Publications
    *Corresponding author, **Graduate student or postdoctoral scholar advisee
  1. Kim, N., Park, S., Uhm, M., Ahn, C. R., and Kim, H.* (2025). “Enhancing Construction Managers’ Risk Perception and Lowering Risk Tolerance Toward Unsafe Behaviors Through Experiential Safety Training” Journal of Management in Engineering, ASCE, 41(1), 04024067 [Link]
  2. Kim, N., Grégoire, L., Razavi, M., Yan, N., Lee, D., Lewis, P., Ahn, C. R.* (2024). “Protocol to evaluate the effectiveness of a virtual reality-based behavioral intervention in enhancing sensory responses to real-world warning” Star Protocols, Cell Press, 5(3), 103262 [Link]
  3. Grégoire, L., Dubravac, M., Moore, K., Kim, N., and Anderson, B. A.* (2024). “Observational Learning of Threat-related Attentional Bias” Cognition and Emotion, Taylor & Francis Online, 38(5) [Link]
  4. Anderson, B. A.*, Kim, N., Grégoire, L., Yan, N., and Ahn, C. R. (2024). “Attention failures cause workplace accidents: Why workers ignore hazards and what to do about it” Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, SAGE, 11, (1), 27-35 [Link]
  5. Kim, N., *Grégoire, L., Razavi, M., Yan, N., Ahn, C. R.*, and Anderson, B. A. (2023). “A Virtual Accident Curbs Risk Habituation in Construction Workers by Restoring Sensory Responses to Real-world Warning Signals” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 149(2), 04022175 [Link]
  6. Kim, N., Yan, N., Grégoire, L., Anderson, B. A., and Ahn, C. R.* (2023). “Road Construction Workers’ Boredom Susceptibility, Habituation to Warning Alarms, and Accident Proneness: A Virtual Reality Experiment” Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, SAGE, 11, (1), 27-35 [Link]
  7. Kim, N., Anderson, B. A., and Ahn, C. R.* (2021). “Reducing Risk Habituation to Struck-by Hazards in a Road Construction Environment Using Virtual Reality Behavioral Intervention” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE, 147(11), 04021157 [Link]
  8. Kim, N., Kim, J., and Ahn, C. R.* (2021). “Predicting Workers’ Inattentiveness to Struck-by Hazards by Monitoring Biosignals During a Construction Task: A Virtual Reality Experiment” Advanced Engineering Informatics, Elsevier, 49, 101359 [Link]
  9. Lee, H., Yang, K., Kim, N., and Ahn, C. R.* (2020). “Detecting Excessive Load-Carrying Tasks Using a Deep Learning Network with a Gramian Angular Field” Automation in Construction, 120, 103990 [Link]
  10. Lee, J.**, Ko, T., Huang, K., Park, J., Kim, N.* (2025). “The Impact of Low-Quality Accident Reports on the Performance of Construction Safety AI Models” International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE 2025), May 11-14, 2025, New Orleans, LA
  11. Ray, U., Park, J. *, Alvarez, L., Kim, N. (2025). “Prompt Engineering in Construction Safety: A Comparative Study of Zero-Shot, One-Shot, and Few-Shot Strategies for Accident Classification” International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE 2025), May 11-14, 2025, New Orleans, LA
  12. Lee, J.**, Ahn, C.R., Lee, H, Jeon, J., Kim, N.* (2024). “Detecting Activities Exposing Construction Workers to the Risk of Developing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome” Construction Research Congress 2024, ASCE, March 20-23, 2024, Des Moines, IA (Best Paper Award) [Link]
  13. Das, N., Lee, J.*, Kim, N. (2024). “Exploring Individual Variances in Learning Process During Immersive Safety Training for Construction: A Comprehensive Review of VR/AR-Based Safety Training” International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE 2024), July 28-31, 2023, Pittsburgh, PA
  14. Park, S., Jung, K., Jeon, J.*, Kim, N. (2024). “Development of a Framework for Generative AI-based Safety Management via Prompt Engineering” International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE 2024), July 28-31, 2023, Pittsburgh, PA
  15. Kim, T., Kim, S., Kim, N., Kim., H* (2023). “ChatGPT in the Construction Domain: Opportunities, Risks, and Recommendations” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Civil and Building Engineering Informatics (ICCBEI 2023), July 19-21, 2023, Bangkok, Thailand
  16. Uhm, M., Shin G., Kim. H., Kim, N., Kim, H.* (2023). “Evaluating the Economic Impact of Preventive Treatment Strategies for Municipal Highways” International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE 2023) June 25-28, 2023, Corvallis, OR
  17. Kim, N., Grégoire, L., Anderson, B. A., Suermann, P., and Ahn, C. R.* (2022). “How Personality Affects Construction Workers’ Vigilance to Repeatedly Exposed Struck-by Hazards in Road Work Zones” The 22nd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR 2022), November 16-19, 2022, Seoul, South Korea
  18. Kim, M., Heo, C., Jeong, W., Kim, N., Park, M., Ahn, C. R.* (2022). “Construction Workers’ Trust Towards Robot Co-workers and Human Co-workers” The 22nd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR 2022), November 16-19, 2022, Seoul, South Korea
  19. Park, S., Kim. N., Ahn, C. R., Kim, H.* (2022). “Effectiveness of Experiential Safety Training in Physical Facility Compared with VR-based Safety Training” The 22nd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR 2022), November 16-19, 2022, Seoul, South Korea
  20. Kim, N., Grégoire, L., Anderson, B. A., and Ahn, C. R.* (2022). “Construction Workers’ Sensation-Seeking and Inattentiveness to Warning Alarms from Construction Vehicles” International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management 2022 (ICCEPM 2022), June 20-23, 2022, Las Vegas, NV
  21. Kim, N., Ahn, C. R.*, Miller, A., Dibello, R., Lobello, D., Oh, S., and McNamara, A. (2022). “Enhancing Workers’ Vigilance to Electrical Hazards by Demonstrating a Simulated Electrocution Accident in a Virtual Environment” Construction Research Congress 2022, ASCE, March 9-12, 2022, Arlington, VA [Link]
  22. Lee, H., Kim, N., and Ahn, C. R.* (2021). “Detecting Hook Attachments of a Safety Harness Using Inertial Measurement Unit Sensors” 38th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2021), November 3-4, 2021, Dubai, United Arab Emirates [Link]
  23. Kim, N., and Ahn, C. R.* (2020). “Using a Virtual Reality-based Experiment Environment to Examine Risk Habituation in Construction Safety” 37th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2020), October 27-28, 2020, Kitakyushu, Japan [Link]
  24. Lee, H., Yang, K., Kim, N., and Ahn, C. R.* (2020). “A Hybrid CNN-LSTM Model for Detecting Excessive Load Carrying from Workers’ Body Movements” Construction Research Congress 2020. ASCE, March 8-10, 2020, Tempe, AZ [Link]