TLDR

{
  "first_name"    : "Ming_Ki",
  "last_name"     : "Chong",
  "also_known_as" : "the guy with an _underscore",
  "what_i_do"     : ["software engineering", "design APIs", "collect tech debts"],
  "motto"         : "simplicity",
  "email"         : "hellomingkichong•net",
  "superpowers"   : ["transforming carbohydrates into computer code",
                     "creating and fixing unexpected exceptions",
                     "confusing people by asking (too) many questions"],
  "uniqueness"    : "being weird",
  "languages"     : ["English", "Chinese (Cantonese)",
                     "whatever programming languages that you can throw at me"]
}

I am an unexpected exception that just happened to happen

Feel to POST me a message

Please don't DELETE my reply

Also, don't PUT my response in the spam box

If something is wrong, let's PATCH things

I hope you GET my message

By the way, if I don't reply immediately, I might just be REST-ing, and I will eventually be consistent and respond

Publications

Journals

Look together: using gaze for assisting co-located collaborative search
Yanxia Zhang, Ken Pfeuffer, Ming Ki Chong, Jason Alexander, Andreas Bulling, Hans Gellersen
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 21(1): 173--186 (2017)
10.1007/s00779-016-0969-x
Connecting devices for collaborative interactions
Tero Jokela, Ming Ki Chong, Andrés Lucero, Hans Gellersen
Interactions. 22(4): 39--43 (2015)
10.1145/2776887
Select & Apply: understanding how users act upon objects across devices
Adalberto Lafcadio Simeone, Ming Ki Chong, Corina Sas, Hans Gellersen
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 19(5-6): 881--896 (2015)
10.1007/s00779-015-0836-1
Eye tracking for public displays in the wild
Yanxia Zhang, Ming Ki Chong, Jörg Müller, Andreas Bulling, Hans Gellersen
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 19(5-6): 967--981 (2015)
10.1007/s00779-015-0866-8
A Survey of User Interaction for Spontaneous Device Association
Ming Ki Chong, Rene Mayrhofer, Hans Gellersen
ACM Comput. Surv.. 47(1): 8:1--8:40 (2014)
10.1145/2597768
Usability classification for spontaneous device association
Ming Ki Chong, Hans Gellersen
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 16(1): 77--89 (2012)
10.1007/s00779-011-0421-1

Conferences

Cue Now, Reflect Later: A Study of Delayed Reflection of Diary Events
Ming Ki Chong, Jon Whittle, Umar Rashid, Chee Siang Ang
In Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2015 - 15th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Bamberg, Germany, September 14-18, 2015, Proceedings, Part III. Pages 367--375.
10.1007/978-3-319-22698-9_24
Gaze-Shifting: Direct-Indirect Input with Pen and Touch Modulated by Gaze
Ken Pfeuffer, Jason Alexander, Ming Ki Chong, Yanxia Zhang, Hans Gellersen
In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology, UIST 2015, Charlotte, NC, USA, November 8-11, 2015. Pages 373--383.
10.1145/2807442.2807460
GazeHorizon: enabling passers-by to interact with public displays by gaze
Yanxia Zhang, Jörg Müller, Ming Ki Chong, Andreas Bulling, Hans Gellersen
In The 2014 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp '14, Seattle, WA, USA, September 13-17, 2014. Pages 559--563.
10.1145/2632048.2636071
Gaze-touch: combining gaze with multi-touch for interaction on the same surface
Ken Pfeuffer, Jason Alexander, Ming Ki Chong, Hans Gellersen
In The 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST '14, Honolulu, HI, USA, October 5-8, 2014. Pages 509--518.
10.1145/2642918.2647397
How groups of users associate wireless devices
Ming Ki Chong, Hans-Werner Gellersen
In 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '13, Paris, France, April 27 - May 2, 2013. Pages 1559--1568.
10.1145/2470654.2466207
How users associate wireless devices
Ming Ki Chong, Hans Gellersen
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 7-12, 2011. Pages 1909--1918.
10.1145/1978942.1979219
GesturePIN: using discrete gestures for associating mobile devices
Ming Ki Chong, Gary Marsden, Hans Gellersen
In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Mobile HCI 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, September 7-10, 2010. Pages 261--264.
10.1145/1851600.1851644
HandsDown: hand-contour-based user identification for interactive surfaces
Dominik Schmidt, Ming Ki Chong, Hans Gellersen
In Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland, October 16-20, 2010. Pages 432--441.
10.1145/1868914.1868964
IdLenses: dynamic personal areas on shared surfaces
Dominik Schmidt, Ming Ki Chong, Hans Gellersen
In ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, ITS 2010, Saarbrücken, Germany, November 7-10, 2010. Pages 131--134.
10.1145/1936652.1936678
Exploring the Use of Discrete Gestures for Authentication
Ming Ki Chong, Gary Marsden
In Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2009, 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, August 24-28, 2009, Proceedings, Part II. Pages 205--213.
10.1007/978-3-642-03658-3_27

Theses

Understanding Spontaneous Device Association
Ming Ki Chong
PhD Thesis (Supervisor: Hans Gellersen), Lancaster University, 2013. 150 Pages.
Link
Usable Authentication for Mobile Banking
Ming Ki Chong
MSc Thesis (Supervisor: Gary Marsden *), University of Cape Town, 2009. 155 Pages.
* In memory of Gary Marsden

Academic Volunteering

Registration Chair
The 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2014)
Publicity Chair
The 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2015)
Paper Reviewer
Many journals and conferences related to HCI, UbiComp, and Mobile Computing (too many to be listed here)