News
- [27. 09. 2025] Heading to Busan for the UIST 2025 🚅! I will present my doctroal symposium poster! 🎓
- [11. 09. 2025] Submitted three papers to CHI 2026! 🤞🏻
- [05. 08. 2025] Submitted one paper to AAAI 2026! 🤞🏻
About Me
Hi! My name is Kihoon Son, a fourth year Ph.D. student in the School of Computing at KAIST. I am working with Juho Kim as a member of KIXLAB (KAIST Interaction Lab)
My research focuses on generative model-based interaction techniques that capture human implicit knowledge and reasoning. I also have a huge interest in reusing the captured human knowledge or reasoning process through a LLM- or LVM-based agent.
You can find an overview about my research work on my UIST 2025 Doctoral Symposium paper.
Ongoing Research
I did a recent work that captures and structures the reasoning processes of professionals within creative workflows, feeds this information to a generative-model–based agent, and observes the resulting effects.
As a next step, I’m exploring:
- how to design a creative agent that can plan, act, and make decisions grounded in professional’s reasoning directly within a design tool, and
- how to built a general agent framework that acts like a human in various tasks (e.g., design, web navigation, environment interaction) through skill learning and context-based action selection.
Publications
Papers
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ArXiv
Kihoon Son, DaEun Choi, Tae Soo Kim, Young-Ho Kim, Sangdoo Yun, Juho Kim
ArXiv
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ArXiv
Yoonsu Kim, Brandon Chin, Kihoon Son, Seoyoung Kim, Juho Kim
ArXiv
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ArXiv
DaEun Choi, Kihoon Son, Jaesang Yu, Hyunjoon Jung, Juho Kim
ArXiv
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FAccT
Yoonjoo Lee, Kihoon Son, Tae Soo Kim, Jisu Kim, John Joon Young Chung, Eytan Adar, Juho Kim
FAccT 2025
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CHI
Kihoon Son, DaEun Choi, Tae Soo Kim, and Juho Kim
CHI 2024, Honorable Mention 🏆
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CHI
Kihoon Son, DaEun Choi, Tae Soo Kim, Young-Ho Kim, and Juho Kim
CHI 2024
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ArXiv
Jeongeon Park, Bryan Min, Kihoon Son, Jean Y. Song, Xiaojuan Ma, Juho Kim
ArXiv
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Journal
Kihoon Son, Seung Won Lee, Wondeuk Yoon, Kyung Hoon Hyun
Automation in Construction 2022 (IF=11.5; Interactive System)
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CHI
Kihoon Son, Kyungmin Kim, Kyung Hoon Hyun
CHI 2022
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Journal
Kihoon Son, Kyung Hoon Hyun
Automation in Construction 2022 (IF=11.5; Interactive System)
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CHI
Kihoon Son, Hwiwon Chun, Sojin Park, Kyung Hoon Hyun
CHI 2020
Posters, Demos, Workshop
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CHI LBW
Yoonsu Kim, Brandon Chin, Kihoon Son, Seoyoung Kim, Juho Kim
CHI 25 Late-Breaking Work
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CHI LBW
DaEun Choi, Kihoon Son, Hyunjoon Jung, Juho Kim
CHI 25 Late-Breaking Work
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CHI Workshop
Kihoon Son, Jinhyeon Kwon, DaEun Choi, Tae Soo Kim, Young-Ho Kim, Sangdoo Yun, Juho Kim
CHI 2024 Workshop on Computational Methodologies for Understanding, Automating, and Evaluating User Interfaces
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CHI Workshop
Yoonsu Kim, Kihoon Son, Seoyoung Kim, Juho Kim
CHI 2024 Workshop on Getting Back Together
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