Welcome to Dr. Boh Chun’s Academic Page!

Hi, I am a “robot anthropologist” - an interdisciplinary human-machine interaction scholar who studies robots and AI in society with an Applied Anthropology Ph.D.

My research interests lie in (1) people’s social and emotional experiences with computer technologies, especially service robots and generative AI, (2) optimizing and using different modes of ethnography for UX and interaction studies and (3) social and ethical aspects of AI in relation to gender and equity.

My works have been published in ACM(Association for Computing Machinery), Social Robotics and IEEE(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) journals and conferences.

I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow in Living and Working with Robots (LWR) team of Good Systems at the University of Texas at Austin, appointed with the School of Information. In the LWR team, I have been leading multiple research projects regarding people’s social experiences with service robotics and embodied AI and methodological investigations of real-world HRI through cross-disciplinary collaborations with the team members and Texas Robotics. Before joining the LWR, I worked for CHARISMA Social Robotics research lab at Oregon State University and have conducted a variety of ethnographic social HRI projects since 2018.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology at Oregon State University in 2023 with a Ph.D. dissertation, Korean Men Streaming Live: Integrating Anthropology and Human-Computer Interaction, that features an interdisciplinary approach to user experiences and cultural politics of a Korean live streaming platform, as the academic intersection of cultural anthropology and HCI. Meanwhile, I studied Women’s Studies with a concentration of technology and gender for my master’s and bachelor’s degrees.