News Log

• Sep 29 2022 MS admissions info for spring 2023.
• Aug 31 2022 I'm looking for undergrad research interns for the fall.
• April 24 2022 I'm looking for undergrad research interns for the summer.
• April 24 2022 More recently accepted workhsop papers: ACL Workshop paper on children's story rewriting, CHI 2022 Workshop paper on video UI with informational units, and CHI 2022 Workshop paper on search and comparison for surgery videos.
• April 6 2022 Our papers are recognized by one Best Paper Award and one Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2022!
• Mar 23 2022 Our paper "RLens: A Computer-aided Visualization System for Supporting Reflection on Language Learning under Distributed Tutorship" is accepted to Learning at Scale 2022.
• Mar 11 2022 Our paper "ReviewAid: A Scaffolded Approach to Supporting Readers’ Evaluation of Health News" is accepted to ICLS 2022.
• Feb 25 2022 Starting today, I am spending my sabbatical year at Ringle, an edtech company focused on online language learning. I will be in the Bay Area until Feb 2023.
• Feb 16 2022 Our paper "CatchLive: Real-time Summarization of Live Streams with Stream Content and Interaction Data" is accepted to CHI 2022 after R&R. A total of seven KIXLAB papers will be presented at CHI 2022!
• Jan 14 2022 Our paper "Capturing Diverse and Precise Reactions to a Comment with User-Generated Labels" is accepted to TheWebConf 2022.
• Jan 13 2022 Our research collaboration with Grinder on developing techniques for social video intneraction is featured on the media.
• Dec 21 2021 Our paper "SoftVideo: Improving the Learning Experience of Software Tutorial Videos with Collective Interaction Data" is accepted to IUI 2022.
• Dec 3 2021 Our paper on analyzing the distributed tutorship patterns in 1-to-1 online tutoring is accepted to LAK 2022.
• Nov 16 2021 Six papers conditionally accepted and two under revise & resubmit at CHI 2022.
• Oct 27 2021 I'm looking for undergrad research interns for the winter.
• Oct 26 2021 I'm recruiting a few MS students in SoC KAIST for Spring 2022. If interested, please follow the instructions in the MS Student Selection Process.
• Oct 8 2021 I'll be delivering my first conference keynote talk at HCOMP 2021.
• Apr 22 2021 My research group receives a prestigious Star Lab grant from the Korean government. We'll be working on "object-oriented video interaction" for the next eight years. Press Release: SoC website | ZDNet
• Apr 20 2021 I'm looking for undergrad research interns for the summer.
• Apr 19 2021 Joined the Graduate School of AI at KAIST as affiliate faculty.
• Apr 1 2021 "The MOOClet Framework: Unifying Experimentation, Dynamic Improvement, and Personalization in Online Courses" has been accepted to Learning at Scale 2021.
• Feb 12 2021 My interview video for HCI Korea is available. English transcription available.
• Dec 23 2020 "Guideline-Based Evaluation and Design Opportunities for Mobile Video-based Learning" has been accepted to CHI 2021 LBW.
• Dec 23 2020 Two papers have been accepted with minor revisions to CSCW 2021 (PACM HCI journal): (1) StarryThoughts: Facilitating Diverse Opinion Exploration on Social Issues, (2) Supporting Collaborative Sequencing of Small Groups through Visual Awareness
• Dec 20 2020 Our paper "FitVid: Towards Development of Responsive and Fluid Video Content Adaptation" has been accepted for an oral presentation to the AAAI 2021 workshop "The Imagining Post-COVID Education with AI (TIPCE)".
• Dec 15 2020 Three papers have been conditionally accepted to CHI 2021: (1) RubySlippers: Supporting Content-based Voice Navigation for How-to Videos, (2) Personalizing Ambience and Illusionary Presence: How People Use "Study with Me" Videos to Create Effective Studying Environments, (3) Winder: Linking Speech and Visual Objects to Support Communication in Asynchronous Collaboration
• Nov 2 2020 I'm looking for undergrad research interns for the winter.
• Sep 11 2020 Quoted by the Korea Times in "National Assembly urged to accelerate digital transformation"
• Aug 20 2020 I'm looking for undergrad research interns for the fall.
• Aug 19 2020 I'm serving as a Senior Program Committee Member for AAAI-21. My first time to be a SPC member for an AI conference!
• Aug 5 2020 Our ProtoChat paper got accepted to CSCW 2020 with minor revisions.
• Jul 30 2020 I'm serving on the SIGCHI Nominating Committee for the upcoming SIGCHI Executive Committee elections.
