Hayeon Kim
Hayeon Kim
Virtual Reality · Human-Grounded AI · Collaborative Intelligence
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Hayeon Kim

Virtual Reality · Human-Grounded AI · Collaborative Intelligence

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About

Portrait of Professor Hayeon Kim
  • Virtual Reality & Human-Grounded AI Researcher
Current Position
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Software Science, Dankook University
Background
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Yonsei University
  • Game Client Programmer, Nexon
Research Focus
  • Human-grounded AI and Virtual Reality — exploring how AI can interpret, adapt, and collaborate within human experience.
  • My work integrates experimental VR and multimodal AI to understand perception, presence, and coordination in immersive systems.

Research

Interpretive AI + VR

Interpretive AI + VR

AI that can perceive and interpret human experience inside virtual worlds — aligning machine attention with human gaze, emotion, and intent.

Adaptive AI + VR

Adaptive AI + VR

Virtual environments powered by adaptive AI — sensing human states and adjusting feedback in real time to sustain immersion and comfort.

Collaborative AI + VR

Collaborative AI + VR

AI that collaborates within shared virtual spaces — understanding how people coordinate, recover, and build trust in immersive teamwork.

Publications

2026

  • #11
    #11Title withheld for blind review
    Under Review
    Hayeon Kim et al.
    ACM CHI 2026
  • #10
    #10Title withheld for blind review
    Under Review
    Hayeon Kim et al.
    ACM CHI 2026
  • #9
    #9Title withheld for blind review
    Under Review
    Hayeon Kim et al.
    IEEE VR 2026
  • #8
    #8Title withheld for blind review
    Under Review
    Hayeon Kim et al.
    IEEE VR 2026

2025

  • #7
    #7Social Pseudo-Haptics in Collaborative Virtual Reality: Using Delay to Signal Effort Attribution
    Accepted
    Hayeon Kim
    Presented at ACM VRST 2025
  • #6
    #6PresenceLens: Interpreting Dynamic Presence in Virtual Reality
    Accepted
    Hayeon Kim, In-Kwon Lee
    Presented at IEEE ISMAR 2025
  • #5
    #5PACT: Modeling Coordination Dynamics in Scale-Asymmetric Virtual Reality Collaboration
    Published
    Hayeon Kim, In-Kwon Lee
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
    Presented at IEEE ISMAR 2025

2023

  • #4
    #4“To Be or Not to Be Me?”: Exploration of Self-Similar Effects of Avatars on Social Virtual Reality Experiences
    Published
    Hayeon Kim, Jinhyung Park, In-Kwon Lee
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
    Presented at IEEE ISMAR 2023
    🏅 Best Journal Paper — Nominated

2022

  • #3
    #3Dynamic Optimal Space Partitioning for Redirected Walking in Multi-User Environment
    Published
    Sang-Bin Jeon, Soon-Uk Kwon, June-Young Hwang, Yong-Hun Cho, Hayeon Kim, Jinhyung Park, In-Kwon Lee
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
    Presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2022
  • #2
    #2Studying the Effects of Congruence of Auditory and Visual Stimuli on Virtual Reality Experiences
    Published
    Hayeon Kim, In-Kwon Lee
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)
    Presented at IEEE VR 2022
    Invited talk at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2022
    🏅 Best Journal Paper — Nominated

2021

  • #1
    #1Character Detection in Animated Movies Using Multi-Style Adaptation and Visual Attention
    Published
    Hayeon Kim, Eun-Cheol Lee, Yongseok Seo, Dong-Hyuck Im, In-Kwon Lee
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TOM)

Academic Service

Conferences

  • Reviewer
    IEEE VR
    2025 · 2023
  • Reviewer
    IEEE ISMAR
    2025 · 2023 · 2022
  • Reviewer
    ACM CHI
    2026
  • Reviewer
    ACM VRST
    2025 · 2024
  • Program Committee
    ACM IUI
    2026

Journals

  • Reviewer
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (TVCG)
    2023
  • Reviewer
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TOM)
    2023
  • Reviewer
    Scientific Reports
    2025 · 2024
  • Reviewer
    Virtual Reality
    2025 · 2024

Contact

ContactNow Recruiting
qoocrab@gmail.com / qoocrab@dankook.ac.kr

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