Minsoo Choi | Ph.D. Candidate at Purdue University

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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University. I work under the advice of Dr. Christos Mousas and I am also a research assistant at the Virtual Reality Lab. I hold Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science from Hongik University, South Korea. My research interests include extended reality, virtual humans, human-computer interaction, procedural content generation, and computer animation. In my Ph.D., I focus on how people interact with virtual humans during collaborative tasks and how they perceive their intelligence. Also, I am interested in motion retargeting from video to 3D animation. I have received the Best Paper Award from ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (2023). If you have any questions, please send an email to choi714@purdue.edu.

news

Aug 23, 2024 I received the Best Paper Award from ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems!
Nov 20, 2023 Passed the preliminary examination.
May 25, 2023 Created a personal website. I will post research updates here.

publications

  1. jour24-ACMTAP-CharacterIntelligencePuzzleCoSolving.jpg
    Toward Understanding the Effects of Intelligence of a Virtual Character during an Immersive Jigsaw Puzzle Co-Solving Task
    M. Choi, D. Cui, M. Volonte, A. Koilias, D. Kao, and 1 more author
    ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 2024
  2. conf24-ACMSIGGRAPHMIG-IntelligentCharacterTaskComplexity.jpg
    The Effects of Virtual Character’s Intelligence and Task’s Complexity during an Immersive Jigsaw Puzzle Co-solving Task
    M. Choi, D. Cui, A. Koilias, and C. Mousas
    ACM SIGGRAPH Motion, Interaction, and Games, 2024
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    ASAP: Animation System for Agent-based Presentations
    M. Choi, C. Mousas, N. Adamo, S. Patankar, K. Hauser, and 2 more authors
    The Visual Computer, 2024
  4. jour24-ACMTiiS-SelfCorrectionPuzzleCoSolving.jpg
    Exploring the Effects of Self-correction Behavior of an Intelligent Virtual Character during a Jigsaw Puzzle Co-solving Task
    M. Choi, S. Guo, A. Koilias, M. Volonte, D. Kao, and 1 more author
    ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 2024
  5. conf24-IEEEISMAR-ElectromagnetismDimensionsImmersion.jpg
    The Effects of Immersion and Dimensionality in Virtual Reality Science Simulations: The Case of Charged Particles
    P. Acevedo, M. Choi, A. Magana, B. Benes, and C. Mousas
    IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2024
  6. conf24-CHIPlay-SpatialxplorationSecondaryTask.jpg
    Game Level Design to Evoke Spatial Exploration: The Influence of a Secondary Task
    P. Acevedo, M. Choi, H. Liu, D. Kao, and C. Mousas
    2024
  7. conf24-ACMSAP-FacialAsymmetries.jpg
    The Effect of Dynamic Facial Asymmetries on the Perceived Believability, Appeal, and Naturalness of Animated Agents
    K. Hauser, C. Mousas, N. Adamo, M. Choi, R. Mayer, and 1 more author
    ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, 2024
  8. jour24-PACMCGIT-SelfSimiarAppearanceVoice.jpg
    Collaborating with my Doppelganger: The Effects of Self-similar Appearance and Voice of a Virtual Character during a Jigsaw Puzzle Co-solving Task
    S. Guo, M. Choi, D. Kao, and C. Mousas
    Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH I3D 2024), 2024
  9. jour24-JECR-RelatingPedagogicalAgents.jpg
    Recognizing and Relating to the Race/Ethnicity and Gender of Animated Pedagogical Agents
    F. Zhao, R. Mayer, N. Adamo-Vilani, C. Mousas, M. Choi, and 3 more authors
    Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
  10. conf23-ArtsIT-AffectiveGestures.jpg
    Animated Pedagogical Agents Performing Affective Gestures Extracted from the GEMEP Dataset: Can People Recognize Their Emotions?
    M. Mukanova, N. Adamo, C. Mousas, M. Choi, K. Hauser, and 2 more authors
    2023
  11. jour23-Actuators-DigitalPump.jpg
    Mixed Reality: A Tool for Investigating the Complex Design and Mechanisms of a Mechanically Actuated Digital Pump
    I.Azzam, K. Pate, F. Breidi, M. Choi, Y. Jiang, and 1 more author
    In Actuators, 2023
  12. conf23-IEEEISMAR-Adjunct-AppearanceVoice.jpg
    Exploring the Appearance and Voice Mismatch of Virtual Characters
    M. Choi, A. Koilias, M. Volonte, D. Kao, and C. Mousas
    IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2023
  13. conf23-ACMSAP-BodyTypeVoicePitch.jpg
    Effects of Body Type and Voice Pitch on Perceived Audio-Visual Correspondence and Believability of Virtual Characters
    L. Lam, M. Choi, M. Mukanova, K. Hauser, F. Zhao, and 3 more authors
    ACM Symposium on Applied Perception, 2023
  14. conf23-IEEEVRW-ExtendedRealityFacility.jpg
    Establishing Design Computing and Extended Reality Facilities for Remote Virtual Reality Training
    L.-F. Yu, H. Huang, R. Alghofaili, C. Li, Y. Zhang, and 5 more authors
    IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, 2023
  15. jour23-ACMTiiS-Collaboration.jpg
    Synthesizing Game Levels for Collaborative Gameplay in a Shared Virtual Environment
    H. Liu, M. Choi, D. Kao, and C. Mousas
    ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 2023
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    A Mixed Reality Platform for Collaborative Technical Assembly Training
    M. Choi, Y. Jiang, F. Breidi, C. Mousas, and M. Akdere
    ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2022
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    Synthesizing Shared Space Virtual Reality Fire Evacuation Training Drills
    H. Liu, M. Choi, L. Yu, A. Koilias, L.-F. Yu, and 1 more author
    IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (Adjunct), 2022
  18. conf22-FDG-SpatialExploration.jpg
    Procedural Game Level Design to Trigger Spatial Exploration
    P. Acevedo, M. Choi, H. Liu, D. Kao, and C. Mousas
    International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (PCG Workshop), 2022