Young-Ho Kim, PhD
HCI Researcher & Builder
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Updated 2025.02
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Curriculum Vitae

I am a Research Scientist at NAVER AI Lab, leading the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Research Group. I design, develop, and evaluate Personal Informatics (PI) technologies that empower people to better learn about themselves and make positive changes in their behaviors and thoughts. Recently, I have investigated how we can leverage (generative) AIs for PI systems to acknowledge and account for the lifelong challenges of marginalized populations.

I am a recipient of International Postdoc Fellowship supported by National Research Foundation of Korea in 2019, a Best of CHI Honorable Mention award at CHI 2021, and a Best Paper award at CHI 2023.

For my permanent e-mail address, please check my CV.

Academic Service

  • ACing - ACM CHI '25 (Health), ACM CSCW '24 (Jan), ACM CHI '24 (Health), IEEE PacificVis '23

Miscellaneous Facts

🫶 My Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is ENFJ (Extraversion-iNtuition-Feeling-Judging).
👨‍👩‍👦 I am going to be a dad soon I'm a dad of one boy.

Short bio
2023 - Now
Leader, HCI
NAVER AI Lab
2021 - Now
Research Scientist
NAVER AI Lab
2019 - 2021
Postdoc
Univ. of Maryland
2012 - 2019
PhD (CS)
Seoul Nat'l Univ.
2007 - 2011
BFA (Design)
Seoul Nat'l Univ.
Research Area
Selected PublicationAll Publication
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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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PlanFitting: Tailoring Personalized Exercise Plans with Large Language Models
Donghoon Shin,
Gary Hsieh,
and Young-Ho Kim
arXiv (Full Paper)
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)
Leveraging Pre-Trained Language Models to Streamline Natural Language Interaction for Self-Tracking
Young-Ho Kim,
Sungdong Kim,
Minsuk Chang,
and Sang-Woo Lee
NAACL 2022 Workshop on "Bridging HCI and NLP" (Short Paper)
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MyMove: Facilitating Older Adults to Collect In-Situ Activity Labels on a Smartwatch with Speech
Young-Ho Kim,
Diana Chou,
Bongshin Lee,
Margaret Danilovich,
Amanda Lazar,
David E. Conroy,
Hernisa Kacorri,
and Eun Kyoung Choe
ACM CHI 2022 (Full Paper)
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Honorable Mention Award
Data@Hand: Fostering Visual Exploration of Personal Data on Smartphones Leveraging Speech and Touch Interaction
Young-Ho Kim,
Bongshin Lee,
Arjun Srinivasan,
and Eun Kyoung Choe
ACM CHI 2021 (Full Paper)
Understanding Personal Productivity: How Knowledge Workers Define, Evaluate, and Reflect on Their Productivity
Young-Ho Kim,
Eun Kyoung Choe,
Bongshin Lee,
and Jinwook Seo
ACM CHI 2019 (Full Paper)
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OmniTrack: A Flexible Self-Tracking Approach Leveraging Semi-Automated Tracking
Young-Ho Kim,
Jae Ho Jeon,
Bongshin Lee,
Eun Kyoung Choe,
and Jinwook Seo
PACM IMWUT (UbiComp 2017) (Journal Article)
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TimeAware: Leveraging Framing Effects to Enhance Personal Productivity
Young-Ho Kim,
Jae Ho Jeon,
Eun Kyoung Choe,
Bongshin Lee,
KwonHyun Kim,
and Jinwook Seo
ACM CHI 2016 (Full Paper)
Research internsMore
2025.3 -
Jungeun Lee
POSTECH
2025.3 -
Yeonsun Yang
DGIST
2025.3 -
Migyeong Yang
SKKU
2024.5 - 9
Suhyeon Yoo
UToronto
2024.3 - 9
Inhwa Song
KAIST
2024.3 - 9
Dasom Choi
KAIST
2024.5 - 8
2023.5 - 8
Woosuk Seo
U of Michigan
2023.6 - 10
2022.6 - 9
Eunkyung Jo
UC Irvine
2023.6 - 9
Donghoon Shin
U of Washington
2023.1 - 7
Taewan Kim
KAIST
2023.1 - 7
Sukhyun Lee
Yonsei University
2022.5 - 7
Jing Wei
U of Melbourne
2022.4 - 6
Mina Huh
UT Austin
News
2025.3
Invited talk at Hongik University Visual Comm. Design (Mar 20)
2025.1
Eight papers were conditionally accepted to CHI 2025, five of which were authored by our research interns. See you in Japan.
2025.1
Invited talk at Seoul National University CS & AI (Jan 7)
Press
2025.2
AI 투자 빠듯한데... 네이버가 'HCI' 포기 않는 이유 [real! AI pro]
디지털데일리
2025.1
네이버 AI랩, 인간-기술 연결한 혁신 발표…국제 학회 'CHI 2025'서 주목
ZDNet
2024.12
네이버 '2024 널리 웨비나' 개최...AI 시대 포용적 기술 중요성 강조
머니투데이
2023.4
사람 보살피는 AI, 끼니 거른 어르신 찾았다…"한국이 선두"
한국경제
2023.4
네이버, AI연구 ‘체력 튼튼’ 입증…‘구글·인텔 능가’ 평가도
경향신문
2023.4
치매 어르신 돕는 네이버 ‘케어콜’ AI 권위 학회서 ‘1%’ 최고 논문
서울경제
2023.4
네이버 초거대 AI 기반 서비스, 국제 학회가 인정
The AI
2016.7
Professor studies how apps can affect productivity
Penn State