Contact

Office	A428
Address	Bd de Pérolles 90 1700 Fribourg Switzerland
Email	yongjoon.thoo(at)unifr.ch
ORCID	0000-0002-6771-3502
Github
Google Scholar
Linkedin profile

Yong-Joon Thoo

PhD Student in Human-Computer Interaction

Research interests

My research aims to improve the quality of life of blind and low-vision people by providing them with a platform to train their residual vision and develop adaptive strategies in an engaging manner. My approach involves developing an augmented reality based platform which includes tasks, designed in collaboration with vision rehabilitation centers, which can be adapted to the needs of each individual. My research interests include:

• Mixed Reality
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Multimodal Interaction

Teaching

Current courses

• HCI Seminar [Spring 2022, Autumn 2023], Teaching Assistant
• Multimodal User Interfaces [Spring 2022, Spring 2023], Teaching Assistant
• Prototyping and Fabrication in the FabLab [Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023], Teaching Assistant

Theses supervision

Ongoing

• Kimmy Costa, Investigating the Advantages of Haptic Feedback during Low-Vision Rehabilition [MSc]
• Sophie Maudonnet, An Augmented Reality based Sandbox to Investigate the Potential of On-Site Collaborative Tasks [BSc]

Completed

• Mikkeline Elleby, Collaborative Augmented Reality Platform: A Feasibility Study [BSc, 2023]
• Loris Bertschi, Co-design of an AR Rehabilitation Task for People with Visual Impairment [BSc, 2023]
• Cédric Membrez, AR Escape Room to Support the Rehabilitation of People with Visual Impairment [MSc, 2023]
• Karim Aebischer, A Gamified Mobile Application for Approach-Avoidance Tasks [MSc, 2022]

Publications

• Yong-Joon Thoo, Maximiliano Jeanneret Medina, Jon E. Froehlich, Nicolas Ruffieux, and Denis Lalanne. 2023. A Large-Scale Mixed-Methods Analysis of Blind and Low-vision Research in ACM and IEEE. In The 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '23), October 22–25, 2023, New York, NY, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 20 pages. 10.1145/3597638.3608412
• Yong-Joon Thoo, Jérémy Maceiras, Philip Abbet, Mattia Racca, Hakan Girgin and Sylvain Calinon. 2021. Online and Offline Robot Programming via Augmented Reality Workspaces. 10.48550/arXiv.2107.01884