News & Updates
Dr. Jeong serves as a special issue editor (with Dr. Karen Chen, Dr. Myounghoon “Philart” Jeon, and Dr. Laura Stanley) for “Human-centered eXtended Reality (XR) Technologies and Applications for Occupational Health and Safety” IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors (IISE TOEHF). [PDF Version]
The book Human-Centered Metaverse: Concepts, Methods, and Applications, edited by Dr. Jeong in collaboration with Dr. Chang S. Nam and Dr. Donggil Song, is now available online.
November 2024: 🏆 Shyam Gnatra was selected as an Outstanding Student Researcher to participate in the Master’s Opportunity for Research in Engineering (MORE) for Fall 2024! Congrats, Shyam! [Link]
November 2024: 🎈Allison Bayro passed her prospectus exam. Congrats, Allison!
November 2024: 📖 A paper “PE-USGC: Posture Estimation-based Unsupervised Spatial Gaussian Clustering for Supervised Classification of Near-duplicate Human Motion” has been published in IEEE Access.
September 9-13 2024: 🗣️The HiMER Lab attended the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (ASPIRE 2024) [Link], and presented 4 lectures and 4 posters.
Summer 2024: 🗣️ Hyein Jung (from POSTECH) joined HiMER Lab for ASU Summer Research Initiatives (SURI) and presented her project at the final poster session! Congrats, Hyein!
July 2-4, 2024: 🗣️ Dr. Jeong presented “Advancing Arousal and Valence Prediction in Virtual Reality Through Sentiment Analysis Integration” at ISAC 2024: The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Interactive Systems, Affective Computing Technologies and Applications, The 48th IEEE International Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC 2024), Osaka, Japan.
June 2024: 🏆 Hari Iyer was selected to receive the 2024-2025 Harold & Lucille Dunn Memorial Engineering Fellowship! Congrats, Hari!
April 2024: 🏆 Allison received the 2024 Distinguished Graduate Student Award and 🏆 Dr. Jeong received the 2024 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Early Career Award from ASU Faculty Women’s Association! Congrats!
April 2024: 🏆 Shyam Gnatra was selected to participate in Master’s Opportunity for Research in Engineering (MORE) program for Fall 2024! Congrats, Shyam!
April 2024: 🗣️ Bisman and Cayden presented their projects at ASU Innovation Showcase. Congrats!
April 2024: 🏆 Hari Iyer received the Best Presentation Award at the ASU GPSA Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. Congrats, Hari!
April 2024: 📖 A paper “Task difficulty impact on multitasking in mixed reality environments” has been published in Computers & Education: X Reality.
April 2024: 🏆 Allison Bayro received Wilhoit Foundation Scholar, ARCS Foundation Phoenix. Congrats, Allison!
March 2024: 🏆 Hari Iyer received CNA Insurance’s Student of the Year award at the Applied Ergonomics Conference 2024. 🗣️ Hari also presented “Evaluating Ergonomic Risk in Culinary Tasks: A Computer Vision Approach.” Congrats, Hari!
March 25, 2024: 🎈 The HiMER Lab attended IEEE VR 2024 and co-organized “The 3rd International Workshop on eXtended Reality for Industrial and Occupational Supports (XRIOS)” [Link].
February 9, 2024: 🗣️ Dr. Jeong gave an invited talk, “Extended Reality in Occupational and Rehabilitation Training,” at Future of Education for Virtual and Augmented Reality (FEVAR), ASU.
January 2024: 📖 A paper “Biosignal-Integrated Robotic Systems with Emerging Trends in Visual Interfaces: A Systematic Review” has been published in Biophysics Reviews.
January 2024: 📖 A paper “Unveiling Gender Differences: A Mixed Reality Multitasking Exploration” has been published in Frontiers in Virtual Reality.
December 2023: 📖 A paper “Physiological indicators of fluency and engagement during sequential and simultaneous modes of human-robot collaboration” has been published in IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors.
December 2023: 🗣️ Bisman and Limary presented their projects at ASU Innovation Showcase. Congrats!
November 2023: 📖 A paper “Embedding Spatial Augmented Reality in Culinary Training: A Comparative Evaluation of sAR Kitchen and Video Tutorials” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.
October 2023: 🏆 Tian received the HFES’s Augmented Cognition Technical Group (ACTG) Student Research Grant Award at HFES 2023. Congrats, Tian!
October 23-27 2023: 🗣️The HiMER Lab attended the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (HFES 2023) [Link]. Allison presented her research on “Emotion Recognition in Virtual Reality: Investigating the Effect of Gameplay Variations on Affective Responses” and a demo of “Demonstration-Based Training with the XR Vest: Improving Immersion, Engagement, and Usability.”
October 15-18 2023: 🗣️ The HiMER Lab attended the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Annual Meeting (INFORMS 2023) [Link]. Hari and Dr. Jeong presented research on “human-centric manufacturing.”
July 2023: 📖 A paper “Evaluating User Interactions in Wearable Extended Reality: Modeling, Online Remote Survey, and In-lab Experimental Methods” has been published in IEEE Access.
