INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Assistant Professor | PhD

Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction, Human Experience and Living Design, Research Through Design, Product Design and Technology, Tangible Interaction Design, Internet of Things

E-mail : hyosun.kwon@kookmin.ac.kr

Tel: 02-910-4611

Education

PhD, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK

PhD Thesis: “From Ephemerality to Delicacy: Applying Delicacy in the Design Space of Digital Gifting”, University of Nottingham. UK

MSc in Interaction Design, Department of Industrial Design, KAIST, Korea

BSc, Department of Industrial Design, KAIST, Korea

Experience

(2021.03 - Current) Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Design, College of Design | Kookmin University, Korea

(2021.03 - Currnet) Visiting Fellow, School of Design and Creative Arts | Loughborough University, UK 

(2018.07 - 2021.02) Lecturer, School of Design and Creative Arts Loughborough University, UK 

(2016.09 - 2018.06) Research Associate/Fellow, School of Computer Science University of Nottingham, UK 

(2014.07 - 2014.10) Research Intern, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK 

Research Project

(2022.03 - 2025.02) NRF Excellence Early Career Research Project "Designing Affective UX Framework for Digital Gifting in Internet of Things based Mixed Reality Platform” | Principal Investigator

(2019.11 - 2022.04) EPSRC Hybrid Gifts (EP/S027440/1) | Co-Principal Investigator

(2017.06 - 2018.06) EPSRC Prototyping Open Innovation Models for ICT-Enabled Manufacturing in Food and Packaging (EP/K014234/2) | Research Fellow

(2016.09 - 2018.06) EPSRC Ubiquitous Computing Enabled Design (EP/N005945/1) | Research Associate 

(2016.04 - 2016.12) BBC Media Gifting (In partnership with BBC R&D) Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute | Student Researcher

Publication

Boriana Koleva, Jocelyn Spence, Steve Benford, Hyosun Kwon, Holger Schnädelbach, Emily Thorn, William Preston, Adrian Hazzard, Chris Greenhalgh, Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr, and Nick Tandavanitj. Designing Hybrid Gifts. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 27, 5, Article 37 (October 2020), 33 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3398193

Andy Crabtree, Lewis Hyland, James Colley, Martin Flintham, Joel E Fischer, and Hyosun Kwon. 2019. Probing IoT-based consumer services: ‘insights’ from the connected shower. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-019-01303-3

Kyung Jin Kim, Sangsu Jang, Bomin Kim, Hyosun Kwon, Young-Woo Park. 2019. muRedder: Shredding Speaker for Ephemeral Musical Experience. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’19). ACM, June 23–28, 2019, San Diego, CA, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322362 [Paper] (Honourable Mention Award, top 2%)

Kyung Jin Kim, Sangsu Jang, Bomin Kim, Hyosun Kwon, Young-Woo Park. 2019. muRedder: Shredding Speaker for Ephemeral Musical Experience. DIS ’19 Companion, June 23–28, 2019, San Diego, CA, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3325161 [Demo]

Hyosun Kwon, Joel E. Fischer, Martin Flintham, and James Colley. 2018. The Connected Shower: Studying Intimate Data in Everyday Life. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 2, 4, Article 176 (December 2018), 22 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3287054

Hyosun Kwon, Holger Schnädelbach, Boriana Koleva, Steve Benford, Tom Schofield, Guy Schofield, Maho Oki, Koji Tsukada, Daniel Harrison, Richard Banks, Tim Regan, and Martin Grayson. 2017. Demo hour. interactions 24, 5 (August 2017), 8-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3125631

Hyosun Kwon, Holger Schnädelbach, Boriana Koleva, Steve Benford Delicate Hybrid Gift. In Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Research Through Design Conference. Figshare, https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4746946.v1

Hyosun Kwon, Boriana Koleva, Holger Schnädelbach, Steve Benford “It’s Not Yet A Gift”: Understanding Digital Gifting. In Proceedings of the ACM 2017 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW ’17). ACM, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998225

Hyosun Kwon, Shashank Jaiswal, Steve Benford, Sue Ann Seah, Peter Bennett, Boriana Koleva, and Holger Schnädelbach. FugaciousFilm: Exploring Attentive Interaction with Ephemeral Material. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). ACM. DOI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2702123.2702206

Hazzard, Adrian and Benford, Steve and Chamberlain, Alan and Greenhalgh, Chris and Kwon, Hyosun (2014) Musical intersections across the digital and physical. In: DMRN+9: Digital Music Research Network (EPSRC), December 2014, London.

Hyosun Kwon, Hwan Kim, and Woohun Lee "Intangibles Wear Interactivity via Material Composition", Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC), Special theme issue “Material Interactions”. Springer. DOI: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00779-013-0688-5

Hyosun Kwon, Jo Briggs, Ben Freeth, Karim Ladha, James Thomas, Mark Blythe, Patrick Olivier “Wet pixels: from digital to analogue originals”, In CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '13). ACM, DOI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2468356.2468459

Hyosun Kwon, Seok-Hyung Bae, Hwan Kim, and Woohun Lee ""Inflated Roly-Poly"", In Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction (TEI '12). ACM, Kingston, Ontario, Canada DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2148131.2148172