Justin Wonjun Cho

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Justin Wonjun Cho

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Biography

Justin Cho holds an undergraduate degree in LLB Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is currently working on his PhD on the use of immersive technologies in education at Manchester Metropolitan University.

He is currently a tutor for the Department of Operations, Technology, Events and Hospitality Management. He is involved with teaching on a wide variety of units including: Introduction to Industry 4.0; Introduction to Technology and Big Data; Technology Enhanced Customer Experience; Immersive Technologies; Digital Skills for Lawyers. 

He is also a member of the Creative AR VR Hub at the university, working as a researcher on various projects involving the use of immersive technologies. Some projects include: the use of a virtual reality pulmonary rehabilitation programme to treat COPD patients in the UK, and the implementation of a virtual reality mock trial programme for law students. 

Justin also actively seeks out other research opportunities and has participated in other projects including: “Civil society’s privacy concerns and practices in a smart city: an empirical case study” (MMU), “Strengthening teacher networks, decolonising secondary school history curricula” (BERA, UK + MMU), “Investigating the changing retail tech industry in Europe” (GCA, S. Korea + MMU), “The Metaverse Cancer Care Platform” (NCC, S. Korea + MMU). He also actively participates as a member of the scientific committee on the yearly international conferences held by the International Association of Immersive Technology Innovation. 

Interests and expertise

Research interests and expertise: Virtual reality, Augmented reality, Mixed reality, Extended reality, Metaverse, Education and training, Laws and regulations on the use of emerging technologies

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Business School

Teaching

Justin teaches on various units across 3 different courses

  • Introduction to Industry 4.0
  • Introduction to Technology and Big Data
  • Technology Enhanced Customer Experience
  • Immersive Technologies
  • Digital Skills for Lawyers

Courses

BSc (Hons)

Business Technology

Undergraduate
BA (Hons)

Business Management

Undergraduate

LLB (Hons)

Undergraduate

Supervision

Postgraduate dissertation supervision for Business Analytics students

Research outputs

Journal publications

  • Jung, Timothy, Cho, Justin, Han, Dai-In Danny, Ahn, Sun Joo, Gupta, Mansi, Das, Gopal, Heo, Cindy Yoonjoung, Loureiro, Sandra Maria Correia, Sigala, Marianna, Trunfio, Mariapina, Taylor, Alexandra, tom Dieck, M. Claudia (2024). Metaverse for service industries: Future applications, opportunities, challenges and research directions. Computers in Human Behavior, 151, 108039.

  • Jung, Timothy, Cho, Justin, Shekhawat, Satpal Singh, Amin, Muhammad Farhan (2023) Real-time remotely supervised virtual reality based intelligent pulmonary rehabilitation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: Quantitative study (Preprint). Journal of Medical Internet Research.

  • Taylor, Alexandra, tom Dieck, M. Claudia, Jung, Timothy, Cho, Justin, Kwon, Ohbyung (2024) XR and mental wellbeing: state of the art and future research directions for the Metaverse, Frontiers in Psychology, 15, DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1360260

Book chapter publications

  • Cho, Justin, Jung, Timothy, MacLeod, Kryss, Swenson, Alasdair (2023). “Mooting in virtual reality: An exploratory study using experiential learning theory” In: Jung, T., tom Dieck, M.C., Correia Loureiro, S.M. (eds) Extended Reality and Metaverse. XR 2022. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham.

  • Cho, Justin, tom Dieck, M. Claudia, Jung, Timothy (2023). What is the Metaverse? Challenges, Opportunities, Definition, and Future Research Directions. In: Jung, T., tom Dieck, M.C., Correia Loureiro, S.M. (eds) Extended Reality and Metaverse. XR 2022. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham.

  • Cho, Justin, Jung, Timothy, MacLeod, Kryss, Swenson, Alasdair (2021). “Using virtual reality as a form of simulation in the context of legal education” In: tom Dieck, M.C., Jung, T.H., Loureiro, S.M.C. (eds) Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham.

Conference presentations

  • Etienne, Elodie, Schyns, Michael, Cho, Justin, Jung, Timothy (2023) “Exploring interactions, immersion, and presence in a virtual reality experience for mooting” In 8th International XR-Metaverse Conference, Las Vegas, USA.

  • Taylor, Alexandra, tom Dieck, M. Claudia, Cho, Justin, Jung, Timothy (2023) “Metaverse wellbeing” In 8th International XR-Metaverse Conference, Las Vegas, USA.

  • Cho, Justin, Jung, Timothy, Loureiro, S (2022) “Immersive technology in education and its pedagogical foundations: a systematic literature review” In 7th International XR Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.

  • Cho, Justin, Jung, Timothy, tom Dieck, M. Claudia (2022) “Immersive technology in tourism: a systematic literature review” In 7th International XR Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.

  • Cho, Justin, Jung, Timothy, MacLeod, Kryss, Swenson, Alasdair (2022) “Mooting in virtual reality: an exploratory study using experiential learning theory” In 7th International XR Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.

  • Jung, Timothy, Cho, Justin, Shekhawat, Satpal Singh, Amin, Muhammad Farhan (2022) “Effects of pulmonary rehabilitation in virtual reality for COPD patients” In 7th International XR Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.