July 2023: 🗣️ Vardan and Zeel presented their projects at ASU Summer Research Initiatives (SURI) Poster Session. Congrats! [Photos].
July 2023: 🎈 Dr. Jeong organized a special session on “Metaverse and XR Applications in Intelligent Autonomous Systems” at the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems [Link].
April 2023: 🗣️ Zeel and Limary presented their projects at ASU Innovation Showcase. Congrats! [Photos].
April 2023: 📖 A paper, “Predicting the metabolic cost of exoskeleton-assisted squatting using foot pressure features and machine learning,” has been published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
March 25, 2023: 🎈 Dr. Jeong co-organized “The 2nd International Workshop on eXtended Reality for Industrial and Occupational Supports (XRIOS)” at IEEE VR 2023 [Link].
March 2023: 🏆 Dr. Jeong received the 2023 AEC Young Investigator Award. Congratulations!
March 2023: 📖 A paper, “Mixed reality-integrated soft wearable biosensing glove for manipulating objects,” has been published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X.
March 2023: 📖 A paper, “XR Vest: A Novel System for Demonstration-Based Learning of Safety Skills,” has been published in IEEE Learning Technologies.
February 18, 2023: 🎈The HiMER Lab hosted hands-on activities at ASU Open Door 2023 for Arizona local K-12 students! [Link].
January 2023: 📖 A paper, “Effects of an Intelligent Virtual Assistant on Office Task Performance and Workload in a Noisy Environment,” has been published in Applied Ergonomics.
January 2023: 📖 A paper, “Muscle coordination and recruitment during squat assistance using a robotic ankle-foot exoskeleton,” has been published in Scientific Reports.
January 2023: 📖 A paper, “Soft Wearable Flexible Bioelectronics Integrated with an Ankle-Foot Exoskeleton for Estimation of Metabolic Costs and Physical Effort,” has been published in npj Flexible Electronics.
January 2023: 🏆 The HiMER Lab has received a grant from the US Department of Health & Human Services for research on vision-based assessment of occupational workers’ repetitive actions.
October 2022: 🏆 Allison and Yalda received the HFES Virtual Environment Technical Group (VETG) Best Student Paper Award – Honorable Mention at HFES 2022. Congrats!
October 10-14, 2022: 🗣️ The HiMER Lab attended the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (HFES 2022) [Link].
September 17-20, 2022: 🎈Dr. Jeong served as a Work-in-Progress Co–Chair at the 14th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces (Seoul, South Korea) [Link].
August 17-20, 2022: 🎈Dr. Jeong co-chaired “Industrial Engineering and Management Science (IMS) Symposium” at UKC 2022 [Link].
August 2022: 📖 A paper “Social Media Users’ Perceptions of a Wearable Mixed Reality Headset During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis” has been published in JMIR Serious Games.
August 2022: 🎈🎊 The HiMER Lab moved to ASU.
May 2022: 📖 Eight conference papers authored by HiMER Lab researchers have been accepted to the HFES 2022. Congrats!
April 2022: 📖 A paper “Deep Learning-based Object Detection in Augmented Reality: A Systematic Review” has been published in Computers in Industry.
March 12-13, 2022: 🎈Dr. Jeong co-organized “The 1st International Workshop on eXtended Reality for Industrial and Occupational Supports (XRIOS)” at IEEE VR 2022 [Link].
March 2022: 📖 A conference paper authored by Allison and Yalda has been accepted to the IEEE VR 2022 Workshop. Congrats!
January 2022: 📖 A conference paper authored by Sruthi Ramadurai has been accepted to the 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2022). Congrats, Sruthi!
November 2021: 🏆 Aden Prince received the UIC Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant. Congrats, Aden!
November 2021: 🎊 HiMER students’ achievement at HFES 2021 was featured on the UIC Engineering News [Link].
November 2021: 🏆 Dr. Jeong received the 2021 IEEE Chicago Section-Distinguished Junior R&D Award. Congratulations!
November 2021: 🎈The HiMER Lab hosted Dr. Ranjana Mehta (Associate Professor at Texas A&M University) at the UIC MIE department seminar [Link].
October 25-29, 2021: 🗣️ The HiMER Lab attended the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (HFES 2021) – Virtually [Link].
October 2021: 🏆 Allison received the HFES’s Augmented Cognition Technical Group (ACTG) Student Research Grant Award (1st Place) at HFES 2021. Congrats, Allison!
October 2021: 🏆 Alayna and Sruthi received the HFES’s Human–AI–Robot Teaming (HART) Technical Group’s Best Video Award (2nd Place) at HFES 2021. Congrats, Alayna and Sruthi!
October 2021: 🏆 Parian received the HFES’s Human Performance Modeling Technical Group (HPMTG) Student Conference Award at HFES 2021. Congrats, Parian!
October 2021: 🏆 Allison received the HFES’s Council of Technical Groups Student Travel Award at HFES 2021. Congrats, Allison!
October 2021: 🏆 Yalda received the HFES’s Council of Technical Groups Student Presenter Award at HFES 2021. Congrats, Yalda!
