Seungyon "Claire" Lee

Research Scientist
Palo Alto

Biography

Education

  • Ph.D., Human-Centered Computing (Minor: Electronic Arts), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA USA
  • M.S., Human-Computer Interaction, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA USA
  • B.S., Architectural Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
  • B.S., Housing and Interior Design, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Work Experience
  • IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose CA, US, Research intern
  • Palo Alto Research Center (PARC),  Palo Alto, CA, US, Research Intern
  • Seoul Architects & Consultants, Seoul, south Korea, Architect

Ongoing Research

  • When engineers from Mars meet designers from Venus: Metacognition in multidisciplinary practice
  • On-the-go web UX
  • Personalized knowledge management

 

Research interests

  • Human-computer interaction
  • Mobile / ubiquitous / wearable computing
  • Multi-disciplinary research and design
  • Social media
  • Urban informatics

Publications

  • AirTouch: Synchronizing in-air hand gesture and on-body tactile feedback to augment mobile gesture interaction, Lee, S. C., Li, B., Starner, T., In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (San Francisco, CA USA, June 12 - 15, 2011).
  • Touchfire: Towards a Glove-mounted Tactile Display for Rendering Temperature Readings for Firefighters, Walter, K., Lee, S., Starner, T., Leibrandt, L., Lawo, M., In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (Seoul, South Korea, Oct 10 - 13, 2010).
  • The Effect of Body Configuration and Heuristics in On-body Information Tactilization of Directional Patterns, Lee, S. C., Starner, T., and Shin, H., In proceedings of  HaptiMap: Using Audio and Haptics for Delivering Spatial Information via Mobile devices - Workshop in conjunction with ACM MobileHCI (Lisbon, Portugal, September 7-10, 2010).
  • BuzzWear: Alert Perception in Wearable Tactile Displays on the Wrist, Lee, S. C., Starner, T., In Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Atlanta, GA, USA, April 10 - 15, 2010).
  • Improving Form Factor Design of Mobile Gesture Interface on the Wrist, Deen, J., Lee, S. C., Li, B., Starner, T., In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (Atlanta, GA, USA, April 10 - 15, 2010).
  • Mobile Gesture Interaction Using Wearable Tactile Displays, Lee, S. C., Starner, T., In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA'09 (Boston, MA, USA, April 4 - 9, 2009).
  • The Performance of Touch Screen Soft Buttons, Lee, S. C., Zhai, S., In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '09 (Boston, MA, USA, April 4 - 9, 2009).
  • Stop Burdening Your Eyes: a Wearable Electro-tactile Display, Lee, S. C., Starner, T., In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (Pittsburgh, PA, USA, September 28 - October 1, 2008).
  • Paradiddle: Minimizing Input Latency in Mobile Text Entry , Lee, S. C., Newman, M. W., and Partridge, K, E. PARC Technical Report TR-07-3. 2007 July.
  • Paradiddle: An Exploration of a One-Handed Tap-Based Text Entry Technique. Lee, S.C., Newman, M.W., and Partridge, K.E.. In Proc.s of Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices (PERMID 2007) - Mobile Devices as Pervasive User Interfaces and Interaction Devices - Workshop in conjunction with: The 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 13-16, 2007).
  • American sign language recognition in game development for deaf children. Brashear, H., Henderson, V., Park, K., Hamilton, H., Lee, S., and Starner, T. 2006. . In Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Portland, Oregon, USA, October 23 - 25, 2006).
  • HCI : The Eyes of Context. Lee, S.. POAR (People & Architecture) Magazine, No. 112, 32-39. Seoul, Korea. August 2005.
  • User-Centered Development of a Gesture-Based American sign Language (ASL) Game. Lee, S., Henderson, V., Brashear, H., Starner, T., Hamilton, H.. In Proceedings of Instructional Technology and Education of the Deaf Symposium, NTID (Rochester, NY. June 2005).
  • Development of American Sign Language (ASL) Game for Deaf Children. Henderson, V., Lee, S., Hamilton, H., Starner, T., Brashear, H.. In Proceedings of Interaction Design & Children (Boulder, CO. June 2005).
  • A Gesture-based American Sign Language (ASL) Tutor for Deaf Children. Lee, S., Henderson, V., Hamilton, H., Starner, T., Brashear, H.. In ACM CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Portland, OR, USA, April 02 - 07, 2005).

Professional activities

  • TPC: IEEE International symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), 2010-2011
  • Reviewer: ACM CHI (sine 2007) , ACM UIST (since 2009), ACM mobileHCI (since 2007), ACM DIS (since 2008), IEEE ISWC (since 2007) Pervasive (since 2011)