• June 26 2020 My online HCI class has been featured on EBS News (Korean): 준비된 온라인 강의‥소통으로 승부수.
• June 9 2020 Grateful to receive a Kyu-Young Whang (Professor Emeritus) Career Award from KAIST SoC.
• May 23 2020 Our SolutionChat system has been featured on ETNews (Korean): 온라인 회의 돕는 AI…참여 안하면 “의견 달라” 멘트 추천.
• May 12 2020 Our AI Mirror paper won an honorable mention award at DIS 2020.
• Apr 26 2020 Our Workflow Graphs paper got accepted to GI 2020.
• Apr 24 2020 I'm looking for undergrad research interns for the summer.
• Mar 16 2020 Thrilled to receive a Grand Prize for Creative Teaching as part of the Outstanding Faculty Awards in Commemoration of KAIST's 49th Anniversary of Founding
• Mar 15 2020 Joined as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
• Mar 1 2020 Promoted to Associate Professor.
• Jan 29 2020 Honored to receive a Songam Distinguished Research Award from KAIST College of Engineering.
• Dev 10 2019 Three KIXLAB papers have been conditionally accepted to CHI 2020: “SolutionChat: Real-time Moderator Support for Chat-based Structured Discussion” (led by Sung-Chul), “Snapstream: Snapshot-based Interaction in Live Streaming for Visual Art”(led by Saelyne), and “Understanding Users’ Perception Towards Automated Personality Detection with Group-specific Behavioral Data” (led by Seoyoung).
• Nov 13 2019 My opening piece of ACM Interactions' UX Meets AI forum is published: Confronting the Tensions Where UX Meets AI.
• Nov 13 2019 Honored to receive ACM Recognition of Excellent Service for CSCW.
• Nov 5 2019 My talk at SDF 2019 was broadcast live on national TV. Talk video in English and Korean. I was also on an SBS news panel about the talk.
• Oct 17 2019 I'm looking for undergrad research interns for the winter.
• Sep 28 2019 The "Efficient Elicitation Approaches to Estimate Collective Crowd Answers" paper wins an Honorable Mention Award for CSCW 2019.
• Sep 4 2019 CSCW 2020 CFP is out.
• Sep 4 2019 I wrote a commentary for HBR Korea about human-AI interaction: 개인과 시스템, 윈-윈 관계를 찾아서, in response to "Learning to Work with Intelligent Machines".
• Sep 3 2019 RecipeScape is featured on KAIST Breakthroughs, a Biannual Engineering Research Webzine.
• Aug 7 2019 ComeTogether (upcoming CSCW 2019 paper) is featured on ETNews (Korean): 의사결정 돕는 플랫폼 개발…“오늘 뭐 먹지?” 고민 해결.
• July 30 2019 Two papers accepted to CSCW 2019: "Design for Collaborative Information-Seeking" and "Efficient Elicitation Approaches to Estimate Collective Crowd Answers".
• July 6 2019 I'm an editor of the new "UX Meets AI" forum in the ACM Interactions Magazine. Let me know if you have exciting ideas for pieces about the UX of AI for HCI/UI/UX researchers and practitioners.
• May 16 2019 Honored to serve as a papers co-chair for CSCW 2020. Many important changes to the process to be announced!
• Apr 9 2019 I'm looking for undergrad research interns for the summer.
• Feb 25, 2019 Project website for Minsuk's CHI 2019 paper on Voice UI for Video UI is live now.
• Feb 18, 2019 Honored to receive an Excellence in Teaching Award, as part of the 48th anniversary of the founding of KAIST. SoC website coverage.
• Feb 9, 2019 Two CHI 2019 LBW submissions are accepted. "Crowdsourcing Perspectives on Public Policy from Stakeholders" and "SolveDeep: A System for Supporting Subgoal Learning in Online Math Problem Solving".
• Feb 4, 2019 Our CSCW Asia Winter School proposal is accepted and will be supported by the SIGCHI Specialized Conferences Development Fund. Dec 13 & 14 in Japan. Co-organizers: Naomi Yamashita, Hao-Chuan Wang, Hideaki Kuzuoka, & Gary Hsieh.
• Feb 4, 2019 Asian CHI Symposium: Emerging HCI Research Collection is accepted to CHI 2019.
• Jan 8 2019 Minsuk's Adobe internship paper "How to Design Voice Based Navigation for How-To Videos" is accepted to CHI 2019.
