Invited Talks & Public Appearance
Invited Talks & Public Appearance
ACM CHI 2026
Workshop 42: Next Steps for Augmented Reality On-the-Move: Challenges and Opportunities
Workshop Paper "Challenges and Opportunities for Head-Worn AR Use in Wide-Area Environments"
Barcelona, Spain
April 16, 2026
Husker AI Days 2026
Show and Tell session "AI Usage and the Impact of AI Agents in Education as an Assistant"
University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA
April 16, 2026
School of Computing Seminar Series: Accepted PhD Students Session
Presenting "Dynamic Reality: Spatial Perception and Beyond"
University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA
March 7, 2026
PVFA Research Day 2026
Presenting "SenseAR: EEG-Driven Directional and Spatial Awareness in AR"
The Stella Hotel, Bryan, Texas, USA
February 9, 2026
TAMU VCIM Seminar Series (Fall 2025)
Spatial Orchestra: Locomotion Music Instruments
Texas A&M Univeristy, USA
September 19 , 2025
TAMU CSE Seminar Series (Fall 2025)
Beyond Reality: Crafting the Future of Human Interaction
Texas A&M Univeristy, USA
September 18 , 2025
ATLAS Colloquium
Presenting "Beyond Reality: Crafting the Future of Human Interaction in AR"
ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
September 16, 2025
CNSI Incubator 10-Year Anniversary Symposium
Presenting "Wide-area AR: Mobile Augmented Reality Projects"
California NanoSystems Institute, USA
June 6, 2025
ACM CHI 2025
Presenting "On the Go with AR: Attention to Virtual and Physical Targets while Varying Augmentation Density"
Conference Paper (Session: Virtual and Mixed Reality Interaction)
Yokohama, Japan
April 30, 2025
Invited Talk and Campus Visit
Presenting "Crafting Spatial User Experience"
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
April 21, 2025
Invited Talk and Campus Visit
Presenting "Beyond Reality: Crafting the Future of Human Interaction in AR"
University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA
April 15, 2025
Invited Talk and Campus Visit
Presenting "Dynamic Theater: Location-Based Immersive Dance Theater"
Johns Hopkins University, USA
March 3, 2025
Invited Talk and Campus Visit
Presenting "SenseAR: EEG-Driven Directional and Spatial Awareness in AR"
University of Rochester, USA
February 18, 2025
Invited Talk and Campus Visit
Presenting "SenseAR: EEG-Driven Directional and Spatial Awareness in AR"
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
February 7, 2025
PVFA Research Day 2025
Presenting "Dynamic Theater: Location-Based Immersive Dance Theater"
The Stella Hotel, Bryan, Texas, USA
February 3, 2025
IEEE ISMAR 2024
Presenting "Audience Amplified: Virtual Audiences in Asynchronously Performed AR Theater"
Conference Paper (Session: Avatar 2)
Seattle, Washington, USA
October 30, 2024
ACM CHI 2024
Presenting Interactivity Works: ▪️Spatial Orchestra ▪️FractalBrain
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
May 13–16, 2024
Invited Talk and Campus Visit
Presenting "Beyond Reality: Crafting the Future of Human Interaction in AR"
Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
March 25, 2024
Invited Talk and Campus Visit
Presenting "Beyond Reality: Crafting the Future of Human Interaction in AR"
Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
February, 26, 2024
Invited Talk and Campus Visit
Presenting "Beyond Reality: Crafting the Future of Human Interaction in AR"
University of Houston, USA
February, 14, 2024
Invited Talk and Campus Visit
Presenting "Beyond Reality: Crafting the Future of Human Interaction in AR"
Syracuse University, USA
January 29, 2024
IEEE ISMAR 2023
Presenting "Reality Distortion Room: A Study of User Locomotion Responses to Spatial Augmented Reality Effects" Conference Paper (Session: Navigation and Locomotion)
Sydney, Australia
October 18, 2023
ACM VRST 2023
Presenting "Dynamic Theater: Location-Based Immersive Dance Theater, Investigating User Guidance and Experience"
Conference Paper (Session: Technologies in the Wild)
Christchurch, New Zealand
October 10, 2023
XR Symposium & Summer School 2023
Exploring the human-computer interaction and extended reality, including various technologies such as XR prototyping, eye-tracking, haptics, and perception, to design and shape the future of XR.