September 9-10, 2021: 🎈Dr. Jeong co-organized a workshop on “Computational Modeling of Driving Behaviors: Challenges and Approaches” at AutoUI 2021 [Link]
September 2021: 📖 A paper “An integrated mixed reality system for safety-aware human-robot collaboration using deep learning and digital twin generation” has been published in Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing.
September 2021: 📖 A paper “A comparative evaluation of the wearable augmented reality-based data presentation interface and traditional methods for data entry tasks” has been published in the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics.
July 2021: 📖 A conference paper by Mustafa Mohammed has been accepted to the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS 2021). Congrats, Mustafa!
May 2021: 📖 Two conference papers authored by Yalda Ghasemi, Parian Haghighat, Ankit Singh, and Aden Prince have been accepted to the HFES 2021. Congrats!
May 2021: 🏆 The HiMER Lab has received the 2nd-year Korea-US joint research grant from the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT, and IITP, for the project entitled “Intelligent Collaborative Spaces for Future of Work in Mixed Reality.”
April 28, 2021: 🗣️ Dr. Jeong gave a Panel Presentation at the UIC Center for Healthy Work and Greater Lakes Center Joint Seminar [Link]
April 2021: 🏆 Mustafa Mohammed won the UIC Liberal Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Initiative (LASURI) award. Congrats, Mustafa!
April 2021: 📖 A paper “Hands-Free Human-Robot Interaction Using Multimodal Gestures and Deep Learning in Wearable Mixed Reality” has been published in IEEE Access.
April 2021: 🎊 Ankit Singh successfully defended his Master’s thesis entitled “Developing Virtual Reality Design Guidelines for Efficient Depth Perception.” Congrats, Ankit!
March 2021: 🏆 Mustafa Mohammed received the UIC Honors College Undergraduate Research Grant. Congrats, Mustafa!
March 2021: 🏆 Mustafa Mohammed received the 1st place award in the Undergraduate Student Elevator Pitch Competition at HRI 2021. Congrats, Mustafa! His achievement was featured on the UIC Engineering News [Link].
March 2021: 🗣️ Yalda Ghasemi has been invited to present her research at the First XR Remote Research Workshop at CHI 2021. Congrats, Yalda!
March 2021: 🎈The HiMER Lab hosted Dr. Chang S. Nam (Professor at NCSU) at the UIC MIE department seminar [Link].
March 9-11, 2021: 🗣️ The HiMER Lab attended the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2021) – Virtually [Link].
January 2021: 📖 A conference paper authored by Mustafa Mohammed has been accepted to the 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2021). Congrats, Mustafa!
December 2020: 🏆 The HiMER Lab (Dr. Jeong) in collaboration with Dr. Myunghee Kim (UIC MIE) and Dr. Natalie Parde (UIC CS) has received a grant from the Office Ergonomics Research Committee for research on using an intelligent virtual assistant in the workplace.
October 5-9, 2020: 🗣️ The HiMER Lab attended the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (HFES 2020) – Virtually [Link].
September 2020: 🏆 The HiMER Lab (Dr. Jeong) in collaboration with Dr. Myunghee Kim (UIC) and Dr. W. Hong Yeo (Georgia Tech) has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research on wearable robotics with soft sensors for occupational safety. This NSF grant is funded with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Our research was featured on the UIC Engineering News [Link].
September 2020: 🏆 Ankit was selected to receive the HFES’s Council of Technical Groups Student Presenter Award. Yalda was selected to receive the HFES’s Council of Technical Groups Travel Award for First Year Graduate Students. Congrats, Ankit and Yalda! [Link].
May 2020: 🏆 The HiMER Lab has received a Korea-US joint research grant from the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT, and IITP, for the project entitled “Development of Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration Systems Using Augmented Reality and Deep Learning.” Dr. Jeong will serve as a PI at UIC for this joint research project with Chonnam National University, Korea.
May 2020: 📖 Two HFES 2020 papers authored by HiMER Lab researchers have been accepted.
March 22-26, 2020: 🗣️ The HiMER Lab attended the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR2020) – Virtually.
March 2020: 📖 A paper “Perceived trust in artificial intelligence technologies: a preliminary study” has been published in the Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries.
February 2020: 🏆 Safanah was selected to receive the Faydor Litvin Graduate Award for 2020-2021. Congrats, Safanah!
October 28-November 1, 2019: 🗣️ The HiMER lab attended the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (HFES 2019) at Seattle, WA.
October 8, 2019: 🗣️ Dr. Jeong gave a guest lecture “Exploring Robotics with Human Factors in Mind” at UIC ME 594 Special Topic in Assistive Robotics.
August 2019: 📖 A paper “Driver Glance Behaviors and Scanning Patterns: Applying Static and Dynamic Glance Measures to the Analysis of Curve Driving with Secondary Tasks” has been published in the Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries.
August 14-17, 2019: 🗣️ Dr. Jeong attended the US-KOREA Conference on Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship (UKC) at Chicago, IL.
August 2019: 🎈🎊 Dr. Jeong launched the HiMER Lab at UIC.