• Jan 8 2019 Jean's paper "Popup: Reconstructing 3D Video Using Particle Filtering to Aggregate Crowd Responses" is accepted to IUI 2019.
• Oct 22 2018 I'm looking for undergrad research interns for the winter.
• Oct 9 2018 Recent & upcoming service roles: Best paper committee @ CHI 2018 & CSCW 2018, Doctoral consortium chair @ HCI Korea 2019, PC member @ CHI 2019 & C&C 2019, Publicity chair @ ISS 2019, Social media chair @ CHI 2020
• Sep 18 2018 My interview with KAIST Podcast on RecipeScape is live now.
• Aug 8 2018 Our paper "Personalized Motivation-supportive Messages for Increasing Participation in Crowd-civic Systems" is accepted to CSCW 2018.
• Aug 4 2018 Our paper "FourEyes: Leveraging Tool Diversity as a Means to Improve Aggregate Accuracy in Crowdsourcing" with collaborators at Michigan is accepted to ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS).
• Aug 3 2018 "DynamicSlide: Reference-based Interaction Techniques for Slide-based Lecture Videos" is accepted to UIST 2018's poster track as well as MAHCI 2018 Workshop @ ACM Multimedia.
• Jun 24 2018 Our paper "Facilitating Document Reading by Linking Text and Tables" with collaborators at Stanford is conditionally accepted to UIST 2018.
• Apr 23 2018 KIXLAB at CHI 2018: 7 full papers and 3 late-breaking-work posters. Eight members of KIXLAB are attending.
• Apr 22 2018 I'm looking for undergrad research interns for the summer.
• Apr 9 2018 RecipeScape is featured by ET News (전자신문).
• Mar 8 2018 Tool Diversity paper wins a Best Student Honorable Mention Award at IUI 2018!
• Feb 17 2018 Three late breaking work papers to CHI 2018 have been accepted: civic engagement, data-driven personality detection, and learnersourcing.
• Feb 13 2018 I'm co-organizing the annual HCI@KAIST Workshop, with a series of tutorials and posters.
• Feb 9 2018 ConceptScape paper wins an Honourable Mention Award for CHI 2018!
• Dec 12 2017 7 papers to CHI 2018 and 1 paper to IUI 2018 have been conditionally accepted!
• Nov 3 2017 I'm looking for undergrad research interns for the winter.
• Nov 3 2017 Giving an intro to HCI seminar to the public as part of Open KAIST.
• Oct 19 2017 The KAIST Herald featured our Rally system, a data-driven petition platform.
• Aug 8 2017 Korero: Facilitating Complex Referencing of Visual Materials in Asynchronous Discussion Interface gets conditionally accepted to CSCW 2018.
• Aug 8 2017 Korean media ET News (전자신문) had coverage on SCAN, our intelligent smartphone notification management service for supporting social interaction.
• Jun 19 2017 Started off the summer with 10 wonderful undergrad interns!
• May 16 2017 The KAIST Times featured me in an interview article.
• May 1 2017 Korean media ET News (전자신문) featured Jihee and me in an articled on interdisciplinary research.
• Apr 26 2017 I'm looking for undergrad research interns for the summer semester.
• Apr 26 2017 Giving a talk about Introduction to HCI at the freshmen seminar at KAIST
• Feb 16 2017 I'm looking for undergrad research interns for the spring semester.
• Feb 14 2017 Three LBW for CHI 2017, one WIP for Learning at Scale 2017, one workshop paper for the WWW 2017 SNOW Workshop, and a full paper for PacificVis 2017 have been accepted.
• Jan 10 2017 SungChul's position paper on Micro-NGO is accepted to the Crowdsourcing Law and Policy Workshop at CSCW 2017.
• Dec 18 2016 I'll serve on the UIST 2017 PC.
• Nov 1 2016 Workshop proposal accepted to CSCW 2017: "Crowdsourcing Law and Policy: A Design-Thinking Approach to Crowd-Civic Systems".
• Nov 1 2016 SCAN paper available, coming up at CSCW 2017. It's a mobile app that detects social context in a group and intelligently manages your notifications.
• Oct 31 2016 Gave a guest lecture on "Building Usable Software via Teamwork" in the CS Projects class at KAIST.
• Oct 4 2016 Gave a keynote at the LG UX Conference on "Interaction at Scale"
• Sep 29 2016 Presented our recipe mining project at Brown Institute Media Innovation Showcase. Stanford Daily coverage.
• Sep 16 2016 Proud to introduce my research group!
