Together or Apart:
Designing Boundaries for Personal Intelligent Agents

Personal intelligent agents are increasingly embedded in everyday life, a trend accelerated by generative AI technologies. Despite their growing presence, these agents often remain fragmented across different life domains and environments. This workshop explores how to design integrated IA ecosystems emphasizing continuity, coordination, and human-centered values. Participants with varied perspectives will collaboratively develop frameworks, scenarios, and guidelines for cohesive personal agent systems that enrich user experiences holistically. By examining factors that shape users' preferences for information integration or separation, we aim to inform the design of coherent, user-aligned multi-agent systems.

The workshop (#4425) will take place on 10th November 2025, 12:30–15:30 in Half symposium space A . See full HAI 2025 programme here.

Workshop Scehdule Table

Hyunmin Kang

Hyunmin Kang is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Psychology at Daegu University. He is interested in the field of AI-human interaction based on cognitive engineering and has been studying how smart technologies affect human life and society.

Seulchan Lee

Seul Chan Lee is an Associate Professor of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Hanyang University ERICA. His Human-Centered Technology Lab tries to explore users’ needs and requirements, to evaluate system artifacts, and to make systems and devices better based on the theories and methodologies of Human Factors and Human-Computer Interaction.

Jihyun Jeong

JiHyun Jeong received her Ph.D. from the Department of Information Science at Cornell University and is beginning her new role as an Assistant Professor at SUNY Korea. Her research interests lie in human-robot interaction, with a focus on the interplay between performance and social considerations in human–AI joint decision-making.

Hyochang Kim

Hyochang Kim is a research director at SCIGC. His research focuses on effective interaction methods tailored to specific contexts, with a particular emphasis on AI and autonomous vehicles. He has a special interest in natural communication methods between humans and AI.

Minchul Cha

Min Chul Cha is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Social Science & AI at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Republic of Korea. He received his PhD from Yonsei University in 2023. His research interests include data-driven human behavior analysis in multimodal interface, sustainable HCI, and human–AI interaction.

Myunghoon Jeon

Myounghoon Jeon is a Professor of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. His Mind Music Machine Lab tries to integrate different levels of research on human-automation (vehicles, robots, and agents) interaction, including neurological, psychological, and computational approaches.