The UI/UX of MCM(Mobile Clinic Module) Control System led by professor Nam Tek-Jin, chair of the school’s Industrial Design Department, has won a bronze prize at IDEA which is one of the world’s top three design awards. The Mobile Clinic Module is a mobile negative pressure isolation ward. It was designed to help hospitals with insufficient isolation beds in an emergency by being able to easily set up the ward wherever it is needed. It was driven by a co-creative process with medical staff and patients who will use the ward. The Mobile Clinic Module’s UI and system play a key role in allowing the ward to operate systematically and efficiently. In a complex and busy isolation ward, a well-designed UI/UX system helps medical staff work more productively. It also helps isolated patients to be treated in a more comfortable and emotional way. 

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”