Most of his works start with observing people and building meaningful interactions in the physical environment.
Recently, his research has focused on making tools to augment or mediate body and mind at the intersection of technology and design. His works have been presented at FastCompany, IDEA, Core77, Science Museum London, Venice Biennale, Seoul Design Week, and HCI Conferences including ACM CHI, DIS, UIST, IEEE HRI, etc.
Recently, his research has focused on making tools to augment or mediate body and mind at the intersection of technology and design. His works have been presented at FastCompany, IDEA, Core77, Science Museum London, Venice Biennale, Seoul Design Week, and HCI Conferences including ACM CHI, DIS, UIST, IEEE HRI, etc.
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Education
Harvard University
MDes, Mediums
2023 - 2025
Seoul National University
BFA, Industrial Design / HCI
2015 - 2021
University of Arts London
Visiting Student, Interaction Design Arts
2019 - 2020
Publications
Post-plant3: The Third Type of a Series of Non-humanoid Robots with an Embedded Physical Interaction: The development of non-verbal human-robot interaction framework and interactive robot prototypes.
UIST '21: The Adjunct Publication of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (October.2021)
Post-plant: A Series of Non-humanoid Robots with Embedded Physical Non-verbal Interaction: The Development of Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interaction Framework and Input/Output Integrated Motor Interface co-authored with Jaeyeon Park, Taeyun Li
CHI EA '21: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (May.2021)
Honk? Talk!: Designing Driver-to-Driver Communication Methods for Social Driving / co-authored with Eun Jee Sung, Hyesun Chung, Jooseung You
DIS '19 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (June.2019)
AVEC: power assist vehicle enriching communication using intuitive interface, A contextual inquiry of AVEC: power assist wheelchair enhancing communication / co-authored with Jaehoon Kim, Minkyung Kim, Hotae Lee, Jungwook Moon
HRI '19: Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (March.2019)
Power-Assisted Wheelchair Platform based on Load Cell Interface for the Elderly,co-authored with Jaehoon Kim, Minkyung Kim, Hotae Lee, Jungwook Moon The 14th Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference (Jan.2019)
Registered patents: Korean patent number 1020190140919, 1020200003897, design patent 3020190010604(M001)
Exhibitions
Time Space Existence, Venice Biennale
2023
SXSW Creative Expo
2023
ZER01NE DAY(Hyundai Motor Group exhibition)
2021
Seoul Design Week
2021
London Science Museum Lates
2020
Exhibition for the Korea-Iran Cultural Exchange
2017
Awards and Honors
Fast Company’s 2023 Innovation by Design Awards Honorable Mention
2023
IDEA(International Design Excellence Awards)
2022
Core77 Design Award
2021, 2022
ZER01NE residency at Hyundai Motor Group
2021, 2023
DDP Young Designerponsorship
2021
ArtCenter Nabi creative research sponsorship
2021
Arts Vision Government Scholarship (Fully funded for undergraduate education)
2015 - 2020
Undergraduate Research Program Funding (Fully funded for undergraduate thesis project)
2020
Fung Scholarship (Fully funded for UAL visiting student semester)
2019
Student Design Competition winner at 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction
2019
BMW-Seoul National University Research Competition Awardee
2018
Skills
Design
Rhino&Grasshopper, Fusion360, Keyshot, Blender, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Premiere, and more ...
Programming
C, Arduino, Processing, JavaScript, Python
Prototyping
Model making, Unity, Protopie, Kinect, Leap motion
Workshops
Woodworking, Metalworking, Laser Cutting, 3D printing, Solering, Vacuum Forming