Hyun Seung Moon
mzes0401@kaist.ac.kr
Google Scholar · GitHub · LinkedIn
I study how people learn what can't be taught — by talking with AI that plays the other side.
Education
KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Ph.D. student, Industrial Design — AI Experience Lab
Minor in Data Science (KAIST Graduate School of Data Science), since Fall 2026
Advisor: Prof. Tak Yeon Lee · Human-AI Interaction, AI interlocutors, simulation-based learning
KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
M.S., Industrial Design — AI Experience Lab
Thesis: When I Need a Stand-in: Building Artificial Social Actors for Negotiation with User-Guided Inference and Disclosure
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
B.S., Industrial Engineering
Publications
International Conference Papers (Peer Reviewed)
CineTalk: Designing an LLM Chatbot for Exploring Diverse Perspectives in Digital Content Appreciation
Gahyeon Bae, Gahyeon Kim, Hyun Seung Moon, Tak Yeon Lee, Hwajung Hong
ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI 2026), Short Paper · DOI
Toward Flexible Psychiatric History-Taking and Visualization: Exploring Clinician Perspectives with Large Language Models
Yugyeong Jung, Thu Hoang Anh Vo, Hyun Seung Moon, Jae Young Choi, Hyangkyeong Oh, Ujin Lee, Eunjoo Kim, Tak Yeon Lee, Uichin Lee
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026) · Evaluated with 1,440 simulated dialogues and 19 clinicians · DOI
Posters & Workshop Papers
Understanding How Creators Collaborate with Conversational Agents in Short-Form Video Production
Hyun Lee, Yoonjae Oh, Hyun Seung Moon, Tak Yeon Lee
ACM CHI 2026 Extended Abstracts (Late Breaking Work) · DOI
Manuscripts in Preparation
Designing Synthetic Consumer Agent System in the Wild: A Research through Design Study with Enterprise Practitioners
Hyun Lee, Hyun Seung Moon (co-first author), Jinwoo Jeong, Kunwoo Lee, Seowon Lee, Jin Jeong, Seon Gyeom Kim, JaeYoung Choi, Minsun Kim, Ji-Dong Yim, Tak Yeon Lee
Manuscript in preparation · Four-month deployment with 47 practitioners at LG Electronics
Work & Research Experiences
Osler — Voice AI Agent for Medical Consultation, Asan Medical Center
PM & Lead Researcher
Voice agent for breast cancer preoperative counseling; prospective pilot clinical study measuring patient comprehension, satisfaction, and anxiety · Web
Voice-based Virtual Patient for Psychiatric CPX Training, Severance Hospital · ICLab (KAIST)
PM & Lead Researcher
LLM virtual patient system with clinically grounded personas for on-demand psychiatric interview training
SCAS (Lifegraphy) — Synthetic Consumer Agent System, LG Electronics CX Center
Co-lead researcher
Turned a 4,000-respondent lifestyle survey into eight clusters of conversational consumer agents through three Research-through-Design phases; four-month internal deployment with 47 practitioners across six departments
Financial Podcast AI Playground, NH Investment & Securities
Researcher
AI podcast generation from MTS asset data and real-time market information
AI Short-form Video Automation Pipeline, NH Investment & Securities
Researcher
Human-AI co-creation pipeline automating 1-minute financial videos from daily reports
Awards, Grants and Recognitions
Red Dot Award: Design Concept — Winner
STAT: Emergency AI Agent
IDEA Award — Finalist
AIRCUBE: Emergency Air Supply System
Press
Finding "hidden customers" by talking with virtual ones, and AI that handles breakdowns
Dong-A Ilbo, Economy · 2026-02-04 · Coverage of the LG Electronics synthetic consumer agent collaboration · Article
Employment
Gallma, Seoul, Korea
Co-Founder · Game Director
Solo-developed Giida, an art gallery-themed history education game
LuxRobo, Seoul, Korea
Software Engineer
Skills
Python · JavaScript/TypeScript · C++ (Unreal Engine)
R · SPSS · pandas/scikit-learn · thematic analysis · SEM
Figma · Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator · rapid prototyping
Languages
Korean (native) · English (fluent)