My name is Andrea Bianchi and I am a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Culture Technology (GSCT) in the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea. My research interest is an interdisciplinary branch of Human Computer  Interaction (HCI), more specifically about Haptic Security Interfaces and how they are used in an Ubiquitous Computing environment.


I work as researcher in two labs at KAIST, the Human Robot Interaction center (HRI) in the Mechanical Engineering Department, and the Experience lab in Culture Technology.


If you would like to know more about me or my research and projects you can check my personal web page (which contains some of the projects I developed during my master) or Also Plants Fly, a blog about interfaces and interaction on which I regularly write.


You can also contact me through email, Facebook or Linked.

My friends in Korea address me with a Korean name: 안두리. Feel free to use it.

Short bio

I am from Italy, where I studied until the completion of my undergraduate degree in business and administration from Bocconi University in Milan. Then I moved to New York, where I got my Master in Computer Science from New York University (NYU). After school I found a job at Rebel Monkey as game developer, where I worked with Nick Fortugno as lead programmer on a casual game title. I moved finally to South Korea at the beginning of 2008 where I started my Ph.D.



Publications

- International Conferences

  1. 1.Bianchi, A., Oakley, I. & Kwon, D.S. (2010), “The Secure Haptic Keypad: A Tactile Password System” to appear in Proceedings ACM CHI2010, April 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA. (pdf)

  2. 2.Bianchi, A., Oakley, I., Lee, J. K., Kwon, D.S. “The Haptic Wheel: Design & Evaluation  of a Tactile Password System” to appear in Proceedings ACM CHI2010, April 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA. (pdf)

  3. 3.Bianchi, A., Yeo, W. S., "The Drummer: a Collaborative Musical Interface with Mobility" in Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on New interfaces For Musical Expression (NIME 2009), pp. 316-319, 2009.  (pdf)

  4. 4.Kim, S.C., Han,B.K., Lim,S.C., Bianchi,A., Kyung,K.U.,Kwon, D.S.,”Roly-poly: A Haptic Interface with Self-righting Feature”, EuroHaptics 2010, Part I, LNCS 6191, pp. 332–339, 2010. (pdf)



- Domestic Conferences

  1. 5.Bianchi, A., Kim, S.C., Oakley, I., Kwon, D.S., “Shoulder-surfing Resistant Authentication Method using a Haptic Keypad” in Proceedings KHCI 2010, Phoenix Park, Jan.27~29 2010, pp. 212-214, 2010.


- Poster and Demos

  1. 6.Haptic Wheel Demo, at KHCI 2010, Phoenix Park, Jan.27~29, 2010.

  2. 7.Haptic Wheel Poster, at CHI 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA.


-Domestic Patents

  1. 1.Haptic Keypad (FILED)

  2. 2.Haptic Wheel (FILED)

  3. 3.Virtual Haptic Wheel (FILED)



Teaching

  1. •8471 Managing in the 2.0 Landscape at Bocconi University (EMIT program), March 2010: Guest Lecturer, 2 classes. (pdf)


  3. •MAE683_2010 Human Robot Interaction: Haptics (인간로봇상호작용), at KAIST, Spring 2010: Teaching Assistant.



Other Activities

  1. 1.“Invisible Robots”, talk at Lift Asia Conference 2008 - Open Afternoon Session, Jeju, South Korea.

  2. 2.“Haptic Wheel”, talk at the UXCamp Seoul, Feb. 27. 2010.

  3. 3.Participated to the Digital Natives International Workshop, 4-6 November 2009, Daejeon, South Korea.

  4. 4.Haptic Wheel Demo at KES 2009 (Korea Electronics Show 2009), 14-18 October 2009, Korea International Exhibition Center (KINTEX).

  5. 5.Member of the Korean Haptics Community (KHC) as March 2010.

  6. 6.Member of Dorkbot Seoul.

  7. 7.Organizer of the Dorkbot Seoul / Lift@Home Seoul “Sound Waves from the Future” workshop, 28 November 2009, Seoul.

  8. 8.Participated to the 3rd Korean Haptics Research Workshop, 23 February 2010, Daejeon, South Korea (presentation and demo).

  9. 9.Certification from ALIAS IN MAYA CHARACTER ANIMATION, Darkside Alias Training Center, Verona, Italy Summer 2002



On Going Projects (index under construction)

The Drummer and the Drummer Lite - An open source collaborative musical instrument (drums) running on the Nintendo DS

Haptic Security - Haptic Keypad and Haptic Wheel (more info coming soon)

White T Studio - projects developed during my Master at NYU.

Also Plants Fly - a blog about interfaces and interaction.



Press

Create Digital Music

DS News

Sound Word

Mururoar

Article in 1/n (Korean Magazine), Issue 2, Spring 2010



Other things


I speak Italian, English, some Korean. I also know Latin and Greek which I extensively studied when I was in Italy, and a little bit of Japanese, although mostly forgotten.

Andrea Bianchi © 2010

My Other Pages

White T Studio

Blog: Also Plants Fly

Repository for old projects


Facebook profile

Linked profile

Twitter

Files

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