At February 16th, 2021, the KAIST MCM(Mobile Clinic Module) was presented to Wall Street Journal’s video article as “Inflatable ICU: South Korea’s Answer to Potential Covid-19 Bed Shortages” WSJ visited the inflatable intensive-care unit in Seoul that has been pitched as a quick fix—and could also keep medical staff safe. Related article

2021. 1. 29 HCI Korea conference was held online due to COVID-19 from January 27th to January 29th. The main theme of the conference was “Bridging the void”. Two papers from CIDR lab won the best paper award: Gyeongwon Yun’s paper, “LampBox: Text-based AI Design Generation Tool for Supporting Designer’s Creative Thinking Process” Yinzhu Piao’s paper, “Propose IK3T: a STEAM Education System for Interactive Toy Play”

At January 7th, 2021, MCM(Mobile Clinic Module) prototype was installed at Korea Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences (KIRAMS), Seoul. Since last July, the module has been developed for four months under the direction of Prof. Nam as the solution for the pandemic hits from COVID-19.  Related article

A recent graduate of CIDR lab at ID KAIST, Hanjong Kim started his new career as a professor at Korea Polytechnic University. He received Ph.D degree previously and now intends to lead young and promising students to grow and flourish at Industrial Design field.

Yun Woo Jeong got his research works accepted at UIST 2020 with the advisory of professor Tek-Jin Nam. The title of the paper is ‘WIKA: A Projected Augmented Reality Workbench for Interactive Kinetic Art’.