📍 Sookmyung Women’s University(SMWU), Seoul, Rep. of Korea

• Assistant Professor, Division of Artificial Intelligence Engineering (Link)
• Head, Human-centered AI Lab. (Link)
• Director, AI Innovation Research Center

✉️ [email protected]; [email protected]

Research Interests

Human-centered AI, Explainable AI Interface, Intelligent User Interface, Accessible Computing, Gestural Interaction, Human-AI Interaction

Education

• Sungkyunkwan University

  Ph.D in Interaction Science (HCI & UX)

  • Advisor: Dr. Sangwon Lee
  • Dissertation Title: Investigation of Users' Perceptuomotor Interaction with Technology Grounded on Digital Affordance [Sep.2016 – Feb.2022]

• North Carolina State University Visiting Student in Industrial and Systems Engineering [Mar.2021 - Jun.2021]

• Sungkyunkwan University B.A. in Film, TV, & Multimedia [Aug.2016]

Publications

[Google Scholar]

• International Journal Article

  • Jeon G., Hong J., Kim S., & Lee S. Enhancing Serendipity by Incorporating User Control of Social Information in a Recommender System, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. (Accepted)
  • Hong J., Jeon G., Kim S., & Lee S. (2025+). Find Your Social Match, Discover What to Watch: The Role of Social Profiles and Explanations in Recommender Systems, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. (Online First) [SSCI/SCIE, JCR 2024 IF=4.9, Q1 in Ergonomics/Computer Science, Cybernetics]
  • Jo J., Kim S., & Lee S. (2025). Exploring the Mental Model of Web Page Scraping: Design Suggestion of an AI-Powered In-browser Scrap Tool and Its Usability Evaluation, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 41(13), 7982–7998. [SSCI/SCIE, JCR 2024 IF=4.9, Q1 in & Ergonomics/Computer Science, Cybernetics]
  • Kim S., Boo S., Jeon G., & Lee S. (2025). Balancing Diversity in Session-Based Recommendation Between Relevance and Unexpectedness, IEEE Access. 13, 77833–77846. [SCIE, JCR2024 IF=3.6, Q2 in Computer Science, Information Systems]
  • Kim H, Kim S., Jun S.C., & Nam, C.S. (2025). Is What I Think What You Think?: Multilayer Network-Based Inter-Brain Synchrony Approach, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 20(1), nsaf028. [SSCI/SCIE, JCR2023 IF=3.9, Q1 in Psychology, Experimental (Top 10%)]
  • Hong J., Kim S., & Lee S. (2025). Enhancing passenger-vehicle interaction through multimodal explanation for unexpected behaviors of fully autonomous driving in non-driving-related tasks, Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 109, 1350-1364. [SSCI, JCR 2024 IF=4.4, Q1 in Psychology, Applied]
  • Ha T., & Kim S.* (2024). Improving Trust in AI with Mitigating Confirmation Bias: Effects of Explanation Type and Debias Strategy for Decision-making with Explainable AI, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 40(24), 8562–8573. [SSCI/SCIE, JCR 2023 IF=3.4, Q1 in Ergonomics]
  • Jeon G., Kim S., & Lee S. (2024). Interactive Feedback Loop with Counterfactual Data Modification for Serendipity in a Recommendation System, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 40(19), 5585-5601. [SSCI/SCIE, JCR 2023 IF=3.4, Q1 in Ergonomics]
  • Huang J., Pugh Z., Kim S., & Nam C.S. (2024). Brain Dynamics of Mental Workload in a Multitasking Context: Evidence from Dynamic Causal Modeling, Computers in Human Behavior. 152, 108043.[SSCI, JCR2023 IF=9.0, Q1 in Psychology, Experimental (Top 5%)]
  • Lee, S., Hong, J., Jeon, G., Jo, J., Boo, S., Kim, H., Jung, S., Park, J., Choi, I., & Kim, S.* (2023). Investigating Effects of Multimodal Explanations Using Multiple In-vehicle Displays for Takeover Request in Conditionally Autonomous Driving, Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 96, 1–22*.* [SSCI, JCR 2022 IF=4.1, Q2 in Transportation]
  • Park D., Park H., Kim S., Choo S., Nam C.S., Lee S., and Jung J.-Y. (2023). Spatio-temporal explanation of 3D-EEGNet for motor imagery EEG classification using permutation and saliency, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering. 31. 4504–4513. [SCIE, JCR 2022 IF=4.9, Q1 in Rehabilitation]
  • Choo S., Park H., Kim S., Park D., Jung J.-Y., Lee S., & Nam C.S. (2023). Effectiveness of Multi-Task Deep Learning Framework for EEG-based Emotion and Context Recognition, Expert Systems with Applications. 227, 120348. [SCIE, JCR 2022 IF=8.5, Q1 in Engineering, Electrical & Electronic (Top 10%)]
  • Kim, S., Choo, S., Park, D., Park, H., Nam, C. S., Jung, J.-Y., & Lee, S. (2023). Designing an XAI Interface for BCI Experts: A Contextual Design for Pragmatic Explanation Interface Based on Domain Knowledge in a Specific Context, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 174, 103009. **[SSCI & SCIE, JCR 2022 IF=5.4, Q1 in Ergonomics]
  • Kim, S., & Lee, S. (2023). Touchable pixels: Examining the affordance effect between an on-screen object and a user-elicited gesture on the touchscreeen, Computers in Human Behavior. 140, 107588 [SSCI, JCR2022 IF=9.9, Q1 in Psychology, Experimental (Top 5%)]
  • Kim, S., Huh, I., Lee, S. (2023). No Movie to Watch: A Design Strategy for Enhancing Content Diversity through Social Recommendation in the Subscription-Video-On-Demand Service, Applied Sciences. 13(1), 279. [SCIE, JCR2022 IF=2.7, Q2 in Engineering, Multidisciplinary]
  • Ahn, S., Kim, S., & Lee, S. (2021). Effects of visual cues on distance perception in virtual environments based on object identification and visually guided action, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 37(1), 36-46. [SSCI/SCIE, JCR 2020 IF=3.353, Q2 in Ergonomics]
  • Ha, T., Kim, S., Seo, D., & Lee, S. (2020). Effects of explanation types and perceived risk on trust in autonomous vehicles, Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 73, 271–280. [SSCI, JCR 2019 IF=2.518, Q2 in Psychology, Applied]
  • Kim, S., & Lee, S. (2020). Smash the dichotomy of skeuomorphism and flat design: Designing an affordable interface to correspond with the human perceptuomotor process, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 141, 102435. [SSCI, JCR 2019 IF=3.163, Q1 in Ergonomics]
  • Ha, T., Beijnon, B., Kim, S., Lee, S., & Kim, J. H. (2017). Examining user perceptions of smartwatch through dynamic topic modeling. Telematics and Informatics, 34(7), 1262–1273. [SSCI, JCR 2017 IF = 3.398, Q1 in Information Science & Library Science]

