam National University. He investigates the remote collaboration system. With Augmented Reality technology, he adds visual communication cues (such as pointer, sketch, and virtual hands) in the shared live video of a video conferencing system and studies the effect of them for better remote collaboration. He has presented papers at major A/A* international conferences and journals such as CHI, ISMAR, JVCI, TIIS, and CSCW. He also has reviewed dozens of papers at CHI, ISMAR, VR, TVCG, BIT, and IMWUT.

He received his Ph.D. in Human Interface Technology from HITLab NZ in November 2016 with supervision of Prof. Mark Billinghurst, Dr. Gun Lee, and Dr. Christoph Bartneck. During the Ph.D, He received UC doctoral scholarship from University of Canterbury from April of 2012 to April of 2016. He developed one of the early remote collaboration interfaces that anchors virtual sketches in real world without a marker and previous data, and introduced the auto freeze function for a drawing annotation interface.

In 2013, he was selected through the Microsoft Worldwide Internship program by Nexus group at Microsoft Research (MSR) in Redmond. At MSR, he developed interfaces for Skype that includes three additional views (a high quality image view, a map view, and a scene view) together with a live video stream.

He completed Bachelor and Master Degrees in Computer Science in University of Tasmania, and received Tasmanian International Scholarship (TIS) during the Degrees. He is also a golden key member that is only available to top 15 percent students during the Bachelor or Master Degrees.

Education

• Apr 2012 - Nov 2016: Ph.D in University of Canterbury, New Zealand

  • Supervisor: Prof. Christoph Bartneck, Dr. Gun Lee, Prof. Mark Billinghurst

  • Dissertation: The Interface for Remote Parallel Experience Collaboration Using Augmented Visual Communication Cues

• Feb 2009 - Dec 2010: M.S in University of Tasmania, Australia

  • Supervisor:  Prof. Winyu Chinthammit

  • Thesis: Efficient Interaction for Google Earth 3D Navigation with a Large Display System

• Jul 2007 - Feb 2009: B.S in University of Tasmania, Australia

• Mar 2002 - Jun 2006: Dept. of ECE, Chonnam National University

Experiences

• Mar 2025 - Now: Associate Professor in Dept. of AI Convergence, Chonnam National University

• Mar 2021 - Feb 2025: Assistant Professor in Dept. of AI Convergence, Chonnam National University

• Nov 2020 - Feb 2021: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST)

• Nov 2017 - Oct 2020: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Swinburne University of Technology 

• Dec 2016 - Oct 2020: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Empathic Computing Lab, University of South Australia

• May 2013 - Sep 2013: Mircosoft Research(MSR)

• Jun 2011 - Feb 2012: HITLab NZ, University of Canterbury

Roles

• IEEE VR 2026 On-line Experience Chair

• IEEE ISMAR 2025 Web Chair

• APMAR 2025 Program Chair

• APMAR 2024 Program Chair

• ACM SUI 2023 Poster and Demo Chair

Local Roles

• 전남대학교 인공지능혁신융합대학사업 총괄사업단 성과확신부장 (2024. 3. 1 ~ 2025. 2. 28)

• 한국정보처리학회 이사 (2024)

• 첨단국가산업단지 에너지자급자족형 인프라구축 및 운영사업 SEC 운영위원 (2023. 11 ~ 2025. 12)

• 한국정보처리학회 호남지회 상임이사 (2023)

• 전남대학교 우수신임교수상 (2022)

• 전남대학교 수시모집 학생부종합전형 위촉사령관 (2022. 7. 5 ~ 2023. 1. 4)

• 광주광역시도시공사 소프트웨어사업 과업심의위원회 위원 (2021. 9. 9 ~ 2023. 9. 8)