HYOWON LEE  B.Eng., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Centre for Digital Video Processing
Dublin City University
Dublin, Ireland
hlee (at) computing.dcu.ie
Tel: +353 -1 7005829 		click to see larger photo: 175K  
 Designer-Researcher for Novel Technology Applications, Dublin City University
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CURRICULUM VITAE     PDF: 2-page version (165K) (PDF: 2-page version)    PDF: 15-page version (105K) (PDF: 15-page version)
Dr Hyowon Lee
Centre for Digital Video Processing
CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies
Dublin City University
Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~hlee/


current position    

Interaction Designer and Researcher, Dublin City University
Expertise: Human-Computer Interaction for Novel Applications incorporating Multimedia and other Media Technologies
(see some examples of my design)

Lecturer, Dublin City University
Teaching subject: Web Design (M.Sc. in e-Commerce)


education    

Ph.D. in Computer Science at Dublin City University, Ireland   (March 2001) 
Title: 'User interface design for keyframe-based content browsing of digital video'

M.Sc. in Information & Library Studies at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, U.K.   (December 1996)

B.Eng. in Computer Science at Soong Sil University, Seoul, Korea   (February 1995)
publications    

66 Peer-reviewed publications, including 2 book chapters and 6 journal articles

Total citations: 458, h-index: 13 (according to Google Scholar as of Jan 2010)
patents    

I have 2 patents that embody some of my interaction design effort, one relating to a Multimedia management method (2004) and a more recent one on interaction method for interactive TV (2009):

  • Method and apparatus to provide broadcasting program information on screen of braodcast receiver, 2009.
  • Multimedia Management, No WO2004043029; International/European. (Full-information from European Patent Office), 2004.
activities     EDITORIAL BOARD

International Journal of Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, 2008 - 2010.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2010), Milton Keynes, U.K., 28-31 March 2010.

4th International Conference on Semantic Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2009), Graz, Austria, 2-4 December 2009.

3rd Irish Human-Computer Interaction Conference (iHCI 2009), Dublin, Ireland, 17-18 September 2009.

3rd International Conference on Semantic Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2008), Koblenz, Germany, 3-5 December 2008.

30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008), Glasgow, Scotland, 30 March – 3 April 2008.

28th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006), Imperial College London, U.K., 10-12 April 2006.

International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2005), Singapore, 20-22 July, 2005.

REVIEW OF BOOKS, CHAPTERS, JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS

Reviewer, Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services.
August 2009.

Reviewer, ACM CHI 2010
Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Atlanta, GA, 10-15 April 2010.

Reviewer, ECIR 2010
32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, Milton Keyens, 28-31 March 2010.

Reviewer, ACM IUI 2010
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Hong Kong, 7-10 February 2010.

Reviewer, Irish HCI 2009
The 3rd Irish Human-Computer Interaction Conference, Dublin, 17-18 September 2009.

Reviewer, DSMSA 2009
The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems and Applications, 14-16 December 2009.

Reviewer, Information Processing and Management
August 2009.

Reviewer, Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal
April 2009.

Reviewer, Machine Vision and Applications Journal
October 2008.

Reviewer, ACM MMM 2009
15th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France, 7-9 January, 2009.

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
September 2008.

Reviewer, ACM CHI 2008
Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Italy, 5-10 April 2008.

Reviewer, Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal - Special Issue on Semantic Multimedia
June 2007.

Reviewer, ACM Multimedia 2007
ACM Multimedia Conference, Augsburg, Germany, 23-29 September, 2007.

Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP)
February 2007.

Reviewer, Information Processing and Management
February 2007.

Reviewer, SAC 2007, Multimedia & Visualization
22nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Multimedia & Visualization Track, Seoul, Korea, 11–15 March 2007.

Reviewer, Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology
November 2006.

Reviewer, Information Processing and Management
July 2006.

Reviewer, ICME 2006
International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Toronto, Canada, 9-12 July 2006.

Reviewer, Information Processing and Management
December 2005.

Reviewer, ACM Multimedia 2005
ACM Multimedia Conference, Singapore, 6-11 November, 2005.

Reviewer, SIGIR 2005
28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Bahia, Brazil, 15-19 August, 2005.

Reviewer, SIGIR 2003
26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2003.

