Department of Media Communication Research Team won the best paper award at‘HCI Korea 2023 Academic Conference’&‘2022 Korean Ergonomic Society 40th Anniversary Conference and International Symposium’

The research team led by Professor Hwang Dong-wook (Department of Media Communication) of Kwangwoon University won the Best Paper Award at the ‘HCI Korea 2023 Academic Conference’ and ‘2022 Ergonomics Society of Korea 40th Anniversary Conference and International Symposium’ respectively.

Among the research teams of the School of Media Communication, students Jihoon Song and Jeongmin Ki won the Best Poster Paper Award for Poster thesis at the 'HCI Korea 2023 Conference' held by the Korean HCI Society on February 1st. The team presented a thesis on the subject of 'Proposal of communication system for autonomous vehicle according to communication intention'. This study aims to propose a display/projection type communication system as a basic study for establishing a new communication system considering the interaction between vehicles or between vehicles and pedestrians on the road.

Professor Hwang Dong-wook, who directed the thesis research, said, 'The results of this research are part of the project results conducted in the 'Communication and Innovation' class at our school. This is a meaningful achievement in which students came up with ideas and created prototypes to solve the problem of interaction with autonomous vehicle systems.”

This HCI KOREA 2023 academic conference “RE-UNION: Reunion” is devoted to research on human-computer interaction such as artificial intelligence, self-driving, Internet of Things, VR/AR, and robotics technology, in the fields of technology, design, humanities and social sciences. The results of experts were shared, and among large-scale research results, including a total of 155 oral papers, 68 poster papers, 9 capstone papers, and 54 Creative Award works, 10 excellent papers and 3 posters were selected as excellent papers.

In addition, students Minwoo Cho and Seulhee Kwon won the Best Paper Award for poster papers at the '2022 Ergonomic Society of Korea 40th Anniversary Conference and International Symposium' held by the Korean Society for Ergonomics in October 2022. 

The team presented a thesis titled 'Development of a notification system for handling dangerous situations in autonomous driving based on a virtual environment' and dealt with a method to effectively provide notification information about dangerous situations around the vehicle while driving to the driver inside the partially autonomous vehicle.

Meanwhile, this award is the research achievement of the Space a Focus Research Center (XR Focus Research Center), which was conducted as part of the 'Customized R&D Discovery and Promotion Project' of the 2021 University Innovation Project.