Youmin Kim

starter / writer wannabe

Experience

• Research engineer, Convergence Laboratory in LG Electronics, Aug. 2010 - present
• Toyman, atoyfactory, May 2010 - present
• Editor, UXFactory, Sep. 2008 - present
• Researcher, New Media Art Laboratory in Vinyl, Feb. 2010 - Jul. 2010
• Researcher, Digital Media Lab in KAIST, Feb. 2008 - Feb.2010

Education

• M.S. in Digital Media Program, KAIST, 2008-2010
  • Thesis: "A Touch-less Multi-point Input Device with IR-based Virtual Plane"
• B.S. in Computer Science Engineering, ICU, 2004-2008
  • Minor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Study Abroad Program in EFREI, 2007

Exhibition

• "Strange Apple", Hello Museum, Nov. 2010 - Feb. 2011
• "Stand your own Canon", CannonPlex, Apr. 2010 - May 2010

Talk & Press

• Interview on atoyfacoty ('토이를 연구하는 토이맨 들'), 월간 웹 vol. 144, 2011
• Seven Challenges from Making TonTon, Makezone Seminar, 2011
• Workshop on Data Visualization using OpenFrameworks and Python, atoyfactory, 2010
• Lecture on Physical Computing (Arduino + Processing), Art College in Chosun University, 2010
• Tutorial on Commonsense Computing using ConceptNet and Divisi, Sharing Experience Workshop, 2009

Publication

1. Youmin Kim, Minsoo Hahn, "Tagpot: Social Media based Transliteration Open API Service", KHCI 2010
2. Heesook Shin, Jieun Kim, Gague Kim, Ilyeon Cho, Youmin Kim, "PEER:PErsonalized Environment coordinatoR", HCII 2009 (poster)
3. Sunghee Kim, Youmin Kim, Jaswook Jung, Dongwook Lee, Won Ryu, Minsoo Hahn "A Study on the LED Button Guide to improve the IPTV’s Usability", KHCI 2009
4. Seungwoo Lee, Seongkook Heo, Youmin Kim, Youngjae Kim, Soojin Lee, Minsoo Hahn, "An Interactive Knocking Floor", Ubicomp2008 (poster)
5. Youmin Kim, Kyungmin Kim, Changyoung Lim, "Research-oriented Field Trip Education Facilitated by Mobile Phone", KHCI 2008

Works

@smallgoodcat, 2011

a twitter bot who crawling/analyzing/spreading cool tweets. Visit! w/ Google App engine + Twitter API + JQuery.

InstaPray, 2011

We #prayforjapan. Visit! in atoyfactory. w/ Google App engine + Instagram API.

TonTon, 2010

Music generating toy shown at Hello Museum. with atoyfactory. w/ Arduino + IR sensors to detect tags in shells.

Disko, 2010

Multitouch table shown at GSTAR 2010. with NEXON. w/ CCV + pyMT framework.

Loves in Cledor, 2010

An interactive wall projection shown at a Cledor's popup store. Particles track people movement and make the shape of heart with steering behavior. with Vinyl. w/ Shadow tracking using Infra-red light/camera + OpenCV + OpenFrameworks.

vTable, 2010

Multitouch table for the 10th aniversary of Vinyl. Front-DI based multitouch table. Twitter mentions are presented with fiducials. People's hand touch attract particles. Particles vibrate with beats on background music. with Vinyl. w/ CCV + Twitter API + OpenFrameworks.

Digital Rain, 2010

Illuminating garden design using 30 LED bar modules in KT Olleh Square (Gwanghwa-moon). with Vinyl. w/ Controlled by programmed switching circuit + Wiring.

Stand Your Own Canon Exhibition, 2010

Three interactive visualization of 400 background photos. IR blob and moving object tracking. with Cannon Korea. w/ Processing + webcam + IR laser pointer.

Last modified on Dec. 11^th 2011