Yoon Jeong Cha

Yoon Jeong is a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan, School of Information, co-advised by Professors Sun Young Park and Mark Newman. Her research aims to advance equitable health management for children with different health conditions by developing systems that empower them to actively collaborate with their caregivers. 

Her research focuses on how technology like AI chatbots can facilitate families' collaborative health management through health data tracking and reflection. Drawing on insights from the studies and resulting publications, her long-term vision is to create AI-supported health tracking tools that help children learn from their own data, enable parents to provide appropriate oversight, and foster
shared family reflection.

Pronouns

She/her/hers

Dissertation title (provisional)

Coordinating Care Together: Developing AI-Supported Collaborative Health Tracking Technologies for Children and their Parents

Areas of interest

AI Health Technology; Collaborative Health Tracking

Education

M.S. in Knowledge Service Engineering (Industrial Engineering Department), KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), 2017-2019
B.S. in Creative Technology Management (Underwood International College), Yonsei University, 2012-2016

Selected publications

Yoon Jeong Cha, Jiongyu Chen, Yasemin Gunal, Qiying Zhu, Mark W. Newman, and Sun Young Park. 2025. Collaborative Health-Tracking Technologies for Children and Parents: A Review of Current Studies and Directions for Future Research. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713596 [pdf]

Yoon Jeong Cha, Yasemin Gunal, Alice Wou, Joyce Lee, Mark W. Newman, and Sun Young Park. 2024. Shared Responsibility in Collaborative Tracking for Children with Type 1 Diabetes and their Parents. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642344 [pdf] 

Yoon Jeong Cha, Alice Wou, Arpita Saxena, Joyce Lee, Mark W Newman, and Sun Young Park. 2023. It’s Like an Educated Guessing Game: Parents’ Strategies for Collaborative Diabetes Management with Their Children. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 471, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581522 [pdf] 

Yoon Jeong Cha, Arpita Saxena, Alice Wou, Joyce Lee, Mark W Newman, and Sun Young Park. 2022. Transitioning Toward Independence: Enhancing Collaborative Self-Management of Children with Type 1 Diabetes. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA,
Article 522, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502055 [pdf]