Hyungjun Cho got his research works accepted at DIS 2021 with the advisory of professor Tek-Jin Nam. The title of the pictorial is ‘IoTIZER: A Versatile Mechanical Hijacking Device for Creating Internet of Old Things’.

MCM(Mobile Clinic Module) led by professor Nam Tek-Jin, chair of the school’s Industrial Design Department, has won one of the world’s top three design awards. The facility is used to treat patients with severe cases of COVID-19. The team won the grand prize for product design at this year’s Red Dot Design Awards. The awards are one of the world’s top three for design along with the If Design and Idea Design awards. In addition, Prof. Nam’s team also won the top prizes at the iF awards in four fields: product design, indoor architecture, user interface, and user experience.

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