Eunki as a Researcher
By: eunki
hi, i am
Eunki Joung. I am a prospective PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Science and Technology Studies (STS).
I was advised by Prof. Uichin Lee at the Interactive Computing Lab, KAIST, where I received an M.S. and B.S. in Computing.
Please see my CV, a selected list of writings, and projects.
As a researcher, I am interested in the following broad questions:
- Whose voices are invisible?
- How can we bring those invisible voices to public spheres1?
- What should those public spheres look like?
I’ve designed and studied Cumpa, a counseling robot, discussing its potential as an active listener and how it is situated in the campus-wide mental healthcare infrastructure. My work has been presented at CSCW and in workshops at CHI and CSCW.
I served on the Student & Minority Human Rights Committee of the Undergraduate Student Council and worked as a trained peer counselor at KAIST.
some readings that have influenced my reseach journey (not exclusive)
- Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Erving Goffman
Marginalization embedded in social interactions
- Human, Place, Hospitality, Hyun Kyung Kim
Imagining ‘absolute hospitality,’ based on Goffman’s analysis.
- Poverty as Process: The Arrangement of Poverty and the Anthropology of the Vulnerable Lives, Mun Young Jo
My favorite ethnography about poverty in South Korea and China
- The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, William H. Whyte
How placemaking can enact alternative social interactions
- When Species Meet, Donna J. Haraway
Cum panis, or the multispeices (humans, robots, and other critters) who care each other
- Momo, Michael Ende
Listening and alternative temporalities (my note)
- Ways of Seeing, John Berger
Seeing is placemaking
a short memo on programming
As a ✨magic wand✨ making my imagination real and lego blocks I can arrange in a perfect order, programming languages have been my favorite toys since I was a child.
But at the same time, I am opposed to the idea that programming languages, or moreover the computer science, are solely the ✨magic wand✨ that will solve all the problems without harm.
My inquiries and troubles are situated in this tension. I believe the power of critical and creative designs/writings to navigate this tension.
good bye …
Or, check my winter.
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Some people may realize Jürgen Habermas’s theory when I say ‘public spheres.’ I think that can be a good start to share my hope of genuine and inclusive communication, but I am not an expert on his theory yet. Thus, please do not think of it as a rigorous use of ‘public sphere,’ if you are knowledgeable about that concept. Also, I intentionally used a plural form of ‘public spheres’ because I think there can be multiple forms of public spheres working well in particular contexts, which I hope to explore. ↩