cixd creative interaction design lab.

Daehyun Kwak won the Best Research award at the 2024 ID KAIST Doctoral Colloquium Fall Show. He presented his doctoral research works and the CHI 2024 paper titled "Investigating the Potential of Group Recommendation Systems as a Medium of Social Interactions: A Case of Spotify Blend Experiences between Two Users." 

Gahyeon Bae (undergraduate researcher) presented a full paper entitled “Why I Choose This Sticker When Chatting with You: Exploring Design Considerations for Sticker Recommendation Services in Mobile Instant Messengers” at the CSCW 2024 conference. This work conducted various qualitative studies to investigate mobile instant messenger (MIM) users’ considerations in sticker selection and usage experiences in daily conversations. Based on the findings, this paper discussed novel design implications for sticker recommendation services in MIM. This work received an Honorable Mention Award at CSCW 2024 (Top 4%). (https://cscw.acm.org/2024/index.php/awards/)

Sojeong Yun presented her Ph.D. research, “Toolkit Design for Building Camera Sensor-Driven DIY Smart Homes,” at the Doctoral Colloquium session of the Ubicomp 2024 conference. The session was chaired by Rosa I. Arriaga (Georgia Institute of Technology), Tilman Dingler (TU Delft), and Uichin Lee (KAIST) and 12 Ph.D. students participated.

Yongjae was selected for the NRF doctoral student research fellowship (한국연구재단 박사과정생 연구장려금 지원사업. He was selected for the fellowship based on his future doctoral research proposal. He will be supported by the fellowship for two years (2024.09–2026.08).

Yoomi presented a full paper entitled "How We Use Together: Coordinating Individual Preferences for Using Shared Devices at Home" at the DIS 2024 conference. This work conducted a diary study and in-depth interviews to observe how members of multi-person households coordinate their preferences in everyday life. The empirical studies discovered that members’ device usage is not solely influenced by their own preferences, but is significantly affected by the preferences and social contexts of other members. This study identified three strategies for coordinating preferences: coordination according to shared priorities, coordination according to shared rules, and coordination for relationships. Based on the findings, design implications were proposed for multi-user smart homes that support coordination.  

Daehyun presented a full paper entitled "Investigating the Potential of Group Recommendation Systems as a Medium of Social Interactions: A Case of Spotify Blend Experiences between Two Users" at the CHI 2024 conference. This work conducted various qualitative studies, including survey, diary study, and interview, to investigate users' social experiences mediated by group recommendation systems (GRS), adopting Spotify's Blend as a research context. The empirical studies revealed that, while using Blend, users engaged in a tacit understanding of their companions and indirect communications. Based on the findings, this work discussed the newly discovered value of GRS as a social catalyst and suggested key attributes and challenges for designing GRS-mediated social experiences.

Congratulations to Yongjae, a master's student from CIxD lab, for being honored with the Best Master's Thesis Award in the Industrial Design Department at the KAIST 2024 graduation ceremony. The title of Yongjae’s thesis is "Human-centered Algorithmic Management System Design in On-demand Ride-pooling Services."

Sojeong and Sehee were honored with invitations to present their papers at the 2023 ID KAIST Doctoral Colloquium Fall Show, an event featuring the department's top research work for the year.   Sojeong presented her doctoral research works and the CHI 2023 paper titled "Potential and Challenges of DIY Smart Homes with an ML-intensive Camera Sensor". Sehee presented her DIS 2023 paper titled "Balancing Flexibility and Authority: Exploring Negotiation as an Interaction Strategy for Healthy Sleep Behaviors”. Sehee won the Best Research award in 2023 ID KAIST Doctoral Colloquium Fall Show.   

Daehyun presented a full paper titled "Design Considerations for Supporting Social Interaction in Algorithmic Social Media Feed" at the IASDR 2023 conference. This work conducted a design workshop study to explore design solutions that can overcome or facilitate the current UX issues of algorithmic recommendations in social media feeds. Based on the workshop outcome, this paper presented five design proposals: respecting the following posts, preventing undesired disclosure, sophisticated management for recommendation algorithms, recommendations for the group of users, and reinforcing linkage to the community.

"Hug" is a program that provides professional counseling services to graduate and undergraduate students, facilitating communication and resolution of various concerns that may arise during their academic journey through peer counselors. Becoming a peer counselor involves a semester-long education on counseling processes and techniques. This program is jointly organized by the KAIST Counseling Center and the KAIST Graduate Human Rights Center. It aims to expand the opportunities for counseling centers by forming empathy among students, fostering a culture of mutual care and consideration, and observing the ongoing psychological issues of surrounding peers. Sehee, after completing the peer counselor training course in 2022, has been conducting peer counseling every month and has been selected as an outstanding peer counselor this year.

MinYoung Yoo, who is currently a PhD student at Homeware Lab in Simon Fraser University (Canada), visited CIxD Lab from September 21 to 22. Over the two days, CIxD Lab's members and Yoo shared insights and experiences on HCI and design research.  

Daehyun was selected as a KAIST 인성장학생 (Volunteer). He was recommended as a scholarship candidate by the department, in recognition of his contributions to organizing various academic events as a doctoral student representative over the past year (2022. 07. ~ 2023. 06.)

Hankyung presented her full paper titled “Investigating How Users Design Everyday Intelligent Systems in Use” at the DIS 2023 conference. This work conducted an interview study to explore end-user practices that aimed to achieve their own desired experiences in everyday intelligent systems. The study revealed three styles of end-user design of their experiences: teaching, resisting, and repurposing. Based on the findings, the paper discussed the design implications of our findings, recognizing end-users’ motivation to challenge a prescribed experience of an intelligent system.

Sehee presented her full paper titled "Balancing Flexibility and Authority: Exploring Negotiation as an Interaction Strategy for Healthy Sleep Behaviors" at the DIS 2023 conference. This work proposed a new interaction concept of negotiating sleep hygiene goals between the sleep-supporting system and users, in order to promote users' sleep health. The study explored the potential and experience of negotiation through the experience prototyping method, in the form of improvisational role-playing. Based on the findings, the paper discussed the key characteristics and potential of negotiation interaction.

