Kirak Kim
I’m a Ph.D. student at AIRIS Lab, KAIST, and currently a visiting researcher at CARTE, University of Toronto. My research explores virtual environments, artificial intelligence, and spatial audio, with a recent focus on text-to-RIR generation for room impulse responses. I’m particularly interested in audio experiences in virtual spaces.
Publications
International Conferences
Designing VR Music Game for Stress Reduction [Link]
Kirak Kim, Hyojin Kim, Youjin Choi, Juhan Nam, Jeongmi Lee
2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
Star Upon a Wish: An AI-Transformed Wish-Making Experience [Link]
Jisu Kim, Hyeyeon Lee, Kirak Kim
ISEA 2025: 30th International Symposium on Electronic Art (Short Paper)
PianoVAM: a Multimodal Piano Performance Dataset [Link]
Yonghyun Kim, Junhyung Park, Joonhyung Bae, Kirak Kim, Taegyun Kwon, Alexander Lerch, Juhan Nam
26th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference, 2025
Implementation of Robot Journalism by Programming Custombot Using Tokenization and Custom Tagging [Link]
Naeun Lee, Kirak Kim, Taeseon Yoon
19th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT), 2017
Posters, Demos, and Workshop Papers
The Soaring Serenity: An Immersive VR Artwork for Perspective Shift [Link]
Kirak Kim, Hyun Woo Kim, Sun Ah Bae, Jung Won Lee, Sungyoung Kim
ISEA 2025: 30th International Symposium on Electronic Art (Poster)
Two Web Toolkits for Multimodal Piano Performance Dataset Acquisition and Fingering Annotation [Link]
Junhyung Park, Yonghyun Kim, Joonhyung Bae, Kirak Kim, Taegyun Kwon, Alexander Lerch, Juhan Nam
Late Breaking Demo of 26th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference
Designing a Multimodal Viewer for Piano Performance Analysis — a Pedagogy-First Approach [Link]
Joonhyung Bae, Hyeyoon Cho, Kirak Kim, Dawon Park, Taegyun Kwon, Yoon-Seok Choi, Hyeon Hur, Shigeru Kai, Yohei Wada, Satoshi Obata, Akira Maezawa, Jaebum Park, Jonghwa Park, Juhan Nam
Late Breaking Demo of 26th International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) Conference
Ddancing Ppongsa: XR Collaborative Dance Game [Link]
Sun Ah Bae, Kirak Kim, Sungpil Wang
HCI KOREA 2024 Creative Awards
Digital Indirect Communication Tool 'To Sea To Write' [Link]
Kirak Kim, Daye Kim, Jooeun Lim, Yongsoon Choi
HCI KOREA 2023 Creative Awards
Domestic (Korean)
Zooblox: Gen-AI Augmented Block Toy Experience for Children [Link]
Kirak Kim, Hyunwoo Kim, Hyojin Kim, Hyunyoung Han, Jaehong Ahn
Proceedings of HCI KOREA 2025
Art Projects
Star Upon a Wish · 소원에게 별을
w/ Jisu Kim, Hyeyeon Lee
Misan Art Space · Jul 2024
Forking Room 2024 Research Zine · Jan 2024
The Pieces of Conversation · 대화의 조각
Team DIMO
Oct 2023
Marbling: The Inner Way
w/ Hyeyeon Lee, Hangyeol Jo
Gallery Giotta · Sep 2023
To Sea To Write
w/ Daye Kim, Jooeun Lim
Jongno Art B Project Gallery · Dec 2022
Metaroom
w/ Yoonah Song
2022 Metaverse Expo · Jan 2022
나는나는너 · I=I=YOU
by Tera e inferno · participated as actor
Aug 2021