Internship@NAVER | Young-Ho Kim

The HCI group at NAVER AI Lab explores how AI can support and enhance people's health and well-being, with a particular focus on designing AI-infused systems that account for and acknoledge the lifelong challenges of marginalized populations, thereby extending the benefits of contemporary AI to a broader audience.

Featured Research

ACM CHI 2025

AACessTalk: AI-guided Communication Mediation for Minimally Verbal Autistic Children and Parents

Dasom Choi, SoHyun Park, Kyungah Lee, Hwajung Hong, Young-Ho Kim

2025 Spring-Summer Research InternshipClosed

Present and Past Interns

*The affiliations are based on the internship period and may not reflect the latest information.

Jungeun Lee

POSTECH

Internship: 2025.3 -

Yeonsun Yang

DGIST

Internship: 2025.3 -

Migyeong Yang

Sungkyunkwan University

Internship: 2025.3 -

Suhyeon Yoo

University of Toronto

Internship: 2024.5 - 9

Outcome: [ELMI-CHI25]

Inhwa Song

KAIST

Internship: 2024.3 - 9

Outcome: [ExploreSelf-CHI25]

Dasom Choi

KAIST

Internship: 2024.3 - 9

Outcome: [AACessTalk-CHI25]

CHI Best Paper

Woosuk Seo

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Internship: 2023.5 - 8, 2024.5 - 8

Outcome: [ChaCha-CHI24] [ARCH-CHI25]

Eunkyung Jo

University of California, Irvine

Internship: 2022.6 - 9, 2023.6 - 10

Outcome: [CareCall-CHI23] [CareCallLTM-CHI24] [CareCallStakeholder-CHI25]

CHI Best Paper

Donghoon Shin

University of Washington

Internship: 2023.6 - 9

Outcome: [PlanFitting-CUI25]

Taewan Kim

KAIST

Internship: 2023.1 - 7

Outcome: [MindfulDiary-CHI24]

Sukhyun Lee

Yonsei University

Internship: 2023.1 - 7

Jing Wei

University of Melbourne

Internship: 2022.5 - 7

Outcome: [LLM-Chatbot-CSCW24]

Mina Huh

University of Texas, Austin

Internship: 2022.4 - 6

Outcome: [AVscript-CHI23]

Publication from Internship Projects

PlanFitting: Personalized Exercise Planning with Large Language Model-driven Conversational Agent

Donghoon Shin,

Gary Hsieh,

and Young-Ho Kim

ACM CUI 2025 (Cond. Accept.) (Full Paper)

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arXiv

Best Paper Award

AACessTalk: Fostering Communication between Minimally Verbal Autistic Children and Parents with Contextual Guidance and Card Recommendation

Dasom Choi,

SoHyun Park,

Kyungah Lee,

Hwajung Hong,

and Young-Ho Kim

ACM CHI 2025 (Full Paper)

BibTeX

ELMI: Interactive and Intelligent Sign Language Translation of Lyrics for Song Signing

Suhyeon Yoo,

Khai N. Truong,

and Young-Ho Kim

ACM CHI 2025 (Full Paper)

BibTeX

ExploreSelf: Fostering User-driven Exploration and Reflection on Personal Challenges with Adaptive Guidance by Large Language Models

Inhwa Song,

SoHyun Park,

Sachin R. Pendse,

Jessica Lee Schleider,

Munmun De Choudhury,

and Young-Ho Kim

ACM CHI 2025 (Full Paper)

BibTeX

Understanding Public Agencies' Expectations and Realities of AI-Driven Chatbots for Public Health Monitoring

Eunkyung Jo,

Young-Ho Kim,

Sang-Houn Ok,

and Daniel A. Epstein

ACM CHI 2025 (Full Paper)

DOI

PDF

BibTeX

Enhancing Pediatric Communication: The Role of an AI-Driven Chatbot in Facilitating Child-Parent-Provider Interaction

Woosuk Seo,

Young-Ho Kim,

Ji Eun Kim,

Megan Tao Fan,

Mark S. Ackerman,

Sung Won Choi,

and Sun Young Park

ACM CHI 2025 (Full Paper)

DOI

PDF

BibTeX

ChaCha: Leveraging Large Language Models to Prompt Children to Share Their Emotions about Personal Events

Woosuk Seo,

Chanmo Yang,

and Young-Ho Kim

ACM CHI 2024 (Full Paper)

BibTeX

MindfulDiary: Harnessing Large Language Model to Support Psychiatric Patients' Journaling

Taewan Kim,

Seolyeong Bae,

Hyun Ah Kim,

Su-woo Lee,

Hwajung Hong,

Chanmo Yang*,

and Young-Ho Kim*

(*co-corresponding)

ACM CHI 2024 (Full Paper)

DOI

PDF

BibTeX

arXiv

Understanding the Impact of Long-Term Memory on Self-Disclosure with Large Language Model-Driven Chatbots for Public Health Intervention

Eunkyung Jo,

Yuin Jeong,

SoHyun Park,

Daniel A. Epstein,

and Young-Ho Kim

ACM CHI 2024 (Full Paper)

DOI

PDF

BibTeX

arXiv

Leveraging Large Language Models to Power Chatbots for Collecting User Self-Reported Data

Jing Wei,

Sungdong Kim,

Hyunhoon Jung,

and Young-Ho Kim

PACM HCI (CSCW 2024) (Full Paper)

BibTeX

Best Paper Award

Understanding the Benefits and Challenges of Deploying Conversational AI Leveraging Large Language Models for Public Health Intervention

Eunkyung Jo,

Daniel A. Epstein,

Hyunhoon Jung,

and Young-Ho Kim

ACM CHI 2023 (Full Paper)

BibTeX

AVscript: Accessible Video Editing with Audio-Visual Scripts

Mina Huh,

Saelyne Yang,

Yi-Hao Peng,

Xiang 'Anthony' Chen,

Young-Ho Kim,

and Amy Pavel

ACM CHI 2023 (Full Paper)

BibTeX