SUNG PARK, Ph.D.
RESEARCH INTEREST
Affective Social Interaction with
Artificial Intelligent Systems
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Zhang, J.*, Park,
S.*,
Cho, A., & Whang, M. (in prep). Recognition of Empathy based on Synchronization
between Brain Activity and Eye Movement. IEEE Transactions on Affective
Computing. *co-first
authors
Cho, A.*, Park, S.*,
Lee, H., & Whang, M. (in prep). Vision-based Measures for
Affective and Cognitive Empathy. Frontiers in Physiology. *co-first
authors
Zhang, J.*, Park, S.*, Cho,
A., & Whang, M. (2022). Significant Measures of Gaze and Pupil Movement for
Evaluating Empathy between Viewers and Digital Content. Sensors, 22(5),
1700. *co-first authors [ html ] [ pdf ]
Park, S., & Whang, M. (2022). Empathy in Human-Robot Interaction:
Designing for Social Robots. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(3), 1989. [ html ] [ pdf ]
Park, S., Park, S. E., & Whang, M. (2022). Empathic Responses of Behavioral-Synchronization in
Human-Agent Interaction. Computers, Materials & Continua, 71(2),
3761. [ html ] [ pdf ]
Cho, A., Park, S., Lee, H., & Whang, M. (2021).
Non-contact Measurement of Empathy based on
Micro-movement Synchronization. Sensors, 21(23), 7818. [ html ] [ pdf ]
Park, S., Kim, S. P., & Whang, M. (2021). Individual's Social Perception of Virtual Avatars Embodied with Their Habitual
Facial Expressions and Facial Appearance. Sensors, 21(17),
5986. [ html ] [ pdf ]
Park, S., & Catrambone, R.
(2021). Social Responses to Virtual Humans: The Effect of Human-Like
Characteristics. Applied Sciences, 11(16), 7214. [ html ] [ pdf ]
Park, S., Lee,
S. W., & Whang, M. (2021). The Analysis of Emotion Authenticity Based on
Facial Micromovements. Sensors, 21(13), 4616. [ html ] [ pdf ]
Ahn, H., & Park, S. (2021).
Contextual Emotion Appraisal Based on a Sentential Cognitive System for
Robots. Applied Sciences, 11(5), 2027. [ html ] [ pdf
]
Park, S., Yim, J. H., & Lee,
G. E. (2012). Design of an Ergonomic Ultrasound System: Accommodation of User
Anthropometrics. Work: A Journal of
Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation, 41, 2037-2042. [ pdf ]
Park,
S. & Catrambone, R. (2007). Social Facilitation Effects of Virtual Humans. Human
Factors, 49(6), 1054-1060. [ pdf
]
NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Park, S., Fisk, A. D. & Rogers, W. A. (2010). Human
Factors Consideration for the Design of Collaborative Machine Assistants. Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart
Environments, 961-984. [ pdf
]
PROCEEDING PUBLICATIONS
Urakami, J., Moore, B. A., Sutthithatip, S., & Park, S. (2019). Users' Perception of Empathic Expressions by an
Advanced Intelligent System. In Proceedings of the 7th International
Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (pp. 11-18).
Ogawa, R., Park, S., & Umemuro, H. (2019). How
Humans Develop Trust in Communication Robots: A Phased Model Based on
Interpersonal Trust. In 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 606-607). IEEE.
Luria, M., Hoffman, G., Megidish, B., Zuckerman, O., & Park, S. (2016). Designing Vyo, a Robotic
Smart Home Assistant: Bridging the Gap Between Device and Social Agent. Proceedings of the 25th International
Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication.
Kim, J. H., Park, S.,
Hassenzahl, M., & Eckoldt,
K. (2011). The Essence of Enjoyable Experiences: The Human Needs - A
Psychological Needs - Driven Experience Design Approach. Proceedings of the 14th
International Conference on Human Computer
Interaction: Part I. Design, User Experience, and Usability (pp. 77-83).
Park, S. & Catrambone, R.
(2009). Social Responses to Virtual Humans: The Effect of Human-like Characteristics. Proceedings of Global Samsung Technology
Conference 2009, 7. *Best Paper Silver Award
Park, S.
& Catrambone, R. (2008). Social Responses to Virtual Humans: Automatic Over-reliance on the "Human". Proceedings
of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 530-532.
Park, S.
& Catrambone, R. (2007). Social Facilitation
Effects of Virtual Humans. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society, 557-562. *CogSci Conference Travel Award
Park, S.
& Catrambone, R. (2007). Understanding the Social
Relationship between Humans and
Virtual Humans. In J. A. Jacko (Ed.), Proceedings of the 12th International
Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Vol. 3. HCI Intelligent Multimodal
Interaction (pp. 459-464). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
Park, S., O'Brien, M. A., Caine, K. E., Rogers, W. A., Fisk, A. D., Van Ittersum, K., Capar, M. & Parsons, L. J. (2006). Acceptance of Computer Technology: Understanding the User and the Organizational Characteristics. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 50th Annual Meeting, 1478-1482.
Caine, K. E.,
O'Brien, M. A., Park, S., Rogers, W. A., Fisk, A. D., Van Ittersum, K., Capar, M. &
Parsons, L. J. (2006). Understanding Acceptance of High Technology Products: 50
Years of Research. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
50th Annual Meeting, 2148-2152.
Park, S. & Catrambone, R. (2004). Represented and Representing Dimensions in Relational Information Displays. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Visualization, 605-612.
ACTIVITIES
AND EDUCATION
Professor at SCAD (The Savannah College of Art
and Design) (2019-2021)
Tokyo Tech Research Fellow at Tokyo Institute
of Technology (2018)
Principle UX Designer, AI Business Unit at SK
Telecom (2015-2018)
Group Leader, UX Engineering Group at Samsung
Electronics (2013-2014)
Senior UX Designer at Samsung Electronics
(2009-2013)
Engineering Psychology (Ph.D.) at Georgia
Institute of Technology (2009)
Human-Computer Interaction (M.S.) at University
of Michigan (2003)
Psychology (B.A.) at Korea University (2001)