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Design Systems

Doctoral Researcher: Chun-Juei(CJ) Chou
Advisor: Chris Conley

Title: Product Design Approaches for Enhancing User Experiences


Doctoral Researcher: WonJoon Chung
Advisor: Chris Conley

Title: Cross-Functional Collaborative Prototyping in the Front End of the Design Process

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Doctoral Researcher: Adriano Braun Galvao
Advisor: Keiichi Sato (ID)

Title: Affordance-based Product Architecture: Linking Technical Functions and Users' Tasks

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Doctoral Researcher: Eric Swanson
Advisor: Keiichi Sato (ID)

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Doctoral Researcher: Sakol Teeravarunyou
Advisor: Keiichi Sato (ID)

Title: An Approach to User Knowledge and Product Architecture for Knowledge Lifecycle

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Understanding Users & Contexts

Doctoral Researcher: Suzan Boztepe
Advisor: John Heskett

Title: Product Adaptation: A user-Value-Based Approach

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Doctoral Researcher: Praima Chayutsahakij
Advisor: Sharon Poggenpohl

Title: User-Centered Design Goal Setting: The Interplay between Research and Innovation

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Doctoral Researcher: Kyung Ran Choi
Advisor: Keiichi Sato (ID)

Title: Culture-centered design approach for Design of living environment

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Doctoral Researcher: Jay Melican
Advisor: Sharon Poggenpohl

Title: Describing User-Centered Designing: How Design Teams Apply User Research Data in Creative Problem Solving

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Languages & Media of Communication

Doctoral Researcher: Young Ae Hahn
Advisor: Judith Gregory

Title: Semiotic Constituents and Abstractness of Mediating Artifacts in Design Research

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Doctoral Researcher: Chujit Jeamsinkul
Advisor: Sharon Poggenpohl

Title: Methodology for Uncovering Motion Affordance in Interactive Media

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Doctoral Researcher: Jinsook Kim
Advisor: Sharon Poggenpohl

Title: Motion Perception for Enhanced Visual Communication in the Digital Environment

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Doctoral Researcher: Heloisa Tavares de Moura
Advisor: Sharon Poggenpohl and Judith Gregory

Title: Adaptive Multimodal Digital Learning Environments: from Traditional Practice to Innovation

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Doctoral Researcher: Napawan Sawadichai
Advisor: Sharon Poggenpohl

Title: User Goal-Based Approach to Information Search and Structure on Web Site

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Doctoral Researcher: Peter Storkerson
Advisor: Sharon Poggenpohl

Title: Cross Mode Communication in Multimedia

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Interactive Systems


Doctoral Researcher: Youn-kyung Lim
Advisor: Keiichi Sato (ID)

Title: Design Information Framework (DIF) for Integrating Multiple Aspects of Design

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Doctoral Researcher: Eui-Chul Jung
Advisor: Keiichi Sato (ID)

Title: Context-Sensitive Visualization: Mapping Internal Context on Visualization Mechanism

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Doctoral Researcher: Jung-Min Choi
Advisor: Keiichi Sato (ID)

Title: Designing Interaction as a Learning Process: Supporting Users' Domain Knowledge Development in Interaction



Doctoral Researcher: Jihyun Sun
Advisor: Keiichi Sato (ID)

Title: Spatial Dimensions of Ambient Interactive System (AIS) Design

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Doctoral Researcher: Juan Salamanca
Advisor: Judith Gregory

Title: Agent Based Interaction Design. Sociality with smart artifacts

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Strategic Design Planning

Doctoral Researcher: Izabel Falcao Barros
Advisor: John Heskett

Title: Design Strategy for Innovation and Organizational Effectiveness

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Doctoral Researcher: Charles Bezerra
Advisor: Charles L. Owen

Title: Evolutionary Structural Planning

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Doctoral Researcher: Jooyun Melanie Joh
Advisor: John Heskett

Title: Resource-based Design Competency Evolution Model: Conditions in Corporate Design Organizations

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Doctoral Researcher: Ding Bang Luh
Advisor: Charles L. Owen

Title: A Screening Model for More Innovative Ideas in the Early Stages of Innovation Process

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Doctoral Researcher: Jose Carlos Teixeira
Advisor: Charles L. Owen

Title: Design Knowledge and Business Innovation

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