Hi, I am Soohwan 👋
📌 Seeking a research internship for Summer 2027 in human-centered AI and human-AI interaction — particularly on AI-mediated group dynamics, social influence, and multi-agent systems.
👋 About Me
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Expressive Computing Lab at the Department of Design, UNIST, working in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human-centered AI. (Ph.D. expected 2027)
Most AI research studies one user talking to one system. I study what happens when AI joins a group — how it shifts decisions, influence, and power among people who must decide together.
In one line: I design and study AI systems that make group influence visible, contestable, and fair.
🔬 Research Focus & Vision
My research investigates how AI-mediated systems reshape group dynamics and social influence beyond the individual level. Drawing on social psychological theory, I design and empirically study interactive AI systems that intervene in group processes to improve decision quality, inclusivity, and collective intelligence.
I advance the concept of Group-Centered AI, reframing user experience as collective and emergent rather than an aggregation of individual interactions. My goal is to build AI that does not merely optimize group outcomes, but helps people understand how those outcomes emerge — whose values are reflected, and how influence is exercised.
| Theme | What I study |
|---|---|
| AI Social Influence | How AI agents exert normative and informative influence — and when people comply, convert, or resist |
| Group-centered AI & GX | Frameworks extending Human-centered AI beyond the individual to Group Experience |
| Minority Support | LLM-powered counterargument and mediation that protect minority views in power-imbalanced groups |
| Reflective Interfaces | Visualizations surfacing value conflicts, participation gaps, and influence trajectories |
☕ Beyond Research
Outside the lab I run, watch a lot of films, and read across cross-cultural psychology.
- 🎬 Directors: Quentin Tarantino · Christopher Nolan · Denis Villeneuve
- 🍿 Favorites: Sicario · The Matrix · Everything Everywhere All at Once
- 📖 Reading: The Geography of Thought and other work on cross-cultural psychology
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