NEWS

  • (2024/9) Congratulations to Donghan Hu for successfully defending the dissertation.
  • (2024/9) Congratulations to Donghan Hu for getting a post-doc position at New York University. Looking forward to his new adventure!
  • (2024/8) Sang Won Lee was interviewed at WDBJ7 TV for their recent cybergrooming project. (link)
  • (2024/7) One ISMAR Journal paper (IEEE TVCG) was accepted.
    • Investigating Object Translation in Room-scale, Handheld Virtual Reality
  • (2024/7) One VL/HCC paper was accepted.
    • Beyond TAP: Piggybacking on IFTTT to Connect Triggers and Actions with JavaScript
  • (2024/6) SHARP received an Honorable Mention Award ACM C&C 2024.
  • (2024/5) One more CSCW 2024 paper and CSCW 2024 poster were accepted.
    • Investigating Characteristics of Media Recommendation Solicitation in r/ifyoulikeblank (paper)
    • Evaluation of Interactive Demonstration in Voice-assisted Counting for Young Children (poster)
  • (2024/5) Congratulations to Daniel Vargas, Yi Lu, and Emily Altland for passing their master’s thesis exam!
  • (2024/5) Many Echolab students will attend CHI workshops with four workshop papers!
  • (2024/5) One C&C 2024 paper was accepted!
    • SHARP: Exploring Version Control Systems in Live Coding Music
  • (2024/4) Sang Won Lee was awarded a CHCI planning grant with collaborators to study how generative AI can affect the values of expertise. (link)
  • (2024/3) Sang Won Lee was awarded SaTC NSF program grant as a Co-PI. A collaborative team of researchers will focus on empowering adolescents to be resilient to cybergrooming (link)
  • (2024/3) One CHIWORK paper was accepted.
    • Unpacking Task Management Tools, Values, and Worker Dynamics
  • (2024/2) One CHI Paper was accepted.
    • Exploring the Effectiveness of Time-lapse Screen Recording for Self-Reflection in Work Context
  • (2024/2) Sang gave a seminar at the GVU Lunch Lectures at Georgia Tech. (Talk Video)
  • (2024/2) Sang gave a seminar at CS Colloquium Talks, University of Pittsburgh (Talk Video)
  • (2024/2) Sang gave a seminar at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • (2024/1) Two CSCW 2024 papers were accepted
    • Understanding Multi-user, Handheld Mixed Reality for Group-based MR game
    • Understanding the Relationship Between Social Identity and Self-Expression Through Animated Gifs on Social Media
  • (2023/11) Sang was invited to give a talk at HCI@KAIST Fall Colloquium 2023
  • (2023/11) Sang was invited to give a guest lecture at Prof. Kenneth Huang’s class, Crowdsourcing & Crowd-AI Systems, Penn State University
  • (2023/8) Two posters were accepted to ACM UIST 2023
    • TaleMate: Collaborating with Voice Agents for Parent-Child Joint Reading Experiences
    • Context-Aware Sit-Stand Desk for Promoting Healthy and Productive Behaviors
  • (2023/7) One paper was accepted to VL/HCC 2023
    • Octave: an End-user Programming Environment for Analysis of Spatiotemporal Data for Construction Students
  • (2023/6) Congratulations to Md Momen Bhuiyan for successfully defending the dissertation.
  • (2023/6) Congratulations to Md Momen Bhuiyan for getting a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Minnesota at Duluth. Super excited about his future research
  • (2023/5) Congrats to Marx Boyuan Wang for successfully defending the Master’s thesis. He will continue HCI research at iSchool@UW.
  • (2023/5) Sang Won Lee gave a seminar as part of NAVER Tech Talk series at NAVER AI Lab, Korea.
  • (2023/5) Congrats to Danny Manesh, who won the GTA Award 2023
  • (2023/5) Congrats to Teresa Thomas, who won the David Heilman Research Award 2023
  • (2023/4) Congrats to Md Momen Bhuiyan, who won third place in Togersen Awards 2023
  • (2023/3) One work-in-progress (poster) and one music performance were accepted to NIME 2023.
  • (2023/1) Two papers were accepted to CHI 2023.
  • (2022/12) Sang Won Lee was awarded OERC Research Award as a Co-PI (PI Prof. Sol Lim).
  • (2022/12) IdeaSpace received the Best Poster award at ACM SUI 2022 (link)!
