CIDR members had a one-day workshop, sharing research progresses and comments to each other. Jieun Lee, who will be joining CIDR from fall, also attended this workshop and shared her previous works and research interests.

Chang-min Kim attended at Salone del Mobile Milano, also known as the Milan Show, held in 9th - 14th April as an exhibitor. His work IoTIZ, an DIY tool for transforming analog products to IoT products, was exhibited as a representative design work from ID KAIST along with LOVEPOT, D'LIGHT, and many other works. The Milan Show is one of the biggest design exposition with around 370 thousand attendees. This year, 386,236 people attended to the show and about 5,000 people visited ID KAIST booth.

Hanjong Kim (research assistant professor in CIDR Lab) received BK21 Plus Excellent Researcher Award from the Minister of Education on 20th of March, 2019.

Gyeongwon Yun from KAIST department of Mechanical Engineering has joined CIDR lab as a new master candidate student. He double-majored Industrial Design and Professor Tek-jin Nam was the advisor for his graduation thesis. His research interests are wearables and smart IoT systems.

SketchStudio, an experience prototyping tool for 2.5D animatied design scenarios, is now available on http://sketchstud.io