I am Taewook [teug] Kim, a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Communication at Northwestern University. I work with Matt Kay.
My research interests span the intersection between human-computer interaction (HCI) and AI. I enjoy building and evaluating AI-powered interactive systems. Recently, I have been interested in designing human-AI interaction paradigms that can preserve and enhance human agency.
I will be working with Matt Hong at Toyota Research Institute this summer.
News
| Jun 2025 | 🥳 My TranSlider project is conditionally accepted to CSCW’25. |
| Jun 2025 | 👨🏻💻 I joined Toyota Research Institute as a Research Intern. |
| Apr 2025 | 🤞 Made a major revision submission to CSCW’25. |
| Apr 2025 | 🤞 Submitted a manuscript to UIST’25. |
| Jan 2025 | 🥳 Received a summer internship offer from TRI! |
| Oct 2024 | 🤞 Submitted a manuscript to CSCW’25. |
| Sep 2024 | 🥳 Gen AI for Mental Health is conditionally accepted to CSCW’25. |
| Aug 2024 | 🥳 I completed all three qualification exams (CS/Comm1/Comm2). |
| Jun 2024 | 👨🏻💻 I joined Accenture Labs as a visiting researcher. |
| Apr 2024 | 🏅 My personalization paper got the Honorable Mention Award! |
| Mar 2024 | 👨🏻💻 I joined Midjourney as a visiting researcher. |
| Jan 2024 | 🥳 My personalization paper is conditionally accepted to CHI’24. |
Selected Publications
🖋 Scaffolding Recursive Divergence and Convergence in Story Ideation
Taewook Kim, Matthew Kay, Yuqian Sun, Melissa Roemmele, Max Kreminski, John Chung
arXiv. | arXiv | BibTeX
📖 Steering AI-Driven Personalization of Scientific Text for General Audiences
Taewook Kim, Dhruv Agarwal, Jordan Ackerman, Manaswi Saha
CSCW 2025. | arXiv | ACM DL | BibTeX
👨🏻🎨 Authors’ Values and Attitudes Towards AI-bridged Scalable Personalization of Creative Language Arts
Taewook Kim, Hyomin Han, Eytan Adar, Matthew Kay, John Chung
CHI 2024. | arXiv | ACM DL | BibTeX
🏅 Best paper honorable mention (top 5%)
🤬 Opportunities in Mental Health Support for Informal Dementia Caregivers Suffering from Verbal Agitation
Taewook Kim, Hyeok Kim, Angela Roberts, Maia Jacobs, Matthew Kay
CSCW 2024. | arXiv | ACM DL | BibTeX | ▶︎ Project Website
😘 Love in Lyrics: An Exploration of Supporting Textual Manifestation of Affection in Social Messaging
Taewook Kim, Jungsoo Lee, Zhenhui Peng, and Xiaojuan Ma
CSCW 2019. | ACM DL | BibTeX | ▶︎ Project Website
Miscellaneous
I enjoy pulling, pushing, and, lifting at the gym 🏋🏻.