About
I’m Taenyun Kim, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Inspired by Dr. Susan Calvin in Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, I describe myself as a robopsychologist.
I earned my PhD in Information and Media, with a Graduate Specialization in Cognitive Science, at Michigan State University. Previously, I studied Psychology, Informatics, and Interaction Science at Sungkyunkwan University.
I welcome research collaborations—please feel free to get in touch.
Selected Publications
- 2026
Participatory Moral AI Is Not Neutral: The Invisible Hand of Developers
Taenyun Kim, Edyta Bogucka, & Daniele Quercia
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 9(3), 1538–1550
- 2025
Too Much Is as Bad as Too Little: The Impact of Implementing Multiple Social Interaction Features on Trust and Acceptance of Automated Vehicle Agents
Taenyun Kim, Yeosol Song, Doha Kim, & Hayeon Song
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 41(21), 13875–13890
- 2025
Do we want AI judges? The acceptance of AI judges’ judicial decision-making on moral foundations
Taenyun Kim & Wei Peng
AI & Society, 40, 3683–3696
- 2023
One AI Does Not Fit All: A Cluster Analysis of the Laypeople’s Perception of AI Roles
Taenyun Kim, Maria D. Molina, Minjin (MJ) Rheu, Emily S. Zhan, & Wei Peng
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), Article 29, 1–20
- 2021
How should intelligent agents apologize to restore trust? Interaction effects between anthropomorphism and apology attribution on trust repair
Taenyun Kim & Hayeon Song
Telematics and Informatics, 61, 101595