HCI/AI Researcher

I am John Joon Young Chung, and a research scientist working at Midjourney storytelling team.

I am interested in turning AI/ML models into useful tools for creative activities, specifically for storytelling. I focus on opening up diverse ways to interact with these technologies and introducing new types of media.

I myself is an amateur artist, creating some random things, from drawings to musics, which you can find in my Instagram. Some selected tunes can be found here. I also used to build some games with my friends.

Publications

One vs. Many: Comprehending Accurate Information from Multiple Erroneous and Inconsistent AI Generations

Yoonjoo Lee, Kihoon Son, Tae Soo Kim, Jisu Kim, John Joon Young Chung, Eytan Adar, Juho Kim
FAccT2024

Authors' Values and Attitudes Towards AI-bridged Scalable Personalization of Creative Language Arts

Taewook Kim, Hyomin Han, Eytan Adar, Matthew Kay, John Joon Young Chung
CHI2024

A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants

Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero, John Joon Young Chung, Simon Buckingham Shum, Vipul Raheja, Hua Shen, Subhashini Venugopalan, Thiemo Wambsganss, David Zhou, Emad A. Alghamdi, Tal August, Avinash Bhat, Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Senjuti Dutta, Jin L.C. Guo, Md Naimul Hoque, Yewon Kim, Simon Knight, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Antonette Shibani, Disha Shrivastava, Lila Shroff, Agnia Sergeyuk, Jessi Stark, Sarah Sterman, Sitong Wang, Antoine Bosselut, Daniel Buschek, Joseph Chee Chang, Sherol Chen, Max Kreminski, Joonsuk Park, Roy Pea, Eugenia Ha Rim Rho, Zejiang Shen, Pao Siangliulue
CHI2024

CreativeConnect: Supporting Reference Recombination for Graphic Design Ideation with Generative AI

DaEun Choi, Sumin Hong, Jeongeon Park, John Joon Young Chung, Juho Kim
CHI2024

Find the Bot!: Gamifying Facial Emotion Recognition for Both Human Training and Machine Learning Data Collection

Yeonsun Yang, Ahyeon Shin, Nayoung Kim, Huidam Woo, John Joon Young Chung, Jean Y. Song
CHI2024

Neglected Free Lunch; Learning Image Classifiers Using Annotation Byproducts

Dongyoon Han, Junsuk Choe, Seonghyeok Chun, John Joon Young Chung, Minsuk Chang, Sangdoo Yun, Jean Y. Song, Seong Joon Oh
ICCV2023

Artist Support Networks: Implications for Future Creativity Support Tools

John Joon Young Chung, Shiqing He, Eytan Adar
DIS2022

TaleBrush: Sketching Stories with Generative Pretrained Language Models

John Joon Young Chung, Wooseok Kim, Kang Min Yoo, Hwaran Lee, Eytan Adar, Minsuk Chang
CHI2022

Promptiverse: Scalable Generation of Scaffolding Prompts through Human-AI Knowledge Graph Annotation

Yoonjoo Lee, John Joon Young Chung, Taesoo Kim, Jean Y. Song, Juho Kim
CHI2022

FlatMagic: Improving Flat Colorization through AI-driven Design for Digital Comic Professionals

Chuan Yan, John Joon Young Chung, Kiheon Yoon, Yotam Gingold, Eytan Adar, Sungsoo Ray Hong
CHI2022

PuzzleMe: Leveraging Peer Assessment for In-Class Programming Exercises

April Wang, Yan Chen, John Joon Young Chung, Christopher Brooks, Steve Oney
CSCW2021

Beyond Show of Hands: Engaging Viewers via Expressive and Scalable Visual Communication in Live Streaming

John Joon Young Chung, Hijung Valentina Shin, Haijun Xia, Li-yi Wei, Rubaiat Habib Kazi
CHI2021

C-Reference: Improving 2D to 3D Object Pose Estimation Accuracy via Crowdsourced Joint Object Estimation

Jean Y. Song, John Joon Young Chung, Davide F. Fouhey, Walter S. Lasecki
CSCW2020

Efficient Elicitation Approaches to Estimate Collective Crowd Answers

John Joon Young Chung, Jean Y. Song, Sindhu Kutty, Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Juho Kim, Walter S. Lasecki
CSCW2019