Health & Human-Computer
Interaction Lab
Led by Dr. Eunkyung Jo
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH
We focus on improving the design and real-world use of collaborative health technology by understanding stakeholder needs, developing novel systems, and evaluating these systems in real-world settings.
Latest News
✈️ Dr. Jo is attending CHI 2026!
Dr. Jo will give a talk at the Dissertation Awards session and serve as a session chair for Negotiating Health, Identity, and Belief. Come say hi!
Apr 2026
💰 H2CI Lab receives the NRF Early Career Research Grant!
First external funding! Our proposal on "Development and empirical validation of Multimodal AI Agents for Personalized Nonverbal Empathic Interactions" have been selected for the Early-Career Research Grant by the National Research Foundation (2026-2031).
Mar 2026
🏆 2026 ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award
Dr. Jo has been recognized with the ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award.
Feb 2026
👋 New member joins the lab!
Nara has joined the lab as an undergrad intern.
Feb 2026
👋 Sangeun, Jimin, and Jumi have joined the lab as the first members of the H2CI Lab!
We are excited to welcome our first members — Sangeun, Jimin, and Jumi!
Feb 2026
Research Areas
Multimodal Agents for Empathic Communication
Developing multimodal agents to convey care and empathy.
Social Isolation Intervention
Exploring how technology could better support the health and wellbeing of socially isolated individuals.
Mindful and Collaborative Health Monitoring
Designing health monitoring tools to help people interact with technology in a more mindful and meaningful way.
Recent Publications
Understanding Public Agencies' Expectations and Realities of AI-Driven Chatbots for Public Health Monitoring
Eunkyung Jo, Young-Ho Kim, Sang-Houn Ok, Daniel A. Epstein
CHI 2025
Exploring Patient-Generated Annotations to Digital Clinical Symptom Measures for Patient-Centered Communication
Eunkyung Jo, Rachael Zehrung, Katherine E. Genuario, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Daniel A. Epstein
PACM Human-Computer Interaction 8 (CSCW2), 2024
Understanding the Impact of Long-Term Memory on Self-Disclosure with Large Language Model-Driven Chatbots for Public Health Intervention
Eunkyung Jo, Yuin Jeong, SoHyun Park, Daniel A. Epstein, Young-Ho Kim
CHI 2024
Exploring User Perspectives of and Ethical Experiences With Teletherapy Apps: Qualitative Analysis of User Reviews
Eunkyung Jo, Whitney-Jocelyn Kouaho, Stephen M. Schueller, Daniel A. Epstein
JMIR Mental Health, Vol 10, 2023
Understanding the Benefits and Challenges of Deploying Conversational AI Leveraging Large Language Models for Public Health Intervention
Eunkyung Jo, Daniel A. Epstein, Hyunhoon Jung, Young-Ho Kim
CHI 2023