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

🎤 Dr. Jo gave a talk at the AI/Computing Frontier School at SNU!

Dr. Jo gave a talk at the AI/Computing Frontier School at Seoul National University.

Dec 2025

📋 Dr. Jo serves as an Associate Chair at ACM CHI 2026!

Dr. Jo served as an Associate Chair for the Understanding People — Qualitative Methods Subcommittee at CHI 2026.

Sep 2025