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Human-Data Interaction for Inclusive Data Experiences in the AI Era 

Bongshin Lee

| Professor at Yonsei University

Data has become an essential part of our lives, offering numerous opportunities to shape our work, lifestyles, and interactions with the world. The rapid advancement of AI technologies, including large language models and multimodal AI models, has the potential to transform the way people understand and use data to improve their lives. However, it can also widen the digital divide, marginalizing those who lack the abilities to effectively utilize data and AI technologies. In this talk, I will briefly share how my research has evolved from human-computer interaction and data visualization to inclusive human-data interaction. I will also discuss research avenues to enrich data experiences for a wider audience, making data and data visualization accessible and beneficial to everyone. 

Bongshin Lee After 17 years working at Microsoft Research, she joined Yonsei University as a Professor in March 2024. She conducts research on data visualization, human-computer interaction, human-AI Interaction, and human-data interaction, with an overarching goal to empower everyone to achieve their goals by leveraging data, visualization, and technological advancements. Lee is the Chair of the IEEE VGTC (Visualization and Graphics Technical Community) and a member of the ACM ISS Steering Committee, and serves as the Papers Co-Chair for ACM CHI 2025. She was inducted into the IEEE Visualization Academy in 2020. Lee received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland at College Park. 

Changes in User Experience and New Demands on Corporate UX Practices in the Age of Technological Innovation 

Deokyong Kang 

| Executive Director at Hankook Research

In this seminar, we will share insights gained from over 20 years of consulting in the user experience field with leading domestic and international companies. We will explore how the work of securing corporate insights has evolved in response to IT innovations. The discussion will focus on new UX strategies adapted to the changing times and the evolving roles of UX designers.

This keynote presentation aims to provide direction for future user experience strategies and foster a discussion on the skills and competencies UX designers need to prepare for.

Deokyong Kang is a UX researcher and Executive Director at Hankook Research, the largest research firm in South Korea, where he leads the Global Research Division and the UX Innovation Lab. With nearly 20 years of consulting experience, he has specialized in User research and Experience planning for leading IT companies both domestically and internationally. His team 'Innovation Lab' is the largest UX research organization in South Korea conducting over 100 UX research projects annually. 

New Creation Interactions with AI

John Joon Young Chung

| Research Scientist at Midjourney

Advancing AI technologies, such as large language models and diffusion-based text-to-image models, have enabled new creation experiences as AI can generate a part of the artifacts. With these models, natural language prompts have become a baseline interaction for AI-based generative creations. While they are useful for exploring the space of generative creations, only using natural language prompts would not be enough for user expressiveness and pushing the boundary of creation experiences. This talk provides an alternative perspective that how we interact with physical creative materials can be an inspiration for novel AI-powered creative experiences. With that perspective, I introduce a series of interactions I investigated: 1) story generation through sketching, 2) using prompts like paint medium in image generation, 3) story world element generation in semantic magnet space, and 4) story unfolding through toy-playing.

John Joon Young Chung is a research scientist at Midjourney. He completed his Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his Electrical Engineering B.S. at Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea. He interned at Microsoft Research, Naver AI Lab, and Adobe Research during his Ph.D. years, and was a full-time researcher at Kixlab KAIST before he started his Ph.D. John’s main research interests are AI-powered creativity support tools for art-making and storytelling, while his interests also span education technologies, natural language processing, and crowdsourcing. He is a recipient of paper awards from ACM CHI and CSCW.