Reviewer, UIST'02
15th ACM Annual Symposium in User Interface Software & Technology, Paris, France, 27-30 October, 2002.


ORGANISATION

Publicity Chair, ECIR 2010
32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, Milton Keynes, U.K., 28-31 March, 2010.

Submission Chair, MMM 2009
15th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France, 7-9 January, 2009.

Publicity Chair, ESSIR 2005
European Summer School in Information Retrieval, held in Dublin City University, Ireland, 5-9 September, 2005.

Publicity, CIVR 2004
International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, held in Dublin City University, Ireland, 21-23 July, 2004.

Local Organisation, DELOS-NSF Workshop 2001
DELOS-NSF Workshop on Personalisation and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries, Dublin City University, Ireland, 18-20 June, 2001.



work experience     Post-doctoral Researcher   Dublin City University, Ireland    (July 2001 - )
[current position] As a member of Centre for Digital Video Processing, CLARITY, Dublin City University

 Interaction Design for Novel Multimedia Applications   (1998- )
[current position] Interaction design (starting with conceptual design all the way to detailed widget-level design) and subsequent usability studies for novel demonstrators and deployed systems at Centre for Digital Video Processing since 1999. See some examples of my designs. My experience in interaction design include:
  • Web-based multimedia applications
    • Communal Online VCR with recording and keyframe-based content browsing features (1999-2005)
    • Daily news story archive for searching, browsing, playing, recommendation of news videos (2002-7)
    • Video searching/browsing system based on simple semantic features (indoor/outdoor, speech, monologue, music, landscape/cityscape, text overlay) and ASR text (2001- )
    • Video searching/browsing system using relevance feedback based on keyframes and semantic features (2001- )
    • A series of object-based searching/browsing systems that allow the user to interact with automatically detected objects within video content (2003-6)
    • Photo-visualisation for LifeLogging data - leveraging automatic determination of novelty and events captured by SenseCam wearable camera (2004- )
    • Museum artefact browsing interfaces that uses novel object-matching technique (2006- )
    • Video blogging interface design - Web interface design for blogging/photoware systems that incorporate automatic and semi-automatic indexing techniques (2007)
    • Visualisation of Sentiment Analysis in financial sector (2009)
    • Search application for Dublin Port security with Number Plate Recognition technique (2009- )
  • Mobile multimedia applications
    • PDA interface for news video access, reducing intensive user-interaction by automatic recommendation of news stories (2000-4)
    • Mobile access to personal photo management (2004-7)
    • Multi-touch camcorder UI for recording and annotation (2009- )
    • Novel mobile UI for theme park information communication (2009- )
  • Tabletop interfaces - identifying various issues (workspace awareness, division of work among multiple users and coordination), design space construction followed by the design of novel TableTop interfaces that supports these issues (2005-7)
  • Interactive TV interface design for multimedia
    • Incorporating various content-based multimedia techniques to interactive TV (2008- )
    • Design solutions for balancing between technology complexity and interface simplicity (2008- )
  • Multitouch Wall
    • Large public display with multi-touch capability (2009 - )

 Part-time Lecturer   Dublin City University, Ireland    (July 2001 - )
[current position] Module co-ordinator & lecturer: Web Design (CA553) for Masters in e-Commerce. See student feedback result after autumn lecture 2001

 Part-Time Lecturer: GUI Programming and HCI (CA567) for M.Sc. in Computer Applications for Education. 2001/2002.

 Assistant Information Officer   Information Centre, Brown & Root Energy Services, Aberdeen, U.K.   (April - May 1996)
fieldwork placement during Postgraduate course in Information & Library Studies, Robert Gordon University, doing cataloguing/search service of national/international standards, data books, software manuals, engineering-related journals & magazines
awards    

Research Fellowship 2008-2010, by Dublin City University, Ireland.
The University recently awarded me with the 2-year fellowship this year recognising my research potential and to support the expansion of expertise in the field of HCI for new technology.

Albert College Fellowship 2002, by Dublin City University, Ireland.
The University awarded me with the Jonior Fellowship early in my post-doc period, to help me start my research career for coming 2 years.

Postgraduate Scholarship 1998-2001, Enterprise Ireland (via School of Computing, Dublin City University) Ireland.
I have been the recipient of the research student full scholarship during my PhD course.

