Youngjun Cho
Professor of Computational Physiology
Leads the Physiologic AI team, building AI that senses human physiology for affective computing and assistive technology.
Youngjun Cho's lab at UCL works on human-robot interaction & assistive robots and affective & health speech. 36 papers since 2023, 5 at top venues, mostly IJHCS and MobiCom. 9 PhD students. 37 alumni, most often to Huawei and Amazon.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 14%
- PhD students
- 9
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 37
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 6 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 18 papers2025 · T1 3
- 6 papers2024 · T1 1
- 6 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: IJHCS, MobiCom, CHI, ICMI, ISMAR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots4 papers
- Affective & health speech2 papers
- team0 papers
- affective computing0 papers
- affective0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20266 papers
- Affective Computing and Intelligent InteractionComfyFashionTryOn: A Multimodal Dataset for Try-On Clothing Comfort Detection in Women (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and CyberneticsEEG-based Neural Representation and Decoding of Imagined Phonemes (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Medical Internet ResearchENHANCE (TailorEd iNtervention for brain HeAlth aNd Cognitive Enrichment for Cognitive Health), a coach-supported digital intervention for dementia prevention in underserved older adults: Co-design and usability study (opens in a new tab)
- DIS Proceedngs of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems ConferenceGamifiedLM: Co-Designing an LLM-Driven Gamified Learning App with University Students to Mitigate Learning Difficulties
- CHI (T1)The RepairBot Framework: Human-Touch-Aware Conversational Agent for Hands-on Clothes-Repair (opens in a new tab)
- IJHCSTouchAI: Exploring human–AI perceptual alignment in touch through language model representations (opens in a new tab)
202518 papers
- IASDR : Design Next"Just Summarize it in a Bite-Sized Way": Evaluating a Conversational Agent to Support Information-Seeking about Motor Neurone Disease Management
- Sustainability: Science, Practice and PolicyA circular experience toolkit: a dynamic scenario-building resource for designing circular consumer experiences in fashion (opens in a new tab)
- ISMAR (T1)A Multi-Sensor Approach for Cognitive Load Assessment in Mobile Augmented Reality (opens in a new tab)
- SensorsAdvancing Textile Damage Segmentation: A Novel RGBT Dataset and Thermal Frequency Normalization
- UIST '25: The Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and TechnologyExploring LLM Agents as Interactive Mind Map Creators Tailored for Students with ADHD (opens in a new tab)
- the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous ComputingExploring LLM Agents as Seamless and Context-aware UI Adjusters for the Visually Impaired (opens in a new tab)
- Behaviour and Information TechnologyLLM-mediated domain-specific voice agents: the case of TextileBot (opens in a new tab)
- EMBCMI-CES: An explainable weak labelling approach to example selection for Motor Imagery BCI classification (opens in a new tab)
- MobiCom (T1)mmWaveTryOn: The first mmWave-RGB Dataset for Clothes Try-On Multimodal Gesture Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- DIS '25 Companion: Companion Publication of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems ConferenceMySensory: a Novel Solution for Sound Hyper-Reactivity in Autism (opens in a new tab)
- CHI EA '25: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPortable Rehabilitation System for Stroke Patients with Hemiplegia using Limb Movement Recognition and EMG (opens in a new tab)
- Communications EngineeringRapid in-air Ultrasound Holography Measurement and Camera-in-the-loop Generation using Thermography (opens in a new tab)
20246 papers
- BioMedEng24A Hybrid Brain-computer Interface Protocol for Combined Speech and Motor Imagery (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & TextilesExamining clothing repair practices, core competences, techniques, tools and community structures involved in extending the life of garments (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)FactorizePhys: Matrix Factorization for Multidimensional Attention in Remote Physiological Sensing (opens in a new tab)
- ICMIFeeling Textiles through AI: An Exploration into Multimodal Language Models and Human Perception Alignment (opens in a new tab)
- ElectronicsImaging Blood Volume Pulse Dataset: RGB-Thermal Remote Photoplethysmography Dataset with High-Resolution Signal-Quality Labels (opens in a new tab)
- CHI EA '24: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsWheelSkills: Prototyping Manual Wheelchair Training through Immersive Visual Feedback (opens in a new tab)
20236 papers
- International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent InteractionFabricTouch: A Multimodal Fabric Assessment Touch Gesture Dataset to Slow Down Fast Fashion (opens in a new tab)
- ACII2023Leveraging WiFi Sensing Toward Automatic Recognition of Pain Behaviors (opens in a new tab)
- SensorsPhysioKit: An Open-Source, Low-Cost Physiological Computing Toolkit for Single- and Multi-User Studies (opens in a new tab)
- IJHCSSeeking information about assistive technology: Exploring current practices, challenges, and the need for smarter systems (opens in a new tab)
- —TextileNet: A Material Taxonomy-based Fashion Textile Dataset (opens in a new tab)
- CHI '23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsTowards an Inclusive and Accessible Metaverse (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went37 listed, 67% to industry
Industry 6Academia 3
Most often to
- Huawei
- Amazon
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