Yongjae presented his Provocations and Works-in-Progress (PWiP) paper titled “Exploring Passengers' Experiences in Algorithmic Dynamic Ride-pooling Services” at DIS 2023, Pittsburgh, US. The study explored the existing passengers’ experience in Ride-pooling Mobility-on-Demand services which are a cutting-edge form of smart mobility services that operate through automated algorithmic decisions for optimal efficiency. This study revealed that passengers faced personal losses in terms of unpredictability and uncontrollability owing to the algorithmic decision-making that coordinates the sharing of the tool as transportation. Based on the findings, this paper discusses important issues to be considered for human-centered design in the context of passengers with different goals and interests sharing a real-time algorithm-based ride-pooling service.

Hankyung Kim was invited to give a talk for design practitioners in NAVER, at NAVER Connect One, South Korea. This talk was given as a part of the KAIST-NAVER MOU program. In her talk, she discussed the role of end users in the situated use of various design products and systems, introducing the notion of design-in-use as a lens for user-empowering design of AI-enabled personalized systems.

Sojeong Yun presented her full paper titled "Potential and Challenges of DIY Smart Homes with an ML-intensive Camera Sensor" at the CHI 2023 Conference. This work explored novel user experiences in constructing DIY smart home features using an ML-intensive camera sensor, in contrast to commonly used IoT sensors. The study identified the five characteristics of the camera sensor, as well as the potential and challenges of utilizing the camera sensor in the DIY smart home. This paper also discussed the opportunities to address existing DIY smart home issues.

Hyerin and Seungho presented their workshop poster titled ”Is It Really Useful?: An Observation Study of How Designers Use CLIP-based Image Generation For Moodboards” at HCAI@NeurIPS. Contrastive neural network models (i.e. CLIP) based image generation services (e.g. DALL-E2, MidJourney, Stable Diffusion) have shown that they can produce a huge range of flawless images, consistent with a user-provided image concept in text. While a lot of people have shared successful cases on the Internet, there is still a very limited knowledge about whether such tools are helpful for daily design work. This paper conducted a preliminary observational study to investigate how designers create moodboards using DALL-E2. The results indicate that novice users would find it hard to find best prompts for creating and modifying generate images. The goal of this position paper is to propose potential research areas and ideas such as how to set guidelines for designing interactive image generation services for a specific purpose.

Daehyun Kwak presented his poster titled "Exploring Users’ Experiences of 'Suggested Posts' in Social Media Through the Lens of Social Networking and Interactions" at CSCW 2022 Virtual Conference. This work explored how system-driven recommendations on Instagram influence user experiences of social interactions. This study revealed that suggested posts acted as a double-edged sword for communication with their actual friends, acted as an obstacle for digital self-presentation, and acted as an unwanted force that compel users to increase social groups. Based on the findings, this paper discusses the importance of considering user agency over social interactions in designing user experiences of recommendations provided in social media.

Hankyung Kim won the Best of the Best Research award in 2022 ID KAIST Doctoral Colloquium Fall Show. She presented her doctoral research works and the DIS 2021 paper titled "Teaching-Learning Interaction: A New Concept for Interaction Design to Support Reflective User Agency in Intelligent Systems."

Hyeji Kim presented her paper titled "Understanding the Negative Aspects of User Experience in Human-likeness of Voice-based Conversational Agents" at DIS 2022 Virtual Conference. This work explored what influences the negative aspects of user experience in human-like Voice-based Conversational Agents (VCAs). This study discovered that the dialogues of the human-likeness outside of the expressed purpose of a VCA and expressions pretending to come from a human identity could lead to negative experiences with VCAs. Based on these findings, she discussed design directions for overcoming potential issues of human imitation.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim was invited to give an online talk for the Colloquium at the School of Business and Technology Management (BTM) at KAIST. Prof. Lim’s talk title was “Human-Centered Design at the Era of Artificial Intelligence from the HCI Design Perspective.” In this talk, she discussed various reasons that prevent AI-applied applications from being designed and developed in the human-centered way, and proposed possible solutions that will enable human-centered AI design and human-AI interaction.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim gave an online talk for KAIST Artificial Intelligence Research Center’s Melting Pot Seminar. This seminar is organized by the chair of AI & Society Committee, Prof. Kyung Ryul Park. The subject of Prof. Lim’s talk was Human-Centered AI. She discussed various issues of AI that infringes human-centered values. The talk can be watched at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DgmJ74VGThlvDMAg-mTwvK7kd3pv7OWJ/view

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim was invited to give an online talk for The좋은생각&좋은나눔, which is a non-profit community where they invite experts from various areas. Prof. Lim’s talk was about meaning of Design and values of Design. The talk can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llu_5IMUI2Y.

Daehyun Kwak and Sehee Son presented their papers at IASDR 2021 Conference: "Understanding User Experience with Recommendations in Social Network Service Feed" (by Daehyun) and "User Expectations of Serendipitous Recommender Systems" (by Sehee).

Hyerin Im’s Spring rounds has been selected to participate in the Punto y Raya Festival 2021 Competition. The selection process has been delightful and yet, quite hard, with over 750 eligible films from 57 countries. The seventh edition of Punto y Raya Festival will take place November 25th-28th 2021 at the Austrian FilmMuseum, Blickle Kino im Belvedere 21 and Künstlerhaus in Vienna, Austria.   Based on Stravinsky’s ‘The rite of Spring’, Im produced this work as a reinterpretation through abstract animation. The idea for the project came in spring 2020, while she was agonising over the human frailty facing the Corona virus. We often forget our essential, more primitive values in this era of cutting edge Technology and the fast development of modern society. So she tried to link all this with the imagery suggested by Stravinsky’s music. She didn’t use any graphic vector images, but paper cut-outs and other materials, searching for an experimental way to create a piece analogically. The process involves the analysis of the musical piece itself as well as the mood suggested by the original Spring, which she emphasised using the colour red. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps - Version for Piano Duet Part 1: The Adoration of the Earth - Spring Rounds Vladimir Ashkenazy, Andrei Gavrilov  

Hankyung Kim, Hoyeon Nam, and Keunwoo Kim presented their posters at HCI International 2021 Asynchronous Conference: "Utilitarian or Relational? Exploring Indicators of User Orientation Towards Intelligent Agents" (by Hankyung), "User Experience of Agent-mediated Interactions with Multiple Conversational Agents" (by Hoyeon), and "Hurdle Relay: A Participatory Design Method for Understanding the Information Gap Through Iterative Comparison" (by Keunwoo).  

