DaEun Choi

I am a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in the School of Computing at KAIST, working with Prof. Juho Kim at KIXLAB. I interned at Adobe Research in summer 2025 and at Autodesk Research in summer 2026.

My research interest is in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). I design interactions for generative AI systems that support human creativity by enabling the expression, reuse, and evolution of ideas across diverse creative processes.

Publications

  1. Maru: Information Architecture as a Shared Language for Generating Aligned and Persistent User Interfaces. Eunhye Kim, DaEun Choi, Bryan Min, Hyunjung Yi, Yue Jiang, Juho Kim. UIST 2026 (to appear).
  2. IdeaBlocks: Expressing and Reusing Divergent Intents for Graphic Design Exploration using Generative AI. DaEun Choi, Kihoon Son, Jaesang Yu, Hyunjoon Jung, Juho Kim. DIS 2026. Honorable Mention Award. Paper arXiv Website
  3. ClearFairy: Capturing Creative Workflows through Decision Structuring, In-Situ Questioning, and Rationale Inference. Kihoon Son, DaEun Choi, Tae Soo Kim, Young-Ho Kim, Sangdoo Yun, Juho Kim. CHI 2026. Paper arXiv Website
  4. Feed-O-Meter: Investigating AI-Generated Mentee Personas as Interactive Agents for Scaffolding Design Feedback Practice. Hyunseung Lim, Dasom Choi, DaEun Choi, Sooyohn Nam, Hwajung Hong. IJHCS. Paper arXiv
  5. A Context-Aware Onboarding Agent for Metaverse Powered by Large Language Models. Jihyeong Hong, Yokyung Lee, Dae Hyun Kim, DaEun Choi, Yeo-Jin Yoon, Gyu-cheol Lee, Zucheul Lee, Juho Kim. DIS 2024. Paper
  6. CreativeConnect: Supporting Reference Recombination for Graphic Design Ideation with Generative AI. DaEun Choi, Sumin Hong, Jeongeon Park, John Joon Young Chung, Juho Kim. CHI 2024. Paper arXiv Website
  7. GenQuery: Supporting Expressive Visual Search with Generative Models. Kihoon Son, DaEun Choi, Tae Soo Kim, Young-Ho Kim, Juho Kim. CHI 2024. Paper arXiv Website
  8. Demystifying Tacit Knowledge in Graphic Design: Characteristics, Instances, Approaches, and Guidelines. Kihoon Son, DaEun Choi, Tae Soo Kim, Juho Kim. CHI 2024. Honorable Mention Award. Paper arXiv Website
  9. Surch: Enabling Structural Search and Comparison for Surgical Videos. Jeongyeon Kim, DaEun Choi, Nicole Lee, Matthew Beane, Juho Kim. CHI 2023. Paper PDF Video
  10. Stylette: Styling the Web with Natural Language. Tae Soo Kim, DaEun Choi, Yoonseo Choi, Juho Kim. CHI 2022. Honorable Mention Award. Paper PDF Website Video
  11. Reflect, not Regret: Understanding Regretful Smartphone Use with App Feature-Level Analysis. Hyunsung Cho, DaEun Choi, Donghwi Kim, Wan Ju Kang, Eun Kyoung Choe, Sung-Ju Lee. CSCW 2021. Best Paper Award,Methods Recognition. Paper PDF Website Video

Preprints

  1. "When to Hand Off, When to Work Together": Expanding Human-Agent Co-Creative Collaboration through Concurrent Interaction. Kihoon Son, Hyewon Lee, DaEun Choi, Yoonsu Kim, Tae Soo Kim, Yoonjoo Lee, John Joon Young Chung, Hyunjoon Jung, Juho Kim. Arxiv. arXiv Website

Posters, Demos and Workshop Papers

  1. Tasteply: Externalizing Stable and Situational Preference as Manipulable Spatial Objects. DaEun Choi, Daniel Lee. UIST 2026 Posters (to appear).
  2. CORAL: Continually Learning Generative Interfaces from Collective User Interactions. Daniel Lee, DaEun Choi, Hyewon Lee, Haijun Xia. UIST 2026 Posters (to appear).
  3. Supporting Design Reasoning in AI-assisted Interface Prototyping for HCI Research. Eunhye Kim*, Minju Yoo*, Jenny Yang, DaEun Choi. CHI 2026 Posters. Paper PDF
  4. IdeaBlocks: Expressing and Reusing Exploratory Intents for Design Exploration with Generative AI. DaEun Choi, Kihoon Son, Jaesang Yu, Hyunjoon Jung, Juho Kim. UIST 2025 Demos. Paper
  5. ThematicPlane: Bridging Tacit User Intent and Latent Spaces for Image Generation. Daniel Lee, Nikhil Sharma, Donghoon Shin, DaEun Choi, Harsh Sharma, Jeonghwan Kim, Heng Ji. UIST 2025 Posters. Paper
  6. Expandora: Broadening Design Exploration with Text-to-Image Model. DaEun Choi, Kihoon Son, Hyunjoon Jung, Juho Kim. CHI 2025 LBW. Paper arXiv
  7. Unveiling Disparities in Web Task Handling Between Human and Web Agent. Kihoon Son, DaEun Choi, Jinhyeon Kwon, Tae Soo Kim, Young-Ho Kim, Sangdoo Yun, Juho Kim. CHI 2024 Workshop. arXiv
  8. AudiLens: Configurable LLM-Generated Audiences for Public Speech Practice. Jeongeon Park*, DaEun Choi*. UIST 2023 SIC. Jury's Best SIC Honorable Mention Award. Paper PDF
  9. Techniques for Semantic Search and Comparison for Robotic Surgery Videos. Jeongyeon Kim, DaEun Choi, Matthew Beane, Juho Kim. CHI 2022 Workshop.

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