I am a PhD Student in the Graduate School of Creative Design Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) - pronouced as "u-nist". I am advised by Ian Oakley at the Interactions Lab and Hwajung Hong at the DxD Lab. My research interests include affective computing and human-computer interaction.

Contact Info: mintra [at] unist ac kr

News

• October, 2020: Our paper on "Exploiting Smartphone Sensors to Detect Transitory Emotions During Social Media Use" has been accepted (with minor revisions) to IMWUT. See you at UbiComp 2021!
• August, 2020: Our Bangkok ACM SIGCHI Chapter's website has received "First Place Winner" from the 2020 SIGCHI Chapter Website Competition. More info.
• July, 2020: I am thrilled to join the Bangkok ACM SIGCHI Chapter as a chatper officer (Web Master). Visit our chatper's website here.
• April, 2020: Our paper titled "In Helping a Vulnerable Bot, You Help Yourself: Designing a Social Bot as a Care-Receiver to Promote Mental Health and Reduce Stigma" has been accepted to CHI2020. Congratulations Taewan and Prof. Hwajung .
• July 18-20, 2019: I joined the Summer School on Write a paper for CHI 2021 at Mumbai
• July 18-20, 2019: I have received ACM SIGCHI travel grant for attending the Summer School on Write a paper for CHI 2021 at Mumbai
• July 2019: Our paper entitled "Design Interventions for Promoting the Mental Health of Young Academics" has been accepted to ICDE19
• May 23, 2019: I attended the International Symposium on Culture Technology (SymCY2019) at Daejeon
• May 6, 2019: Our paper, Amor, was advanced to the second round in the Student Design Competition at CHI2019 at Glasgow
• May 5, 2019: I presented our poster entitled "Detecting Negative Emotions during Social Media Use on Smartphones" at AsianCHI Symposium at CHI2019 at Glasgow
• May 4-9, 2019: I was a Student Volunteer at CHI2019 at Glasgow
• May 4-9, 2019: I was awarded the SIGCHI Student Travel Grant (SSTG) for attending CHI2019 at Glasgow
• April 26, 2019: I have received the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award from SIGCHI Korea Local Chapter at Daejeon [Download Poster]
• October 12, 2018: I presented my research idea entitled "Detecting Emotions using Smartphone Sensors: Technique to Raise Self-Awareness for Social Media Users" the Ubicomp 2018 Broadening Participation Workshop at Singapore
• October 8-12, 2018: I was a Student Volunteer at UbiComp/ISWC 2018 at Singapore
• October 8-12, 2018: I was awarded The UbiComp/IWSC 2018 Student Travel grant