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.
Selected/Recent Publications ...more

Toyteller: AI-powered Visual Storytelling Through Toy-Playing with Character Symbols
John Joon Young Chung, Melissa Roemmele, Max Kreminski
CHI2025

Patchview: LLM-Powered Worldbuilding with Generative Dust and Magnet Visualization
John Joon Young Chung, Max Kreminski
UIST2024

ShadowMagic: Designing Human-AI Collaborative Support for Comic Professionals’ Shadowing
Amrita Ganguly, Chuan Yan, John Joon Young Chung, Tong Steven Sun, Yoon Kiheon, Yotam Gingold, Sungsoo Ray Hong
UIST2024

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

PromptPaint: Steering Text-to-Image Generation Through Paint Medium-like Interactions
John Joon Young Chung, Eytan Adar
UIST2023

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

Increasing Diversity While Maintaining Accuracy: Text Data Generation with Large Language Models and Human Interventions
John Joon Young Chung, Ece Kamar, Saleema Amershi
ACL2023