Hankyung Kim, Inchan Jung, and Keunwoo Kim presented their papers at DIS 2021 Asynchronous Conference: "Teaching-Learning Interaction: A New Concept for Interaction Design to Support Reflective User Agency in Intelligent Systems" (by Hankyung), "Understanding How Users Experience the Physiological Expression of Non-humanoid Voice-based Conversational Agent in Healthcare Services" (by Inchan), and "Guiding Preferred Driving Style Using Voice in Autonomous Vehicles: An On-Road Wizard-of-Oz Study" (by Keunwoo).    

Inha Cha and Dongyoon Koh successfully defended their Masters Thesis. Congratulations!   Inha's thesis is titled "Developing a Framework for Value-sensitive Design of Artificial Intelligence Agents."   Dongyoon's thesis is titled "Conversation for Curiosity: Human Interaction Inspired Guideline for Designing Conversational Agents that Promote User Curiosity."

Inha Cha presented her paper titled "Exploring the Use of a Voice-based Conversational Agent to Empower Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder" at CHI 2021 Virtual Conference. This work explored how VCAs could encourage adolescents with ASD in navigating various aspects of their daily lives through the two-week use of VCAs and a series of participatory design workshops. Findings demonstrated that VCAs could be an engaging, empowering, emancipating tool that supports adolescents with ASD to address their needs, personalities, and expectations, such as promoting self-care skills, regulating negative emotions, and practicing conversational skills.  

Inha Cha participated and presented a position paper “Challenges in Devising Resources for Ethics: What Should We Consider When Designing Toolkits to Tackle AI Ethical Issues for Practitioners?” at CHI 2021 workshop: Co-Designing Resources for Ethics Education in HCI.  

Hye Rin Im and Inchan Jung joined CIxD as Masters students. Welcome!  

2020년 12월 9일 과학기술정보통신부 주관으로 온라인 생중계로 진행된 “자율지능 디지털 동반자 기술 연구과제 성과발표회”에서 IITP 주관 AI 플래그십 과제의 3세부 연구결과들 중 CIxD 랩의 연구 결과가 우수성과 중 하나로 선정되어 임윤경 교수가 성과를 발표했다. 선정된 성과는 CHI 2019에 full paper로 게재되었고 김다정 박사가 first author로 진행한 “Co-performing agent: Design for building user-agent partnership in learning and adaptive services” 연구였다. 본 성과 발표회에 대한 자세한 내용은 다음 링크에서 참고할 수 있으며 http://www.sek.co.kr/2020/aip, 관련 기사는 다음 링크에서 볼 수 있다. https://www.etnews.com/20201209000092

CIxD Lab hosted an invited talk given by Prof. Radhika Garg in our seminar on October 30, 2020. Prof. Radhika Garg is an assistant professor at the School of Information Science at Syracuse University (https://ischool.syr.edu/radhika-garg/). Her talk title was “The Role Conversational Agents (Can) Play in Children’s in-Home Learning Activities,” and we had a good discussion about what are challenges and considerations for designing these intelligent devices for the children-parents relationships and the family contexts.

Eujeen Hwang presented a paper titled “Tuning into the Sound: Discovering Motivational Enablers for Self-Therapy Design” at DRS 2020 virtual conference. The study explored the design of applicable enablers that support the mundane self-therapeutic experience. This paper makes design research contributions with a practical set of enablers that can bring self-therapeutic value to the design, and it provides new insights on how mundane sound can be used to influence mindfulness and perceptions of value and meaning for the individuals. This work was done by Eujeen Hwang and Youn-kyung Lim.

Sunjeong Park published her paper titled "Investigating User Expectations on the Roles of Family-shared AI Speakers" at CHI 2020 Virtual Conference. This work investigated the roles of an AI speaker as a family-shared technology. By conducting a one-week participatory user study, it was discovered that family members' co-ownership toward the AI speaker was the key in the development of its family-oriented roles. Due to COVID-19, the conference went without presentation.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim becomes a co-Editor-in-Chief of the Foundations and Trends® in HCI since October 16th, 2019. Foundations and Trends® in Human-Computer Interaction (https://www.nowpublishers.com/HCI) is a SCOPUS-indexed journal and publishes survey papers on key topics of Human-Computer Interaction. Prof. Lim previously served as an editorial board member of this journal and now stepped up to a co-editor-in-chief working with Dr. Desney Tan.  

임윤경 교수는 2019년 8월 23일 디자인학회에서 주관한 심사위원 워크샵에서 “정성적 디자인 연구 방법”에 관한 초청강연을 진행하였다. 심사위원 워크샵은 서울과학기술대학교 디자인학과에서 진행되었으며, 한국디자인학회 저널 및 학술대회 심사위원과 디자인 분야 학생 및 연구자들을 대상으로 진행되었다.

임윤경 교수는 2019년 8월 13일 기획재정부(세종청사) 퓨처인포럼에 초청을 받아 기획재정부 직원분들을 대상으로 "인터랙션 디자인의 발전 동향 및 정책 제언"이라는 제목으로 강연을 진행하였다. 기획재정부의 퓨처인포럼은 경제 사회의 미래 트렌드를 탐색하기 위해 기획되어 월 1회 소강연으로 개최되어오고 있다. 기획재정부의 경제정책 기획자분들께 앞으로의 국가 산업 발전 및 인터랙션 디자인 분야의 발전을 위한 정책에 대해 생각해볼 수 있는 기회로 초청되었으며, 4차산업혁명시대의 AI가 접목된 새로운 인터랙티브 제품과 IoT 제품이 사람들에게 더 의미 있게 디자인되기 위해 앞으로 더 고민되어야 하고 연구되어야 할 분야에 대해 강연을 진행하였다.

Sunjeong Park participated and presented a position paper “Ethical Issues of Family AI Agents: Keeping Intermember Privacy” at the CoDesigning AI Futures workshop at DIS 2019.  

