about me
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I’m an HCI researcher and an incoming PhD student in Industrial Design at KAIST, exploring physical–digital interaction in Make Lab under Prof. Andrea Bianchi.
My research focuses on creativity support: I design and build interactive systems that extend people's creative capacities.
Previously, I earned an MSc in Industrial Design at KAIST, and a B.S. in Culture & Design Management at Yonsei University.
Publications
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2026
AtoMix: Fostering Structured Visual Ideation for Remote Groups through Atomic Composition and Cross-Pollination
C&C ’26: Creativity and Cognition
6-3-5 brainwriting is a structured group ideation method that produces many ideas quickly, but current generative tools struggle to support modular, visual, and collaborative idea development. AtoMix addresses this by enabling atomic prompting, reusable visual elements, and collaborative composition, resulting in more effective and fine-grained visual ideation compared to existing approaches.
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2024
Investigating Work Companion Robot Interactions to Enhance Work-from-Home Productivity and Experience
Archives of Design Research — AoDR Vol. 37, No. 4
This study examines how a tabletop robot companion influences knowledge-worker productivity in work-from-home contexts. By evaluating Roby in real-world settings, the paper identifies factors that can inform future intelligent robot companions for remote work.
Updates
- Jul 2026 Presenting my paper at C&C 2026 in London
- Jun 2026 Flying to Stockholm for a Workshop at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Jun 2026 Successfully defended my Masters thesis!
- Jan 2026 Working as an Assistant to SC for CHI 2026
- Oct–Nov 2025 Research visit to KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
- Sep 2025 Attending UIST 2025, Busan
- Apr 2025 Going to CHI 2025, Yokohama
- Oct 2024 Attending my first HCI conference, UIST 2024 in Pittsburgh
- Aug 2024 Summer school at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
- 2019–2020 Exchange year in Durham, UK
- ~2017 Korea → China → Canada → Korea