Publications

An overview of my research interests

During my Master’s program, I investigated social cognition and loneliness within the context of COVID-19 mainly by employing natural language processing. These research experiences illuminated my enduring passion for understanding human emotion and led me to realize how language is deeply connected to the human mind.

Furthermore, my involvement in human-robot interaction research revealed the pivotal role of human emotion in shaping the dynamics of these interactions. In addition, while experimenting with large language models to create a framework for empathetic social robots, I became fascinated by their potential to enhance human-robot interactions.

As a doctoral student, I am passionate about exploring the individual and cultural variations and similarities in emotion semantics, and how that variability or similarity shapes human affective experiences. Moreover, I wish to contribute to affective robotics by incorporating large language models to improve emotion representation and expression models for social robots.


Papers

You can also find my papers (including preprints) at my Google Scholar profile.

Social Robots As Companions for Lonely Hearts: The Role of Anthropomorphism and Robot Appearance

Published in Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2023

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Recommended citation: Jung, Y, Hahn., S. (2023). Social Robots As Companions for Lonely Hearts: The Role of Anthropomorphism and Robot Appearance. 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2520–2525. https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309617.

Developing Social Robots with Empathetic Non-Verbal Cues Using Large Language Models

Published in Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2023

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Recommended citation: Lee, YK., Jung, Y, Kang, K., & Hahn, S. (2023). Developing Social Robots with Empathetic Non-Verbal Cues Using Large Language Models. Late Breaking Report at 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

The relationship between perspective-taking ability and psychological and emotional characteristics observed in a large emotion diary dataset: A cluster analysis

Published in Korean Journal of Health Psychology, 2023

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Recommended citation: Kim, JW., Jung, Y., Lee, YK., & Hahn, S. (2023). The relationship between perspective-taking ability and psychological and emotional characteristics observed in a large emotion diary dataset: A cluster analysis. Korean Journal of Health Psychology, 28(1), 1-25, 10.17315/kjhp.2023.28.1.001.

Web-scraping the Expression of Loneliness during COVID-19

Published in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

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Recommended citation: Jung, Y., Lee, YK., & Hahn, S. (2021). Web-scraping the Expression of Loneliness during COVID-19. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53m546pq.

Building a Psychological Ground Truth Dataset with Empathy and Theory-of-Mind During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Published in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

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Recommended citation: Lee, YK., Jung, Y., Lee, I., Park, JE., & Hahn, S. (2021). Building a Psychological Ground Truth Dataset with Empathy and Theory-of-Mind During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/950900w7.