Da-jung Kim presented a paper titled “Co-Performing Agent: Designing for Building User-Agent Partnership in Learning and Adaptive Services” at CHI 2019, Glasgow, UK. The study explored how people co-perform with their own intelligent agent, which asks questions in order to build a better knowledge of its user and adapt a personalized assistant service over time. This paper highlighted three factors that should be carefully considered and designed to support users as a constructive partner of creating personalized services over time. This work was done by Da-jung Kim and Youn-kyung Lim.

In-geon Shin presented a paper entitled "Ten-Minute Silence: A New Notification UX of Mobile Instant Messenger" at CHI 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. This paper highlights a new rule of mobile instant messenger called Ten-Minute Silence. This new rule provides one notification per conversation session, which is a group of consecutive messages, rather than per message. This paper reports themes about the changes in the participants' messaging experience and findings on new social norms for the participants’ use of mobile instant messenger. This work was done by In-geon Shin, Jin-min Seok, and Youn-Kyung Lim.

Hankyung Kim presented her poster entitled “Designing Personalities of Conversational Agents” at CHI 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. The study proposed a conceptual framework for designing and communicating agent personalities to address the question as to how personalities of conversational agents with marked identities can be systematically designed.  This work was done by Hankyung Kim, Dongyoon Koh  and Young-kyung Lim from the Department of Industrial Deisgn and Gaeun Lee, Jung-Mi Park from Samsung Research team. 

Dongyoon Koh participated and presented a participatory design method that explores the fusion of activity data with entertainment application at the Asian CHI Symposium at CHI 2019.

Inha Cha was selected as a recipient of the Kwanjeong Scholarships for 2019-2020.  She will be supported by the Kwanjeong Educational Foundation during her master's degree. The Kwanjeong Education Foundation is the largest scholarship foundation in Asia. It especially provides intensive support for students in natural science and engineering area. It seeks a student who has the academic ability to set clear and specific academic goals and achieve them passionately and creatively, and who can devote him/herself to the nation and human society.

ID KAIST research results and CIxD Lab introduction were published as cover stories in Kainuri, a promotional magazine for KAIST.  

CIxD Lab’s refreshing outing during the ID KAIST’s annual cherry blossom festival was held outside ID KAIST building on the second of April, served with barbecue, drinks and snacks, fashion show and other entertainments!

Recruitment team from Hyundai MOBIS visited ID KAIST for a recruitment talk to students from ID KAIST's eminent research labs, that had highly relevant research areas as MOBIS's, including CIxD lab (Next Interface lab and HCI lab). Students were introduced to the research area, area of specialization, workplace facilities and environment, In-vehicle human machine (HMI) system research team and the future directions of their company. 

On February 15, graduation ceremony of ID KAIST was carried out. In Cixd Lab, Hankyung Kim graduated masters, and Dajung Kim graduated Ph.D.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim was invited to give a talk at School of Computer Science in University of St. Andrews in UK. This talk was given as a part of the symposia where SICSA-HCI (Scotland’s HCI research community) and ACM CHI Subcommittee chairs got together to share our research activities and outcomes. Prof. Lim was invited as she is one of the CHI 2019 subcommittee chairs. In her talk, she briefly introduced her research directions and projects in addition to introducing the most interesting and challenging problem to solve in her research area.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim was invited to give a talk at S School of Electrical Engineering Fall Colloquium at KAIST. Her talk was titled as “User Experience Design and Aesthetics of Interaction for Smart Products.” In this talk, she focused on discussing about how we can design meaningful and aesthetically pleasing quality of interaction experience with these smart products and services such as IoT products and AI-based systems that goes beyond efficiency and performance.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim becomes an Editorial Board Member of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) since November 15th, 2018. ACM TOCHI (https://tochi.acm.org/) is one of the premier journals in the area of Human-Computer Interaction. As of now, Prof. Youn-kyung Lim is the only person affiliated in South Korea as an editorial board member in this journal. The full list of Associate Editors for HCI can be found in the following link: https://tochi.acm.org/editorial-board/.

Eulim Sull was invited to present her CHI poster, “Desiging Health-Promoting Technologies with IoT at Home” at the Special Interest Groups(SIG) Symposium of 2018 Korean Society of Design Science(KSDS, 한국디자인학회) Fall International Conference Programme. The objective of SIG Symposium was to introduce meaningful design-related works that were presented at the international conferences within several interests (e.g., Design Management, Emerging Tech Design, Service Design). Eulim presented her work at the Emerging Tech Design Sig, the session was to share recent studies on designing newly emerging technologies. Conference info: http://www.design-science.or.kr/local/notice_read.asp?gp_no=4191

Dr. Yeoreum Lee and Prof. Youn-kyung Lim received 2018 Best Paper Award from KSDS Archives of Design Research for the paper they published at the Archives of Design Research 123, Vol.30(3). The paper’s title is “Designing Social Interaction for Health Behavior Change throughout the Before, During, and After Phase in Health IT Services,” and the full paper can be accessed at the following link: http://aodr.org/_common/do.php?a=full&b=12&bidx=845&aidx=11239 The award is given to the top three papers (one is the best of the best papers, and the other two are the best papers) among the 53 published papers during 2018 for this journal. Our paper was one of the two best papers. Archives of Design Research is also SCOPUS-indexed.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim was invited to give a panel talk at Design 3.0 Forum in Tsinghua University (http://www.design3-0.com/en/h-col-127.html). The panel was about discussing new design agenda and issue on “AI and Next-generation Design.” Her talk was about the aesthetics of interaction in the era of AI-enabled and smart products. Prof. Lim was one of the four panelists who are the experts in the areas of AI, Design, and Art. Her position paper for this panel can be found in the following link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=18hOr1G3eXytjfq9LN2Hj12tGgOVcZcz_

Eulim Sull presented her poster entitled “Designing Health-Promoting Technologies with IoT at Home” at CHI 2018, Montréal, Canada. The study aimed to shed light on the use of domestic IoT that can foster changes toward healthy behaviors and reported two major goals of health-promoting technologies using IoT as well as different persuasive techniques. This work was done by Eulim Sull and Youn-kyung Lim in Department of Industrial Design.

