Education
School of Electrical Engineering, Robotics Program, KAIST
(PhD Candidate in Human-Centered Interactive Technologies Laboratory) (2025.8~)
Advisor : Professor Sang Ho Yoon
Wearable Haptic Technology, Soft Actuator, HRI
Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST
(Master of Science, Human-Centered Interactive Technologies Laboratory) (2023.8 ~ 2025.8)
Advisor : Professor Sang Ho Yoon
Thesis: Wearable Haptic Interface for Shape Perception through Spatiotemporal Vibrotactile Patterns and Kinesthetic Feedback
(Committee: Sang Ho Yoon, Jeongmi Lee, Huitaek Yun)
Wearable Haptic Technology, Soft Actuator, Ergonomics in XR
College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University
(Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design) (2018.3 ~ 2023.8)
Industrial Design, Media Art
Frankfurt University of Applied Science (Summer Exchange Student Program) (2019.7 ~ 2019.8)
Urban Design and Architecture
Publications
Journals
EStatiG: Wearable Haptic Feedback with Multi-Phalanx Electrostatic Brake for Enhanced Object Perception in VR
Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. (IMWUT), Vol. 8, No. 3, Article 131. (2024.9)
Nicha Vanichvoranun*, Hojeong Lee*, Seoyeon Kim, Sang Ho Yoon (First Co-author)
Spatiotemporal Vibration Based Multimodal Haptic Rendering with a Lightweight Exo-Glove for 3D Shape Perception (Under Review)
Hojeong Lee, Eunho Kim, Rachel Kim, Sang Ho Yoon
Exoskeleton for 2-DoF kinesthetic feedback (Under Review)
Daegeun Park, Hojeong Lee, Sang Ho Yoon, Sung-uk Jung
Conferences
3D Shape Perception through Spatiotemporal Vibrotactile Patterns with Kinesthetic Feedback
Proc. IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC, 2025.7)
Hojeong Lee, Eunho Kim, Sang Ho Yoon
Optimizing Button Size to Enhance User Experience for Augmented Reality Interactions in Mobile Scenarios
22nd Triennial Congress of International Ergonomics Association (IEA, 2024.08)
Hojeong Lee, Yeahyoung Jeon, Keisuke Kudo, Paul Ssemakula, Seonghyeok Park and Shuping Xiong
ThermicVib: Enabling Dynamic Thermal Sensation with Multimodal Haptic Glove for Thermal-Responsive Interaction
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR, 2024.12)
Hyungil Yi, Hojeong Lee, Sang Ho Yoon
Posters and Demo
Effect of Movement Velocity and Flexion Angle on Realistic Haptic Reproduction
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR Adjunct, 2025.11)
Dongkyu Kwak*, Hojeong Lee*, Sang Ho Yoon (First Co-author)
Adaptive and Immersive XR Interactions with Wearable Interfaces (Demo of KAIST HCI Tech Lab)
proc. 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI, 2024.5)
Research Projects
Development of a multimodal haptic rendering technology based on atypical objects (ETRI)
(2024.1 ~)
Emotional Expression through Robot Arm Movement (XYZ)
(2025.8~)
A wearable multimodal sensing framework for adaptive interaction in extended reality (NRF)
(2023.8 ~ 2025.8)
Developing the model and criteria of evaluating motion sickness in automobile driving scenarios (Hyundai NGV)
Human Interface System Lab (Professor Myung Hwan Yun, Seoul National University)
Research Assistant (2023.1 ~ 2023.6)
Honors and Awards
Dean's Award : Research Award 2024, LACS KAIST
CHI 2024: Popular Choice Winner (HCI Tech Lab)
Activities
Student President of the Department of Design
(Seoul National University, 2019.12 - 2020.12)
Urban redesign project for Frankfurt Neue Strasse and Offenbach station
(Frankfurt University of Applied Science, 2019.7)
Suggested the Design for the public space in Frankfurt Neue Strasse and Offenbach station, UX scenario
Academic Services
Review
CHI LBW 24', Augmented Humans 25', WHC 25', ISMAR 25', UIST 25', ISMAR Poster 25', CHI 26', HRI 26'
Student Volunteer
UbiComp/ ISWC 2024
Invited Talks
Invited Talk at Seoul National University, SNU Design Week (2025.12)
Title: “From the Designer and Artist to HCI Researcher”
Invited Talk at Korea Haptics Conference (2024.09)
Title: “Wearable Haptic Feedback with Multi-Phalanx Electrostatic Brake for Enhanced Object Perception in VR”
Exhibitions
Seoul Design 2022 (2022, Granted by Seoul Design Foundation)
매몽매몽 Dream Trade (Haeun Ki, Yuri Kim, Heejung Yu, Hojeong Lee, Seyun Jun, Sungyun Jang)
Designer (Directing, 3D design, Mock-up, Web Design)
ZER01NE DAY 2021 (2021, Granted by Hyundai Motors Group)
headspace (Keunwook Kim)
Design Assistant ( 3D design, Exhibition Design, Prototyping)
Artspace@snu (2021, Granted by Seoul National University)
원 Wishes (Hojeong Lee)
Designer (Directing, Interaction Design, Visual Design)
Work Experience
GLoim (2020.6 ~ 2022.8)
Virtual Exhibition Designer (3D design, Virtual Exhibition Design)
Designed Korea Women Inventors Association Expo 2021 (Virtual Exhibition)