Keunwoo Park

Keunwoo Park

I am the chief product officer at Ordinary Magic Corp., a company based in South Korea, making toys for infants and toddlers under the Peekaby brand. Our team builds both hardware toys and software appliations. The toys are media between children and parents, and software applications are intelligent tools to improve the playing experience.


I completed my Ph.D. at KAIST HCIL. During my Ph.D., I foused on technologies for physical human-computer interaction. I developed technologies to 1) bring the existing interaction concepts closer to our life, and 2) support novel interaction ideas. My projects include smartwatch interactions, haptic devices, fabrication, and hand sensing technologies.


Prior to my Ph.D., I completed a bachelor's course in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science in KAIST. I also finished a master's course for Computer Science in KAIST.


Please contact me through email [keunwoopark.524(at)gmail.com].


This page was updated at 13 Nov 2024.

Curriculum Vitae

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Publications

Conferences

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FoolProofJoint: Reducing Assembly Errors of Laser Cut 3D Models by Means of Custom Joint Patterns
CHI 2022

Keunwoo Park, Conrad Lempert , Muhammad Abdullah, Shohei Katakura, Jotaro Shigeyama, Thijs Roumen, Patrick Baudisch

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SGToolkit: An Interactive Gesture Authoring Toolkit for Embodied Conversational Agents
UIST 2021

Youngwoo Yoon*, Keunwoo Park*, Minsu Jang, Jaehong Kim, Geehyuk Lee

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AtaTouch: Robust Finger Pinch Detection for a VR Controller Using RF Return Loss
CHI 2021
Honorable Mention Award

Daehwa Kim, Keunwoo Park, Geehyuk Lee

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DeepFisheye: Near-Surface Multi-Finger Tracking Technology Using Fisheye Camera
UIST 2020

Keunwoo Park, Sunbum Kim, Youngwoo Yoon, Tae-Kyun Kim, Geehyuk Lee

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OddEyeCam: A Sensing Technique for Body-Centric Peephole Interaction using WFoV RGB and NFoV Depth Cameras
UIST 2020

Daehwa Kim, Keunwoo Park, Geehyuk Lee

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FS-Pad: Video Game Interactions with a Force Feedback Gamepad
UIST 2020

Youngbo Aram Shim, Keunwoo Park, Sangyoon Lee, Jeongmin Son, Taeyun Woo, Geehyuk Lee

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MagTouch: Robust Finger Identification for a Smartwatch Using a Magnet Ring and a Built-in Magnetometer
CHI 2020

Keunwoo Park, Daehwa Kim, Seongkook Heo, Geehyuk Lee

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Poke vs. Vibration: Comparing Information Transfer on a 3x3 Watch-back Tactile Display
MobileHCI 2019
Honorable Mention Award

Youngbo Aram Shim, Keunwoo Park, Geehyuk Lee

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Designing Touch Gestures Using the Space around the Smartwatch as Continuous Input Space
ISS 2017

Jaehyun Han, Sunggeun Ahn, Keunwoo Park, Geehyuk Lee

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Journals

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Evaluation of Edge-Based Interaction on a Square Smartwatch
IJHCS (International Journal of Human-Computer Studies)

Sunggeun Ahn, Jaeyeon Lee, Keunwoo Park, Geehyuk Lee

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Posters

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FingMag: Finger Identification Method for Smartwatch
CHI 2019 LBW

Keunwoo Park, Geehyuk Lee

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Touch180: Finger Identification on Mobile Touchscreen using Fisheye Camera and Convolutional Neural Network
UIST 2018 LBW

Insu Kim, Keunwoo Park, Youngwoo Yoon, Geehyuk Lee

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Other Projects

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AllDough: Taste Design Machine For Dough
Digital Design Fabrication Course Project (ID609)

Donghyeon Ko, Bogyeong Kim, Seyeong Kim, Keunwoo Park

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Co-bonbon:Experiencing Collaboration With Multi-user Candy Grabber
UIST SIC 2017

Youngbo Aram Shim, Sunbum Kim, Sangyoon Lee, Keunwoo Park

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Virtual Instrument Live using AR
Personal Project

Keunwoo Park

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Talks

Miscellaneous

Other activities

I make electronic music for fun. If you are interested, please visit my soundcloud.
I share what I listen and watch in my notion notes. There are my conference travel schedules too.

Why do I write my contributions for the papers that I'm not a first author?

Current authorship system is not transparent. We know that a first author did most of the things, but it is hard to know what the other authors did. Therefore, I manifest my contributions for the projects that I played supporting roles. I want to emphasize that HCI research projects are mostly collaborative work. A research project cannot be done by one person and contributions of non-first-authors are crucial. If you are intersted in the authorship issue, please read this interesting paper: Solving the battle of first-authorship: Using interactive technology to highlight contributions.

How to pronounce Keunwoo?

My name is pronouced as GNU.