Donghoon Shin

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Ph.D. candidate, Human Centered Design and Engineering
M.S., Human Centered Design and Engineering
Honors: Korean Government Scholar for Overseas Studies, ACM AI Future Leader of AI

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering
B.A., Information Science
Honors: Korean Presidential Science Scholar, Cum Laude

Microsoft Research, New York, NY
Research Intern

Google Research, Seattle, WA
Student Researcher

Adobe Research, San Jose, CA
Research Intern

Naver AI Lab, Seongnam, Korea
Research Intern

elecle, Seoul, Korea
Software Engineer

ReFinE: Streamlining UI Mockup Iteration with Research Findings
Donghoon Shin, Gloria Guo, Jaewook Lee, Lucy Lu Wang, Gary Hsieh
DIS 2026

Interrogating Design Homogenization in Web Vibe Coding
Donghoon Shin, Alice Gao, Rock Yuren Pang, Jaewook Lee, Katharina Reinecke, Emily Tseng
arXiv preprint, 2026

PaperTok: Exploring the Use of Generative AI for Creating Short-form Videos for Research Communication
Meziah Ruby Cristobal*, Hyeonjeong Byeon*, Alex Chen*, Ruoxi Shang*, Donghoon Shin*, Ruican Zhong*, Tony Zhou*, Gary Hsieh (* co-first authorship)
CHI 2026

Personality Editing for Language Models through Adjusting Self-Referential Queries
Seojin Hwang, Yumin Kim, ByeongJeong Kim, Donghoon Shin, Hwanhee Lee
EACL 2026

PosterMate: Audience-driven Collaborative Persona Agents for Poster Design
Donghoon Shin, Daniel Lee, Gary Hsieh, Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan
UIST 2025

ImaginateAR: AI-Assisted In-Situ Authoring in Augmented Reality
Jaewook Lee, Filippo Aleotti, Diego Mazala, Guillermo Garcia-Hernando, Sara Vicente, Oliver James Johnston, Isabel Kraus-Liang, Jakub Powierza, Donghoon Shin, Jon E. Froehlich, Gabriel Brostow, Jessica Van Brummelen
UIST 2025

ThematicPlane: Bridging Tacit User Intent and Latent Spaces for Image Generation
Daniel Lee, Nikhil Sharma, Donghoon Shin, DaEun Choi, Harsh Sharma, Jeonghwan Kim, Heng Ji
UIST 2025 Adjunct (Poster)

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
EMNLP 2025 Workshop (Exploring Active and Passive LLM Personalization)

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 Results)

Multi-Agent Design System
Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan, Donghoon Shin, Doga Dogan
U.S. patent filed (19/662,166)

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

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

HCI+d Lab, Seoul National University
Undergraduate Research Intern