Kenny Choo

Kenny Choo

Human Computer Interaction researcher focusing on context-aware computing and Human-AI interaction

Publications

  1. Sim, K.Y.H., Foong, P.S., Zhao, C., Quek, M.Y.N., Mehta, S.S. and Choo, K.T.W. 2026. Words to Describe What I’m Feeling: Exploring the Potential of AI Agents for High Subjectivity Decisions in Advance Care Planning. Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (New York, NY, USA, 2026), 1–34 Honourable Mention Award – top 5% of submissions.
  2. Shi, W. and Choo, K.T.W. 2026. Towards Aligning Multimodal LLMs with Human Experts: A Focus on Parent–Child Interaction. Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (New York, NY, USA, 2026), 1–17 Honourable Mention Award – top 5% of submissions.
  3. Tran, T., Joseph, H.A., Lee, K., Choo, K.T.W., Ma, D., Foong, S., Kandappu, T., Ko, J. and Balan, R. 2026. Dronaquatics: Real-time Swimming Analytics Using Drone Captured Imagery. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) (2026), 4881–4889.
  4. Tan, B.C.Z., Zheng, W., Liu, Z., Chen, N.F., Lee, H., Choo, K.T.W. and Lee, R.K. 2026. BLEnD-Vis: Benchmarking Multimodal Cultural Understanding in Vision Language Models. Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (Rabat, Morocco, 2026), 4647–4669.
  5. Shi, W., Upadhyay, S., Quek, G. and Choo, K.T.W. 2026. TalkSketch: Multimodal Generative AI for Real-Time Sketch Ideation with Speech. Creative AI for Live Interactive Performances (Cham, Feb. 2026), 83–97.
  6. Sim, K.Y.H., Lee, R.K. and Choo, K.T.W. 2026. “Is This Really a Human Peer Supporter?”: Misalignments Between Peer Supporters and Experts in LLM-Supported Interactions. (2026) (To appear in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW)).
  7. Lim, G., Tan, B.C.Z., Sim, K.Y.H., Shi, W., Chew, M.H., Hee, M.S., Lee, R.K., Perrault, S.T. and Choo, K.T.W. 2026. Sword and Shield: Uses and Strategies of LLMs in Navigating Disinformation. (2026) (To appear in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW)).
  8. Sim, K.Y.H., Foong, P.S., Lim, D., Lim, J. and Choo, K.T.W. 2026. Acts of Configuration: Rethinking Provenance, Temporality and Legitimacy in Post-Mortem Agents. (2026) (To appear in Companion Publication of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference).
  9. Shi, W., Herremans, D. and Choo, K.T.W. 2026. When Drawing Is Not Enough: Exploring Spontaneous Speech with Sketch for Intent Alignment in Multimodal LLMs. (2026) (To appear in Companion Publication of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference).
  10. Sim, K.Y.H. and Choo, K.T.W. 2026. “I’m Not Able to Be There for You”: Emotional Labour, Responsibility, and AI in Peer Support. (2026) (To appear in Companion Publication of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference).
  11. Teng, S.S.N. and Choo, K.T.W. 2026. Foreign Domestic Workers’ Perspectives on an LLM-Based Emotional Support Tool for Caregiving Burden. Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (New York, NY, USA, 2026), 1–5.
  12. Shi, W. and Choo, K.T.W. 2026. A Taxonomy of Human–MLLM Interaction in Early-Stage Sketch-Based Design Ideation. Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (New York, NY, USA, 2026), 1–5.
  13. Shi, W. and Choo, K.T.W. 2026. More Than 1v1: Human-AI Alignment in Early Developmental Communities with Multimodal LLMs. (2026) (CHI ‘26 Workshop on Human-AI Interaction Alignment).
  14. Park, S., Park, S., Seo, H., Shim, M., Lee, Y. and Choo, K.T.W. 2026. TaleTrain: guiding parents to provide contingent scaffolding in parent–child narrative video retelling. (2026) (Under review at Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)).
  15. Lee, C., Seo, Y., Woo, J., Brhanemesqel, A.W., Choo, K.T.W. and Lee, U. 2026. Speak, Watch, Verify: a mental model of older adults’ first-use interactions with mobile automation agents. (2026) (Under review at Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)).
  16. Ryan, Y., Tan, R.Y., Choo, K.T.W. and Lee, R.K. 2025. Humor in Pixels: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models Understanding of Online Comics. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025 (Suzhou, China, 2025), 14024–14050.
