I am Taewook [teug] Kim, a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Communication at Northwestern University. I work with Matt Kay.

I enjoy building and evaluating AI-powered interactive systems to facilitate imbuing societal values such as love and sincerity in language content.

News

Sep 2024 πŸ₯³ Gen AI for Mental Health is conditionally accepted to CSCW’25.
Aug 2024 πŸ₯³ I completed all three qualification exams (CS/Comm1/Comm2).
Jun 2024 πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’» I joined Accenture Labs as a visiting researcher.
Apr 2024 πŸ… My personalization paper got the Honorable Mention Award!
Mar 2024 πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’» I joined Midjourney as a visiting researcher.
Jan 2024 πŸ₯³ My personalization paper is conditionally accepted to CHI’24.

Selected Publications

πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸŽ¨ 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
πŸ… ​ 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 | β–ΆοΈŽ Project Website

πŸ‘©πŸ»β€β€οΈβ€πŸ’‹β€πŸ‘¨πŸ» 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 | β–ΆοΈŽ Project Website

Miscellaneous

I enjoy pulling, pushing, and, lifting at the gym πŸ‹πŸ».