About me

I am a user researcher / ux designer based in Seoul.

Throughout my career, I’ve delivered multiple design projects to clients all over the world. Currently, I’m a UX designer at Niantic, designing accessible and fun AR experiences.

I love my dog, my friends, tennis, and drawing.

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Education

KAIST

M. S. in Industrial Design, Human-Computer Interaction

Ewha Womans University

B. F. A in Visual communications, UX Design

Experience

Niantic

User researcher + UX Designer

Karrot UK

Global Marketing Design Intern

Sony Interactive Entertainment, PlayStation

Visual Design Intern

Research / Publications

Virfie: Enhancing Remote Togetherness with User-Created Scenarios for Virtual Group Selfie

  • Hyerin Im, Taewan Kim, Eunhee Jung, Bonhee Ku, Seungho Baek, Youn-kyung Lim, Tekjin Nam, and TakYeon Lee

  • Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2024, published in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (IntelliSys 2024)

PromptCrafter: Crafting Text-to-Image Prompt through Mixed-Initiative Dialogue with LLMP

  • Seungho Baek, Hyerin Im, Jiseung Ryu, Juhyeong Park, and Takyeon Lee

  • ICML 2023 Workshop AI&HCI (ICML 2023)

Is It Really Useful?: An Observation Study of How Designers Use CLIP-based Image Generation For Moodboards

  • Hyerin Im*, Seungho Baek*, Uran Oh, Youn-kyung Lim, and Takyeon Lee

  • NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Human Centered AI (NeurIPS 2022)

Virfie: Virtual Group Selfie Station for Remote Togetherness

  • Hyerin Im, Taewan Kim, Eunhee Jung, Bonhee Ku, Seungho Baek, and TakYeon Lee

  • CHI EA '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts · (CHI 2022)

Development of User-Empowered Teaching-Learning Based AI Interaction Model and Design System - National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government(MSIT) - Daejeon (industry-academic cooperation)

Research on UX/UI Design in AI Environments for Reflective Behavior Change for Improving Sleeping Habits - Asleep, Daejeon (industry-academic cooperation)