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.
🔬 Research
Drawing on social psychological theory, I design and empirically study AI systems that intervene in group processes. I advance Group-Centered AI, treating user experience as collective and emergent rather than a sum of individual interactions — building AI that does not merely optimize group outcomes, but helps people see how those outcomes emerge.
| 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 films — Tarantino, Nolan, Villeneuve; Sicario, The Matrix, Everything Everywhere All at Once — and read on cross-cultural psychology.
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