About
Outside of work, my hobbies include cooking, mobile filmmaking, and ultimate (flying disc sport), which I play competitively. I have had the priveledge to represent my country as a member of the Korea national team for various Asia-Oceania and Worlds events.
CV — updated January 19th, 2022
Projects
Project "Prehension"
Lab-led Project with Co-living Space “ShareOne Sillim”; Technical Lead; Sep. 2020 – Dec. 2020
: Designing, implementing, and deploying a non-intrusive people counter for communal spaces within ShareOne Sillim, a women-only co-living space located in Seoul. The project utilized usage data of the communal spaces to provide real-time crowdedness information via a web app and physical dashboard, accessible in various locations within the co-living space. The service also utilized machine learning to predict hourly crowdedness levels of each communal space for each day of the week.
Culture Concierge & Preference Collection
Project with the Korea Creative Contents Agency; Project Manager; May. 2018 – Dec. 2020
: Developing a smart speaker service that curates events in various domains such as, but not limited to, classical music, musicals, plays, and concerts. The project included user research on cultural event consumption, smart speaker (agent) usage. Parallel to the user research, individual preference collection on cultural event types were conducted to supplement event recommendation to users. Successful deployment on Google Actions under the name of “ClassicMate”, a classical music curation service with event recommendations.
Television Audio Experience
Project with Samsung Electronics; Project Manager; Mar. 2017 – Dec. 2017
: Mixed methods user research on investigating user behavior in household television watching. Identifying points of interests in user behaviors and identifying user satisfaction while watching television. Collecting, processing, and analyzing various log data from the TV, remote controller, bluetooth trackers, and deploying chatbots for in-situ contextual information collection. Conducting pre-/post-study user interviews. Creating design guidelines for product improvement.
News Big Data - User Participatory Services
Project with the Korea Press Foundation; Project Member; May 2016 – Dec. 2016
: Analysis of news quotes from press releases, understanding how users obtain news and information, and suggesting a new interface and service where users can easily participate in writing well-founded news articles with official quotes and sources.
Publications
Sang Ah Park, Yoon Young Lee, Soobin Cho, Minjoon Kim, Joongseek Lee
“Knock Knock, Here Is an Answer from Next Door”: Designing a Knowledge Sharing Chatbot to Connect Residents
Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '21)
[URL]Minjoon Kim, Yoojung Kim, Joongseek Lee
Utilizing Response Time to Find In-between Ratings within Likes and Dislikes
Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20)
[URL]Junhan Kim, Yoojung Kim, Byungjoon Kim, Sukyung Yun, Minjoon Kim, Joongseek Lee
Can a Machine Tend to Teenagers' Emotional Needs? A Study with Conversational Agents
Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18)
[URL]Minjoon Kim, Jinyoung Kim, Sugyo Han, Joongseek Lee
A Data-driven Approach to Explore Television Viewing in the Household Environment
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (TVX '18)
[URL]Minjoon Kim, Nuri Na, Joongseek Lee
Re-intermediation in the Fashion Industry: A Qualitative Study on Brokers in the Dongdae-mun Fashion District
In iConference 2017 Proceedings, Vol. 2 (pp. 43 – 53)
Lee Dirks Award for Best Paper Nomination (top 5 papers)
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