Funded by VCU Massey cancer center, I started VoicingHan project: avatar storytelling platform designed for use by terminally ill patients in the palliative care program at VCU hospital, since July 2018, In collaboration with Dr. Danielle Noreika, and Dr. Egidio Del Fabbro.

My Article “Avatar life-review: Virtual bodies in a dramatic paradox” was published in Journal Virtual Creativity Volume 7 Number 2, Spring 2018.  Abstract: This article will examine ongoing avatar life-review projects, in the light of drama therapy concepts and methods, exploring a hybrid model of avatar/drama therapy in a virtually mediated environment. The avatar life-review platform…

So honored to receive 2017 VCUart faculty award-“Distinguished Acheivement in Research”!!

VoicingElder project will be presented at ISEA 2017, Manizales, Colombia(International Symposium of Electronic Arts), June, and HCI International conference, Vancouver, Canada, July, 2017. Details are coming soon.

Virtual puppets developed by kinetic imaging professor help older adults feel more comfortable telling their stories http://news.vcu.edu/faculty-and-staff/Virtual_puppets_developed_by_kinetic_imaging_professor_help_older

Check out Excellent Review on my co-authored book “The Point of Being (Ed: Derrick de Kerckhove and Cristina Miranda de Almeida) with my chapter 6 ” Sensing without Sensing: could virtual reality support Korean rituals? ” I am so proud to be a part of this project, working with leading scholars on important issue of…

Semi will present “Seniors Reminiscing Through Avatars” at 37th North American Drama Therapy conference- The Power of Dramatic Play and Creativity: Sunshine Under the Umbrella, to be held at Seattle, Washington, Oct 27-30.

Invited to be a Visiting Scholar from Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University, for Spring semester 2016. Semi’s Lecture/workshop/presentation were scheduled at March 30-31, 2016.

Selected for presentation at 11th International Conference on the Arts in Society, UCLA, Los Angeles, August 10-12, 2016.