Copenhagen, Denmark
May 4, 2023
ACM CHI 2023
Presenting "The Impact of Navigation Aids on Search Performance and Object Recall in Wide-Area Augmented Reality"
Conference Paper (Session: Supporting users in AR and VR)
Hamburg, Germany
April 26, 2023
ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Art Community
Presenting "Extended Digital Twins: Blended Memories"
Session: Spatiality in Virtual Reality: Representation, Interpretation & Experience
ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS 2023 - Virtual Session
January 27, 2023
ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Art Community
Presenting "Extended Digital Twins: Location-Based AR Theater Experience"
Session: New Media Architecture(s): A Speculative Vision of Change in the Arts, Design, & Sciences
ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS 2022 - Virtual Session
December 9, 2022
IEEE ISMAR 2022
Presenting "Investigating Search Among Physical and Virtual Objects Under Different Lighting Conditions"
IEEE TVCG Journal Paper (Session: Evaluation)
Singapore
October 21, 2022
Individualized Professional Skills Program Showcase
Presenting "Exploring Innovation and Technology at Nokia Bell Labs Intern Day 2022"
Share my travel experience and research project completed at the Nokia Bell Labs
Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara, USA
October 11, 2022
Nokia Bell Labs Intern Day 2022
Invited Talk, "World Tracer: An easy-to-use tool that uses LiDAR SLAM to generate the layout of 3D environments"
Presenting the summer 2021 and 2022 research project.
Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA
June 28, 2022
Mentoring Unity for Virtual Reality Research
Invited Talk, "Creating Immersive Outdoor AR Experiences for HoloLens 2 with MRTK 3 Rapid Prototyping"
As part of Research Mentorship Program.
Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara, USA
May 24, 2022
Designing XR for Healthcare
Invited Talk, "AR / VR Environment for Human Experience Research"
Team focusing on educating and outreach on how to use AR for instruction and training.
Kairos XR, San Francisco, California, USA
June 24, 2020
2019 UCSB Grad Slam
Presenting "Journey to a Physical World Through Computational Media"
An annual competition for graduate students to present research concisely.
Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara, USA
April 12, 2019
Lunch & Learn
Presenting "Journey to a Physical World Through Computational Media"
Monthly campus wide seminar series that provides graduate students to share their research.
Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara, USA
May 3, 2019
Art Exhibition
Art of Science 2022
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Group Show, individual work “Ambulatory Augmented Reality”
May 2022–December 2022
MAT End of Year Show 2023: Bricolage
Due to COVID-19, a Virtual Exhibition in a VR Environment
Group Show, individual work “Reality Distortion Room (PDR)”
May 2021–July 2021
Reality Distortion Room (RDR)
Microsoft Building 99, 14820 NE 36th St, Redmond, WA 98052
The EPIC (Extended Perception, Interaction & Cognition) Research Group
September 2019
MAT End of Year Show 2019: MADE
CNSI, Elings Hall, Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Group Show, individual artwork “Spatial Bubbles”
May 2019–June 2019
LA Project immerse(d)
Live House Hollywood, 1534 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Group Show, collaborate artwork “Collective VR World”
December 2018
Optical Scale Optics
Power Plant Gallery, 320 Blackwell St #100, Durham, NC 27701
Group Show, individual artwork “Rain and Water”
April 2016–May 2016
Live Processing and Live Art, Performance and Technology
Power Plant Gallery, 320 Blackwell St #100, Durham, NC 27701
Group Show, individual artwork “Clicker Repeater”
April 2014–May 2014
2012 SAIC Spring BFA Show
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S State St, Chicago, IL 60603
Group Show, individual artwork “Motor Symphony”
March 2012–April 2012
White Castle Party, End of Year Show by Art and Technology
MacLean Center, 112 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Group Show, individual artwork “Butterfly Wave”
November 2011–December 2011
Moto Broker, Robotic Arms
Siragusa Gallery, 162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Solo Show, You-Jin Kim
January 2011–March 2011
Making the Leap
A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Group Show, collaborate artwork “JIN” by You-Jin Kim and Jeesoo Shin
December 2010–January 2011
4 x 5, Large Format
Siragusa Gallery, 162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Solo Show, You-Jin Kim
May 2010–June 2010