In-geon Shin presented a paper entitled "Too Close and Crowded: Understanding Stress on Mobile Instant Messengers based on Proxemics" at CHI 2018, Montréal, QC, Canada. This study applied proxemics—the theory of human use of space—to understand stress on mobile instant messengers (MIM), presented themes, highlighted the related design features, and provided design implications. This work was done by In-geon Shin, Jin-min Seok, and Youn-Kyung Lim.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim was invited to give a keynote talk at the Asian HCI Symposium held at CHI 2018 in Montréal, QC, Canada. Prof. Lim was one of the three academic keynote speakers and the talk was titled as “User Experience Design for Smart Products.” In this talk, she discussed about emerging UX issues for designing smart products like AI speakers and IoTs by introducing some of her lab’s research outcomes in this area. More about the conference can be found at http://hci.tokyo/chi2018/program/.

  On February 23, graduation ceremony of ID KAIST was carried out. In Cixd Lab, Hoyeon Nam and Eulim Sull graduated masters, and Yeoreum Lee and Youngwook Jung graduated Ph.D.

Yeoreum Lee was invited to give a talk at the Design Korea 2017, Ilsan KINTEXT, South Korea. Design Korea is the largest design business exhibition in South Korea and one of the most famous of its kind in Asia. It is hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and operated by the Korea Institute of Design Promotion. For this annual event, nearly 400 businesses at home and abroad exhibit 2,500 of their latest product entries for best design. Yeoreum Lee was chosen for Korea Next Generation Design Leader in 2009, and participated in 2010 and 2011's Design Korea Exhibition. In this year, as an invited speaker of Design Talk Concert session, she gave a talk about "How to research design" and shared her research works and experience. Website: https://www.designkorea.or.kr:444/ko/app/main/index.html

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim is invited as a Conference Co-chair of DIS 2018, starting from January 4th, 2017. Prof. Ilpo Koskinen (Hong Kong Polytech U) is the primary Conference chair, and she collaborates with him to organize this conference. DIS is one of the top international conferences in the field of HCI and Interaction Design. It is an ACM sponsored conference and the average acceptance rate for the conference submissions is about 25%. The details of the conference can be seen in the following link: http://dis2018.org/

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim is invited as an Editorial Board Member of Human-Computer Interaction Journal (HCI) since May 23rd, 2017. HCI (hci-journal.com) is widely recognized as one of the premier journals in the field. HCI has the highest impact rating in the field of human-computer interaction (3.70), as well as being among the top few in related fields (computer science theory and methods and design research). As of now, Prof. Youn-kyung Lim is the only person affiliated in South Korea. The full list of Associate Editors for HCI can be found in the following link: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=hhci20.

Yeoreum Lee published an article entitled "Designing Social Interaction for Health Behavior Change throughout the Before, During, and After Phases in Health IT Services" in the Archives of Design Research (ADR, SCOPUS). This journal article explains how to apply different social interactions for diverse people according to the temporal phase of health-related behavior and suggests a design principle of social interactions for each temporal phase of health-related behaviors when using health IT services.

  모집완료 되었습니다. 지원해주셔서 감사합니다 :)   ===============================================   CIxD와 함께 '사람 중심의 디자인'이라는  비전을 함께 공유 할 수 있는 인턴을 모집합니다.     <지원 자격>   - 산업디자인 또는 CS 관련 전공생 - 학부 3학년 이상에 재학 중인 자     <근무 형태>   - 주 5회 근무, 주 1회 정기미팅 - 2017년 9월 1일부터 근무 시작     <업무 내용>   - 업무내용: 프로토타입 앱 개발, 사용자 조사 보조 - 우대사항: CS 전공자, 사용자조사 진행 경험, 앱 개발 경험     <급여>   - 협의 후 결정      <지원 방법>   - cixdlab@gmail.com로 이력서 및 포트폴리오를 제출해주세요.     ★ 기술에 중점을 두기보다는, 사용자 경험을 우선시 하는 마인드를 가진 분이면 좋겠습니다.

Saeyoung Rho presented a paper entitled “FutureSelf: What Happens When We Forecast Self-Trackers' Future Health Statuses?” at DIS 2017, Edinburgh, UK. The study suggested a new type of information to represent self-tracked data (consequence information, i.e., the predicted future information based on collected data) and revealed that this type of information can help increase users' motivation to engage in healthy behavior through in-depth qualitative user studies. This work was done by Saeyoung Rho, Hankyung Kim, Jonghyuk Jung, Youn-Kyung Lim in Department of Industrial Design, and Injung Lee, Hyungi Kim, Bonggwan Jun in Graduate School of Cultural Technology.

Yeoreum Lee and Hoyeon Nam presented their works as a provocation and work-in-progress session at DIS 2017. Yeoreum Lee presented her poster about cheating behaviors in using exergame application, titled "How and Why I Cheated On My App: User Experience of Cheating Physical Activity Exergame Applications." Hoyeon Nam presented his poster about suggesting a new IoT design method, titled "Beauty and the Beast: An IoT Design Method Based on Improvisational Acting," Various design researchers paid attention to each design study of the two students and Yeoreum and Hoyeon successfully completed the presentation at the conference.

Saeyoung Rho, CIxD alumna, is admitted to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She will continue her research at Technology and Policy Program (TPP). TPP addresses societal challenges through research and education at the intersection of technology and policy. TPP's goal is to mobilize science and engineering to inform intelligent, responsible strategies and policies to benefit communities from local to global.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim was invited to give a keynote talk at the international conference in Jakarta Indonesia, CHIuXiD 2017. CHIuXiD 2017 is the third conference led by the HCI community in Indonesia for the researchers and the practitioners in the field of CHI. It is also sponsored by ACM SIGCHI. The conference was very successful with people from different countries and also with good quality research papers (23% acceptance rate). The conference also had a wonderful set of presentations from industry for business cases. Prof. Lim was one of the three academic keynote speakers and gave a talk about newly emerging paradigm of UX with HCI 3.0 artifacts, titled as “Redefining UX Design for HCI 3.0 Artifacts.” More about the conference can be found at http://2017.chiuxid.org/chiuxid-2017-program/. The abstract of the keynote talk can be find in this link.

The full paper entitled, “Possibilities and Limitation of Online Document Tools for Design Collaboration: The Case of Google Docs,” was presented by Young-Wook Jung (co-authors: Youn-kyung Lim and Myung-suk Kim) at CSCW 2017, Portland, OR, USA. In this paper, we compared online document tools, such as Google Docs, with face-to-face interaction through a design workshop study, and discovered the possibilities and limitations of two medium for design collaboration with the influential properties.

