Pohang University of Science and Technology

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IUI '26Hand Gesture Recognition +3

AcouLetter: Enabling Fine-Grained Mid-Air Alphabetic Thumb Gesture Recognition on Smartphones with Acoustic and Inertial Sensing

Mobile interaction is fundamentally tied to the screen, requiring users to look at and physically touch their devices by tapping on-screen controls. We introduce AcouLetter, a system for recognizing fine-grained, mid-air alphabetic thumb gestures above the screen that enables one-handed and non-contact input. Our meth…

CHI '26Vibrotactile Feedback & Skin Stimulation +2

Effects of Haptic Feedback on Gaming Experiences: A Case Study Comparing Players and Spectators in FPS Games

Haptic feedback has become a common feature in game experiences, yet little is known about how its effects differ between active players and passive spectators. This study investigated how haptic feedback influences user experience and technology acceptance in the context of first-person shooter (FPS) games, particula…

CHI '26Honorable MentionHuman-LLM Collaboration +3

"Here, Let Me Help": An Empirical Study of User Interventions in Human–Web Agent Collaboration

Web agents aim to execute complex online tasks from high-level instructions, yet fully autonomous execution remains challenging in practice. We present an empirical study of user interventions in human–web agent collaboration, moving beyond outcome-based metrics to examine how interventions unfold during execution. We…

CHI '26Vibrotactile Feedback & Skin Stimulation +2

Touch with Meaning: A Contextual Analysis of Social Touch

Social touch is a rich channel of human communication, conveying emotion, intent, and meaning embedded in context. Yet most HCI studies treat touch in isolation, overlooking the layered subtleties that shape interpretation. We present a contextual analysis of 5,016 social touch events, grounded in a large collection o…

CHI '26Mid-Air Haptics (Ultrasonic) +3

HaRing: A Haptic Ring Interface for One-Handed Interaction with High-Dimensional Spatial Information

Ring interfaces have gained attention in wearable technology for their lightweight and hands-free design. However, their compact form factor limits them to conveying simple information, such as direction or notification, through vibration, electrotactile, or force feedback. In this paper, we introduce HaRing, a novel…

CHI '26Generative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

I Feel We Are Together: How People Perceive Personalized Face-Swapped GIFs in Text-Based Communication

Nonverbal cues in text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC), initially introduced to compensate for the lack of social and emotional cues, have evolved beyond their original purpose to express user identity. In particular, embodied identity cues—such as a user’s real face—remain relatively underexplored in text…

CHI '25Vibrotactile Feedback & Skin Stimulation +2

Automatic Tuning of Haptic Motion Effects to Evoke Specific Feelings in Multisensory Content

Automating the authoring of haptic motion effects, while enabling designers to carefully consider user feelings to provide high-quality user experiences, is crucial for effective multisensory content. We present a motion effect-tuning method that elicits desired perceptual or affective attributes from users watching a…

CHI '25Full-Body Interaction & Embodied Input +1

Real-time Semantic Full-Body Haptic Feedback Converted from Sound for Virtual Reality Gameplay

We present a multisensory virtual reality (VR) system that enables users to experience concurrent visual, auditory, and haptic feedback, featuring semantic classification of events from sound, sound-to-haptic conversion, and full-body haptic effects. This concept is applied to enhance the user experience of virtual re…

CHI '25Haptic Wearables +1

SkinHaptics: Exploring Skin Softness Perception and Virtual Body Embodiment Techniques to Enhance Self-Haptic Interactions

Providing haptic feedback for soft, deformable objects is challenging, requiring complex mechanical hardware combined with modeling and rendering software. As an alternative, we advance the concept of self-haptics, where the user's own body delivers physical feedback, to convey dynamically varying softness in VR. Sk…

CHI '25Human-LLM Collaboration +1

Toward Affective Empathy via Personalized Analogy Generation: A Case Study on Microaggression

The importance of empathy cannot be overstated in modern societies where people of diverse backgrounds increasingly interact together. The HCI community has strived to foster affective empathy through immersive technologies. Many previous techniques are built upon a premise that presenting the same experience as-is ma…

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Haptic, Force & Physical Feedback

Vibrotactile Feedback & Skin Stimulation

Gesture, Body & Motion Interaction

Full-Body Interaction & Embodied Input

Games, Entertainment & Gamification

Game UX & Player Behavior

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User Research Methods (Interviews, Surveys, Observation)