  KIXLAB (KAIST Interaction Lab)
• Sep 1 2016 Joined the KAIST ARRC (Augmented Reality Research Center) as affiliated faculty
• Sep 7 2016 Paper accepted to CSCW 2017: “Don’t Bother Me. I’m Socializing.”: A Breakpoint-Based Smartphone Notification System
• Sep 1 2016 Taught my first class as faculty: CS492:Crowdsourcing
• Jul 1 2016 First day as faculty in SoC at KAIST! Kicking off with one Ph.D. student and five summer undergrad interns.
• May 18 2016 Presenting my research on learnersourcing in the AI Seminar at UW CSE.
• May 17 2016 Presenting at the #mediaX2016 Conference at Stanford: "Multimedia for personal narratives: Working with the Doug Engelbart archives"
• Apr 29 2016 I'm looking for research interns to work with me over the summer at KAIST.
• Apr 26 2016 AXIS paper wins an honorable mention award at Learning at Scale 2016
• Mar 21-23 2016 Presented Organic Crowdsourcing Systems at AAAI 2016 Spring Symposium: Intelligent systems for supporting distributed human teamwork.
• Feb 29-Mar 2 2016 At CSCW 2016. Nam Wook Kim presented our paper BudgetMap: Engaging Taxpayers in the Issue-Driven Classification of a Government Budget
• Feb 9 2016 Our CHI 2016 note on revising learners' misconception wins an honorable mention award.
• Jan 28 2016 Talk on video interaction analysis in the Stanford Lytics seminar course (EDUC 407)
• Jan 27 2016 Talk on organic crowdsourcing systems in the Stanford Social Algorithms Lab
• Jan 15-17 2016 Organized the Brown Institute Base Camp as head facilitator
• Dec 18 2015 I'll serve on the CSCW 2017 PC, in the new Systems subcommittee
• Dec 14 2015 Conditionally accepted to CHI 2016: our note on revising learners' misconception
• Dec 14 2015 Conditionally accepted to Learning at Scale 2016: our paper, "AXIS: Generating Explanations at Scale with Learnersourcing and Machine Learning"
• Dec 10 2015 Learning at Scale 2016 PC Meeting in Mountain View, CA.
• Dec 1 2015 Talk on learnersourcing at CMU Crowdsourcing Seminar
• Nov 9-11 2015 UIST 2015, posters co-chair
• Oct 27 2015 Talk on learnersourcing at Berkeley Institute of Design
• Oct 1 2015 BudgetMap: Engaging Taxpayers in the Issue-Driven Classification of a Government Budget is accepted to CSCW 2016.
• Sep 11-12 2015 Brown Institute All-Hands Meeting at Columbia University
• Sep 2 2015 Talk on learnersourcing at Udemy
• Aug 18 2015 First day as visiting assistant professor at Stanford
• Aug 7 2015 Last day at MIT. Final thesis: Learnersourcing: Improving Learning with Collective Learner Activity
• Jul 30 2015 Thesis defense (slides)
• Jul 25 2015 Serving on the Program Committee of WWW 2016 and Learning at Scale 2016
• Jun 9 2015 Presenting a poster on learnersourcing at CAP Annual Meeting in CSAIL.
• Apr 24 2015 Presenting at Post-CHI Workshop @ KAIST
• Apr 20 2015 CHI 2015 in Seoul, Korea:
  1) [paper] RIMES: Embedding Interactive Multimedia Exercises in Lecture Videos,
  2) [paper] Mudslide: A Spatially Anchored Census of Student Confusion for Online Lecture Videos,
  3) [paper] Factful: Engaging Taxpayers in the Public Discussion of a Government Budget,
  4) [paper] Apparition: Crowdsourced User Interfaces That Come To Life As You Sketch Them,
  5) [Workshop] BudgetWiser: Gamification Design Opportunities in the Government Budget Domain,
  6) [WIP] BudgetMap: Issue-Driven Navigation for a Government Budget.
• Mar 15 2015 CSCW 2015: Crowdy paper. Organizing & presenting at the Connecting Collaborative & Crowd Work with Online Education Workshop.
• Mar 1 2015 Three honorable mention awards at CHI 2015.
• Feb 16 2015 Crowdy and ToolScape on the media: Fast Company Design, BostInno, MIT News Office, CBC Radio.
• Jan 26 2015 Three Learning at Scale 2015 posters were accepted.
• Jan 7 2015 Teaching MIT's User Interface Design course in the spring semester with 200 students.
• Jan 7 2015 Program Committee for CHI 2015 Works-in-Progress.