  17. Tang, H., Gao, F., Choo, K.T.W., Bickel, B. and Song, P. 2025. Easy Modeling of Man-Made Shapes in Virtual Reality. Pacific Graphics Conference Papers, Posters, and Demos (Oct. 2025).
  18. Noller, Y., Chandra, E., Chandrashekar, S., Choo, K.T.W., Jegourel, C., Kurniawan, O. and Poskitt, C.M. 2025. Simulated Interactive Debugging. 2025 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) (2025), 3896–3901 (ISSN: 2643-1572).
  19. Kurniawan, O., Chandra, E., Poskitt, C.M., Noller, Y., Choo, K.T.W. and Jegourel, C. 2025. Designing for Novice Debuggers: A Pilot Study on an AI-Assisted Debugging Tool. Proceedings of the 25th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (New York, NY, USA, 2025), 1–7.
  20. Sim, K.Y.H. and Choo, K.T.W. 2025. Envisioning an AI-Enhanced Mental Health Ecosystem. (2025) (CHI ‘25 Workshop on Envisioning the Future of Interactive Health).
  21. Lim, G., Tan, B.C.Z., Sim, K.Y.H., Shi, W., Chew, M.H., Hee, M.S., Lee, R.K., Perrault, S.T. and Choo, K.T.W. 2025. Communication Games to Study Emerging Disinformation Scenarios With LLMs. Companion Publication of the 2025 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (New York, NY, USA, 2025), 264–269.
  22. Shi, W., Le, H.V. and Choo, K.T.W. 2025. Towards Multimodal Large-Language Models for Parent-Child Interaction: A Focus on Joint Attention. Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (New York, NY, USA, 2025), 1–6.
  23. Cheng, L.X.W., Chin, D.W.K., Toh, S., Mu, W., Ong, J.K.L., Choo, K.T.W., Lee, R.K. and Lim, K.H. 2025. InfoTrace: A System for Information Campaign Source Tracing and Analysis on Social Media. Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (New York, NY, USA, 2025), 1–3.
  24. Sim, K.Y.H. and Choo, K.T.W. 2025. “I Said Things I Needed to Hear Myself”: Peer Support as an Emotional, Organisational, and Sociotechnical Practice in Singapore. (2025) (arXiv:2506.09362 [cs]).
  25. Shi, W., Zhang, H., Wang, W. and Choo, K.T.W. 2025. Exploring Gaze Pattern Differences Between Autistic and Neurotypical Children: Clustering, Visualisation, and Prediction. (2025) (arXiv:2409.11744 [cs]).
  26. Xiao, Y., Hu, Y., Choo, K.T.W. and Lee, R.K. 2024. ToxiCloakCN: Evaluating Robustness of Offensive Language Detection in Chinese with Cloaking Perturbations. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Miami, Florida, USA, 2024), 6012–6025.
  27. Gao, J., Gebreegziabher, S.A., Choo, K.T.W., Li, T.J., Perrault, S.T. and Malone, T.W. 2024. A Taxonomy for Human-LLM Interaction Modes: An Initial Exploration. Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (New York, NY, USA, May 2024), 1–11.
  28. Sim, K.Y.H., Fortuno, K.T. and Choo, K.T.W. 2024. Towards Understanding Emotions for Engaged Mental Health Conversations. Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (New York, NY, USA, 2024), 176–180.
  29. Tran, T., Choo, K.T.W., Foong, S., Bhardwaj, H., Win, S.K.H., Ang, W.J., Goh, K. and Balan, R.K. 2024. Analyzing Swimming Performance Using Drone Captured Aerial Videos. Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications (New York, NY, USA, 2024), 7–12.
  30. Ng, R.C., Prakash, N., Hee, M.S., Choo, K.T.W. and Lee, R.K. 2024. SGHateCheck: Functional Tests for Detecting Hate Speech in Low-Resource Languages of Singapore. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2024) (Mexico City, Mexico, 2024), 312–327.
  31. Hee, M.S., Singh, K., Si Min, C.N., Choo, K.T.W. and Lee, R.K. 2024. Brinjal: A Web-Plugin for Collaborative Hate Speech Detection. Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024 (New York, NY, USA, May 2024), 1063–1066.
  32. Wang, H., Hee, M.S., Awal, M.R., Choo, K.T.W. and Lee, R.K. 2023. Evaluating GPT-3 generated explanations for hateful content moderation. Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2023), 6255–6263.
