Donghoon Shin PDF

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Ph.D., Human Centered Design and Engineering
M.S., Human Centered Design and Engineering (concurrent with Ph.D.)
Advisor: Gary Hsieh & Lucy Lu Wang

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering
B.A., Information Science
Graduated cum laude

Microsoft Research, New York, NY
Research Intern
Mentor: Emily Tseng

Google Research, Seattle, WA
Student Researcher
Mentor: Divy Thakkar, Anoop Sinha

Adobe Research, San Jose, CA
Research Intern
Mentor: Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan

Naver AI Lab, Seongnam, Korea
Research Intern
Mentor: Young-Ho Kim

Elecle, Seoul, Korea
iOS developer

What About My Design Context?: Exploring the Use of Generative AI to Support Customization of Translational Research Artifacts
Donghoon Shin, Alex Chen, Gary Hsieh, Lucy Lu Wang
DIS 2025.

PlanFitting: Personalized Exercise Planning with Large Language Model-driven Conversational Agent
Donghoon Shin, Gary Hsieh, Young-Ho Kim
CUI 2025.

Personality Editing for Language Models through Relevant Knowledge Editing
Seojin Hwang, Yumin Kim, ByeongJeong Kim, Donghoon Shin, Hwanhee Lee
arXiv preprint, 2025.

Genomic Data Processing with GenomeFlow
Junseok Park, Eduardo A. Maury, Changhoon Oh, Donghoon Shin, Danielle Denisko, Eunjung Alice Lee
arXiv preprint, 2025.

From Paper to Card: Transforming Design Implications with Generative AI
Donghoon Shin, Lucy Lu Wang, Gary Hsieh
CHI 2024.

AI-Assisted Causal Pathway Diagram for Human-Centered Design
Ruican Zhong*, Donghoon Shin*, Rosemary Meza, Predrag Klasnja, Lucas Colusso, Gary Hsieh (* co-first authorship)
CHI 2024.

DiaryMate: Understanding User Perceptions and Experience in Human-AI Collaboration for Personal Journaling
Taewan Kim, Donghoon Shin, Young-Ho Kim, Hwajung Hong
CHI 2024.

IntroBot: Exploring the Use of Chatbot-assisted Familiarization in Online Collaborative Groups
Donghoon Shin, Soomin Kim, Ruoxi Shang, Joonhwan Lee, Gary Hsieh
CHI 2023.

How Older Adults Use Online Videos for Learning
Seoyoung Kim, Donghoon Shin, Jeongyeon Kim, Soonwoo Kwon, Juho Kim
CHI 2023.

DiaryMate: Exploring the Roles of Large Language Models in Facilitating AI-mediated Journaling
Taewan Kim, Donghoon Shin, Young-Ho Kim, Hwajung Hong
CHI 2023 Workshop. (Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants)

Evaluating the Impact of Human Explanation Strategies on Human-AI Visual Decision-Making
Katelyn Morrison, Donghoon Shin, Kenneth Holstein, Adam Perer
CSCW 2023.

Exploring the Effects of AI-assisted Emotional Support Processes in Online Mental Health Community
Donghoon Shin, Subeen Park, Esther Hehsun Kim, Soomin Kim, Jinwook Seo, Hwajung Hong
CHI 2022 Extended Abstracts. (Late-breaking work)

Leveraging AI to Assist Emotional Supports in Online Mental Health Community
Donghoon Shin, Subeen Park, Esther Hehsun Kim, Soomin Kim, Jinwook Seo, Hwajung Hong
CHI 2022 Workshop. (Future of Emotion in HCI)

AmslerTouch: Self-testing Amsler Grid Application for Supporting a Quantitative Report of AMD Symptoms
Donghoon Shin
HCIK 2022.

Characterizing Human Explanation Strategies to Inform the Design of Explainable AI for Building Damage Assessment
Donghoon Shin, Sachin Grover, Kenneth Holstein, Adam Perer
NeurIPS 2021 Workshop. (AI for HADR)

Design Guidelines of Computer-based Intervention for Computer Vision Syndrome: Focus Group Study and In-the-wild Deployment
Youjin Hwang, Donghoon Shin, Jinsu Eun, Bongwon Suh, Joonhwan Lee
Journal of Medical Internet Research 23(3), 2021.

Trkic G00gle: Why and How Users Game Translation Algorithms
Soomin Kim, Changhoon Oh, Won Ik Cho, Donghoon Shin, Bongwon Suh, Joonhwan Lee
CSCW 2021.

BlahBlahBot: Facilitating Conversation between Strangers using a Chatbot with ML-infused Personalized Topic Suggestion
Donghoon Shin, Sangwon Yoon, Soomin Kim, Joonhwan Lee
CHI 2021 Extended Abstracts. (Late-breaking work)

TalkingBoogie: Collaborative Mobile AAC System for Non-verbal Children with Developmental Disabilities and Their Caregivers
Donghoon Shin, Jaeyoon Song, Seokwoo Song, Jisoo Park, Joonhwan Lee, Soojin Jun
CHI 2020.
Honorable Mention Award

Applying the Persona of User’s Family Member and the Doctor to the Conversational Agents for Healthcare
Youjin Hwang, Donghoon Shin, Sion Baek, Bongwon Suh, Joonhwan Lee
CHI 2020 Workshop. (CAs for Health and Wellbeing)

Linguistic Features to Consider When Applying Persona of the Real Persona to the Text-based Agent
Youjin Hwang, Seokwoo Song, Donghoon Shin, Joonhwan Lee
MobileHCI 2020 Extended Abstracts. (Late-breaking result)

Method and Apparatus for Mimicking Conversational Style
Youjin Hwang, Joonhwan Lee, Donghoon Shin
Republic of Korea Patent (10-2021-0032858)

Graduate School Conference Presentation Award, University of Washington
Conference presentation award for presenting a paper at CHI

Government Scholarship for Overseas Study, Republic of Korea
Merit-based scholarship for graduate studies funded by the Korean government (~ 50 recipients selected annually)

Graduate School Fellowship, University of Washington
Selected by the department

Gary Marsden Travel Award, ACM SIGCHI
Travel grant for attending CHI 2022

Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews, ACM CHI 2022
Recognition for the paper review

Honorable Mention Award, ACM CHI 2020
Selected among the top 5% of paper submissions

Presidential Science Scholarship, Republic of Korea
Merit-based scholarship for undergraduate studies funded by the Korean government (~ 150 recipients selected annually)

Conference and Travel Scholarship, Google
Travel grant for attending CHI 2020 (travel canceled due to COVID-19)

Best Undergraduate Research Award, Seoul National University
Selected 1st among all the undergraduate research projects in 2019

Undergraduate Research Grant, Seoul National University
~$10,000 research grant for two undergraduate research projects

Merit-based Scholarship, Seoul National University
Undergraduate merit-based scholarship

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Washington
Interactive Systems Design And Technology (HCDE 310)
UX Prototyping Techniques (HCDE 351)
Web Technologies (HCDE 438)
Information Visualization (HCDE 511)
Designing for Behavior Change (HCDE 538)

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Seoul National University
Basic Computing (L0444.000400)

CoALA Lab & Data Interaction Group, Carnegie Mellon University
Undergraduate Research Intern
Mentor: Kenneth Holstein & Adam Perer

HCI+d Lab, Seoul National University
Undergraduate Research Intern
Mentor: Joonhwan Lee