• Dec 1 2014 Program Committee for Learning at Scale 2015. Attended the PC meeting in Mountain View, CA.
• Oct 31-Nov 4 2014 HCOMP 2014: co-organized CrowdCamp, attended the WorkLearn workshop, and Anant presented our attendee-sourcing paper.
• Oct 27 2014 Gave a talk in the Image and Video Computing group seminars at Boston University.
• Oct 23 2014 I'm co-organizing a workshop "Connecting Collaborative & Crowd Work with Online Education" at CSCW 2015.
• Oct 13 2014 I'll serve as the Posters Co-Chair for UIST 2015.
• Oct 6-8 2014 Presented two papers at UIST 2014 in Honolulu, HI: LectureScape & data-driven lecture video interaction and content-aware kinetic scrolling
• Sep 26 2014 Gave a talk about LectureScape at the HarvardX research colloquium.
• Aug 27 2014 Our "Learnersourcing Subgoal Labels for How-to Videos" paper is accepted to CSCW 2015. Check out Crowdy live!
• Aug 11 2014 LectureScape on the media: Forbes, eCampusNews, BostInno, MIT News Office
• Jun 24 2014 Two UIST 2014 papers on data-driven lecture video interface and content-aware kinetic scrolling got accepted.
• Jun 16 2014 Our HCOMP 2014 paper on attendeesourcing with Confer got accepted.
• May 23 2014 Interested in learning web programming? Try Crowdy, our collaborative video learning interface.
• May-Aug 2014 Summer internship at Microsoft Research. Will help teachers create more interactive lessons using Powerpoint with Office Mix.
• May 21 2014 Thesis proposed.
• Apr 30 2014 Sarah Weir won the 2nd place in the Student Research Competition at CHI 2014, with our project on learnersourcing subgoal labels for how-to videos.
• Apr 27-May 1 2014 Attended CHI 2014 in Toronto, Canada. Presented our paper "Crowdsourcing Step-by-Step Information Extraction to Enhance Existing How-to Videos" and a workshop paper "Leveraging Video Interaction Data and Content Analysis to Improve Video Learning" in the workshop on learning innovation at scale.
• Mar 4-5 2014 Presented "Understanding In-Video Dropouts and Interaction Peaks in Online Lecture Videos" at Learning at Scale 2014 in Atlanta, GA.
• Feb 26 2014 ToolScape website and video are live.
• Feb 10 2014 Two honorable mention awards for CHI 2014 papers.
• Jan 29 2014 A paper accepted to CHI 2014 Learning Innovation at Scale workshop.
• Jan 13-15 2014 Two posters presented at Quanta-MIT workshop in Taipei, Taiwan.
• Dec 2013 Gave six talks in Korea about learnersourcing (SNU, KAIST, Samsung, etc.).
• Dec 20 2013 Two papers accepted to Learning at Scale 2014.
• Dec 8 2013 Two papers accepted to CHI 2014.
• Nov 7 2013 Our paper on community clustering won a notable paper award at HCOMP 2013, in Palm Springs, CA.
• Nov 6 and 9 2013 I'm co-organizing CrowdCamp @ HCOMP 2013, in Palm Springs, CA.
• Oct 8 - Oct 11 2013 UIST 2013 in St. Andrews, UK, presenting Cobi: A Community-Informed Conference Scheduling Tool.
• Aug 23 2013 Mentored three student groups in 6.mitx, working on edX student activity visualization, edX grade visualization, and video annotation tool. (MIT News article)
• Jul 1 2013 Our paper Cobi: A Community-Informed Conference Scheduling Tool accepted to UIST 2013.
• Jun 28 - Jul 1 2013 Samsung Fellowship academic camp in Yosemite, CA. Presenting a poster.
• Jun 27 2013 SoCS Doctoral Symposium, Seattle, WA. | Poster (PDF).
• May 28 - Aug 30 2013 Summer internship in the learning sciences team at edX.
• May 2 2013 2nd place in Student Research Competition at CHI 2013 | Slides (PDF).
• Apr 27 - May 2 2013 CHI 2013 in Paris, France. Presenting 2 works-in-progress, 1 student research competition, 1 interactivity.
• Apr 23 2013 Introducing myCHI, a webapp for CHI attendees with paper bookmarking, social recommendations, and personalized schedule.
• Apr 10 2013 ToolScape talk in the graphics group in CSAIL.
• Mar 7 2013 ToolScape talk at edX.
• Feb 23 - Feb 27 2013 CSCW 2013 in San Antonio, Texas. Particpated in CrowdCamp.