Sei Kang

Sei Kang

Ph.D. student at Empathic Computing Lab in Korea, Chonnam National University

I am a Ph.D. student at ECL in Korea, Chonnam National University, advised by Prof. Seungwon Kim. My research interests lie in AR/VR and HCI, especially in human-agent interaction.

Publications

Regular Publications

TBD

Effects of Gesture Size in Virtual Agents on Persuasive Communication

Gayun Suh, Gun A. Lee, Hyung-Jeong Yang, Soo-Hyung Kim, Ji-eun Shin, Jaejoon Jeong, Sei Kang, and Seungwon Kim
ACM VRST 2025

[DOI] · [Video]
ER

Design and Evaluation of a Virtual Agent for Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in VR

Sei Kang, Gun A. Lee, Hyung-Jeong Yang, Soo-Hyung Kim, Ji-eun Shin, Jaejoon Jeong, Myungho Lee, and Seungwon Kim
IEEE ISMAR 2025

[DOI] · [Video]
face

Three Techniques for Enhancing Emotional Expression on Embodied Avatar Face in VR

Jaejoon Jeong, Gun A. Lee, Hyung-Jeong Yang, Soo-Hyung Kim, Ji-eun Shin, Gayun Suh, Sei Kang, and Seungwon Kim
IEEE ISMAR 2025

[DOI] · [Video]
RayHand

The RayHand Navigation: A Virtual Navigation Method with Relative Position between Hand and Gaze-Ray

Sei Kang, Jaejoon Jeong, Gun A. Lee, Soo-Hyung Kim, Hyung-Jeong Yang, and Seungwon Kim
ACM CHI 2024

[DOI] · [Video]

Adjuct Publications (Posters)

Willingness to Interact: Social Resources Facilitate Pulling Actions toward Social Avatars in Virtual Reality
Jaejoon Jeong, Hwaryung Lee, Ji-eun Shin, Daeun Kim, Sei Kang, Gun A. Lee, Soo-Hyung Kim, Hyung-Jeong Yang, and Seungwon Kim
IEEE VRW 2025 [DOI] · [Video]

Patents

  • Method and System for Distant Object Manipulation using Gaze Ray and Hand Interface

    • Korea Granted Patent (Registration No. 10-2864482) [DOI]

  • An Electronic Device and Its Operation Method That Provides a Steering-Based Virtual Reality (VR) Navigation Environment That Operates Through a RayHand Control Method That Combines a Gaze and a Hand

    • Korea Granted Patent (Registration No. 10-2783127) [DOI]

Honors and Awards

  • Best Presentation Award, APMAR 2025
  • NRF M.S. Fellowship (RS-2024-00465826), 2024-2025
  • Presidential Science Scholarship (M.S.), 2024-2025
  • Outstanding Paper Award, 2023 Korea Digital Content Society
  • Outstanding Paper Award, 2023 Korea Society for Smart Media
  • National Excellence Scholarship (Science and Engineering), 2022~2023
  • Grand Prize, Web Portfolio - AI+X Coding Fundamental Competency Enhancement Competition, 2022

Invited Talks

  • ISMAR 2024, Lightning Talk of the LocXR Workshop
  • Korea Computer Congress (KCC) 2024, Top Conference Session