SUNG PARK, Ph.D.
RESEARCH INTEREST
Affective Social
Interaction with Artificial Intelligent Systems
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Cho, A.*, Park, S.*, Lee, H., & Whang, M. (in
prep). Vision-based Measures for Affective
and Cognitive Empathy. Frontiers in Physiology. *co-first authors
Park, S., & Whang, M. (in review, #1560390).
Empathy in
Human-Robot Interaction: Designing for Social Robots. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Zhang, J.*, Park, S.*, Cho, A., & Whang, M. (in review, #1558633). Significant
Measures of Gaze and Pupil Movement for Evaluating Empathy. Sensors. *co-first authors
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)