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Jung-Min Choi
jungmin at id dot iit dot edu
Background
Jung-Min Choi is currently a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). She holds a bachelor's degree in industrial design from the Seoul National University and a master's degree in educational technology from the Ewha Womans University. She worked as a product designer at LG Electronics and as a multimedia and web designer at Design Group 'able'. During her graduate study, she also worked as a research assistant at the Ewha Center for Teaching and Learning, and as a project team member for Brain Korea 21 (BK21), a program funded by the Korean Government.
Research Interests
Design knowledge management, knowledge representation, Human-computer interaction (HCI), Interactive system design
Kyung Ran Choi
ran at id dot iit dot edu
Background
Educational Background
Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Design, IIT, U.S.A.
M.F.A. at University of Califonia, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
M.F.A. at Seoul National University, Korea
B.F.A. at Seoul National University, Korea
Professional Background
2002-2004 Advisory design consultant for Samsung Housing Construction Co., Korea
2002-2003 Design consultant for Daelim Co., Posco Steel Co.
2001-2004 Design consulting and development for INAX. Co., Japan
1993-2004 Design consulting and development for Hanssem Co., Korea
Current Position
Associate Professor
Head of Interior Design Department, College of Design, Kookmin University
Head of Furniture Major, Graduate School of Design, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea
Doctoral thesis title:
Culture-Centered Design Approach for Design of Living Environment
Link to dissertation abstract
Chun-Juei(CJ) Chou
cjchou at id dot iit dot edu
Background
Chun-Juei Chou is currently working to understand the literature, products and methods relative to experience design. His research studies how product design supports creating user experience. User experience here is defined as a user¡¯s thematic engagement with a product in distinction from their engagement with the utility of the product. The purpose of this research is to establish a framework that can help product designers to better understand quality user experiences and to design products for enhancing specific user experiences.
Chun-Juei Chou holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Industrial Design from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. His research experiences include Human Factors experiments, Usability Engineering, Statistical Analysis and Systematic Design Processes. The title of his master's thesis is "Creating a Multi-Kansei Image Based on Formal Features", which employed the scientific approaches and quantitative research to analyze product form. This research demonstrated the relationship between elements of product form and emotional meanings represented as a set of adjectives.
Research Interests
Experience Design, Kansei Engineering, Product Form, Style and Aesthetics, Design Methods
Doctoral thesis title:
Approaches for Enhancing User Experience in Product Design
Link to dissertation abstract
Won Joon Chung
wonjoon at id dot iit dot edu
Background
Won Joon is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Industrial Design, Carleton University (Canada). Won-Joon holds a B.A. in Industrial Design from KonKuk University in South Korea and a M.A. in Industrial, Interior, and Visual Communication Design from the Ohio State University (OSU). The title of his Masters thesis was "Interdisciplinary Design for Selected Industry Project: Equine Transfer Table for CAT Scanning" sponsored by the veterinary hospital at OSU. He also worked as a full time furniture designer in Korea and as a design intern at the Healthcare Product Design Department at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio.
Doctoral thesis title:
Collaborative Prototyping in an Interdisciplinary Context for New Product Definition
Link to dissertation abstract
Young Ae Hahn
yahahn at id dot iit dot edu
Background
Young-ae holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Visual Communication Design from Seoul National University. She has years of work experience as an information architect and user interface designer with SamsungSDS and Agency.com Korea, as well as internships with Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and LG CNS as an interface designer. She has taught college and graduate level courses at Kon-kuk University, Myung-Ji University Graduate School, In-Je University Graduate School (all located in Seoul, Korea), and at the Institute of Design.
Her Ph.D. research involves the roles of mediating artifacts in design research; specifically how to design, choose, and use tangible artifacts as probes for data collection and idea exploration, making research activities fun and engaging experiences for both researchers and participants.
Research Interests
Participatory design methods, Design games and probes, Human-object interaction
Doctoral thesis title:
Mediating Artifacts in Design Research
Link to dissertation abstract
Eui-Chul Jung
jung at id dot iit dot edu
Background
Eui-Chul is currently an Assistant Professor at the College of Human Ecology, Yonsei University (South Korea). Eui-Chul holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Industrial Design from the Seoul National University. He worked at Design Group 'able', Inc. as a designer for five years and lectured on web and multimedia design at the Multi-Campus of Samsung Data System (SDS) for four years. He also worked at Trigem Computer, Inc. as team leader of the e-Solution Team and the Digital Media Team for two years. He has received "several awards: "2001 KIDA (Korea Industrial Design Award)" (for two projects), "Best Staff Member of the R&D Center" for 2001 at Trigem Computer, and "Special Recognition" in the JAD Design Competition, sponsored by JoongAng Daily New and Samsung.
Doctoral thesis title:
A Framework of Context-Sensitive Visualization in Knowledge-Intensive Interactive System
Link to dissertation abstract
Eric Henry Swanson
erics at id dot iit dot edu
Background
Eric Swanson is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Design. He holds a B.S. in communications from the University of Cincinnati, an M.F.A. in film and video production from Florida State University and an M.Des. in Design Planning from ID. Prior to beginning his Ph.D., Eric worked as a Design Planner at VSA Partners, Inc. in Chicago, where he worked on internet development for large corporations, including key work on e-commerce planning and functionality for meadpaper.com. Prior to VSA, he worked as an Information Design Intern at McDonald's Corporation in Oak Brook, IL where he built frameworks for the development of hand-held computing applications for corporate-to-franchisee Business Consultants (with Carlos Teixeira).
Design research interests:
Interaction design, Contextual design, Design information systems, Scenario-based systems design
Doctoral thesis title:
A Modular, Scenario-Based Platform to Integrate Contextually-Rich Human-Centered Research Data Throughout Interactive Systems Development Processes
Link to dissertation abstract
Elva Yadira Ornelas
yornelas at id dot iit dot edu
Background
Yadira is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Design at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, supported by the Mexican Ministry of Education. Her research interests are human centered design, inclusive design and design methodology. She holds a M.A. in Information Design (2002) from Universidad de las Americas - Puebla, and a B.A. in Graphic Design (1996) from University of Texas. Yadira is a full time professor at the Institute of Architecture, Design and Art, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez (Mexico). She is also a team leader at the Mexican Board for Accreditation of Design Programs (COMAPROD).
Design Research Interests:
Human-centered Design, Inclusive Design, Contextual Design
Ji Hyun Sun
jihyuns at id dot iit dot edu
Background
Ji Hyun is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the Institute Design, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. Her interests in design are interaction design, contextual design, design information system, and human computer interaction (HCI). She worked as a user interface designer at Samsung Electronics, designing interfaces for consumer electronics products and digital convergence devices, as well as conducting both user research and usability testing. She holds two international and domestic patents related with user interface design. Jihyun has a B.F.A. in Visual Communication Design from Hongik University in South Korea and a M.S. in Cognitive Science from Yonsei University in South Korea. During her graduate study, she gave several conference presentations and published multiple papers regarding emotion and web-site design.
Design research interests:
Interaction design, Contextual design, Design information systems
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