Associate Professor
Department of Industrial Design
N25 Room 305
hwajung at kaist dot ac dot kr
Want to meet?
Office hours: Upon request
Teaching
ID508 (UCD Methods)
ID221 (Information Design)
Ph.D. Students
Kwangyoung Lee
Hyunseung Lim
Master Students
ChoWon Kang
Suyeon Ahn
Current Interns
Inhwa Song
Seo-Kyoung Park
Gahyeon Bae
Alumni
Eunseo Oh (Intern at SBS 마부작침 data journalism Team)
Yubin Choi (MS course at KAIST Data Science Lab)
News and Events
Attended CHI 2023 and presented two fabulous work on autistic individual’s routine and romance and two workshop papers on AI-assisted journal writing and stress intervention for customer service (CS) workers
KAIST 등, 자폐스펙트럼장애 직장 적응 돕는 VR 개발 (2023.1.2 전자신문)
I study, design, and build systems for better human-data interaction in diverse settings such as healthcare, journalism, and culture. I am broadly interested in the social implications of data and artificial intelligence. Before joining KAIST in 2021, I worked as an assistant professor at Seoul National University (2018-2021) and UNIST (2015-2018). I received my Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech in 2015 and B.S. in Industrial Design from KAIST in 2009.
I manage DxD (data, interaction, design) lab where we explore design from, with, and by data to develop technologies that are more sensitive to human concerns and behaviors. We work to provide novel conceptual and computational tools and methodologies for designing human-centered AI experiences, especially for individuals with special needs.
Human-Centered AI, Human-Data Interaction, Data Humanism, Digital Healthcare, Personal Informatics, Autism, Mental Health