  33. Gao, J., Choo, K.T.W., Cao, J., Lee, R.K. and Perrault, S. 2023. CoAIcoder: Examining the Effectiveness of AI-assisted Human-to-Human Collaboration in Qualitative Analysis. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. (2023), 6:1–6:38.
  34. Gao, J., Cao, J., Yeo, S., Choo, K.T.W., Zhang, Z., Li, T.J., Zhao, S. and Perrault, S.T. 2023. Impact of Human-AI Interaction on User Trust and Reliance in AI-Assisted Qualitative Coding. (2023) (arXiv:2309.13858 [cs]).
  35. Awal, M.R., Nguyen, M.D., Lee, R.K. and Choo, K.T.W. 2022. MUSCAT: Multilingual Rumor Detection in Social Media Conversations. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (2022), 455–464.
  36. Lee, N.T.S., Kumiawan, O., Choo, K.T.W., De Mari, M. and Perrault, S. 2022. Laboratory Activities for an Introductory Programming Course. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE) (2022), 818–821 (ISSN: 2470-6698).
  37. Zhu, J., Ran, J., Lee, R.K., Li, Z. and Choo, K.T.W. 2021. AutoChart: A Dataset for Chart-to-Text Generation Task. Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2021) (Held Online, 2021), 1636–1644.
  38. Lee, N.T.S., Kurniawan, O. and Choo, K.T.W. 2021. Assessing Programming Skills and Knowledge During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Experience Report. Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1 (New York, NY, USA, 2021), 352–358.
  39. Nurhadi, A., Perrault, S. and Choo, K.T.W. 2021. Designing a Disembodied Conversational Agent as a Digital Companion for Older Adults. (2021) (CSCW ‘21 Conversational User Interfaces Workshop).
  40. Tekler, Z.D., Low, R., Choo, K.T.W. and Blessing, L. 2021. User Perceptions and Adoption of Plug Load Management Systems in the Workplace. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Yokohama Japan, May 2021), 1–6.
  41. Tharatipyakul, A., Choo, K.T.W. and Perrault, S.T. 2020. Pose Estimation for Facilitating Movement Learning from Online Videos. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (New York, NY, USA, 2020), 1–5. (video)
  42. Choo, K.T.W., Balan, R.K. and Lee, Y. 2019. Examining Augmented Virtuality Impairment Simulation for Mobile App Accessibility Design. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (New York, NY, USA, May 2019), 1–11. (video)
  43. Mikusz, M., Choo, K.T.W., Balan, R.K., Davies, N. and Lee, Y. 2019. New Challenges in Display-Saturated Environments. IEEE Pervasive Computing (2019), 67–75.
  44. Huynh, S., Choo, K.T.W., Balan, R.K. and Lee, Y. 2019. CryptoCurrency Mining on Mobile as an Alternative Monetization Approach. Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (New York, NY, USA, 2019), 51–56.
  45. Kim, W., Choo, K.T.W., Lee, Y., Misra, A. and Balan, R.K. 2018. Empath-D: VR-based Empathetic App Design for Accessibility. Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (New York, NY, USA, 2018), 123–135.
  46. Choo, K.T.W., Roy, Q. and Davis, R.C. 2016. Enabling multi-device interaction on the go in the MAGI project. CHI 2016 Workshop on Interacting with Multi-Device ecologies “in the wild” (2016).
  47. Tran, V.H., Choo, K.T.W., Lee, Y., Davis, R.C. and Misra, A. 2016. MAGI: Enabling multi-device gestural applications. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2016 (2016).
  48. Davis, R.C. and Choo, K.T.W. 2014. PlaySketch: Turning Animation Sketches Into Game Logic. IUI 2014 Workshop on Sketch: Pen and Touch Recognition (2014).
  49. Tan, A.L.S., Helander, M., Choo, K.T.W., Soh, B.K. 2010. Cognitive Task Analysus for Maritime Collisions. 3rd International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE ‘10).
  50. Yu, S., Tan, A. L. S., Chen, A. J., Choo, K.T.W., Soh, B. K. 2010. Recursive thinking in adversarial decision making: A naturalistic study. (Multidisciplinary Decision Science Symposium 2010)
  51. Pan, F., Choo, K.T.W., Le, T. M. 2005. Fast Rate-Distortion Optimization in H.264/AVC Video Coding. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (Vol. 3683, pp. 433-441).