  • (2022/12) Sang Won Lee was awarded Google Award for Inclusion Research as a Co-PI (PI Prof. Chris Brown) (link)
  • (2022/11) A few Echolab folks (Sang, Donghan, Daniel, and Marx) will be traveling to UIST 2022.
  • (2022/10) Sang Won Lee gave seminars at the University of Maryland HCIL Brown Bag Speaker Series (UMD)(video) and UMBC Interactive Systems Research Center.
  • (2022/10) One paper (ARCritique) and a poster (IdeaSpace) was accepted to ACM SUI 2022
  • (2022/08) Taskscape and iThem posters were accepted to UIST 2022.
  • (2022/08) Scrapbook paper was accepted to UIST 2022.
  • (2022/06) Sang and Dash (echolab alumni) attended ACM Creativity and Cognition 2022 in Venice, Italy.
  • (2022/06) Sang gave two seminars at DGIST and Kwangwoon University.
  • (2022/05) Sang and all Ph.D. students in echolab (physically) attended CHI 2022 at NOLA. See the pictures here!
  • (2022/04) Our undergraduate researchers (Andy, Drew, Hennah, Rodney) participated in VTURCS and won 1st place (Drew) and 3rd places (Andy, Rodney)!
  • (2022/04) Watch-me-write paper was accepted to ACM C&C 2022.
  • (2022/03) OtherTube received a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award CHI 2022.
  • (2022/03) Molly Hickman received the Outstanding Thesis award during Graduate Education Week.
  • (2022/02) A CHI workshop paper was accepted to HCDS@CHI 2022.
  • (2022/02) Sang Won Lee was invited to give a seminar to share his research experience at the HCI Korea conference.
  • (2022/02) Sang Won Lee gave a talk at the alumni event. (video)
  • (2022/01) Sang Won Lee participated as a program committee member in ACM Creativity and Cognition 2022
  • (2021/11) OtherTube paper was accepted to CHI 2022.
  • (2021/11) Sang Won Lee participated as a Technology co-chair in HCOMP 2021.
  • (2021/10) Echolab and PIE lab at UCI had a lab speed dating as part of the CSCW social event! Here are some photos (1, 2).
  • (2021/10) Huge presence of Echolab in CSCW 2021, presenting four papers. Sang also participated in MoSafely Workshop and chaired a Voice and Speech session.
  • (2021/10) Sang Won Lee participated as an Online Experience Chair in ISMAR 2021.
  • (2021/08) Sang Won Lee served as an associate chair in the specific applications subcommittee in CHI 2022.
  • (2021/08) Nathaniel Llorens successfully defended his Master’s thesis.
  • (2021/08) Sang gave a seminar at Seoul National University and HCI@KAIST (video)
  • (2021/08) Two (more) papers were accepted to ACM CSCW 2021.
  • (2021/08) Sang Won Lee was awarded RETTL, NSF program grant as a PI. (link)
  • (2021/06) Sang Won Lee was awarded IUSE, NSF program grant as a Co-PI. (link)
  • (2021/06) Sang Won Lee participated as a Technology Chair in ICAD 2021
  • (2021/05) A journal article was accepted to Frontiers in Virtual Reality 2021.
  • (2021/05) A conference paper was accepted to HFES 2021.
  • (2021/05) Tam Phan successfully defended his Master’s thesis.
  • (2021/03) Three CHI workshop papers were accepted to CHI 2021.
  • (2021/02) Sang Won Lee gave a seminar in IST Research Seminar series at George Mason University and spoke about computer-mediated empathy
  • (2021/01) One poster (Yuan Li from the 3DUI group) was accepted to IEEE VR 2021.
  • (2021/01) New Year has begun, and a new lab website has been launched!
  • (2021/03) An abstract was accepted to AFHE 2021.
  • (2020/12) Two papers were accepted to ACM CSCW 2021.
  • (2020/12) One paper was accepted to ACM CHI 2021.
  • (2020/12) Check out the virtual showcase of Creative Computing Studio (CS 4644) wordpress.cs.vt.edu/ccs2020f/
  • (2020/11) Sang gave a seminar and spoke about ongoing research at his lab and how it relates to empathy in Social Informatics group. (video)
  • (2020/10) 11 echolab members attended ACM UIST/CSCW 2020
  • (2020/09) 4 posters were accepted to ACM UIST/CSCW 2010
  • (2020/08) Viral Pasad successfully defended his Master’s thesis.
  • (2020/08) VL/HCC 2020 paper received the best short paper award.