• International Conference Article

  • Kim, S., Choi, D., Ko, D., Lee S., & Park I. (2026). Comforting SEO Marketing with AI: Enhancing Marketer Experience through Automated Content Refinement and Ethical Search Practices. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM’26), IEEE.
  • Lim, Y., Kim, S., & Lee, S. (2025). Time to Focus on the Road: Adaptive Monitoring Requests Design for Attentional Shift in Conditional Automated Driving. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI’25), ACM.
  • Park, J., Kim, S., & Lee, S. (2023). A User Preference and Intent Extraction Framework for Explainable Conversational Recommender Systems. In Companion Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS'23 Companion), ACM*.*
  • Jo, J., Kim, S., & Lee, S. (2023).Read It Now, Not Later! Integrating Semantic Recommendation into In-Browser Web Page Scrap Tool. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM.
  • Boo, S., Kim, S., & Lee, S. (2023). Serendipity into session-based recommendation: Focusing on unexpectedness, relevance, and usefulness of recommendations. In Companion Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '23 Companion), **ACM.
  • Hong, J., Kim, S., Jeon, G., Boo, S., Jo, J., Park, J., Jung, S., Park, J., & Lee, S. (2022). A Preliminary Study of Multimodal Feedback Interface in Takeover Transition of Semi-autonomous Vehicles. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI’22), ACM.
  • Kim, S., & Lee, S. (2020). Touch Digitality: Affordance Effects of Visual Properties on Gesture Selection. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM.
  • Kim, S., & Lee, S. (2018). Three Levels of Perceiving Affordance: Possibility, Specificity, and Signification Levels. In Proceedings of the 30th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI’18), ACM.
  • Ha, T., Lee, S., & Kim, S. (2018). Designing Explainability of an Artificial Intelligence System. In Proceedings of the Technology, Mind, and Society (Article No.14), ACM.