Dr. Kangsoo Kim

Contact

Email: kangsoo.kim@ucalgary.ca (University of Calgary)
Personal webpage: https://www.kangsookim.com/
Links: LinkedIn | Google Scholar | ResearchGate
Phone (Office): 407.823.3704
Address:
Institute for Simulation and Training
Partnership III, Room 112
3039 Technology Pkwy
Orlando, FL 32826

Appointments

Postdoctoral Scholar
College of Nursing | Institute for Simulation and Training
University of Central Florida

Education

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA, Ph.D., Computer Science, 2018
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA, M.S., Computer Science, 2015
Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, M.S., Electronics and Computer Engineering, 2011
Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, B.S., Electronics and Computer Engineering, 2009 (Cum Laude)

About

Research Interests

XR/VAMR (Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality)
Human Surrogates (Avatars and Agents) and Social Interaction
Intelligent Virtual Agents
Perception and Cognition
Human–Computer Interaction
Computer Vision

Honors and Awards

“Best Paper Award” at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2019, New Orleans (LA), USA
“Honorable Mention Award” at the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (ICAT-EGVE) 2018, Limassol, Cyprus
“Best Student Paper Award” at the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden

Press

“UCF ‘human surrogate’ research seeks more interactive robots,” by Marco Santana, Orlando Sentinel, Mar 18, 2016 (Link)
“Researchers find that virtual reality can change real world behavior,” by Tom Johnson, Fox 35 News, Feb 25, 2016. (Link)