Moto Broker, Robotic Arms
Siragusa Gallery, 162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Solo Show, You-Jin Kim
April 2010–May 2010
Where We Stand
Nuveen Center, 162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Group Show, individual artwork “Where the Light Flows”
April 2009–June 2009
ArtBash 2009
Betty Rymer Gallery, 280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Group Show, individual artwork “Space to Space”
April 2009–May 2009
Carol Jackson Exhibition, Text as Art
LeRoy Neiman Center, 37 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Group Show, individual artwork “Boxes of Reality”
February 2009–April 2009
Department (Store) Exhibition with J. Morgan Puett
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S State St, Chicago, IL 60603
Group Show, collaborate artwork “You-Jin & Emily” by You-Jin Kim and Emily Smith
October 2008–November 2008
Theatrical Production
Spatial Odyssey (2026)
Embodied Musical Composition in a Markerless Spatial Augmented Reality
Immersive Igloo Cylinder, 400 Bizzell St, College Station, TX 77840
October 2025–November 2025
Rerun: April 2026–May 2026
SubStrata (2025)
A colleborateive sythesys and performance: You-Jin Kim, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Curtis Roads
Immersive Igloo Cylinder, 400 Bizzell St, College Station, TX 77840
May 2025–June 2025
Rerun: December 2025
Audience Amplified (2024)
Audience Amplifed: Location-Based Immersive Dance Theater with DNN Avatar Audiences
CNSI, Elings Hall, Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
June 2023–August 2023
Rerun: May 2024–June 2024
Spatial Orchestra (2023)
The SB Dance Company Collaboration: Composing in Motion
Hawaiʻi Convention Center (HCC), 1801 Kalākaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815, USA
May 2023–June 2023
Rerun: June 2024, February 2025
FractalBrain (2023)
An artful meditation experience translating brainwaves into generative visuals to foster calming neural synchrony. Developed in collaboration with the MSP Lab at UMD, College Park.
Hawaiʻi Convention Center (HCC), 1801 Kalākaua Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815, USA
September 2023–November 2023
Rerun: May 2024
Dynamic Theater (2022)
Dynamic Theater: Location-Based Immersive Dance Theater with Volumetric Virtual Dancers
CNSI, Elings Hall, Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
July 2022–November 2022
Rerun: June 2023–July 2022
Gagaku: Court Music and Dance from Japan
A Gagaku Performance by The Hideaki Bunno Gagaku Ensemble
Performing Arts Theater, HSSB Ballet Studio, University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
March 4–6, 2020
Dance Company 2020
Company Director: Delila Moseley, Choreography: Christina McCarthy, Brandon Whited
Performing Arts Theater, HSSB Ballet Studio, University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
February 27–28, 2020
Santa Barbara Dance Theater 2020
Artistic Director: Christopher Pilafian, Artist: Nancy Colahan
Hatlen Theater, 552 University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
January 16–19, 2020
Out of Many (Dance Concert 2019)
Director: Christina McCarthy, Concert Director: Christina McCarthy
Hatlen Theater, 552 University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
December 5–7, 2019
The White Card
Original: Claudia Rankine, Directed by Shirley Jo Finney
Studio Theater, Isla Vista, CA 93117
November 21–24, 2019
Boys Like Us
Original: Edmund White, Artistic Director: Brandon Whited
Hatlen Theater, 552 University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
October 24–26, 2019
Race Ballet & American Dance
Alicia Graf Mack, Calvin Royal III, Lynn Garafola, Stephanie Batiste, Ninotchka D. Bennahum
Performing Arts Theater, HSSB Ballet Studio, University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
April 29, 2019
Avian
Concert Director: Valerie Huston, Artist: Carley Conder
Performing Arts Theater, HSSB Ballet Studio, University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
April 25–27, 2019
Fracture
Director: Christina McCarthy, Concert Director: Christina McCarthy
Hatlen Theater, 552 University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
April 11–14, 2019
Distance and Desire
Artistic Director: Christopher Pilafian, Concert Director: Christina McCarthy
Santa Barbara Dance Theater, University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
January 11–19, 2019
Origin Evolution (Dance Concert 2018)
Director: Christina McCarthy, Concert Director: Christina McCarthy
Hatlen Theater, 552 University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
December 6–8, 2018
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