Joo-Wha Hong is both the founder and the current director of IThey. It is an interdisciplinary young scholar research crew committed to understanding the social implications of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), robots, autonomous machines, and the metaverse, mainly from the human-machine interaction perspective.
IThey aims to:
Understand the social role of machines with interdisciplinary approaches
Examine how people perceive and evaluate AI agents
Develop human-machine communication theories
Inquire about the influence of the metaverse