Postgraduate Prize runner-up 1997, by Library & Information Research Group (LIRG), U.K.
My M.Sc dissertation (at School of Information & Media, Robert Gordon University, U.K.) was one of the runners-up at LIRG Postgraduate Prize 97, and was highly commended by the Group (see IIS newsletter Inform no.199, November 1997).

College Four-year Full Scholarship 1990-1995, Soong Sil University, Seoul, Korea.
I was the (only one) recipient of 4-year full scholarship during the undergraduate course, an award for receiving highest exam results on the entrance of the university among all applicants. I was invited to Blue House by the President of Korea for this achievement (see the old photograph).



invited talks /    
seminars    

Seminar at: CWI, Amsterdam (17 December 2009)
"Designing Novel Applications Inspired by Emerging Media Technologies"

Seminar at: Ubiquitous Interaction Group, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland (27 November 2009)
"Designing Novel Applications Inspired by Emerging Media Technologies"

Seminar at: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (26 November 2009)
"Interaction Design for Multimedia Technology"

Seminar at: Interaction Design Lab, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (30 August 2009)
"Interaction Platform-Oriented Perspective in Designing Novel Applications: Framing the Development of Novel Technologies"

Invited presentation at: Designing for Interactive Video Symposium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (4 August 2009)
"Browsing Digital Video: Coupling Novel Interaction Platforms with Multimedia Tools"

Invited Seminar talk at: StreamSage, Washington D.C. (31 July 2009)
"Interactive TV Applications for Information Retrieval"

Seminar at: Centre for HCI Design, City University London, U.K. (1 June 2009)
"Explorative Interaction Design for Creative Requirements"

Invited Seminar talk at: Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K. (29 April 2009)

Seminar at: Interaction Design Lab, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (3 April 2009)

Seminar at: Centre for HCI Design, City University London, U.K. (27 March 2009)

Seminar at: Interactive Technologies Research Group, University of Brighton, U.K. (8 December 2008)
"Interaction Design for Multimedia: Connecting Emerging Multimedia Techniques to Usable Application Scenarios"

Invited Seminar at: GIST Glasgow Interactive Systems Group and Information Retrieval Research Group, University of Glasgow, U.K. (20 November 2008)
"Connecting Multimedia Techniques to Usable Application Scenarios: Interaction Design for Emerging Multimedia Applications"

Seminar at: Centre for Interaction Design, Napier University, U.K. (12 September 2008)
"Interaction Design for Interactive TV Platform"

Seminar at: Centre for Interaction Design, Napier University, U.K. (9 November 2007)
"Interaction Design for Emerging Multimedia: Connecting Functionality to Usability"

Invited keynote presentation at: SEMPS - 1st International Workshop on Semantic-enhanced Multimedia Presentation Systems (6 December 2006)
"Enhancing the presentation of multimedia using extracted semantics" (workshop homepage)

Guest speech at: Minds, Computing Society at National University of Ireland Maynooth (7 December 2005)
"Interaction Design for Video Retrieval: Connecting Functionality to Usability"

Seminar at: The Open Video Project, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC (25 November 2002)
"Físchlár Digital Video Library"

Invited speech at: Experts' Workshop: Perspectives on Networked Knowledge Spaces, MARS - Exploratory Lab, Fraunhofer Institute Media Communications, Sankt Augustin, Germany (October 2002)
"Físchlár Digital Video Library: an online video analysis, browsing, searching and playback system"

Seminar at: Information Retrieval Research Group, University of Glasgow, U.K. (12 November 2001)
"Developing Físchlár Digital Video System"

Seminar at: Information Retrieval Research Group, University of Glasgow, U.K. (6 November 2000)
"Design of video browser interfaces for Físchlár"



language    
proficiency    		 Experiential English Program in Deep River, Ontario, Canada   (November 1993 - February 1994)

TOEFL  -  Score: 637    TWE: 4.0   (OCT 1994)
IELTS   -  Overall band 7.0 (Listening 8.5 Speaking 7.0 Writing 6.0 Reading 7.0)  (FEB 1997)

Korean - native language




School of Computing
Dublin City University

Design by Hyowon Lee 2010