One of CIxD's pioneers, Jong-bum Woo (far right), and master's students Min-kyung Kim (2nd from left) and Soon-ju Lee(3rd from left) graduated on Feburary 17th, 2017. All of our lab members are grateful that all three have been sharing enthusiasm and love and wish a best luck on their future. The topics of their thesis are listed below; Jong-bum Woo, Ph.D., Designing Routine-driven Do-it-yourself Smart Home  Min-Kyung Kim, Master's Student, Designing Autonomous Sharing Regulation to Respect User Privacy in Health-related Personal Informatics System Soon-ju Lee, Master's Student, A Study on Applying the Group Goal Concept to Health IT Service Design for Health Behavior Change  

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim was invited to give a talk at Prof. Ron Wakkary’s Inaugural Symposium at TU Eindhoven (TU/e). She introduced two research cases from the CIxD lab, 1) Non-finito Products which is led by the Ph.D. candidate Jinmin Seok, and 2) UX design for DIY Smart Home which is led by the Ph.D. candidate Jongbum Woo. This talk was given to show how we can design something that is not firmly defined regarding its functionalities and rather opens up for new solution ideas that can be directly created by end-users while using it in their daily living situations. Her talk can be found and watched at http://openwebcast.nl/?p=5427.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim was invited to give a talk at the colloquium of KAIST Graduate School of Culture Technology (GSCT). She gave a talk about how we rethink about understanding and designing user experience in this emerging era with new types of products such as IoTs, wearable activity trackers, and smart home products. She introduced some of the key research outcomes from our CIxD lab.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim co-organized the UbiComp 2016 PC Meeting with Prof. Shwetak Patel and Prof. Andreas Bulling as UbiComp 2016 TPC co-chairs. The meeting was held at DFKI in Kaiserslautern, Germany on May 28th and 29th. Over 60 PC members participated to finalize the decisions to accept UbiComp 2016 papers and notes in this meeting.

As the research collaboration outcome with researchers at Simon Fraser University in Canada, Dr. Will Odom, Prof. Ron Wakkary, and Audrey Desjardins, and also with Prof. Bart Hengeveld at TU/e in Netherlands and Richard Banks at Microsoft Research in UK, Prof. Youn-kyung Lim presented the paper with these collaborators, “From Research Prototypes to Research Products” at CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, USA. In this paper, the authors proposed a definition of research products “as an extension and evolution of the research prototype to support generative inquiries” on emerging complex issues of human-technology relationships.

Our paper entitled, “Design Opportunities in Three Stages of Relationship Development between Users and Self-Tracking Devices,” was presented by Dajung Kim (co-authors: Yeoreum Lee, Saeyoung Rho, and Youn-kyung Lim) at CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, USA. In this paper, we proposed a new lens to understand and design for changing interaction between users and self-tracking devices.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim was invited to give a talk at Naver Labs for their seminar series. Her talk title was “Redefining UX Design for HCI 3.0 Artifacts.” Over 50 Naver people attended the talk. She defined the newly emerging IT products and services as HCI 3.0 artifacts which allow people to create their own features for themselves and/or learn users’ behaviors and environments to provide personalized smart solutions, and discussed how we need to rethink about the meaning of UX and Design for HCI 3.0 artifacts by introducing various research outcomes produced from our CIxD lab.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim participated as one of the presenters at KAIST’s IdeasLab at 2016 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (a.k.a. Davos Forum). The theme KAIST hosted was on "Biotechnology Solutions for Ageing Populations". The KAIST IdeasLab was organized by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, who presented about "Traditional Medicine Reimagined through Modern Systems Biology.” Prof. Lim’s presentation was on “Advanced Mobile Healthcare Systems” in which she introduced KAIST’s Dr M Project technologies and concepts contextualized in the support for elderly’s independence. The other two presenters were Prof. Byung-Kwan Cho of the Biological Sciences Department who presented on “Rejuvenation via the Microbiome," and Prof. Daesoo Kim of the Biological Sciences Department who presented on "A Neural Switch for Being Happy with Less on a Crowded Planet." KAIST’s IdeasLab presentations can be accessed in the following Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7m903CwFUgl8bz6uhOO6tsX79bF2QwUA

The paper by Yeoreum Lee, Min Gyeong Kim, Saeyoung Rho, Da-jung Kim and Youn-kyung Lim (CIxD Lab), "Friends in Activity Trackers: Design Opportunities and Mediator Issues in Health Products and Services", has been selected to receive Reviewers Choice Best Paper Awards at IASDR 2015 Interplay. IASDR 2015 was held during 2-5 of November in Brisbane, Australia.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim was invited as a guest speaker for the 5th Austrailia Korea Innovation Workshop, which was held in Seoul on October 15, 2015. The Austrailia Korea Innovation Workshop is an annually held workshop for collaboration between Austrailian and Korean scholars and industry practitioners to discuss about innovative business opportunities. It is organized by NAEK (한국공학한림원) and ATSE. In her talk, she presented her perspective on newly emerging paradigm on user experience of wearable devices and IoTs. After the talk, she participated in the discussion around important agenda of wearable smart devices with other scholars who attended in this workshop.

Giovanni Maria Troiano comes from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) as a visiting student to collaborate with Prof.Youn-kyung Lim at the Industrial Design Department. Giovanni is currently a PhD candidate as part of a european founded project called GHOST (http://ghostfet-prod.cs.bris.ac.uk/), which investigates deformable, organic, and shape-changing interfaces. His work at KAIST in collaboration with Prof.Youn-kyung Lim is a study of shape-changing interfaces that uses science fiction (Sci-Fi) movies as the main source of information. By looking at Sci-Fi movies Prof.Youn and him will generate meaningful categories and taxonomy for shape-changing interfaces. The purpose of their work is to provide designers of shape-changing interfaces with categories and key design elements that can help them in the design process of those particular interfaces.

Yeoreum Lee, a Ph.D. candidate in CIxD Lab. (led by Prof. Youn-kyung Lim), was selected and invited to the 2015 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Final Interview. This year, 90 distinguished PhD candidates from 40 leading research universities/institutions were nominated for MSRA Fellowship. Each candidate’s credentials, publications, and research projects were thoroughly evaluated by a review committee. Finally, 29 students from 14 universities have passed the committee’s review and were invited for a final onsite interview at Microsoft Research Asia’s office in Beijing. The final interview was held on September 11, 2015. Yeoreum Lee presented her Ph.D. research about "Design for Maintaining Health Behavior Change through Social Reinforcement in Primary Prevention" as a final onsite interview.

Jong-bum Woo and Youn-kyung Lim received Ubicomp2015 Honorable Mention Award. Honorable Mention Award indicated that the paper identified by the program committee as being among the top 5% of all submissions to Ubicomp2015. Their work, titled as "User experience in do-it-yourself smart homes" suggests six stages of the DIY smart home usage cycle and design implications for improving the user experience of DIY smart home products. Jong-bum Woo presented this paper at Ubicomp2015, Osaka at 10th of September.

Dajung Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in CIxD Lab. (led by Prof. Youn-kyung Lim), presented her recent works at Microsoft Research Asia PhD Forum 2015, which was held during 8-9 of September in Beijing, China. This event was hosted at the first time and MSRA invited thirty outstanding Asian PhD students from Asia-Pacific and the United States. MSRA organized workshops in multiple research areas, including Machine Learning, AI, Multimedia, Vision, Systems, Graphics, Big Data, and Human-Computer Interaction. As a member of HCI track, Dajung actively participated in the two-day forum with peer PhD students and MSRA researchers. (Although Jong-bum Woo, another Ph.D. candidate in CIxD Lab., was invited as well, he could not attend to this event due to his presentation at UbiComp 2015 conference.)

The students of the IT Convergence User-Centered Service Design (ITC201) class, led by Prof. Youn-kyung Lim (Department of Industrial Design) and Prof. Alice Oh (School of Computing), participated in the Microsoft Design Expo 2015 (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/designexpo2015/). The expo has been held annually since 2010, with numerous top design schools from around the world, and this marks the first time that a Korean university has participated in the event. For KAIST, there were two liaison partners from Microsoft, March Rogers and Jane Park, who are Microsoft designers. They helped KAIST students to succeed in the design expo along with the teaching staff (two faculty members and two teaching assistants, Dajung Kim of the Department of Industrial Design and JinYeong Bak of the School of Computing. This year’s challenge was to design a product or service for accessibility. Services and products should accommodate people with disability, which according to World Health Organization’s revised definition in 2014, should also include people with context-dependent disabilities, such as near-loss of hearing due to being in a very noisy environment. Throughout the spring semester, five interdisciplinary teams of three to five students designed IT-based services for accommodating users with attribute-based, as well as context-dependent, disabilities. Below are the descriptions of each team’s solution. (The students’ names are in alphabetical order by last name.) Sparkle!: A color and pattern description service for the visually impaired to enhance their shopping experience. Sparkle includes a smart watch to enable visually-impaired people to sense the colors and patterns of clothes through voice and tactile brails. By crowdsourcing the descriptions of various colors in clothing, Sparkle! provides rich color expressions that enable visually-impaired people to vividly experience the visual aspects of the clothes they want to purchase. Members: Sungwon Cho, Jonghyuk Jung, Cheolho Jeon, and Sungbae Kim Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOKPbxemcf4 Avocado: A family meal-planning service for people suffering from diabetes. By enabling family members to plan a healthy meal together, it encourages family members to take care of each other’s dietary restrictions, especially when someone in the family has health problems. Families who share healthy recipes with the Avocado community will get various incentives such as running the menu at the local restaurant for a week or receiving healthy snacks. Members: Minsun Hong, Youngjae Chang, Ji In Kim, and Keunwoo Kim Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV4ezuoPgQ   CrowdCare: A way-finding service for people who are in a crowded area during a fire. When a fire is detected, CrowdCare lights up the escape path people should follow. Based on the demographic profiles, it also connects people who need help and people who can help those who are injured or weak. By supporting crowds in danger and requesting external help immediately, CrowdCare can help to prevent an accident from becoming a severe catastrophe.        Members: Joonhee Min, Juhyung Park, Seongho Park, Seonyoung Park, and Punyotai Thamjamrassri Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fks02YtdiA   SOAP: A communication aid service for people who hesitate to use medical services due to language barriers. It enables a patient and a doctor to exchange virtual cards on an interactive tabletop that visually describes symptoms and prescriptions. By doing so, it aids people with language barriers in having a more comfortable conversation throughout the medical examination. Members: Yoohyun Eum, Kyuhyoung Hong, and Dongyoon Koh Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar3FQcWlZyg   Pino: A crowd-sourced drawing service for hearing-impaired people who have difficulties in reading and understanding books. If a user drags a difficult word on an e-book, Pino shows hand-drawn illustrations created by crowd volunteers to visually explain the meaning of the word. By providing various incentives for the crowd volunteers, it continually motivates them to enhance the reading experience of the hearing-impaired. Members: Hyung-gi Ham, Sunyoung Im, Minseok Kim, Chansoo Park Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYq8zRTOLw Among these well-designed projects, team Sparkle! was selected as the representative of KAIST and presented their work at Microsoft Design Expo 2015, which was held at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, US in the last week of July. Team Sparkle! successfully finished their presentation in the expo and received ‘Most Colorful’ award.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim joined the editorial board of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing (JVLC) as an associate editor. The Journal of Visual Languages and Computing is a Science Citation Index (SCI) journal published by Elsevier, which covers various aspects of visual languages, including visual programming, human-machine interface design, and multi-media communications. The detail information about the journal can be found on the web site: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-visual-languages-and-computing/  

Sicheon You successfully defended his doctoral thesis on May 29th, 2015. He becomes the Ph.D. graduate of CIxD Lab. The title of his research is “The Effects of Contexts on Information Design”. Professor Youn-kyung Lim, Sicheon You’s supervisor, was in charge of the thesis evaluation committee together with professor Myung-seok Kim, professor Hyeon-jeong Seok, and professor Tek-jin Nam, from Industrial Design Department at KAIST, also with professor Chung-kon Shi from School of Humanities & Social Sciences at KAIST.

Wonjun Lee successfully defended his doctoral thesis on May 18th, 2015. He becomes the first Ph.D. graduate of CIxD Lab. The title of his research is “Cultivation of Somatic Awareness in Movement-based Interactive Product Design Practice: The Use of Somaesthetic Reflection”. The whole thesis can be downloaded from here. Professor Youn-kyung Lim, Wonjun’s supervisor, was in charge of the thesis evaluation committee together with professor Kun-pyo Lee and professor Tek-jin Nam, both from Industrial Design Department at KAIST, also with professor Richard Shusterman from Florida Atlantic University (US), and professor Thecla Schiphorst from Simon Fraser University (Canada).

Post-CHI Workshop at KAIT was held at KAIST on the day after the CHI 2015 conference. Prof. Youn-kyung Lim co-organized the workshop with three other KAIST professors, Alice Oh, Geehyuk Lee, and Jae Won Kim. To network and share ground-breaking research and innovations in HCI, the world's leading researchers and practitioners was invited. Da-jung Kim presented “Dwelling Places in KakaoTalk: Understanding the Roles and Meanings of Chatrooms in Mobile Instant Messengers”, and Yeoreum Lee presented “Design for Maintaining Behavior Change for Health Promotion through Social Reinforcement”.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim Participated as a Technical Program Committee member for CHI 2015, which is held in Seoul in April 18-23. She attended a session for ‘Transdisciplinary Design in Education’. Eight panel collects together a group of educators from chosen to provide a global perspective, with panelists from Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, Korea, and Taiwan. They talked about significant issues in this topic which is brought about in these days for over 1 hour. * Transdisciplinary design—which is the idea of design that transcends disciplinary boundaries—has been proposed as a fourth design paradigm of interaction design education, scholarship, and practice alongside the technical, cognitive, and ethnographic paradigms.

Professor Youn-Kyung Lim participated as a Technical Program Committee member for CHI 2015, held in Seoul, South Korea, as a Student Design Competition co-chair with Anirudha Joshi from IIT Bombay, India. The Student Design Competition (SDC) challenged students to design a product, application, technology, or service that enable people who are a new and completely unexplored user group in any country to appropriate things and technologies around them.

Jong-bum Woo was participated in Workshop at CHI 2015, SmartForLife: designing Smart Home Technologies that Evolve with Users. He presented his resent work “Routine as Resource: Do-It-Yourself Style Smart Home,” and have an idea generation session with international smart home researchers.

Prof. Youn-Kyung Lim spoke about "Redefining UX Design and Design Research for HCI 3.0 Artifacts.", invited by Prof. Ron Wakkary at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Frasier University, Vancouver, Canada, March 19, 2015.  

On 17 March 2015, Vancouver, Canada, Yeoreum Lee presented her paper “Understanding the Roles and Influences of Mediators from Multiple Social Channels for Health Behavior Change” at the18th ACM Conference on CSCW’15 (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing) as a full paper.

Dajung Kim presented a paper entitled, “Dwelling Places in KakaoTalk: Understanding the Roles and Meanings of Chatrooms in Mobile Instant Messengers,” at CSCW 2015, Vancouver, Canada. The study presented how the persistent use of mobile instant messengers has shaped the meanings of mobile chatrooms and how those different kinds of virtual places support people’s digital dwelling with various social relationship.

Youn-kyung Lim participated as a sub-committee (SC) deputy chair for CHI 2014. The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction.

Youn-kyung Lim gave a talk at the panel discussion session “Speculative Reasoning in Design” in HCI Korea 2015. Five other people, Ron Wakkary and William Odom from Simon Fraser University, Mark Blythe from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle Haakon Faste from California College of the Arts, and Daniela Rosner from University of Washington, also joined in as panelists. The panel has explored questions such as: - Can speculative reasoning, in particular design fictions, discovery-driven prototypes, conceptual artifacts, and enactments, contribute to HCI research? - Can the addition of speculative reasoning lead to critical examination of our own practices and assumptions of HCI research? - How can designers and HCI researchers and practitioners draw on speculative reasoning in their own practices?

Wonjun Lee presented his Ph.D. research “Pragmatic and Practical Somaesthetics for Interactive Product Design” at the Doctoral Consortium session in DIS 2014 conference. Thecla Schiphorst (Simon Fraser University), Jeffrey Bardzell (Indiana University), and John Bowers (Newcastle University) were the chairs and 12 Ph.D. students participated.

Wonjun Lee presented a paper “Practicing Somaesthetics: Exploring Its Impact on Interactive Product Design Ideation” at DIS 2014 Conference, in Vancouver, Canada. The paper is co-authored by Wonjun Lee, Youn-kyung Lim, and Richard Shusterman. It describes a process of adapting somaesthetic reflection, a method for self-reflecting on the bodily feelings, into design ideation context, and discuss its value.

Wonjun Lee presented a paper “Tools for Effective Communication about Technologies of Domestic Ubiquitous Computing Systems in User-Centered Design” at DRS 2014 Conference, in Umea, Sweden. The paper is a result of co-work among the CIxD lab members, and co-authored by Wonjun Lee, Yeoreum Lee, Jongbum Woo, Jinmin Seok, Ingeon Shin, and Youn-kyung Lim. It provides a collection of lightweight design tools and their deployment in user studies previously done with ETRI and Samsung.

Professor Youn-Kyung Lim had an invited presentation entitled “Laying out the Possible Paths of HCI: Meaningful Boundarylessness” invited by Prof. Stefan Holmlid at Interaction & Service Design at Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. This presentation is about the zeitgeist of HCI, the current trends in HCI such as service design, crowd computing, NUI, big data, immateriality of digital things, and what and how we can contribute to the field and the society.

Professor Youn-Kyung Lim presented “Prototypes and Prototyping in Design” as a faculty opponent for Johan Blomkvist’s Ph.D. Defense invited by Prof. Stefan Holmlid at Interaction & Service Design at Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, May 6th, 2014.

Prof. Youn-kyung Lim participated as a Technical Program Committee member for CHI 2014, which is held in Toronto, Canada, in April 26 – May 1. She attended a special session for ‘Student Design Competition’ as a co-chair with Thecla Schiphorst from Simon Fraser University. The theme of the competition was “How can we transform overwhelming incoming body data into self-knowledge?”

A full paper titled, "Non-Finito Products: A New Design Space of User Creativity for Personal User Experience”, was presented by Jin-min Seok at the 2014 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014) in Toronto, ON, Canada.